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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.

Re:No comic sans in httpd status pages on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:10PM (#11135756)
Replacing https with http worked for me:

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

Re:Go 1.5 is released on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @01:57PM (#10087267)
> Builds in Go 1.5 will be slower by a factor of about two.

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

Re:Microsoft also announced something called objective c on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @06:21PM (#9462229)
That is misleading, the language was invented at ITT.

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

Re:Why Waze is so popular in Costa Rica (2014) on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:08PM (#9305581)
Japan does not use street-based addressing:

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

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)

Re:Evan Spiegel's Email Memo on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @04:18PM (#8764411)
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.
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.

Re:I’ll Give MongoDB Another Try In Ten Years on Monday September 24, 2012 @12:24PM (#4565427)
It also prints to the log upon starting a 32-bit server.
Re:It's Playtime - Light Table Playground released on Monday June 25, 2012 @12:45PM (#4157312)
For Linux the script is doing "if chrome, else if firefox". Better to use xdg-open.
Re:New gTLD Applied-For Strings on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @08:59AM (#4105623)
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.
Go can be debugged with gdb > 7.1 and is profiled with pprof.
Re:Why I Left Google on Friday June 01, 2012 @03:51PM (#4055364)
Go if possible, C++ otherwise.
Re:Coding style and undoing indentation hell on Friday June 01, 2012 @01:52PM (#4054689)
Sure, goto was abused, but it's no worse than (or even better than) using continuations or using break and continue.
Re:Why I Left Google on Thursday May 31, 2012 @09:35PM (#4051445)
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.

Re:Google Code Jam 2012 on Saturday April 14, 2012 @08:34PM (#3842392)
Posted at the top of the scoreboard. The FAQ pointed to this for advancement.
Re:Google Code Jam 2012 on Saturday April 14, 2012 @07:45PM (#3842307)
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.

It's excusable to mistake that post for spam.

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

Re:Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome on Monday January 02, 2012 @10:22PM (#3418478)
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...

Re:Palantir: The War on Terror's Secret Weapon on Sunday November 27, 2011 @10:29PM (#3284349)
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.

Re:Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source on Thursday October 20, 2011 @10:42AM (#3135030)
Cathedral and Bazaar works here
Re:Test your browser's safety (according to Microsoft) on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @02:49PM (#3099809)
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.

Re:Google.com Has An Unmissable Ad Drawing Users To Google+ on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @12:20AM (#3020749)
It appeared for me while logged in AND having been on Google+ since around the launch.

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