branksy

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by branksy 8y ago
> They can't keep themselves secure... they can't police themselves? What does that have to do with it? Better laws on security will force the government to police itself better too. Simple example: a law requiring all passwo
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by branksy 8y ago
From Wikipedia: The bills in both House and Senate had bipartisan support, as well as strong support from numerous music industry groups representing musicians, producers, and publishers, as well as from digital streaming media services an
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by branksy 8y ago
> Unsustained by the particle or droplet, the wavefront disperses long before reaching its slit, and there’s no interference pattern. The Danish researchers verified these arguments with computer simulations. Wait, what? From what I&#x
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by branksy 8y ago
Like many companies, yes. However, unlike many companies, they actually have a process where you can submit your "weekend projects" for Google to review and "gain back" explicit ownership of them. Basically Google just c
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by branksy 8y ago
Fascinating! Serious question: could this turn JavaScript (technically Walt) into a serious language for scientific computation? That now runs in any browser? E.g. Python is used a lot together with NumPy/SciPy, but for performance the
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by branksy 8y ago
Considering Apple has been making old hardware even more performant, that doesn't seem to be their goal at all. I brought my out-of-warranty iPhone to the store last week because its battery was swelling, and they couldn't repla
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by branksy 8y ago
What?! It's criminal fraud, it's illegal and should be illegal period. Your argument is extremely dangerous, it's no different from "of course you got robbed and beaten, what are you expecting when you walk into a danger
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by branksy 13y ago
Does it scroll? It doesn't do anything for me (Opera), so I guess everything's broken.
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by branksy 13y ago
But... phone apps already do all those things, so I don't get what you're complaining about. My point is, apps already seem to be doing the right things. So what's some kind of new manifesto needed for? What is supposed to be
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by branksy 13y ago
Responding to you and everyone else using weather as an example: NO, I don't EVER want cached weather data! In fact, it drives me nuts that when I look up the weather on my iPhone to see what the current temperature is outside, I hav
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by branksy 13y ago
This is a great post, and it's a good illustration of the difference between fun hacking/project buildling, and actually creating a business around software. The ugly fact is, when you're creating a startup, only about 5% of
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by branksy 13y ago
> We can’t keep building apps with the desktop mindset of permanent, fast connectivity... That's just silly. A lot of apps are rightly useless without normal connectivity, like checking the weather [edit: for current conditions], or