> Going forward, the company says it will improve its communication with developers. “We want to make sure that we have a great relationship with our developers, an open and honest relationship with our developers,” he said.
I'm curious why this kind of language hasn't fallen out of favor. It sounds so completely empty to me, I have to assume it does for everyone else.
There's a difference between suspicion and actionable knowledge.
If I'm not mistaken, there were whistle-blowers before Snowden that were "responsible", following legal means to raise these issues, and completely ignored.
Since we know they were blowing the whistle on issues the public cared about, and we know they were ignored, is that not proof that the legal channels for this are ineffective? Perhaps if these channels actually had lead to actual changes, then the harm Snowden has brought to your country would not have been necessary.
bittorrent sync is actually very much like this. People can offer read only subscriptions to their repositories, and then everyone distributes that repository to everyone else bittorrent style. So you have multiple read-writers who can publish and update the repository and multiple readers who can just subscribe to it and help to distribute.
So an example where this technology could be put to a unique use: Minecraft streamers and lets players sometimes like to distribute the world they are using. So they could make a repository of their world and distribute the read only keys for it to other users. This would allow them to play it, even temporarily make changes because sync kicks in and refreshes it, and the repository would be kept current as the world progresses. That should be viable right now with Sync.
Problem is, I think the bittorrent foundation is doing their damnedest to keep themselves firmly planted in the distribution and ownership of the technology. So we won't see an explosion of third party clients. I don't think it will see much adoption for this reason, and that's a real shame, because it would be a wonderful bit of kit for the internet.
Hola's goal is to make the internet faster and fully accessible to everyone. Install Hola on your PC, phone or tablet to make your internet faster, more open and more anonymous. Hola lets you have unlimited access to information that is otherwise not available in your geography while protecting your online privacy. It also lets you stream videos faster than ever before. Hola is a collaborative internet -- it works by sharing the idle resources of its users for the benefit of all.
This doesn't at all explain the associated risks in a manner that the average user can understand it. It's presented as a feature, rather than the risk it really is.
that near orthographic perspective had me going "Am I looking at the CG artwork of some incredibly talented artist?"
It almost compelled me to try making a grid of objects and giving them different materials as an art piece. Not the only one apparently: http://i.imgur.com/UqmpoNh.jpg
Hm. That is an unbelievably charming idea for an experiment. Does HN ever do April Fools' day experiments? That would seem worth it for the introspective value alone...
I'll chime in with that it's an interesting idea, OTOH my gut feeling is that most people won't come back to read article comments after this initial 6 hours or so — hence you might as well essentially make the user handles anonymous altogether.
I've had issues with NPM in the past due to having a proxy server on our network, and dealing with some absurdly arcane errors t oresolve it. The only package manager that I've ever had a problem with.
That said, I don't tend to use node.js, so NPM's virtues illude me.
I'm curious why this kind of language hasn't fallen out of favor. It sounds so completely empty to me, I have to assume it does for everyone else.