vacuo · HackerTrans

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

This is simply fantastic. I always thought operational transformation was pretty difficult to implement robustly, but looking at Google's implementation lets you build interesting experiments without getting all those details right -- like building the world's best writing time machine. It reminds me of Cory Doctorow's approximation built on git: http://craphound.com/news/2009/02/13/flashbake-free-version-...

I think there are great possibilities for building on this idea...

vacuo

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

I must say, I have never seen this in a license before...

1. By reading this sentence, You have agreed to the terms and conditions of this License.

vacuo

vor 11 Jahrendiscuss

Cool idea, but http://io9.com/5797597/are-we-surrounded-by-dyson-spheres

vacuo

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

In a more polished version, you'd want to make it clear that the passphrase is not necessarily the password used to log into your email account...

Seems like a really good idea. :)

vacuo

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

You read my mind. As soon as I read this article I thought of David Brin. For a shorter introduction to his work, check out the five-page essay [1] he wrote a few years before publishing his full book.

[1] Speaking of small cameras: The Transparent Society. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/fftransparent.html

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