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by yungchin 14y ago
http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=ABX - sadly, of all the links on that page only the Gnome ABX one is still live. But you can find/ask for more recent material in their forums: many of the people who work on lossy audio codec
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by yungchin 14y ago
The only issue I see is that verifying archive integrity (you don't want to find out the archive was bad after you lost the local backup...) would be somewhat complicated, given their retrieval policies. Also, the billing for data-transfer
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by yungchin 14y ago
"Later the configure scripts became more ambitious, and as an almost predictable application of the Peter Principle, rather than standardize Unix to eliminate the need for them, somebody wrote a program, autoconf, to write the configure scr
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If PaaS is expensive and slow, why not use a VPS?(blog.appfog.com)
5 points by yungchin 14y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 14y ago
Here's a start: http://alternativeto.net/SearchResult.aspx?search=tag%3avoip...
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by yungchin 14y ago
I usually try to avoid sweeping generalisations, but in this case... I just can't see any use at all for crypto communication where the end-points are not secure.
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by yungchin 14y ago
It's a very intriguing statement, but I miss the insight to understand why it's true. Sure, you can name lots of businesses that would have had an offline equivalent, but why does it follow that you're in trouble without such?
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by yungchin 14y ago
I agree with most of your points, and especially point 5 could be where Tumblr will improve on what we've had before: the way they go about things may well encourage the design of beautiful brand experiences. As for point 3 though, if you r
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Can Tumblr’s David Karp Embrace Ads Without Selling Out?(nytimes.com)
33 points by yungchin 14y ago|6 comments
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by yungchin 14y ago
> the whole point of OSS was to open up development for everyone to grow and learn, and to remove software development from the corruptible influence of money That's sort of begging the question: "Will money disrupt OSS development? Wel
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Nexus 7 Begins Google's Ruthless Partner Cull(trustedreviews.com)
2 points by yungchin 14y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 14y ago
If you stick with the assumption that both Marsha and John aim to minimise the marital discord M, then John won't spill on the seat. So I guess the theory only addresses the subset of non-disfunctional marriages ;)
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by yungchin 14y ago
"Criterion (2) seems plausible. It requires, however, that Marsha put the seat in the up position after performing a toilet operation some percentage of the time. No instance of this behaviour has ever been observed in recorded history; erg
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by yungchin 14y ago
> Children have no sense of it I think such naturalistic arguments don't hold up. Children have no sense of many things - they don't see dangers in stepping onto a street without looking, and they don't see dangers in giving up their pr
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by yungchin 14y ago
See http://ozlabs.org/docs/uefi-secure-boot-impact-on-linux.pdf section 2.3: "This is known in the UEFI specification as the “forbidden signatures database”, and is modifiable during execution by authenticated software."
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by yungchin 14y ago
Telecoms are such a highly regulated market already (just to start with, you have to have paid a few hundred million for a bit of spectrum, if there's some available at all), that I don't see this extra regulation breaking it even more. On
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by yungchin 14y ago
It looks like Dell has set up a "storm session" where they'll take our feedback/suggestions, here: http://www.ideastorm.com/Idea2SessionIdea?v=1336432210237&#3...
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by yungchin 15y ago
It's still surprising that arxiv is that high up. You'd think most people would cite the definitive publications, not the preprints at arxiv? Anyway, given that in some fields _everything_ that's written goes to arxiv, arxiv will [by defini
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Rebuild of the Debian archive with clang(clang.debian.net)
175 points by yungchin 15y ago|54 comments
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by yungchin 15y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful posts on this topic. I can only agree when you say that "copyright is a key part of many forms of commercial activity whose nature is not changed by the Internet and whose deep-seated roots require the continuatio
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by yungchin 15y ago
> Copyright isn't even incentivizing distribution anymore, it's incentivizing pure marketing. That's a very interesting point, I'd never seen that clearly before. Thanks. > J. K. Rowlings' billions don't come out of nowhere, they co
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Brute force password-guessing attempts on SSH(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
4 points by yungchin 15y ago|4 comments
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by yungchin 15y ago
When there are network effects in play (ie my neighbour, or my classmate, or my facebook friend, or some columnist in a newspaper can recommend a book to me, and I will then be more likely to read that particular book), I think you should a
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by yungchin 15y ago
There's pandoc, http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ but it doesn't magically give you great page layouts in any format, if that's what you meant.
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by yungchin 15y ago
"No more new ideas, no more domain names, ..." That sounds counter-productive. If you need good ideas, you better allow yourself to keep the ideas flowing (I suppose I believe there's something random about the quality of ideas, so to have
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Infinite Stupidity(edge.org)
12 points by yungchin 15y ago|0 comments
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Nokia N9 - Meet MeeGo Harmattan(blog.steventroughtonsmith.com)
1 points by yungchin 15y ago|0 comments
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Kazaa founder Bermeister returns, with key cloud patents(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by yungchin 15y ago|0 comments
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by yungchin 15y ago
As much as the hypothesis in the title appeals to me, I don't think there's anything in the article to substantiate it. The whole thing is a repetitive pattern of {cite some scientific finding}, {blindly assert that the same (or, at some po
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Dutch providers abandon “ineffective” web blocking(bof.nl)
1 points by yungchin 16y ago|0 comments

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