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by xorglorb 16y ago
MIT, however sometimes I'll release under the GPL if I feel I could make a profit off of it in the future by selling commercial licenses.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Hacker News is not 4chan, and as such, do not reply "Cool Story Bro", unless you are replying to your brother that you thought the story he gave you was popular.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
> this site doesn't use a DB engine but instead is pulling and rending content from an XML DB over a REST API Just a random suggestion, but might it be easier (and less taxing) to have a background job pull the XML into a TMPFS (ramdisk
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by xorglorb 16y ago
And whatever you do, test it on an iPhone 3G or iPod Touch 1G. If it performs reasonably on that, it will be blazing fast on an iPhone 3GS/4 or iPod Touch 3G/4G.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
It's more of a HTML5 demo than anything else.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
1GHz CPU, 512MB RAM... Kind of sounds like the iPhone 4 (from July) with NFC support and a built-in VOIP client.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
WWF is just a PDF with DRM to disallow printing, this isn't a new file format or anything.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Why would it even matter? The traffic from the DDoS is going to WikiLeaks' servers, not the DNS providers.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
> The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill Sadly true...
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by xorglorb 16y ago
I keep a patched version of Chromium around for that very reason. All you have to do is change one line in the sources. I'll dig up the patch and send it to you once I get back on a real computer.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
> or there is some other part of this story that we are missing. "Campaign Contributions" and access to a resort in the Bahamas.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Wait, so air print won't even be able to print to a normal jetdirect or IPP printer?
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Well, Apple already has iDisk, which is Mac/iOS only and Microsoft has SkyDrive, which I've heard performs horribly, so it's already happened, except for google.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
By the way, you can install sudo on arch if you want.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
It is a great experience to setup arch. It is relatively straightforward and easy to maintain. The only reason I eventually switched away from arch was because of the lack of signed packages, which was a big issue to a security-paranoid per
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Probably, because the stream is normally recorded on both the client and the server as well as streamed.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
And a way to fix it would be for google to release an updater client so you could update an android phone without being pushed an update from your carrier.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Feng office is mediocre, but if someone put the time and effort into making it a great app, it would be perfectly suited to this task.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Actually QWERTY was created to slow typists down. Back in ye olde days, when typewriters were still around, there was the problem where people who typed to fast would jam the typewriters. Thus, QWERTY was invented to slow people down so the
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by xorglorb 16y ago
> On my mac, applications are really directories with lots of stuff inside. Why insist on stuffing everything into a single file? Actually, the executable is still a single file. The directory just contains things that would be shoved i
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by xorglorb 16y ago
OS X (and derivative iOS) are essentially proprietary GUIs put on top of a FreeBSD base system on top of a hybrid Mach/XNU kernel with a bit of FreeBSD mixed in.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Node.js is mainly designed for the server-side, so desktop apps are not a high priority right now.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
So essentially it would be like Apple's X11. It will be there for backwards compatibility with older applications, but it will be considered "undesirable".
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Between 10pm and 4am.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
The subset of providers for in-flight WiFi is small enough that they could just create an Application (even the "dumb" phones can run JavaME apps) that spams it with HTTP requests for each different provider and auto-registers using fake da
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Internet Explorer: Commoners. Firefox: Geeks, Biological relatives of geeks, IT people. Chrome: Programmers, basement dwellers, hipsters.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
It was really jerky and slow in Chrome 9 on OS X 10.6.4.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
Just so you know, that is a horrific idea security wise.
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by xorglorb 16y ago
I keep getting a "Failed to fix permissions" error. Any insight into that?
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by xorglorb 16y ago
I believe that it is a file containing debug info, not an actual program, so you can't run it.

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