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by Rudism 14y ago
I don't even see a big deal about requiring a call, as long as the call itself goes smoothly and they don't give you the runaround or use bullying tactics to talk you out of it. They offer refunds if you contact them... that on its own does
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by Rudism 14y ago
Agreed. You would have to pre-whitelist, or at least have a junk folder you could look in where non-captchad messages get stored for a certain amount of time before being purged so that you could fish out the emails from non-whitelisted add
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by Rudism 14y ago
I don't imagine this would take off, especially once people realize they can't receive any automated emails anymore (sign up confirmations, email validation requests, e-bills, reciepts for online purchases, any kind of service notification,
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by Rudism 14y ago
Is the iPhone 5 really going to have a different dock connector? That makes me and the stockpile of iPhone cables I have amassed over the years very sad panda.
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by Rudism 14y ago
My earliest computer gaming memories are of playing Zork with a friend on his C64. Good games and good times! I wonder if the yung'uns of today will look back on their Xbox live or MMOG multiplayer sessions with as much nostalgia.
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Ahh, you're right! I was under the impression that push tokens were unique per app, but I guess it's per-device.
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by Rudism 14y ago
The fact that they had the details about the app pushing data through apns.spankapps.com means they probably sniffed the traffic when launching each of the apps on his phone, and saw that the device token that app was sending up was the sam
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by Rudism 14y ago
Something like that probably wouldn't last very long, since it could be easily gamed. 1. buy a cheap license to something that will get flagged by the auto-detecting algorithms 2. go through the red-tape of proving you have licensed the mat
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by Rudism 14y ago
Definitely dark, I find my eyes feel more strained looking at themes with a light background. My go-to for many years now has been the Wombat scheme (originally for vim here https://dengmao.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/vim-color-scheme-wo...
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by Rudism 14y ago
Thank you, Apple, for protecting me from a news aggregation/notification and mapping app like this one. I'll stick to my fart sound boards and purchasing currency for manipulative "games" with zero actual entertainment value any day!
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by Rudism 14y ago
I've avoided using 1and1, but I recently made the switch from GoDaddy to Hover.com for my domains and it was like an amazing breath of fresh air followed by a clear mountain spring water chaser. Seriously. There are way better providers out
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by Rudism 14y ago
I'm not entirely sure the value of the DNT header in the first place, even if Microsoft doesn't end up completely derailing it with this move... The kinds of advertisers who would voluntarily opt out of tracking behaviors in response to use
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I can't bring myself to click it right now while I'm at work, just in case.
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I've switched full time to DDG for a couple months now, and have rarely ever used !g to Google results because I was unsatisfied with the DDG results. I'm curious what the criticisms of DDG's search results are. It's clear to me that many p
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by Rudism 14y ago
I would argue that the "big break" was actually a bad thing for Reddit. The massive influx of disenfranchised Digg users contributed to the decline of quality on Reddit big-time.
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by Rudism 14y ago
I'll admit that when I wrote this, I did intend it as both a tribute to my favorite text editor as well as a tongue-in-cheek response to the cult-like following that it has. For me, membership to the pseudo-cult is just another reason why I
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by Rudism 14y ago
It all started out innocently enough. You experimented with it once or twice in your first year of college, but Nano and Pico were easier—closer to what you had already been using during high school on the Windows machines and Macs. But as
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by Rudism 14y ago
Thanks. After reading the article, I was wondering why this was posted to HN.
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Do they really have a rule against scraping their scraped data? If so, you'd be in violation of that, but that's your problem with Google now, not Craigslist.
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It actually sounds like the opposite was ultimately decided by the supreme court. Two lower courts decided in favor of the DB owner (in this case analogous to Craigslist), but the Supreme Court found that the database did not meet creativit
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by Rudism 14y ago
From what I gather, the Craigslist T&Cs specifically forbid scraping data off their website. They explicitly call out the fact that they do not own the actual data/listings/facts on their website, so those are public domain (or possibly
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by Rudism 14y ago
I initially read the page title as "Simple scribble. Markdown Wikis" and had to do a double take before I realized it's two separate columns.
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by Rudism 14y ago
That happened to me too the first time I saw a link to this blog on HN. But now I'm wiser. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, can't get fooled again.
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I haven't been this entertained since the Ocean Marketting saga of late last year.
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by Rudism 14y ago
After my initial switch from a single to dual monitors, I couldn't imagine ever going back to just one. Let alone a tiny laptop display. Shocked at how many single-laptop-and-not-much-else setups I saw in the examples given.
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by Rudism 14y ago
Moving to the App Store has also broken and crippled Growl, which is probably one of the most useful/ubiquitous apps available for the platform. It's a shame that Apple is willing to hurt software in order to take a cut from and exert more
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by Rudism 14y ago
I really hope that when Google finally merges chat functionality between its various platforms (gtalk, g+, and so on) that they stick with XMPP and keep the jabber compatibility going.
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by Rudism 14y ago
I'd have preferred to read a post that discussed why it's silly to measure your own self-worth by the number of Twitter followers you have and how quickly you can amass them. If you liked this comment, you should follow me on... oh never mi
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by Rudism 14y ago
Another good one is http://gmvault.org . I used this just recently to backup and transfer all of my Google Apps emails to a separate gmail account since I'm transferring my apps domain to a different provider. Going just off of what the ar
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by Rudism 14y ago
I've also become heavily reliant on a decent webmail interface and good spam filtering, which create additional layers of complexity. I'd really rather just pay a reputable company to do all that stuff for me. Basically I want gmail but wit

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