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by aapl 13y ago
This is essentially how Magnatune works. You pay $15 per month, can download and stream any amount of music from the Magnatune catalog and 50% of your monthly fee gets paid to artists in proportion to how much of their music you downloaded
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by aapl 13y ago
One issue with just using a public key everywhere is that the most common public key authentication protocols result in some degree of non-repudiability. This is desirable for signing in to a bank but not for potentially embarrassing sites.
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by aapl 13y ago
About the Finnish system, you can find an example of the tax return form here: http://www.vero.fi/download/noname/{302EA05D-2530-4021-8931-... And instructions here: http://www.vero.fi/en-US/Precise_information/Forms/Tax_retur...
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by aapl 14y ago
As an actual example, in the GitHub penis incident, HN seemed mostly supportive of the target: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342
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by aapl 14y ago
In Finland, your income tax rate only depends on your total yearly income. If you estimate your income too low and too much money gets withheld, it will be returned to you the next year. You can also adjust your estimate at any point during
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by aapl 14y ago
Firefox now comes with a console, DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger out of the box.
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by aapl 14y ago
Try Sony Xperia U. I have the previous model Xperia ray and have been very happy with it. Great display (3.3 inch widescreen high-DPI), great camera, okay processor, would prefer more memory. It's so small that just about everyone mistakes
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by aapl 14y ago
The Book Depository is owned by Amazon too :)
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by aapl 14y ago
AbeBooks is actually owned by Amazon now.
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by aapl 14y ago
Hyperbole, true, but it's equally silly to say that things just fine because it's the same situation in China and Korea. Why not compare to Japan where work permits are not tied to an employer and if you lose your job you generally have at
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by aapl 14y ago
Some metro and train stations have those in Japan too, though they are still somewhat rare sight.
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by aapl 14y ago
Raw TCP was considered for WebSockets, however briefly. Due to security reasons, WebSocket was designed so that it's impossible for a WebSocket client to spoof any existing protocol. I would argue that things are actually swinging to the op
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by aapl 14y ago
Pure speculation: maybe these apps are actually ebooks or some other kind of static content just packaged as an app and they are generated by an automatic or a semi-automatic process. Assuming that the article is correct, of course.
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by aapl 14y ago
I frequent a couple of niche forums where the rule is that you have to write an introductory post of at least X sentences (or come up with original witty answers to a list of questions etc.) before you are allowed to post anything else. All
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by aapl 14y ago
This sounds interesting. What Xerox document are you referring to and what is the most relevant part?
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by aapl 14y ago
This also applies to Freshness Burger and Kua'Aina. I don't understand how the Japanese can pull it off but Americans and Finns can't.
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by aapl 14y ago
Good advice here. I would like to add two things: When Apple demoes desktop applications, they have multiple computers linked to a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. If the demo fails on one computer, the presenter can quickly switch to a fresh
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by aapl 14y ago
I once heard a lecture by Joe Haldeman, an author who was a close friend of a Heinlein. IIRC, he said that Heinlein liked to play by taking ideas to their logical extremes and much of what he wrote should be taken as "a modest proposal" ins
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by aapl 14y ago
Maybe something like this: https://vimeo.com/8569187 A less cynical version: https://vimeo.com/14294054
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by aapl 14y ago
I'm a big fan of the model of teamwork where everyone is welcome to offer their opinion on and spend a bit of time thinking about and working on any aspect of the product, but there are fairly clearly defined responsibilities regarding who
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by aapl 15y ago
"The pixels you buy will be displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not change."
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by aapl 15y ago
Google could also stop releasing new versions of Android as code drops. Sony is trying to do the right thing and update a large part of their inventory but their ICS ROMs are currently still in beta because they only got access to ICS sourc
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by aapl 15y ago
Except that Mobile Safari still crashes if you have a proxy server enabled and try to open a WebSocket: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/193 Pretty annoying.
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by aapl 15y ago
There is also WebCL, an effort underway to put OpenCL in the browser, and River Trail, an experiment to execute subset of JavaScript using OpenCL as a backend. I don't know how difficult it is to write a CPU compute device driver, so I don'
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by aapl 15y ago
UDP will be coming as a part of the WebRTC effort. The current spec draft and prototypes don't include arbitary data channels, but they are currently being specced on the mailing list.
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by aapl 15y ago
If you are willing to go smaller than iPhone, consider Sony Ericsson Xperia ray. It doesn't seem too exciting looking at the specs, but so far there have been quite a few pleasant surprises (camera, overall snappiness, solid construction) a
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by aapl 15y ago
To my knowledge, IndexedDB is specifically intended as a low-level B-tree API that most developers will access via a high-level library of some sort [1]. [1] http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-...
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by aapl 15y ago
The Impact graph on the Stats & Graphs page gives a quick summary of recent major contributors to a repository. However, if you want to gauge the total contribution of a person across all projects, you have to check the impact graphs in
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by aapl 15y ago
This is already happening, though unintentionally and in the other direction. A recent study found a correlation between time spent playing computer and console games and good English grades among Finnish high school kids. The effect is sur
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by aapl 15y ago
Mobile and online casual games have been pulling in very impressive profits for the last 3-4 years while many companies have seen console and PC retail profits decrease in the same period. The demand for hardcore games isn't being threatene

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