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by trotsky 14y ago
Isn't change.org just a lead generation website for fund raisers?
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by trotsky 14y ago
Hell, it incentivizes the companies themselves to introduce bugs or fail to fix them in some situations. Think of popular products that are difficult to monetize - plugins, im networks, html rendering engines, mobile applications. Flaws are
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by trotsky 14y ago
Do you work in the industry? It's changed significantly in the last five or ten years. There are dozens or even hundreds of small shops in the dc area doing this kind of work and self taught no degree folks are a small minority. Maybe it's
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by trotsky 14y ago
The way most folks learn to do high end niche programming: In advanced degree programs, research organizations and through professional development at government employers / contractors. Charlie Miller is a well known example of this - he f
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by trotsky 14y ago
new thunderbolt -> gigE adapter
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by trotsky 14y ago
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw - Maxims for Revolutionists - http://www.g
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by trotsky 14y ago
Valve has a working relationship with production studio Brown Bag Films, according to Kotaku, and agreed to license the engine for Deep. I'm curious if you actually need a license to use an engine in a film. Presuming you produce all your
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Apple Patents the MacBook Air’s Wedge Design(wired.com)
5 points by trotsky 14y ago|2 comments
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by trotsky 14y ago
Chromium 18.0.1025.151 (Developer Build 130497 Linux) Ubuntu 12.04 plugins set to click to play
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by trotsky 14y ago
if you close the video using the (x) on the lightbox the video disappears but you still hear the audio - you have to navigate off the page to silence it.
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by trotsky 14y ago
This isn't true - the person tweeting about it said they had no evidence and was just asking for a comment, and VUPEN categorically denied it. https://twitter.com/w3bd3vil/status/210574409046556672
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by trotsky 14y ago
In raw numbers P2P traffic continues to grow considerably, it is just falling in percentage as other high bandwidth services become more common.
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by trotsky 14y ago
I worked on several commercial digital music projects in the time span between early napster and entrenched itunes. One regularly repeated meme of the era was that people didn't want to pirate music, they just wanted it "as easy" or "no drm
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by trotsky 14y ago
I assure you that the grandparent is misinformed, the chance of google's lawyers and/or the police being involved if some individual is sending you targeted malware (aka spear phishing) is essentially 0%.
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by trotsky 14y ago
They can stop downloading attachments. That's a 99% fix to the problem google is reporting.
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by trotsky 14y ago
In the US this is done with National Security Letters and Court Orders, both of which usually include gag orders - so no.
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Valve Says "Yes" To Steam Linux This Year(phoronix.com)
223 points by trotsky 14y ago|162 comments
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by trotsky 14y ago
https://openshift.redhat.com/app/ OpenShift is Redhat's open sorce PaaS. Ruby, node, python, java, php, etc. They run a free service on top of AWS, and you can deploy it on top of AWS, rackspace, hp, or anywhere on top of fedora or RHEL 6
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by trotsky 14y ago
They are working on an arm port for an unnamed device but it seems like it's still under heavy development. One reason you likely won't see something like the transformer running chromeos is their upstream first policy, which suggests that
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by trotsky 14y ago
4 watts when idle no power management? my standard voltage laptop with a spinning disk, screen and low backlighting idles at 6-7. And can you really get away with no HS/F at 13 watts under load?
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by trotsky 14y ago
Is it true that kickstarter changed their slogan from "fund & follow creativity" to "accessories for your iphone"?
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by trotsky 14y ago
that's 10% in five minutes, but it doesn't count moves while the market is closed.
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by trotsky 14y ago
There are tons of Facebook shares floating around - at least partially due to the fact that they increased the offering size by 85 million shares (25%) on Wednesday. Morgan called four separate times between weds and Thursday trying to slin
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by trotsky 14y ago
https://fbme.disconnect.me/algorithm How do we figure out the value of your Facebook data? Our math teachers always said “show your work”, so here’s ours. We calculate your personal Facebook valuation by blending macro info about the comp
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How much will Facebook make off your data when they IPO on Friday? (fbme.disconnect.me)
2 points by trotsky 14y ago|1 comments
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by trotsky 14y ago
astroturfing (ˈæstrəʊˌtɜːfɪŋ) — n a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
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by trotsky 14y ago
With $2MM and $4MM seed rounds from "angels" doesn't it make sense to lump that money in with VC fundraising if you're looking for a benchmark of investment dollars? A lot more of that money used to take the form of LPs.
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by trotsky 14y ago
I'm not really sure if or how this should rewrite your conclusions, but cbs does stream full episodes of the good wife http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/video/
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by trotsky 14y ago
I agree - netscape had a big hand in their own implosion. Their codebases had gotten away from them and they had problems managing well after all that growth and hype. It also didn't help that they went around doing lots of press about how
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by trotsky 14y ago
He's always been like that. Really that was the status quo in open source 10-15+ years ago. People were abrasive, efficiency oriented and most of the communities didn't have very many soft edges. Just off the top of my head I'm thinking of

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