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dmaz··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
Reading the complaint, it's clear their focus is not on generic tracker source code but on copyrighted file metadata being preloaded into the tracker source code:

> The identified files and code are preconfigured to find and provide infringing copies of our Members’ film and tv content to Nyaa.si users in violation of copyright law.

dmaz··on No comic sans in httpd status pages
Replacing https with http worked for me:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=145590012904434&w=2

dmaz··on Go 1.5 is released
> Builds in Go 1.5 will be slower by a factor of about two.

https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#performance

dmaz··on [dead]
That is misleading, the language was invented at ITT.

http://www.itt-tech.edu/campus/courses.cfm?prog_id=5274

dmaz··on Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014)
Japan does not use street-based addressing:

http://www.planettokyo.com/trip-planning/getting-around/the-...

dmaz··on Racing goes electric: At the track with Formula E, the first e-racing series
To update that number, the new turbocharged engines required in Formula 1 since 2014 are much quieter (to some fans' dismay), maxing out around 100 dB.

http://www.marca.com/2014/01/30/motor/formula1/1391085772.ht... (Spanish)

dmaz··on Evan Spiegel's Email Memo
Protected by the First Amendment - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014...
dmaz··on Ford Ditches Microsoft for QNX in Latest In-Vehicle Tech Platform
This is a larger factor for me than is given weight by car reviewers (with the exception of Consumer Reports' negative reviews of Ford SYNC). Knowing how much better car interfaces can and will be, I have steered clear of the current crop.
dmaz··on U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team
Response: http://files.redskins.com/pdf/Statement-by-Bob-Raskopf-Trade...
dmaz··on Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs
Excellent! I had this same idea in 2011, kudos on the execution! The size difference between animated GIF and actual video codecs is vast and the idea seemed obvious. I made a quick mashup with ffmpeg+Django (I'd use Go/MongoDB for web instead of Django these days.)

HTML5 video wasn't uniformly supported across browsers (and remember Google announced Chrome would drop h.264 around that time) and I didn't get positive responses on the idea. Maybe with more tools to support HTML5 video in animated GIF use cases and educational tools showing the difference in loading times and encoding algorithms this idea could take hold.

Also the WebP engineers have developed an animated WebP format which I disagree with but could be a step toward breaking GIF's monopoly on short animations.

dmaz··on I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years
It also prints to the log upon starting a 32-bit server.
dmaz··on It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released
For Linux the script is doing "if chrome, else if firefox". Better to use xdg-open.
dmaz··on New gTLD Applied-For Strings
Skimming through the page, Amazon is going for a landgrab too with 76 gTLDs. Interesting to see how the major web player prioritized this. Microsoft went for 11 highly relevant gTLDs and Facebook for none.
dmaz··on Haskell Platform 2012.2.0.0 released - includes GHC 7.4.1
Go can be debugged with gdb > 7.1 and is profiled with pprof.
dmaz··on Why I Left Google
Go if possible, C++ otherwise.
dmaz··on Coding style and undoing indentation hell
Sure, goto was abused, but it's no worse than (or even better than) using continuations or using break and continue.
dmaz··on Why I Left Google
I do like Python but haven't used it for anything more than a few thousand lines.

The dynamic nature puts many errors into the runtime stage and increases verification complexity. Can be limited by static code checking, but grows cumbersome.

dmaz··on Google Code Jam 2012
Posted at the top of the scoreboard. The FAQ pointed to this for advancement.
dmaz··on Google Code Jam 2012
Lua for A&B, Go for C.

Looking at go-hero.net, it's interesting how the successful, popular languages in the past compare against the TIOBE index; what people want to use versus what the _have_ to use.

dmaz··on [dead]
It's excusable to mistake that post for spam.

No paragraphs, repetition, generic audience, then ends with a speculation.

dmaz··on Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome
Google had a similar, but more widespread paid referral program for Firefox with Google Toolbar for a few years.

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ct...

dmaz··on Palantir: The War on Terror's Secret Weapon
The article is lacking, but keep in mind the publication is Businessweek; the focus is not so much on the technology.

The government contracting market is open for disruption, Karp makes clear what they are doing when he says “You will be getting results right away instead of waiting two to three years with our competitors.” The business model of massive contracts to design software from the ground up for each need of the government must die.

dmaz··on Apple Lossless Audio Codec is now open source (Apache license)
http://svn.macosforge.org/repository/alac/trunk
dmaz··on Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source
Cathedral and Bazaar works here
dmaz··on Test your browser's safety (according to Microsoft)
The scores are predetermined, according to http://yourbrowsermatters.org/docs/methodology.pdf

Most of the security features that were included in the score are publically documented by the browser manufacturers and the presence can be verified directly through the browser itself. Additionally, tools like the Sys Internals process expirer were used to verify the use of DEP, Protected Mode, and ASLR.

dmaz··on Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+
It appeared for me while logged in AND having been on Google+ since around the launch.
dmaz··on Id to release Doom3 source code
Carmack has released id's previous engines, they're pretty interesting to read, and folks are still maintaining them. The technology ioquake3[1] is 10 years old now, but well-maintained as an open-source project. Darkplaces[2] is a heavily-updated Quake I engine that maintains backwards compatibility with Q1 while using fairly modern game programming techniques. Google ported Darkplaces to NaCl a while ago, and it has renderers in OpenGL, Direct X, and OpenGL ES now.

[1] http://svn.icculus.org/*checkout*/quake3/trunk/README [2] http://git.xonotic.org/?p=xonotic/darkplaces.git;a=summary

dmaz··on Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (2009)
For more insight into McAfee's mind (and a bit of a "before" picture), take a look at Outside magazine's article from February 2008, "Flying John McAfee".

http://outsidego.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=...

dmaz··on Fox’s 8-Day Delay on Hulu Triggers Piracy Surge
It's important to mention that for MasterChef, this was the season finale.
dmaz··on Open-Source OpenRISC CPU architecture pulled into Linux 3.1
Not to be confused (as I was) with OpenSPARC.

http://www.opensparc.net

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