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cdibona

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About cdibona

Open Source guy, programmer, Former Google. Email me at chris@dibona.com or find out more about me at http://dibona.com

I run a game company developing http://fracturedveil.com and help governments, film/tv productions and companies worldwide on issues related to technology, open source and manufacturing.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48131579

    This is what I'm here for. Indeed the Atlanta team bet it all on Brightly, and while it was so ahead of its time, it didn't get enough of an uptake to satisfy... certain executives…

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    Comment #46045838

    The closest we got to a fully open source android release was probably in the Nexus one days with some 9 proprietary blobs and , worse, user space support programs (IIRC the compas…

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    Comment #41788695

    The smart pigs honestly look like a pigs snout flying down the pipe.

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    Comment #41788684

    If you wanna see cutouts of a bunch of this equipment, a pig in a transparent pipe, and just happen to be in Oman, the petroleum development museum there is super. Id imagine there…

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    Comment #39086058

    Back around ...2007 or so I had papabupple make a 'google (heart emoji) open source" hard candy, they were absolutely terrific. People loved those things. Papabubble had a shop in …

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    Comment #38869782

    Assange worked with Rusbridger, Guardian's editor in chief at the time, I think. So .... the guardian should go to the guardian and get their help! :-)

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    Comment #38820084

    But the iPhone came out in 2007 and the for g1, 2008..... so, uh.....

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    Comment #38389335

    It was a very big printer, Jeremy.

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    Comment #38213350

    Aside from the risk of age, he had documented memory issues after his airplane crash in 1981, i don't know if that makes him more or less vulnerable during a stroke, but I'd be wor…

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    Comment #38210738

    Yup, we wanted Renee to make the mascot for Go.I personally really loved Glenda (the plan 9 bunny) and was enthusiastic. It turned out pretty cute! We even ended up ordering a few …

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    Comment #38032142

    It might have been OSU , not sure, it's been a long time.

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    Comment #38032130

    Psu open sourced guidance software in the mid 2000s and it found its way into other drone corebases and into a variety of missiles, including the quassam 4. Since it was open sourc…

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    Comment #36287796

    Yea, but,not gonna share. What I told Sergey was to tell Steve 'you can't take a person away from a job they love'

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    Comment #36277465

    So once you reduce the remaining pieces of the ship to api calls or interfaces or simply constant definitions, you'll find that copyright still attaches, but that's okay. The whole…

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    Comment #36165134

    It does ignore a ton of contributions from a ton of people, but that is the job of the CEO and cofounder. If anything I always want to know more about Chris Malachowsky, Nvidia's c…

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    Comment #35896887

    I have the flip (Fi sim) for when I go skiing, it's waterproof and small. I got one of those strappyncases so I don't worry about dropping it off a lift, which is nice.

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    Comment #35894772

    I have the fold 2 and I absolutely love it, been using it almost nonstop for a few years. When the 5 comes out I'll replace the 2 for it. The 2 is just showing some wear at the ben…

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    Comment #35669930

    Noel and Michael launched mars and moon in about three weeks after starting as 'interns' under me, as that was the fastest path to a badge. They're both still at Google, I think. (…

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    Comment #35526446

    One project that I didn't see in the article was the rtos https://marte.unican.es/ which a number of prominent experiments use.

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    Comment #35196393

    While the program was part of my portfolio, it really has been Stephanie Taylors' work for years. She's pretty remarkable!

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    Comment #35086888

    They're not allowing approval of wires via SMS or their app, and no one is picking up the phone there and most numbers are fast busy. Smells deeply bad. I had an account at a bank …

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    Comment #35031981

    I went to one of these last year and it's was basically a gas station convenience store without the gas or convenience. Poorly stocked, weirdly expensive, and, well, shabby.

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    Comment #34563641

    This is pretty much the only comment I'm going to reply to (I'm technically a google employee until march 31st) and just say how pleased I am to see this. The Screensavers was so m…

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    Comment #33579347

    We stayed at the Radisson blue and it was pretty terrific, could walk to the main drag, etc... I mean , it was -35, but it was great.

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    Comment #33225542

    Depending on the model, most of the larger capacity synologys require ECC when expanding (1821+ for me recently)