tommorris

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by tommorris 10y ago
> You would need to express the semantic relationships within the data, like "comment-replied-to" Like https://indieweb.org/in-reply-to ?
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by tommorris 10y ago
Also having to have a phone number thing to set up an account sucks (same with Signal, WhatsApp etc.).
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by tommorris 10y ago
Speak for yourself, but the longer the tool has been around, the more I trust it. One of the chief selling points of learning something like Vim or Emacs is precisely that it isn't going to disappear next week and become abandonware (T
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by tommorris 10y ago
From the article: > The problem is, radio jammers are very illegal in the UK. Deliberate interference—even in a theatre, cinema, library, or examination hall—is an offence under the Wireless Telegraphy Act and can land you in jail for a
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by tommorris 10y ago
iTunes and other media players have had that exact dilemma... http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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Awesome, just in time for Britain to leave and for it to no longer apply to us. :(
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by tommorris 10y ago
The flipside of that is the response to the AIDS crisis. If it hadn't been for activists from groups like ACT-UP and Queer Nation screaming, shouting and making a big stink about the need for a response from the FDA, the federal govern
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by tommorris 10y ago
Photo RAW/workflow management: - Lightroom - Aperture (now discontinued) - Darktable (open source, does RAW conversion but not great on library management) - CaptureOne - ???
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by tommorris 10y ago
They originate in Taiwan, but they have a company registered in Fountain Valley, California. Company number C1362992, registered since 1986. http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.as... Fee
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by tommorris 10y ago
> the result of this government action is that startups and crowd funded projects are less viable If those projects are being run by people who are incompetent and unable to consider the importance of protecting user privacy through comp
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by tommorris 10y ago
> a foreign corporation > California-based D-Link Systems, Inc. If you don't want to be bound by the laws of the United States and the State of California, maybe don't incorporate there.
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by tommorris 10y ago
It's not just about money, it's about tracking. From the AdNauseam website: > AdNauseam serves as a means of amplifying users' discontent with advertising networks that disregard privacy and facilitate bulk surveillance ag
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by tommorris 10y ago
The government also have an interest in ensuring that the nation's businesses don't fuck up due to easily preventable infosec failure. Because infosec fails equals lost consumer confidence, lost economic development, lost taxes an
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by tommorris 10y ago
Last time I was in Germany, I saw a few homeless men sitting at the side of the road, asking a family who were walking to church if they could have the empty plastic bottles. All three of the children rolled their empty bottles across the s
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by tommorris 10y ago
When a junior dev tries to refactor said class and accidentally screws around with the behaviour of the setter function, having the tests blow up is handy.
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by tommorris 10y ago
A worrying number of small companies who hire "an IT guy" who will promptly install an unpatched old version of Exchange Server and only turn on POP3. (Yes, paying for Exchange and not having ActiveSync.) This is why the best thin
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by tommorris 10y ago
Strange, I always thought of Hooli as Yahoo, but that might be because I know a lot of programmers who used to work at Yahoo and have heard the dysfunctions first hand over beer more.
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by tommorris 10y ago
Yup, everyone in a country of 200 million people is connected. Just like everyone in Britain knows the Queen.
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by tommorris 10y ago
Dumb is often good enough for big companies and governments. (See: DRM.) If you are the sort of person who is able to change your DNS, you are also capable enough to use foreign VPNs etc.
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by tommorris 10y ago
Just social media and not Globo TV etc.?
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by tommorris 10y ago
Perfectly legal to charge for public domain photos, just as it is legal to charge for software that's released under open source licenses, so long as you follow the terms of the license. People are lazy and will pay money so they don&#
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by tommorris 10y ago
London has had the Congestion Charge since 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge
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by tommorris 10y ago
Several million devices sold ≠ several million people buying software for device.
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by tommorris 10y ago
And widely used by millions of people?
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by tommorris 10y ago
That's why Facebook changed their APIs in 2014. Before any app could ask for anything. Now apps can only ask for public profile data, email address and a list of your friends that have also installed the app. Before you could also get
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by tommorris 10y ago
This is the same Steve Jobs who said there would never be an iPod that did video about a year before they did so. They may have had the app store model planned out from the start for the next version of the iPhone, but didn't want to t
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by tommorris 10y ago
> I don't want a vendor to get inbetween me and my user audience, but that problem applies equally to iOS devices and gaming consoles. So, pre-iPhone, the market for downloadable apps for mobile phones was huge and there wasn't
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by tommorris 10y ago
Basically, like with so many things, The Big Lebowski is right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKjBFsyYC0g
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by tommorris 10y ago
I didn't take that from it. See "I'm not endorsing making menus in CSS." I'm endorsing progressive enhancement. Those that disable JavaScript do have a choice in it, but those who don't have JavaScript because
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> 0.001% that doesn't use JS https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-people-are-missi... 1.1% of users don't see JavaScript enhancements. Most because it doesn't load, not because they&#

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