FroshKiller

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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   I jumped to Gmail exclusively for my personal mail in 2004 and never looked back. If my work email followed suit, I'd be thrilled.
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   Not much humor at all, really. Even I think this is juvenile.
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   I'm actually a little relieved after clicking through. The post is only talking about app updates, not syncing updates to your notebooks.
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   Wow, that article had a misleading headline. The revelation: "Well over half of [the University of the Free State's] web traffic was served via IPv6 after its network was dual stacked with IPv6." The University's deputy
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   Well, understand that the context matters. It's definitely something worth discussing! But whether it's a good look or a bad look depends on the discovery. If you'd found it from, say, Jezebel's critical preview versus a
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   In this scenario, have I already discovered your service prior to the app's availability? If so, I (personally) don't pay much attention to media blurbs on the site of the service/app itself. If I'm already using Exemplr
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   I'm not a mobile developer, so take what I say with a grain of salt, but as a user, I don't care about an app's age or whether it had a soft launch. Most apps are little more than opportunities to provide a bad user experienc
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   I like how the link you submitted appears to have come from a "please please please let me know when this app launches" mailing list. That's not a good look.
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   by FroshKiller 12y ago

   But users aren't QA testers. There's no way they "should" do anything. They're going to report feedback by the path of least resistance. Communicating through a review gives a user a lot of bang for their buck, beca
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Human experience isn't divided up into silos. If economists notice something about biology from a different perspective, we should evaluate their findings, not immediately distrust or dismiss them.
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    I support a web-based ERP system. I'd love to develop a feature for reporting support cases directly from the system that is context-aware enough to describe an issue better than most of our clients do when they call or email.
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    If the phrase "Multimodal container transport really caught fire between 1955 and 1970" ignites anyone's interest, you should check out a book called The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Ec
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    At least in the case of my thermostat, all remote functions are mediated by a server on the thermostat company's side that dials into the thermostat over the Web. In order to compromise the thermostat, you'd have to know how to id
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    A big part of it is just geeking out over how cool it is that my thermostat is online. However, I'm the kind of guy who never remembers to change the thermostat's schedule before I leave home for a trip, and this thing has already
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Ha, aren't they often the same thing? In this case, I'll be happy to continue forgetting, because I'll be able to correct the mistake without going home. Kind of chilling, actually: The notion that this technology might make
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Personally, I'm stoked. The first connected home device I got was an Internet-connected thermostat when I got my home HVAC replaced two months ago. I had no idea I was getting that in the package, and I love it. Looking forward to the
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Fire is a cheap and freely available force multiplier.
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Suppose they want to change platforms in the future or release the codebase for others to use. It was apparently an easy enough change to implement now, so why not?
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    What a tar baby!
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Considering that the book is available from Apple for free on the iBooks store....
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    I'm going to hazard a guess that you're a Windows or Mac user.
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    Here is a great explanation of the glitch and instructions for patching it: http://www.computerarcheology.com/wiki/wiki/Arcade/Galaga
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    by FroshKiller 12y ago

    This project is very interesting to me. I work for a company that develops a SaaS accounting solution, and I've wanted to work on a CLI suite for posting and auditing tools.
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    by FroshKiller 13y ago

    Surely you meant to type "Feldstein."
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    by FroshKiller 13y ago

    You don't get billions of dollars by ignoring small change.
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    by FroshKiller 13y ago

    Wow, and just this week, I installed Pushbullet to handle getting notifications from IFTTT to my Android phone. Oh well, I will continue to use Pushbullet, and this is still good news.
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    by FroshKiller 13y ago

    This sounds really paranoid. Do you have some concrete evidence? What does "coordination on a scale of a nation state" even look like with respect to a subreddit?
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    by FroshKiller 13y ago

    One of the developers posted about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7582316
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    by FroshKiller 13y ago

    I was in a roleplaying channel on IRC many years ago, and during a huge netsplit, events from 45 minutes earlier started playing out: same people joining, same messages being sent, etc. but with most of us still in the room observing. We ha