Flammy

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by Flammy 10y ago
It may no longer be happening. Googling "Yelp extortion" will get you plenty of news hits, but this may have caused them to change their practices.
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by Flammy 10y ago
Yup, and not new... In the tech space, that is what Yelp does (Pay $, suppress bad reviews). I'm sure there are other examples out there...
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by Flammy 10y ago
Thanks dude. While (like many here) I'm very privacy oriented, this is a situation where Occam's Razor applies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
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by Flammy 10y ago
Agreed. If you haven't been following adblocking news in the last few years, Adblock Plus has been charging advertisers to get on a whitelist, as well as a few other less-than-ideal moves from a privacy perspective. There has also been
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by Flammy 10y ago
> > "the number of crashes or hangs, and application state change details, such as how much processor time and memory were used, and the total uptime for an app." > To e.g. determine when you used the TOR browser, since t
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by Flammy 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation.
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by Flammy 10y ago
Appuri | Seattle, WA | http://www.appuri.com/ What we do: Appuri helps online businesses understand, diagnose and reduce customer churn. We provide a beautiful, end-to-end solution that makes it easy for our customers to
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by Flammy 10y ago
Sadly still only providing download speeds, as Netflix (understandably) doesn't care about upload speeds.
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by Flammy 10y ago
I'm curious what type and size of companies and industries you primarily work with?
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by Flammy 10y ago
Hrm... I think I'll bookmark until April Fools day...
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by Flammy 10y ago
Yeah within a day or two of the original post, others who were a little better versed in the game mechanics of Civ 2 were able to beat it.
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by Flammy 10y ago
Reminds me of "The Eternal War", the 10 year old Civilization 2 save file from a few years back: https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil/ive_been_play...
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by Flammy 10y ago
Some good discussion and perspectives on Reddit's main thread on the news, as well: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5yjign/president...
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by Flammy 10y ago
I've heard pieces of this story, so thank you for the history and summary. I suspect what you say is true, this is a 'black mark'. Working for Uber? Maybe if you are in upper management, would it be a similar "black mark
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by Flammy 10y ago
The gray part is the fact that Uber happily entered markets by ignoring regulation or unilaterally deciding some rules didn't apply to them. Right or wrong, they were deciding without getting approval. I use the term 'gray market&
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by Flammy 10y ago
If your goal is to deter companies and individuals for taking advantage of gray markets, this is probably a very logical decision.
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by Flammy 10y ago
Discussion on reddit from 2 days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5xf7sf/a_russia... Apparently the $10k includes electrical, windows, etc.
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by Flammy 10y ago
Most important part which triggered all of this: Q: Why now? Is this related to the DOJ letter? A: ...The Department of Justice letter indicates [...] Course Capture content [...] is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Late
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by Flammy 10y ago
Appuri | Seattle | http://www.appuri.com/ What we do: Appuri helps online businesses understand, diagnose and reduce customer churn. We provide a beautiful, end-to-end solution that makes it easy for our customers to tack
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by Flammy 10y ago
First time hearing of Blind, can anyone share their experiences? (working at a startup so can't just sign up and see it myself...)
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by Flammy 10y ago
Happened on one browser, of one device this afternoon. Other browser on the same computer, and other devices, were not impacted... Like most here I assumed it was just a random, regular occurrence, and didn't pay much attention.
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by Flammy 10y ago
I'm not sure the best way to measure and compare, but it sure seems like Apple focuses a lot more on a narrow set of products than either Microsoft or Google. Apple might be vertically integrated to a higher degree than Microsoft and G
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by Flammy 10y ago
Warning - in the HN comment that is linked, don't click the link, is a browser popup spam which is actually hard to close (url has been dropped and picked up by a spammer?)
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by Flammy 10y ago
> 2) Take a photo and do a Google reverse image search Does this really work most of the time? I'm typically only doing this to find the source(or more information) about an image I've found online.
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by Flammy 10y ago
So there was some press this morning on the democratic filibuster... It is not clear to me why it didn't last longer. Can anyone shed some light?
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by Flammy 10y ago
A small bit of advice: In the future, make sure your title actually says what your tool does. Perhaps I'm not familiar with the term, but "boilerplating" doesn't shout "command line interface" to me. > Thaum
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by Flammy 10y ago
Really interesting, thanks for sharing. Does anyone know of any equivalents from other cultures of similar practices?
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by Flammy 10y ago
Appuri, Seattle WA, http://www.appuri.com/ What we do: Appuri helps online businesses understand, diagnose and reduce customer churn. We provide a beautiful, end-to-end solution that makes it easy for our customers to tack
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by Flammy 10y ago
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by Flammy 10y ago
The lenders are not idiots. I'm very sure they either are signed by their families or they have other ways of enforcing collection.

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