CodeCon Saturday
Delta. Arbitrarily large codebase triggers specific bug. Run delta, which attempts to provide you with only the code that triggers the bug (usually a page or so, no matter the size of the codebase) via...
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Dido. I think this provides AGI, or a way to script voice response systems using Asterisk PBX and a voice template system analogous to CGI scripting and HTML templates for web servers, though...
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A few things I heard about at CodeCon outside the presentations. Vesta was presented at CodeCon 2004, the only one I’ve missed. It is an integrated revision control and build system that guarantees...
View Articlecontent.exe is evil
I occasionally run into people who think users should download content (e.g., music or video) packaged in an executable file, usually for the purpose of wrapping the content with DRM where the content...
View ArticleSupply-side anti-censorship
Brad Tempelton explains why a censor should want an imperfect filter — it should be good enough to keep verboten information from most users, but easy enough to circumvent to tempt dissidents, so they...
View ArticleGoogle Brin Creator
Now that Google has a product (Google Page Creator) named* for cofounder and current President of Products Larry Page it clearly needs a technology named for cofounder and current President of...
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Free as in free pollution parking
Tyler Cowen cites Donald Shoup’s The High Cost of Free Parking, which claims that “On average [in the U.S.] a new parking space has cost 17 percent more than a new car.” If I were lured by the...
View ArticleAdmit defeat, not error!
William F. Buckley admits that the U.S. military adventure in Iraq is a defeat, but willfully fails to learn anything from it. It is healthier for the disillusioned American to concede that in one...
View ArticleIdentity in, Identity out
I’ve briefly mentioned digital identity before, but the launch of ClaimID (more below) prompts me to write down my over the top theory concerning digital/online identity as a great absolute...
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Boing Boing promotes supply-side anti-censorship
Not the context I imagined, but Boing Boing is calling for supply-side anti-censorship: What happens when the blogosphere uses so much tasteful nudity that the web is unusable for SmartFilter users?...
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