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literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Jotform domain seized by US due to user generated content

Agreed. My only point was that, contrary to your original assertion, domain names do not look anything like property owned by the registrant.

That said, I do not support the confiscation, and I hope Jotform sues and wins. I'm not holding my breath, though.

I would love to see a DNS replacement that is not only decentralized but allodial.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Perpetual Window into Gmail

It’s so simple and pervasive that even savvy users have no issue letting dozens of new services access their various accounts.

No, that's patently false.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Vim anti-patterns

Got it. I think we ironically tend to underestimate our ability to estimate. I normally :set nonumber, and like secoif, I've impressed myself on numerous occasions with how well I'm able to estimate line counts and character counts. Give it a try -- you're likely to impress yourself too.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Vim anti-patterns

Why not ^Z and ^D?

I just recently learned to use ^D to exit a shell. It's amazing how many times in my life I've typed out exit^M -- or worse, exot^H^Hit^M -- when all I needed was ^D.

Edit: I now realize that you can't pair ^Z and ^D. It's either ^Z and fg, or :sh and ^D.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”

I measured the headers in ajtaylor's above post. Zappos delivers different headers each time, and currently they're only giving me 599 bytes, including zero Link headers.

I agree of course that you can't consider all of it a waste. My point was just that their HTTP overhead is exceptionally large, and their superfluous headers adversely affect all of their users despite the fact that almost none of their users will ever read them.

The fact that their X-Core-Value in ajtaylor's example was "8. Do More With Less" makes them seem clueless about the real impact of HTTP overhead.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”

Yes, I measured the size of the HTTP headers. It's not a subjective measurement. It's not 1322 bytes; it's 1275 bytes. 1322 looks like you forgot to remove the indentation that was added above for code formatting. 1275 bytes == 1.3K.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Jobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API”

> X-Core-Value: 8. Do More With Less

That's 1.3K of overhead per request. I call that doing Less with More. Recruiting in HTTP headers may seem like a clever gimmick to some, but I doubt it could possibly warrant the aggregate degradation of performance. If that's what they call doing "More with Less", my reaction is hardly an urge to work with them.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Megaupload Implications are plain scary for Cloud Storage

The Megaupload indictment reads that they removed links to the illegal file, but did not remove the actual file. To those blissfully unaware of how the internet works, this makes sense.

It has nothing to do with the Internet. In the context of file-systems, the word "remove" actually means to "unlink". Doesn't this technicality invalidate the indictment?

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Average Silicon Valley Tech Salary Passes $100,000

San Francisco also has an artificial housing shortage caused by enforced height-limits for new buildings.

Furthermore there's a significant amount of "affordable housing" and public projects sitting on huge multi-billion dollar lots. All that contributes to artificially high prices for everyone else.

Most of San Francisco's woes directly result from policy-makers who don't understand basic Economics.

literalusername | 14 years ago | on: Every Linux screen locker bypassed with a keypress

Thanks for the recommendation. I'll definitely bear it in mind for future installs, but since I put the effort into configuring vlock well, I'd like to live with it for a while more. I'd actually already read that thread when configuring vlock on my current box, and I do chvt $(cat /tmp/console.pm) on resume. It's robust when configured well, but I can see the value in a locker that requires less configuration time.
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