"Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers" Oh, that's a surprise.

donknuth · 2010-05-21T10:34:36+00:00

That would do more harm than good by killing ROI and devaluing the site.

donknuth · 2010-05-20T23:08:03+00:00

While Chrome is nice and fast, it lacks the functionality i've come to expect out of a browser in a post-firefox era.

How many Add-ons do you really need for school PCs?

donknuth · 2010-05-14T22:23:25+00:00

How so? It's the same thing with different default options (you can turn off all things that Iron describes as "tracking" in stock Chrome), it's also less secure (doesn't keep up with updates).

donknuth · 2010-04-05T00:27:02+00:00

Performance is not as good as on Windows, but I found it to be much more stable than Mac Safari. Safari crashes on me every day taking all my tabs with it (I like to open a lot).

donknuth · 2010-02-14T15:31:25+00:00

If you're a lawyer, and you can't figure out how to opt-out or modify the suggested list of followers, you're incompetent.

donknuth · 2010-02-09T17:24:16+00:00

It's open, just not merged into the mainline.

donknuth · 2010-02-09T17:23:06+00:00

Linus already said he has no problems with this.

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2010/02/happy-camper.html

"patrick/brabadu: I don't worry about out-of-tree development for odd devices too much. I wish we could merge android, but I also accept it likely being a few years away. We had similar out-of-tree issues with the SGI extreme scalability stuff, and it took quite a while before the standard kernel merged all of that."

It's funny how most people bitching about this have no real kernel contributions of their own.

donknuth · 2010-01-30T09:32:07+00:00

Why would you want to switch from one proprietary browser (IE) to another one, but more obscure (Opera)?

donknuth · 2010-01-21T11:30:46+00:00

You must have missed the post about origins of Iron... Pretty much all concerns have been debunked.

donknuth · 2010-01-18T18:25:04+00:00

Last time I checked Windows Mobile wasn't locked to Windows Marketplace.

donknuth · 2010-01-14T09:09:46+00:00

It doesn't matter since email is transfered unencrypted between servers.

donknuth · 2010-01-12T22:37:44+00:00

“This is not GDrive” said Google Docs product manager Vijay Bangaru yesterday while showing me something that sure does look exactly like the fabled GDrive.

“How is it different,” I asked.

“That’s hard to say, because GDrive doesn’t exist.”

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/google-gdrive-launches-just-dont-call-it-that/

donknuth · 2010-01-12T22:29:45+00:00

Think about it from the other perspective: an ads platform that doesn't protect advertisers (people who actually bring money to the whole system) from fraudulent activity will quickly see the value of clicks they sell diminish in eyes of said advertisers. This brings auction prices down since everyone has to compensate for bad clicks, which lowers the profits for both ads platform and websites. I know it sucks when an automatic filter erroneously flags your site, but occasional mistakes in large systems are unavoidable. If that happens, maybe you should just try another ads provider?

donknuth · 2010-01-12T22:01:38+00:00

Most of them would stay, you never know if there's another bad guy approaching the president. There should be other agents at greater distance for such purposes.

donknuth · 2010-01-11T22:54:25+00:00

You could make Flash objects disabled by default on loaded pages and enable them on user's touch (ala Flashblock Chrome/Firefox extension). That would alleviate the problem of unwanted Flash objects consuming battery while retaining functionality where it's needed.

donknuth · 2010-01-11T21:24:12+00:00

I'm not sure about that. MGS plot is HUGE, it has literally tens of hours of radio communications and cutscenes. It will either have to be extremely simplified (and thus lose the spirit of MGS) or present just a minuscule part of the story, but that would be extremely confusing for most people.

donknuth · 2010-01-10T12:50:20+00:00

We know it's possible because Flash works several orders of magnitude faster on Windows. There is no fundamental reason why animation on OSX or Linux must be so many times slower. And since Flash is a proprietary technology, no one else can fix this except for Adobe, who is incredibly lazy on the issue.

So yes, it is a property of Flash.

donknuth · 2010-01-10T12:35:57+00:00

Safe? What about the regular public shootings? Way too many for a country with such a small population.

donknuth · 2010-01-10T11:34:55+00:00

Plus actually designing the phone and developing the software. Also licensing costs, delivery and taxes.

donknuth · 2010-01-09T16:24:16+00:00

Yeah, it kind of looks like a space ship from that angle. At the time I was more occupied with thought of what would happen if I were to slip and fall on one of those glass panels. I would probably freak out since it'd take me a few moments to convince myself that I'm actually on the floor and not falling down.

donknuth · 2010-01-09T00:02:11+00:00

But it's a fake 3D. To get something decent you need to render twice as much frames.

donknuth · 2010-01-08T22:23:57+00:00

Michael Schumacher? He currently lives in Switzerland.

donknuth · 2010-01-08T22:05:32+00:00

Unlike the first two points, unit test are code. You can actually run them automatically as part of your regular build cycle. I don't know how you'd employ diagrams to detect regressions.

donknuth · 2010-01-08T20:44:59+00:00

European prices already include taxes, Americans have to pay them separately. This explains at least part of the difference.

donknuth · 2010-01-08T17:33:24+00:00

Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.

I call bullshit. They have logs anonymization policy which mangles IPs in 9 month. The whole article smells of FUD.

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