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by waitwhat 15y ago
the claims that bitcasa does Where are all these claims listed that you appear to be arguing against? All I see in their (very limited) marketing materials is a mention of client-side encryption, which they do indeed seem to implement.
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Why Have People Stopped Posting on Google+?(techland.time.com)
4 points by waitwhat 15y ago|2 comments
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Dell: death of the PC is "complete nonsense"(pcpro.co.uk)
6 points by waitwhat 15y ago|4 comments
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The Reason You Write Clean Code(eldergame.com)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
re. the VM idea. Do you have some reason to believe that their client software is more likely to be malicious than anyone else's?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Saves as .txt and a text diff utility can be a real life-saver. It's not perfect, but with a reasonably-skilled user it should be a lot faster than redoing everything from scratch.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Keeping quotas and logs leaks information about what you are storing Who does it leak information to? how? what information anyway? and why is any of this a problem? For example, if you keep statistics on the largest file a user has, the
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The problem is that for them to deal with it they have to sacrifice their user's privacy (quotas and stats open clients up to attack) I can't find the section that demonstrates either assertion. if you own a CD and they get you downloadi
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by waitwhat 15y ago
The piece would probably have been improved by staying on your initial course and focusing on Bitcasa's business model, and the impact that certain specific technical choices have on the running costs. Instead, after a strong introduction,
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by waitwhat 15y ago
their HTML text everywhere site looks horrendous on my PC with font smoothing off If you don't like how text looks without font-smoothing, then maybe you should consider turning on your font-smoothing...
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Headcam Footage Of Bomb Being Defused(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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Tech Industry Needs Female Quotas Now(huffingtonpost.co.uk)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|1 comments
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Tumblr Now 8x More Page Views Than Wordpress.com(readwriteweb.com)
2 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
ugh, most indie platformers haven't yet reached the level of the original super mario bros. This is hardly surprising when Super Mario Bros is widely regarded as one of the very best games of all time, some would say the best [1], and s
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I have that as my homepage to make sure that the cookie is set every time, and I still occasionally end up with search results or google products in non-English.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Trillian http://www.trillian.im/ have been selling their cross-platform and interoperable IM client for over a decade. If people didn't want Eric's interoperable IM client, it wasn't for lack of a market.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I know apps can invoke kernel syscalls directly, and I'm sure you could name a handful of apps that do this all time. But are you really doing that in your mp3 player?
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Mistrust authority(economist.com)
1 points by waitwhat 15y ago|0 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
And maybe I was a touch too cynical. If she were here, my niece would be jumping about and down right now to remind me about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_Clubhouse in which Mickey has had a starring role for years.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
This built-in firefox page was new to me... about:crashes
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Section 2 of the unix manual is for syscalls. Section 3 is for C library functions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page#Manual_sections If libc implements it, then it is by definition in section 3. EDIT: (signing out of this sub-thread)
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I actually googled for "Mickey Mouse protection act" to find the name of the legislation. Steamboat Willy was released in 1928, so expect the next extension in around ten years time. There have only been 3 Mickey Mouse cartoons in the last
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by waitwhat 15y ago
On Linux, there's typically both an open(3) and an open(2). The former is implemented by glibc and calls the latter which is implemented by the kernel. So an app calls the open() function. This results in an unresolved symbol which the run-
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by waitwhat 15y ago
That might have been true about the USA once upon a time, but ... The [Copyright Term Extension] Act extended these terms to life of the author plus 70 years and for works of corporate authorship to 120 years after creation or 95 years aft
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by waitwhat 15y ago
But open(3) is a function call, so it can be hooked.
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by waitwhat 15y ago
How long until patents never expire either?
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Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub (youtube.com)
3 points by waitwhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by waitwhat 15y ago
Doesn't pretty much everything call into libc to open() things rather than invoke the syscall directly?
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by waitwhat 15y ago
[looks like a book id and page number to me]
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by waitwhat 15y ago
I was curious enough about this that I looked into it... There's an excerpt on his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr . then search the text for "anonymous", and an image of it at http://www.oilempire.us/co

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