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No company in their right mind should sign this. This throws the baby out with the bathwater. There are actually legitimate uses for patents and if you're working on something non-trivial your company might want to (and might even be obligated to in order to do right by shareholders) use the patent offensively.

Putting the word "worth" in quotes kind of makes this article "worth" nothing, doesn't it?

When VCs make money they generally don't reinvest it, which is why they always look for 10x in the long term rather than 2x in the (very) short term.

Thanks for sharing. That actually adds a lot of context to the story.

I'm guessing this security hole is a regression because I could have sworn I tried this before. But I don't remember for certain.

Not necessarily. You could make the CSRF request on, for example, 80 percent of the views to make it look legit. You could even take a more sophisticated approach and start by automatically upvoting for 100 percent of logged in users just to get on the front page and dampening once your story rises in the rankings.

Uh no. I've seen Aziz's standup live. I thought it was terrible. But not surprised to see no one else agree - he is really popular with some folks.

I was looking at that video too and thinking it doesn't look or feel natural. It's a good trick and actually a good demo. I think the physics are kind of off in the final video though.

Normally, I'm a huge Aziz detractor but I think this has a shot at being more successful than Louis CK's special. I think Aziz is more popular with children of the Internet.

"Engineer won't ever work for Yammer"

I think the important part is that setting something to be 1000px wide does not mean it will take up 1000 pixels on a 1000 pixel wide screen.

Yeah...I know. I'm just saying I found it deeply engaging and if they made a movie out of it I'd watch it.

I'd watch that movie. The CG wasn't perfect but it was far from zombie-like. The primary problems were subtle stiffness here and there and a feeling that the words were being lip-synced at certain moments.

My first and only thought is "Google will fuck this up"

This could be a game changer. Restuarant management software is a space that needs innovation as well - I'd be surprised if they don't roll something out that incorporates both payments and reservations.

That's not evil. Youtube is at the mercy of "big content " and they have to comply with copyright claims. They're not in the business of judging whether a something can be copyrighted - that's a job for the courts.

"With zip.js files could be deflated, or inflated, within the browser."

That's what gzip is for.

Cool! It really is an awesome project otherwise. I'll definitely play around with this as some point.

Web workers are not well-supported yet: http://caniuse.com/#feat=webworkers

The most important omissions from that list are IE < 10. Using web workers if present and falling back on a different strategy are probably the right way to go because web workers will finish more quickly.

You should rewrite a "pseudo-non-blocking" implementation of these filters. Right now they block the UI thread for too long, which limits how useful these can be. Web workers in one option, although it's not widely supported. The better option is to use setTimout or setInterval to break of the processing work into chunks, which is supported in all browsers. For example, run the loop n iterations then run the next n after a 15 ms delay. The way you've implemented the processing right now makes this lib unsuitable for use on the clientside.

Ha. That's actually pretty funny. To state the obvious: that's impossible. If the list omits itself, it's incomplete. It it includes itself, it's invalid.

As someone else in this thread mentioned, the page has a link to itself in the L section, which means that we can't (and don't need to) go a level up. Like any good metalist, this list contains itself.

The idea is to get traction before the original company can. The idea has already been validated in one market and in theory introducing it to another market will work as well. When the original company is ready to expand to those other markets then they'll have to consider buying the clone. It can work for any type of company really.

http://andrewdumont.me/post/15813416151/pinterest-clone-pins...

"code to the standards and to hell with anyone who breaks them"

I think bug in this case just means that the software does not work as intended even though it follows the spec.

"Bing: A Microsoft & Yahoo Production?"

This reminds me of mistakes I've seen semantic analysis engines make. I'm not totally sure if this is a triumph of computing or a failure of Congress.

gosh i hope you don't get sued

Cool. But I think most people would be able to guess who sent the text based on who is likely to be buying shoes for them.

Instagram's Mike Krieger actually wrote quite a bit of code at Meebo (he is listed solely as UX). But point taken.

Watch from tokyoflash.com. Nice.

Yes and no. If you have a templating solution that works well on the client and server then this shouldn't add much complexity. Rendering the initial view on the server has the added advantage of supporting javascript-disabled clients too.

I muddled my point by mentioning Twitter - it was very nearly a non sequitur. They're supporting two paradigms but not because they want to. My understanding is that they don't have a single solution that works equally well on the client and server so they are using two different solutions.