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by Rudism 11y ago
I doubt this would ever happen. A large portion of Google's own ad revenue comes from companies distributing adware. I worked for a company that was in the adware distribution business and we funnelled millions to Google--to the point
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by Rudism 11y ago
The article mentions that HMA makes/made money via affiliate programs, but also that there were no intrusive ads or popups. Does that mean it would hijack users' normal shopping activity when signed on to HMA by injecting their ow
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by Rudism 11y ago
I don't think a drop reflects mortality, only in popularity as a baby name--the graph is showing you how many new people with that name were added to the total pool over time.
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by Rudism 12y ago
One of my favorites from the Windows world is fart.exe (Find And Replace Text).
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by Rudism 12y ago
There's also Hobbes and Bacon, a fan-drawn series that picks up with adult Calvin (now married to Susie) giving his old Hobbes toy to his daughter. Very well done and nostalgia-inducing. Part 1: http://www.pantsareoverrated.
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by Rudism 12y ago
They advertised "up to 7 days" of battery for the original pebble, too.
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by Rudism 12y ago
I've owned an original pebble for a couple weeks now, but I'm still skeptical on their usefulness. I save maybe 5-10 minutes of time per week by being able to check the weather forecast or dismiss non-urgent emails and texts using
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Progression(norfolkwinters.com)
1 points by Rudism 12y ago|0 comments
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by Rudism 12y ago
He's saying he can't get citizenship in the sense that he can't risk having his foreign bank account closed--not that he is prevented from doing so by the US government.
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by Rudism 12y ago
Chrome and Firefox both store cookies, bookmarks, etc. in unencrypted, unprotected sqlite databases in a user profile directory. Internet Explorer stores them in regular text files on the filesystem. Any application run by the same user has
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by Rudism 12y ago
I'm the same way, but this is slowly becoming a non-option. Even the cheap TVs are "smart" these days--it's no longer really a premium feature and just something that every TV has tacked on as a marketing bullet point. I
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by Rudism 12y ago
I have a Kindle Paperwhite (gen 1) but have been itching to get out from under Amazon's thumb. I hear a lot about the Kobo devices. Are there any alternate e-ink readers that aren't tied to a particular ecosystem? I would love a s
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by Rudism 12y ago
Does anyone know if Amazon or Google are somehow obfuscating or DRMing their casting protocols to these devices? If anyone ever made an unofficial 3rd party stick that supported both Amazon Prime plus all of the services already supported o
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by Rudism 12y ago
I worked in the online advertising industry for a number of years at my last job, and I can pretty confidently say that the worst thing that software like this might do is potentially earn a bit more money for some publishers using the ad n
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by Rudism 12y ago
In my previous job, I worked at an advertising company in the "downloadables" department for a number of years. Basically we developed browser toolbars, software installers, mobile apps, and other software all with the sole purpos
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by Rudism 12y ago
Are there any solutions similar to this and the others mentioned in the discussion that can be self-hosted?
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by Rudism 12y ago
It probably depends on how much money you're spending whether you'll get a dedicated rep who can initiate refunds without you explicitly hunting them down. $300/day is not even a spec of dust floating in a drop in the bucket
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by Rudism 12y ago
I think you're being downvoted because you may have misunderstood the parent comment and replied with an analogy that makes no sense.
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Show HN: Interactive Fiction game management for Parchment(if.sitosis.com)
3 points by Rudism 12y ago|0 comments
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by Rudism 12y ago
For three years I worked for a company that actually created and distributed the fake download button ads (along with a wide variety of other "interesting" projects). I even designed some of the creatives during early A/B tes
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by Rudism 12y ago
I've been waiting for some way to synchronize contacts on FM for years. According to posts on the support forum, they are pretty close to having CardDAV support implemented. Fingers crossed that they roll it out soon.
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by Rudism 12y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole reason gifs started proliferating on the net because people wanted to share short video loops, but didn't want to embed flash or video which may not load or play correctly in a us
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by Rudism 12y ago
I usually wait for the interesting AMAs to show up on /r/tabled before I even bother looking at them. Much cleaner way to go through them and avoid the clutter.
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by Rudism 12y ago
Second the recommendation for TT-RSS. For a few bucks it has a good Android app that can hook into your self-hosted server as well. For me it beats a plain old "dumb" mobile app with no sync service since I check so infrequently t
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by Rudism 12y ago
Huh, and all this time I've been using !gi You, sir, have just increased my productivity by 33.3%.
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by Rudism 12y ago
This smells a lot like arguments people would have made against TV when it first showed up. Comic books, non-classical music, yadda yadda yadda. It seems like every generation thinks that the way they grew up was relatively wholesome and me
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by Rudism 12y ago
My friend Felwooke Madfrego will be in touch with your niece regarding this apparent libel that his name is fake.
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by Rudism 12y ago
The main appeal of Soylent for me (I've been taking somewhere between 50%-75% of my calories from a DIY Soylent recipe for about three months now) is the ability to very precisely control how many calories I am consuming on a daily&#x2
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by Rudism 12y ago
I often revisit my recurring costs to pare the services I'm using down to the bare minimum. Here are the ones I can currently think of off the top of my head: Hosting/Email: Prgmr.com ($8/mo) AWS (~$0.60/mo) Hove
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by Rudism 12y ago
I don't think the playlist thing is related to the breach at all. This is likely just a side effect of the new version being an entirely new Android app instead of an upgrade to the existing one. If the local playlist data and/or

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