flatline3

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by flatline3 14y ago
The judicial system shouldn't be able to force you to say anything you don't believe in, to your own customers, with no means of telling your side of the story. Self determination is a sacrosanct right, and this punishment crosses the line.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Or are they just serving up web pages to users? That's RAM and bandwidth heavy, but very CPU light. You still need the machines to scale your load, but you're not going to be using the CPU. That depends very much on the efficiency o
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by flatline3 14y ago
I can't say I understand that. If RAM utilization is so vastly out-scaled as compared to CPU utilization, there's a significant resource use inefficiency at play. Machines consume a baseline amount of power whether they're used or not; that
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by flatline3 14y ago
I don't want my classified ads republished because I've chosen to publish the advertisement in places that target specific types of people. It's incredibly naive to assume you know best. We have our job ads republished by job sites with use
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by flatline3 14y ago
Even if it is a single monolithic application, it in no way could explain the use of that much RAM.
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by flatline3 14y ago
In chrome, I'm seeing a <video> tag, not a plugin.
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by flatline3 14y ago
Anecdotally, gnome 3 attracted me. I now run a Ubuntu system, but I haven't switched my main desktop to Ubuntu because Mac OS X is still better (for me).
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by flatline3 14y ago
I think it would be wrong to reward the PadMapper author's ethically questionable behavior.
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by flatline3 14y ago
If Craigslist doesn't own the posts, then that means the users own their own posts, and you don't have their permission to re-use their posts. This just puts you back where you started.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Customers, coworkers, managers, do this intentionally or not, maliciously or not. None of these situations are the same as an interview. If you're providing an explanation at the behest of the interviewer, why not also depart on a tan
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by flatline3 14y ago
I don't see why the "right" thing would be to reward someone for breaking your ToS and stealing your database as a means of creating a potential competitor to your business. On top of that, even if PadMapper had not been slimy, I don't see
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by flatline3 14y ago
The storage format is proprietary and some kind of obfuscation of the image data is done. According to the ToS, you don't own a license to the comics, so you can't export them, or even hold onto the comics if comiXology disappears.
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by flatline3 14y ago
I don't have a lot of faith in lionized history.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> So if your brilliant engineer spends their time telling younger or less brilliant engineers how they just threw out all their crappy (but functional) code and re-wrote so that they could tolerate reading it, it doesn't bring others a
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by flatline3 14y ago
Do you have a point that you intend to write a supporting argument for, or are you just casting aspersions?
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by flatline3 14y ago
This is the kind of argument that you see from "stage 2" or "stage 3" management teams installed at a startup. These are the people brought on when the investors or CEO decide (mistakenly) that they now need "real" management, and then proc
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by flatline3 14y ago
> Once you deploy then things will change less frequently so the real benefit is when you do have to change something, you're not running a big ALTER statement. Instead, you're writing a bunch of code to deal with data that may be in
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by flatline3 14y ago
The entire point of the article is that Apple can (and has) put 'transceivers' into cables.
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by flatline3 14y ago
I fail to understand how and why silent failure is considered a reasonable default.
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by flatline3 14y ago
It means that: A) closed development breaks the OSS community model -- that's not anecdote, just fact. B) We have a past example of the slippery slope of closed development.
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by flatline3 14y ago
And yet, look at Apple's profits.
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by flatline3 14y ago
"If you don't like them, don't click them" is a terrible solution, because I don't even want to see them . Is it so wrong that I don't want "free" things if that means I'm the product and not the customer? Is that really such a hard market
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by flatline3 14y ago
The point at which Apple's culture significantly shifted away from open source was the point at which they hid all their source code until after the OS was released. This completely breaks the OSS community and contribution model. Back in 2
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by flatline3 14y ago
Doesn't work. If it did work, Ubuntu wouldn't be reaching like this for revenue opportunities.
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by flatline3 14y ago
What it sums up is some Linux nerds' complete disconnection from reality. 1) Donations aren't a sustainable revenue model, and won't prevent Ubuntu from taking equally user-hostile actions in the future. What they need is a sustainable reve
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by flatline3 14y ago
microUSB hasn't become compatible with new standards, it has been hacked to allow the pinouts to be repurposed for new standards. The implication of this article is that the Lightening port can be repurposed, without changes to the device'
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by flatline3 14y ago
No, it hasn't. It requires different hardware in the device itself to output HDMI/DisplayPort to what "should" be standard USB pins.
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by flatline3 14y ago
This sort of hack is easy enough with ObjC and blocks, but is generally avoided due to introducing significant issues with clarity.
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by flatline3 14y ago
It has links, but not live content fetched from the internet.
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by flatline3 14y ago
> That argument would be a lot more convincing if the Dash actually displayed results from a lot of places, not just Amazon. What if I want to search the Web? What if I want to search my social networking services? What if I want to lo

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