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by tytso 15y ago
There is a difference between suspension of your Google Profile, and your entire Google Account. Merely violating the common names will not result in the entire Google Account getting shut down; just the Google Profile. This will prevent
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by tytso 15y ago
This is of course not limited to Google. Consider the case of someone who returned a television on the recommendation of the Amazon help desk, but that triggered their customer-has-returned-too-many-items --- which then disabled his access
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by tytso 15y ago
It's not even advertising. It's a mashup of the yahoo directory (from the early 1990's) concept combined with a Publishers Clearinghouse Sweepstakes model. There are no ads that are put onto publishers' websites to get paid. In order for
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by tytso 15y ago
Well, not all infrastructure work is confidential. I work on the Production Linux team at Google, and we're quite open about a lot of the work we do, and we try to push as much as possible of the work we do upstream. I do have to second
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by tytso 15y ago
Obviously someone who has never bothered to look at Facebook's privacy controls. :-)
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by tytso 15y ago
Sure but you only need to authenticate a browser once every 30 days (assuming you allow the cookie to stick around). Assuming that you are only accessing your account from a few (preferably only one or two) trusted machines, it's really n
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by tytso 15y ago
It used to be the case that MIT required their CS undergraduate students build an 8-bit computer from TTL (mostly 74XX) chips on breadboard in their Freshman on Sophomore year. (And no, we didn't even get a Z80; the most complex parts we
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by tytso 15y ago
Hey, I'd really appreciate it if you could send a report of your experiences to linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org. This is the first I've heard of issues with ext4 with EBS, and I'd love to know more. (Also, please mention the kernel version yo
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by tytso 15y ago
I can think of a number of novels where it's obvious some scenes got moved around for plot reasons, and their were continuity errors or other ways in which the seams showed. But novelists only have to deal with that for maybe a year or so;
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by tytso 15y ago
His theory might be true if you were only talking about writing a program from scratch. But programming is a lot more than that, because except for the smallest, most trivial exercises, programming is a team sport. Which means you need t
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Netflix for Pandas: Are startups ideas too derivative?(techcrunch.com)
4 points by tytso 15y ago|0 comments
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by tytso 15y ago
One of the things that I find really cool about this is this happened without using a copyright license (i.e. GPLv3) as a bludgeon to force HTC to do the right thing. This was done using simple market forces, and not the anti-Tivo clause
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by tytso 15y ago
Not having any inside knowledge, I don't _know_ this, but it's always seemed to me that Sony has never been able to write software to save its life. Whether it's PSN, or the pathetic web store for the Sony eReader, or the equally pathetic
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by tytso 15y ago
You mean Knuth, the guy whose algorithms ignore the effects of caches? http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327 There is a place for academia and mathematic approaches, and there is a place for real world experience and technical abilit
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by tytso 15y ago
The writer of this blog post and some of the comments here seem to be conflating two terms: "Computer Science" and "Programming". I'd like to suggest that maybe we should consider two completely different things. Just as there is a huge d
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by tytso 15y ago
Do you really think GNOME owes its "success" to it being able to be used in unlikely places? How are you defining "success"? If you define success by its ability to run in obscure places, then sure, any change which limits this is going to
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by tytso 15y ago
The question of portable code vs. taking advantage of the best possible system interfaces is a very hard problem indeed. On the one hand, the number of people using non-Linux POSIX compliant OS's have dropped significantly in the last decad
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by tytso 15y ago
For C# and the core language, yes. But not anything higher on the .NET stack. Novell had some patents that was able to hold Microsoft at bay. But since Novell sold off their patent portfolio, who knows? Personally, I wouldn't touch Mono
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by tytso 15y ago
I'm not that happy that the lock has to communicate with a central server. For one, that adds all sorts of dependencies (the internet, central service, etc. have to be up for the unlock command to work). For another, what if there is a s
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by tytso 15y ago
It's not like this is the first evil thing Facebook has done.... there might be some who might argue that yanking around Facebook's defaults about users' privacy settings was far worse than using a PR sock puppet. Personally, I think using
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PR firm pushing anti-Google message for undisclosed client(pastebin.com)
133 points by tytso 15y ago|57 comments
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by tytso 15y ago
I've thought about buying MSFT, for the dividend yield if nothing else. But considering how much MSFT is continuing to burn in their online division, and the fact that their two cash cows of Windows and Office are not necessarily stable --
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Quicksort visualized through a Hungarian folk dance(youtube.com)
3 points by tytso 15y ago|0 comments
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by tytso 16y ago
The study very strangely excluded the Linux kernel, but included other 3rd party open source components --- including dbus and the bluetooth stack, to which Nokia has made contributions. If they had included the kernel, Nokia would have van
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How Google uses ext4 for cloud storage(video.linux.com)
6 points by tytso 16y ago|0 comments
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by tytso 16y ago
I suspect some big players in the book retailing industry gave him a big donation, and then told him why his previous advocacy for "an iPad for every schoolchild" might not be such a great thing. It's amazing how a lobbyist can clarify a p
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by tytso 16y ago
Jeol is half-right and half-wrong. Mercurial stores its version history as a series of deltas, yes. Git stores its version history as a series of snapshots. (Git does do delta compression, but the delta compression is done independently
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by tytso 16y ago
The best answer is the one from Christoph Möller, who points out it's really that roughly speaking for every 10 startups, roughly: A) 3 will fail outright B) 3 will return less than the invested capital C) 3 will return the investied capita
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by tytso 16y ago
I've contributed a tiny amount to git (the high-level "git mergetool") so I can't speak for all of the git developers, but I've spent enough time hanging around for them to say that the general feeling they have is that git's algorithm whic
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by tytso 16y ago
Earl's on target here. If you spend five years obsessively learning the ins and outs of a particular language or technology, getting to know its strengths and weaknesses, and ideally at the end of that five year tenure, started contributi

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