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by twir 7y ago
I see your point; although if you look at the specs for a lot of easy-to-parse formats for computers, a stated design goal is also easy-for-humans (e.g. Markdown, YAML). Large, complex object hierarchies with lots of nesting might make more
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by twir 7y ago
One of JSON's selling-points is to be human-readable. I would struggle reading any JSON document with a nesting level greater than 6 or so. Why would I ever want a nesting level > 100?
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by twir 9y ago
Yes, iOS is a better example. I'm not a big fan of closed platforms in general. I like to be able to decide which software I run on my device, so my most recent laptop and phone purchases have been GNU/Linux devices. I understand
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by twir 9y ago
I don't mind those features in and of themselves, and I see their value; it's Apple's paternalistic attitude that bothers me. I've used Macs for my entire life and always felt I still had a semblance of control over the
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by twir 9y ago
Add "System Integrity Protection" to the list of reasons why my next laptop won't be a Mac. Although based on a free operating system, Mac OS is gradually taking away users' control over their own devices. Either the use
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by twir 11y ago
Very interesting - thanks for sharing. Is there a corresponding brief by the plaintiff? I'd like to see both sides of the story.
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by twir 12y ago
Ooh, here come the Scientologists! I'm as skeptical of big Pharma as the next guy, but to say with such grandiose broad-stroked generalizing that psychiatry (or, perhaps you mean instead/also neurological pharmacology) is not scie
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by twir 13y ago
Where's the privacy policy?
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by twir 15y ago
While I see your point, I don't think it's fair to chalk up the opposition to merely piracy supporters. There are a large number of people who fear the broader ramifications, and a lot of organizations, who are against SOPA and not necessar
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by twir 15y ago
That's not necessarily true. If you look at the corporate or organizational opposition to SOPA, you'll find eff.org, mozilla.org, etc. These folk aren't necessarily in favor of piracy. More realistically, they're in favor of free speech or
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by twir 15y ago
ITT: pedantry over the words "clean, crisp, and cheerful."
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by twir 16y ago
Great! Thanks for the info.
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by twir 16y ago
Interesting. So if I understand correctly, the goal is largely to promote guidelines that improve compatibility and performance?
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by twir 16y ago
This looks neat, but being a DIY kind of dude, I'm not sure what this is for. I'm probably missing something--I think I know "what" it is, just not "why". Can anyone give me a brief rundown?
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by twir 16y ago
I'll bite. It's a fantastic idea. What is missing from it is how the infrastructure is and probably always will be under the domain (pun intended) of corporations. For example, how do we provide "internet access" with these servers? We don'
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by twir 16y ago
I think it's the principle of the thing. Criticism works when done right, that is when it's traditional criticism like we all learned in art class. "Your shading is inconsistent here, and the use of lilac is cliche." Contrasting, this blo
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by twir 16y ago
Looks like a lot of people are assuming a solution would some sort of voting system like stackexchange, etc. Why not allow individual users to hide sites from their own search results and save the info in their google account? For example,
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by twir 16y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but when is this useful? Don't most self-respecting DNS providers allow you to do this?
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by twir 16y ago
Ah, somehow I missed the date the article was written. Apologies to Mr. Pincus for making it seem like he was an a priori hypocrite. Still, I find it a little ironic that he would later say things like, "I did every horrible thing in the
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by twir 16y ago
Thanks for the source on Zynga's connection to Zwinky. I knew there was some sort of connection, but my face got horribly red when I realized "wait, he's right--Zynga didn't make Zwinky."
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by twir 16y ago
An ethics lecture from a man whose company sells spyware (Zwinky toolbar) and highly profitable add-ons to games under the pretext of charity (Farmville "donations" to Haiti)? EDIT: oh, and whose company essentially ripped off the idea of F
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by twir 16y ago
I don't think we can agree. I'm neither a pediatrician nor a viral pathologist, so I can't lend an opinion to whether spacing out vaccines is good or bad. Unless you're a medical expert, your opinion probably doesn't hold too much value e
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by twir 16y ago
Hmm, on second thought--I didn't realize these were all daily mail links.
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by twir 16y ago
Cigarettes seem to be conspicuously absent from the list. Then again, I guess the link's been well established already.
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by twir 16y ago
At first I was like, "wow, that's offensive." But then I was like, "damn, how come I didn't get that email too?"
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by twir 16y ago
A bunch, actually: MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQLite, and SimpleDB.
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by twir 16y ago
In the spirit of due diligence I started up a debugging proxy before I ran the scanner, so that I'd be able to tell if it collected any info. Happily, it seems the only requests made are to fetch the javascript that does the scanning, and t
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by twir 16y ago
Good point. I guess it does depend on context and the purpose of the app.
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by twir 16y ago
Exactly. If it's hogging the CPU, it's hogging the CPU--it's irrelevant if it's more or less a hog than something else really. Truth be told, I'm only running a Mac Mini. That being said, iTunes seems to be more efficient at streaming audio
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by twir 16y ago
I didn't see anything in that post that disproved that Flash is a CPU hog. I work with Flash and AIR apps on a daily basis, and I can tell you that invariably by the end of the day my browser's Flash plugin is using the majority of my CPU t

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