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by tmcw 14y ago
> Can't one hold a patent and also offer the product for free, provide open source code, and allow others to do the same? Yes, or you could write open source software and defend prior art in precisely the same way as you'd defend a pate
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by tmcw 14y ago
Not sure if that's sarcastic or trolling or not. In the event that it's earnest, software patents are relatively frowned upon by most non-corporate entities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate
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by tmcw 14y ago
Surprised nobody brings up the line in the footer, which seems pretty important: > F.lux is patent pending. So they're applying for software patents on this so-far-free piece of software that has an open-source linux equivalent?
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by tmcw 14y ago
fwiw, if you're interested in the style of poetry, his main inspiration was Daniil Kharms, who has some great collections - Today I Wrote Nothing is excellent.
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Bolting-on preprocessors that add features to a language without changing its actual model fixes the problem forever, maybe.
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by tmcw 14y ago
Same guy as ViTunes. <3 http://danielchoi.com/software/vitunes.html
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A Javascript Test Reporter that Change a Physical LED(github.com)
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by tmcw 14y ago
It could have been a wordle. Just imagine. It could have been a wordle.
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> I thought that there would be a fair amount of similarities between Rails and Django given the structural similarities between Ruby and Python. I could not have been more wrong. Duh? This is just a silly rant that isn't about anythin
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Javascript Browser Testing & Continuous Integration(mapbox.com)
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Introducing MapBox Satellite(mapbox.com)
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by tmcw 14y ago
and here I was trying to be an apologist and be nice :)
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Great node.js developers are writing libraries, not application code, and they see a difference: libraries are abstractions that try to build upon as little abstraction as possible, and attempt to integrate with as many 'things' as possible
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Getting serious about SVG Performance(mapbox.com)
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by tmcw 14y ago
With MapBox maps, based on OpenStreetMap & our geocoder based on a public domain data!
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Indexing and searching big static data(macwright.org)
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by tmcw 14y ago
> But Nokia’s Lumia smartphones haven’t sold very well. So why give away its secret sauce to rivals? Providing SDKs for multiple platforms is not 'giving away secret sauce', it's just selling proprietary stuff in a different way. Offlin
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by tmcw 14y ago
Said more or less the same in an also-bummed-out post earlier this year: http://macwright.org/2012/06/13/programming.html
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Windchime - generative, assistive music(macwright.org)
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by tmcw 14y ago
> There are a number of location-based social media applications and platforms, including Foursquare, Gowalla, SCVNGR, Shopkick, Loopt and Whrrl, currently on the market. Well, Whrrl and Gowalla are no longer, so no.
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by tmcw 14y ago
See also, underscore-cli https://github.com/ddopson/underscore-cli
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Open Source Projects, a Year On(macwright.org)
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by tmcw 14y ago
1) Because there's very little evidence that malicious applications are successfully filtered (many get in), and much evidence that nitpicky comments keep 'good' applications waiting. 2) https://developers.google.com/maps/faq#tos_tiles
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by tmcw 14y ago
No, it'll get removed; the App Store Approval process is a sham, and this is absolutely breaking the Google Maps TOS.
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Considering CSS(macwright.org)
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Heard for osx is last.fm minus the internet(macwright.org)
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Companies like MapBox, Stamen, MapQuest, and Bing, who have OSM layers, have an incentive to improve OSM data because it makes them competitive with Google; it eliminates the massive fixed/sunk cost of creating proprietary data and redirect
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by tmcw 14y ago
Thanks! This now mentions and links Lloyd's algorithm. What happens when a cluster has no points assigned? I'm not sure, do you know? Is there much reasoning for choosing other initial cluster means? Just better approximation? I'd rather no
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K-means clustering explained and visualized with d3(macwright.org)
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by tmcw 14y ago
The pedant in me notices that line 9 of the code snippet in the readme breaks the style guidelines by including a space between the ) and { of an anonymous function.

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