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by voyou 14y ago
"It’s then either a post-modern joke or a Marxist irony (or both at once) that we are able to buy shares of us. But either way, I don’t want you buying shares of me." I've seen arguments like this made a few times, and I find them fascinati
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by voyou 14y ago
I like the phrase "a nearby camera-like sensor for facial detection." It's "like" a camera in the sense that it actually is a camera, right?
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by voyou 14y ago
Why? What's the actual problem with using PUT for idempotent partial updates?
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by voyou 15y ago
There is a Google Docs API[1] that allows you to upload and download arbitrary files from Google Docs; depending on exactly how the Docs / Drive integration works, that might allow you to write a desktop Google Drive client. [1] https://de
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by voyou 15y ago
I find it pretty hilarious that people are calling the basic operation of a free market "entitled bullshit."
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by voyou 15y ago
"if they achieve this goal, they can argue that anyone who provides an unencrypted copy of content must have violated the DMCA (which has provision against tampering with encryption)" How does that help them, though? Anyone who provides an
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by voyou 15y ago
There are laws against misappropriating trade secrets, which would probably apply in the case of the Coca-Cola formula. The reason the federal trade secrets laws didn't apply in this case is because they only apply to secrets used to produc
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by voyou 15y ago
You're right, and the article linked here is wrong. The CSS spec doesn't say that px is an angular measurement, and the formula given that is supposed to convert between px and radians has no basis in the spec. The spec specifically defines
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by voyou 15y ago
"all desktop browsers ignore this spec and treat each pixel as a pixel" That's not ignoring the spec, though, it's following it. Where the device pixel is close to the reference pixel (as it is, on desktop browsers), the px measurement is s
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by voyou 15y ago
The stupid thing about IE's implementation is that, while it is supposed to restrict third-party cookies unless sites have an acceptable privacy policy, it treats an invalid P3P header as if it were an acceptable privacy policy, rather than
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by voyou 15y ago
My initial thought is that it only makes sense to do it globally. Two different box models in the same page - now that would be maddening.
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by voyou 15y ago
Stripping out comments and whitespace is unlikely to speed up execution (technically, I suppose it will speed up parsing, but I wouldn't have thought skipping comments and whitespace makes up a noticeable portion of the runtime of most scri
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by voyou 15y ago
And well done to the Wikipedia editors, who didn't include the updated information in the article until it had gone through the academic publishing process and so been vetted by experts in the field.
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by voyou 15y ago
Yes, but why does it matter that the standardization process is slow? What is the practical relevance of something moving from "Candidate Recommendation" to "Recommendation" status? Why are draft standards any worse than vendor extensions
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by voyou 15y ago
I don't really understand this objection. Sure, HTML 5 isn't officially a standard, but neither is -webkit-whatever; in both cases, you can use whichever non-standard you like, subject to browser support. The advantage of the W3C draft is t
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by voyou 15y ago
"I would stay away from using a web font in your body. It'll render slow on smart phones" Why is that? I thought the system fonts would be TrueType or OpenType, and so use the same renderer as web fonts. Not that I know much about the techn
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by voyou 15y ago
RAM doesn't use more or less power depending on whether or not it's been allocated to an application, so by itself continual/static RAM usage doesn't effect battery life at all. Now, if the OS needs to remove a suspended application from me
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by voyou 15y ago
"There is a page only (as best I can tell) for pages that are under consideration for being deleted." No, the Deletion Review page is for requesting that the debate about a deleted page get re-opened, that is, it's exactly the page you want
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by voyou 15y ago
"If someone knowledgeable in the field were to come in and try to correct this nonsense, what exactly would they cite? Academic journals? Because information on animal husbandry is a frequent subject of academic debate. Newspapers and magaz
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by voyou 15y ago
>Now others can go back and see my posts. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "now" here, but this isn't a recent change - for as long as I can remember, Facebook has let you see past posts by your friends. If anything, the Timeline
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by voyou 15y ago
> What you want can't really be achieved without something on the server-side (rewrite rules with Apache, routes with Rails) That's true, but the rewrite rule could be very simple. Have all pages of the form http://site.example/* serv
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by voyou 15y ago
Almost as easy as just, you know, creating a website. Obviously, the simplified example is simplified, but can you sketch a case where this would actually be useful? Or, even better, point to a site where it is actually in use? EDIT: Just t
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by voyou 15y ago
> I'm also not creating any copies of their work. To listen to the content they are streaming on their website, you need to make a copy of it. Now, you could argue that, by creating a URL which will stream that content to any program th
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by voyou 15y ago
Why do you say that? The post doesn't mention Java, and is talking about an area (in-browser scripting) in which Java is largely irrelevant.
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by voyou 15y ago
Well, actually he's describing Alef as it existed in the Plan 9 system in the early 90s. The creators of Go were also involved in creating Plan 9, so presumably they drew on their earlier experience of channels in Plan 9 when they developed
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by voyou 15y ago
That would be an advantage, not a problem. No-one wants vulgar yanks sullying a classy language like PHP.
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by voyou 15y ago
We're talking about PHP, so I think we can take it as read that there was substance abuse involved somewhere.
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by voyou 15y ago
San Francisco's MUNI has the problems of most large urban public transport systems (it can be a bit slow, it's not perfectly reliable, every now and then they'll be some crazy person ranting to no-one in particular), but it's OK; half an ho
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by voyou 15y ago
They're also selling off their PC division, and buying Autonomy ( http://www.autonomy.com/ ), who produce search and data-mining type software. I assume this is an attempt to re-focus on enterprise back-end stuff; this is a pretty big part
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by voyou 15y ago
BART isn't a private entity, though, it's a government agency. ETA a link to BART's discussion of its formation: http://bart.gov/about/history/index.aspx

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