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by 0x12 15y ago
One more step along the way of making google the all knowing entity and slamming the door shut on everybody else that would like to go the same way. Now if they would please allow adsense ads on ssl served pages elsewhere it would actually
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No TV is so 1990. Really, today 'No TV' would be easy to achieve while still overdosing on Youtube, netflix and so on. Computers screens are more often than not the delivery vector for your daily dose of passive consumption. And it's not ju
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by 0x12 15y ago
Whatever it was they should have anticipated the popularity a bit better, they seem to be down/very slow for hours now.
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by 0x12 15y ago
No, facebook has a special place in my heart, which is why they got 'special treatment'. Other than the usual suspects and FB my host file is empty. I can see how a huge hostfile would impact performance, and I would advice against using it
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How To Safely Store A Password(codahale.com)
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Where I live we simply use windows rather than radar for looking through walls. I understand that there are law enforcement and military applications for this kind of tech, but I really wonder if we need to add the ability to see through wa
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by 0x12 15y ago
Access is also a commodity. That doesn't stop ISPs the world over from making a killing on it. Yes, it is a feature if you've already got an OS and a bunch of devices out there. But it is a product if you can do this seamlessly across all
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by 0x12 15y ago
What is the difference between you not paying apple or you not paying dropbox? The upside for dropbox is you commenting here that you are using them and that their free tier is usable, so you are effectively a part of their marketing arm. I
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by 0x12 15y ago
Good point. I'm pretty old school so the hosts file was my first line of defense. I didn't know about ghostery until this thread so that's installed now as well.
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by 0x12 15y ago
Because putting the onus for removal on Patrick is a dick thing to do. After all, Patrick owes Sebastian exactly nothing, Sebastian writing this piece does not oblige Patrick to ask for a removal or even to communicate with him on the subje
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by 0x12 15y ago
The dividing line between stupid and brilliant is usually determined retrospectively.
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by 0x12 15y ago
No, because there are even today a lot more non-apple users than there are apple users and dropbox is platform agnostic. It may cause them some lost sales but nothing threatening.
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by 0x12 15y ago
It might, or it might get them in trouble. In their position there is no upside from doing it that way but plenty of potential downside. For instance, one way in which that could be struck down is to use that message as a pretext to levy th
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by 0x12 15y ago
Let's hope that Canon will allow a hack to escape from their labs to rectify this bug after the camera reaches the end user. A tax on an integer seems to be a bit silly.
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Really smart people are capable of admitting they are wrong and acting upon it. If you already realize you were out of line then why can't you act on it? Is being the third hit for 'Patrick McKenzie' in google worth the continued damage to
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by 0x12 15y ago
Surprising, because I'd totally forgotten about it and really wanted to see what this was all about (after reading some of the comments here). So I thought to myself 'ok, this once' knowing I'd be sticking my head out. It took me a minute o
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by 0x12 15y ago
One of the problems with speaking for everybody on a forum with 10's of thousands of active users is that invariably you don't.
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You may want to disable your skewing algo for the first 10K or so sales and/or if the difference between the two tests is within certain bounds.
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> and also offered to Patrick - and him alone - that I'd take it down if he preferred. He didn't ask me to, so I didn't. You can read that in many different ways. The way I read it does not make you look very good. Of course he didn't a
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by 0x12 15y ago
Funny, my hosts file seems to interrupt the flow of this prank slightly. We'll see how my s.o. reacts to it, but on my machine it does absolutely nothing. In case you're wondering what is in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com 1
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by 0x12 15y ago
For almost 4 months it looked like Facebook might unseat google as the #1 site on the web, in spite of their claimed growth in 'active users' Facebook has not been able to take the top spot, and the weekend swap (when google and facebook wo
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> They create the products that they think are perfect. They create those products that they believe will make them the most money. No apple product ever built past or present was 'perfect' when it was released, but it was more than goo
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by 0x12 15y ago
Not for one thing or another, but you can find lumberjacks discussing Stihl over Husqvarna for hours on end.
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> It does, however, draw my attention to that comment. There is a subtle feedback loop in there. After all, a comment that draws your attention will then be more likely to be upvoted by you and people acting like you.
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Painful. Great they got their stuff back but apparently it takes knowing people at google to get stuff done beyond the 'sorry we can not answer further emails about this'. I understand that there are limits to what technical support you can
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That's to stabilize the power supply, not to help with avoiding contact erosion.
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Technology is a means to an end. Once you can reach the end with the tech that you have there is no need to upgrade any further. Upgrading is an investment in both time and funds, both can be spent better if you are already able to do what
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http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-genius-and-tragedy-of-p... On the day you delete that post I'll consider reading your blog again. Until then not a chance.
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A dependent claim is like a #include for lawyers that don't like typing.
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Foxconn to make iPads in Brazil from December(articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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