Kadin

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by Kadin 10y ago
ZFS is more stable, but the architecture it forces you into is IMO far from ideal in many cases. I've played with BTRFS (in RAID-1 mode) instead of ZFS because of the latter's limitations about adding drives. With BTRFS, you can
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by Kadin 10y ago
I have no idea who they think they're targeting but there's still a huge amount of friction involved in getting users to install an app. I don't think that a younger audience is immune to that.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I believe that Google's crawler is designed to detect when it's being fed false information, and punishes pages accordingly for it. Wouldn't be hard for Facebook to do the same thing.
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by Kadin 10y ago
> Anyway, the only way to solve these issues in the long-term is with relying more on signed software, similar to how Linux repos work already today. It seemed as though Windows was warning the users that the software was unsigned; they
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by Kadin 10y ago
Kagi was a payments processor / fulfillment service provider focused particularly on shareware. Back in the days before app stores, if you were an indie developer your options for distribution and monetization were very limited. Gene
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by Kadin 10y ago
Actually I think NNTP solved a bunch of problems that we didn't even know we had at the time, including scaling and funding. NNTP servers were generally provided by your ISP, so ISPs built the capacity out as they added subscribers, an
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by Kadin 10y ago
Herb York's memoir/autobiography "Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race", which is noted as a source and linked from the article, is fascinating primary-source reading. http://www.learnw
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by Kadin 10y ago
Enterprise is the most terrible of the major agencies. Hertz and Avis are pretty decent to work with. National is "meh". I used to do a lot of business travel (40+ wks/year in some cases) and rented exclusively with Hertz o
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by Kadin 10y ago
That Vine's userbase consisted largely of younger people probably should have given Twitter pause, and in retrospect might have made them rethink that $30M valuation. Those are the same users who are most likely to drop your service o
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by Kadin 10y ago
> This kind of stuff is great for mobile consumption To whom? Most people I know are more incensed at autoplaying video on their smartphones even more than on the desktop. Their audio is more likely to be turned up on their phone, and i
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by Kadin 10y ago
> you can also have this read to you in a the NWS's classic, distinctive robot voice That "robot voice" is relatively new. Not that long ago, it was a tape loop of a person reading the forecast, played over and over and
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by Kadin 10y ago
I started to read your comment, but stopped after the first sentence when you made it clear you didn't read the article.
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by Kadin 10y ago
Sure, but there's not exactly a shortage of privilege-escalation exploits around. It doesn't seem like this is exactly a drive-by "oh please look at this resume.rtf.doc" type of attack, but it could become one with time
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by Kadin 10y ago
In that case, at least he received a gentle warning in the form of a few days in the cooler, as opposed to wandering into the US where his attitude could have easily (depending on his skin color and other factors) have gotten him a sucking
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by Kadin 10y ago
Yup. The author must have divided the number of square feet by the budget, dropping the units, and thought it was in millions of dollars. Oops. Hope he's not a financial reporter.
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by Kadin 10y ago
It costs $375 (plus lawyers fees, usually) and I suspect that they just didn't think it was necessary. Lots of organizations haven't and don't bother registering, unless they expect a problem. Lots of volunteer-run software
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by Kadin 10y ago
> Tarring all CAs with that brush strikes me as unduly harsh. While I'm sure there are CAs who aren't as egregiously bad as Comodo, it's hard to get around the fact that they basically shouldn't exist as a class, an
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by Kadin 10y ago
Well, you can, but you have to be willing to pay for it. That's the key problem. Users love the idea of a free service that stores all their stuff, and that's pretty clearly not sustainable from a business perspective, but it
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by Kadin 10y ago
> What I want to know is what is the next revolutionary WWW like Internet product that solves a pain many people feel? I think that already happened and the answer is/was "smartphones". Most people circa 1999 probably wou
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by Kadin 10y ago
That site also attributes obesity to "the contamination of the food supply with biodiesel" so... it seems more than a bit suspect. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary proof, and all that.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I suspect that the electric infrastructure probably is oversubscribed, in the sense that I doubt that everyone on my street could draw 200A each all at the same time and not trip a breaker somewhere upstream. But it's a testament to
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by Kadin 10y ago
You're overthinking it -- it doesn't make sense. At best, it's a sort of overblown rhetorical point drawing a comparison between one dislikable thing and another, at worst it's a conspiracy theory. (The conspiracy-theo
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by Kadin 10y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted; it's pretty much the straightforward truth of what happened. The US had Local Loop Unbundling for copper phone circuits from 1996 to 2005. In 2005 under Kevin Martin, who was a political appointe
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by Kadin 10y ago
I suspect that you're already aware of this, given that you run an ISP, but for those who are not familiar ... the reason that there was a proliferation of DSL-based ISPs in the late 90s and early 2000s, such that for a brief moment th
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by Kadin 10y ago
The telephone, electric service, piped-in gas, and even city water were all seen, at various times, as luxuries rather than necessities. Their regulation as utilities is part of what allowed them to become both ubiquitous and dependable, a
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by Kadin 10y ago
I remember early-90s BDL also. The security guards were pretty relaxed. We enlisted their help in faking out a younger sibling who didn't know we were going to Disney World; they played along that we were just going to meet someone a
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by Kadin 10y ago
A GPS receiver doesn't broadcast, and cellular triangulation is only possible if you control the cellular infrastructure (meaning either you are a government-level adversary or you have a set of Stingray-type devices). That's a f
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by Kadin 10y ago
> He has street bikes that will go up to 40 mph. In my state that's a motorcycle, and illegal to ride on the street without a license plate and insurance. It'll be the same way most everywhere soon, I expect.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I'm not sure why you'd use a hybrid app over a minimalist, mobile-friendly website, particularly for something like form-filling. As a user, getting me to install your app is a huge barrier. If I don't need to do something e
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by Kadin 10y ago
It also has a fairly sophisticated face recognition system (accessed, strangely, by long-pressing your face in a live video window, but only while using the rear-facing camera; it's almost like an Easter Egg but isn't) which it us

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