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OAuth paranoia
One day after I posted the lack of respect for OSS apps in Twitter “ecosystem” (a word they seem to like a lot these days), they announced that the API request for trending topics will now return the promoted tweets. … Continue reading
Twitter making it hard to use OSS apps with their API
Twitter, the biggest microblogging tool around, decided to change their policy to applications and it’s making it hard to OSS developers create applications that can be as good as the other applications. First, let me explain what is the problem … Continue reading
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When Chrome crashes…
[6666:6680:32113841705:ERROR:net/base/host_resolver_impl.cc(802)] Called HostResolverImpl::CancelRequest() after Shutdown(). 0x86559f1 0×8936372 0x8936d85 0x8196aa1 0x867c3f7 0x866f1c1 start_thread [0x27a96e] 0x38b8a4e [6666:6691:32113881274:ERROR:net/ocsp/nss_ocsp.cc(480)] No URLRequestContext for OCSP handler. –2010-06-17 17:38:06– https://clients2.google.com/cr/report Resolving clients2.google.com… 72.14.204.113, 72.14.204.100, 72.14.204.101, … Connecting to clients2.google.com|72.14.204.113|:443… connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK … Continue reading
Why 3.3.1 is the best thing what happened recently
The IT industry is in turmoil over a change Apple did in their iPod/iPhone/iPad license: Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally … Continue reading
Why the iPad matter
or “It’s not the change, but it’s the seed of it” So Apple announced yesterday their new product, the iPad. Some people call it table, some people call it a big iPhone/iPod touch, some call it “balloon boy”… But, in … Continue reading
Why Go feels like a balloon boy
One of my friends like to use the expression “balloon boy” to everything that gets a lot of attention but it turns to be a lot less interesting in the end. Go is a new language created by Google that … Continue reading
GPL and the web
A few years ago (two or three), I saw Richard Stallman at FISL where he said that things like Webmail were bad ’cause you don’t have any control over the software it runs in the server. In a way, he … Continue reading
Why Apple.
I know I had some troubles with Apple and OS X since I got my MacBook Pro, but I think that, when someone does something right, you should say it. So, in the end of 2007, I decided to give … Continue reading
OSDC, Day 3
The last day of OSDC started with Andrew Tridgell, of Samba and Rsync fame, talking about the fight with Microsoft for the protocol documentation. And, just because I wasn’t paying enough attention, I learned that it was Sun who started … Continue reading
Posted in OSDC, Reviews, Tech
Tagged andrew tridgell, code reviews, ld_preload, microsoft, olpc, OSDC, osdc 2008, pyglet, pypy, python 3, rsync, samba
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