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by tumult 17y ago
Cool, thanks
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by tumult 17y ago
What drove you to writing backend code in JavaScript? Having written several projects (client-side, but minimal DOM junk) in JS, I cringe at the thought of having to use it where it's not required. Some people really seem to like their JS,
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by tumult 17y ago
Tail recursion optimization, not all calls. So no continuations, etc. And it's probably slow as hell. And I'll knife you if I see you using Python like this.
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by tumult 17y ago
Yes, that's right, to a degree. The amount of software patent litigation that exists now is absurd. The reason H.264 is more secure for Apple and Google is that the technology is already covered by an existing patent, which is licensed out
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by tumult 17y ago
My understanding is that Apple and Google cannot use Theora because they are targets for patent trolls, and would be sued by a multitude of companies claiming to hold patents that cover Theora. correction: It's just Apple/Safari that does n
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by tumult 17y ago
Right. This is how Chromium works. Chromium does not build with H.264 compatibility out of the box. Projects using Chromium (not the Chrome package Google defaults for end-users) must explicitly enable H.264.
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by tumult 17y ago
Mozilla is not a small business. Businesses play games with each other because they are competing in an open market. End users do not have to do this. I don't work at Mozilla, I do not know what their situation is, but saying 'no way' to th
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by tumult 17y ago
Well, what if I decide to make a toy web application that works with video and I decide to use HTML5 video standard? Nobody is going to come after you. You're not even worth their time. Is it stupid that technically this may be interprete
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by tumult 17y ago
This is for a broadcast license, from an article in 2002, for an older technology (straight MPEG-4, not the newer superset H.264 which is now widely embraced.) I don't know whether or not this proposed broadcast license fee was ever even en
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by tumult 17y ago
I would not call Mozilla's Firefox a hobby project. The hobby projects which use H.264 have not been prosecuted, as far as I know, though I feel it's wrong for this possibility to exist.
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by tumult 17y ago
H.264 is not proprietary. It's a standard, created through the coordination and cooperation of a large number of groups. Unlike much software that is 'protected' under patents, the development of MPEGn, H.264, etc. was a significant investm
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by tumult 17y ago
I haven't looked yet, so maybe someone can answer – are Cocoa Bindings present and functional in this version?
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by tumult 17y ago
I'd choke you if you dragged me out of deep thought just for the sake of it.
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by tumult 17y ago
It's Hacker News if your cloud app is suddenly carrying what courts would consider child porn because your under-17 demographic is upping nude pics of themselves to it.
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by tumult 17y ago
He's not bashing on Clojure, he just states that it does not introduce many new concepts. And I would agree. Clojure does not really introduce anything new -- it bundles a bunch of existing stuff together into a more readily usable, cohesiv
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by tumult 17y ago
I have a Nexus One. There's no reason to even bother with subpixel font rendering -- the DPI is so high that the text, with regular anti-aliasing, looks far sharper than ClearType on a normal density screen. I imagine Droid owners have the
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by tumult 17y ago
A webshop selling airline tickets won't rank better if you add "interesting content", thats just not the way it works. What? Yes it will. More recent links from people will give it more page rank score. If it's a new algorithm that helps
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by tumult 17y ago
Politicians do not care about what their electorates want once they are in office. They will make the decisions they feel are appropriate until it is time for them to seek re-election. Phone calls, letters, etc. are all just things for them
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by tumult 17y ago
I haven't had any problems. Keep in mind I haven't tried any of the other VoIP clients for Android -- Skype, Nimbuzz, etc. Only sipdroid. But I've used it over plain EDGE/GPRS on my Android dev phone (G1) and had no quality issues to speak
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by tumult 17y ago
A lot of the stuff described in this document requires a Gizmo5 account, which are difficult to come by. Registrations are closed and there's no invite system, so someone has to actually give you the credentials to an account they already h
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The Life and Death of Alan Carton(blogs.villagevoice.com)
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by tumult 17y ago
We should be putting our foot down more often and flagging these linkbait articles. I did.
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by tumult 17y ago
S3 is not really a file system. It's more like a key/value store for arbitrary data. If you wanted a filesystem-like interface, you'd need something in front of it.
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by tumult 17y ago
It looks like doing a foldr with key pairs and then a foldl violates that patent. In parallel Haskell, it can run on multiple processors, with the assistance of the RTS ('master process'). It's bullshit.
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by tumult 17y ago
Cool. And for some more heavyweight Scheme->JS (stuff that you wouldn't mind using on a real project) check out inria's HOP (Scheme2JS is a component of it) and BiwaScheme. http://hop.inria.fr/ http://www.biwascheme.org/
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by tumult 17y ago
Bingo. Ever try logging out, clearing cookies and then looking at a view again?
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by tumult 17y ago
google's opengl browser plugin, which works fine, speaks otherwise. it's not an api problem. it's that adobe's software is shit.
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by tumult 17y ago
I imagine it does the parse up-front rather than a separate interpretation step during execution.
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by tumult 17y ago
Actually, Baidu is down 14 points, Google 10. And Google is at 590, while Baidu is at 386. Did you actually read the data behind the links that short blog snippet provides, or do you regularly submit things totally blindly? NASDAQ is not a
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by tumult 17y ago
pg, are you around to look at the voting patterns in this thread? I'd like to hear if you see any accounts being used to attack the comment score of anyone expressing anti-Chinese sentiment. (I've seen this happen before on sites I've run,

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