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by Rudism 14y ago
I stopped using Facebook around a year ago due to the crazy privacy issues. Just recently (as in days ago) I also switched from using Google Apps for my email to FastMail.fm for the same reason. If Facebook buys Opera (who own FastMail.fm),
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I've actually been using this for several days now. I tried several similar apps before it and think this is by far the most usable. I like it a lot, but have one suggestion: there should be a way to go to a previous day's list view. I ofte
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by Rudism 14y ago
As an engineer, I mostly just use my corporate email for internal communications anyway, so it doesn't bother me at all (ours is first initial, last name, and I have a doozy of a last name). I agree with crazygringo that it's probably a bit
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The "back button" section feels a little out of place to me. I was expecting some form of pro-active advice much like all of the following sections give, but didn't find any there (did a double take on my first read-through because I though
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I sometimes wonder if this whole thing isn't sort of a catch-22 for the record labels. It seems somewhat intuitive that greater piracy/sharing would lead to more exposure and more sales, but how many of those sales are driven by people who
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Most of these sites will have very detailed monitoring of performance/revenue generated by their ads. In all likelihood they've A/B tested ad impressions, clicks, conversions, and revenue generated by a single-page article versus the same o
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I bet that's what they used to say on Reddit...
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I won't argue that the article wasn't comparitively reasonable (at least when stacked against the normal fare of science journalism), It just makes me sad when publications (perhaps rightfully so) assume that they need to craft their headli
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These sensationalist headlines on science stories really get me down. Cue the Nibiru cult parades in the streets any moment now. It kind of reminds me of the recent HuffPo article on intelligent alien dinosaurs. http://www.huffingtonpost.c
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The Apple song and dance involves creating developer certificates, project-specific code-signing certs, installing them all on your Mac and your device, and then setting up XCode to use the correct certificate combinations for the correct p
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It's not a local community, but the whole city. Not sure who came up with the naming conventions or when (the city was founded in 1957, so I'd assume the naming conventions were also established shortly thereafter), but I agree, it's a litt
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I live in a city with a very rigid street-naming and numbering convention (i.e., even if you've never heard of it before, given a street number and postfix such as "14th terrace" is already enough information to know whether it's north-sout
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It's called "negative seo" and it does appear to be an effective way to blast people out of Google's top results. Here's a comment I found from someone else who's experienced this: http://www.seobook.com/negative-seo-outing#45906
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I'd always avoided using Facebook to sign into any third party service due to privacy concerns (and eventually deleted my Facebook account altogether). But this is another good reason not to that I had never even really considered before. I
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There was an interesting (and timely) question on Quora about when the word douchebag entered common parlance, with some good answers given: http://www.quora.com/English-language/When-did-the-term-douc... Seems like its use as a nickname/
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When I started reading the article, I was expecting to scroll down and see photos of some kind of rhombus-shaped, barbed, Frankenstein monstrosity. I was sorely disappointed. It seems like the author is defining non-ugliness as "looks like
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I think in issues of public safety like that, it would be more a matter of law and not digital rights. Tinting your windows too dark, cutting a brake line, or adding distracting lights to the exterior are all ways to modify your car that ar
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At my last job, I was always boggled by the architecture team, who would lock themselves in a meeting for 8 hours and completely design some complex system with just their notepads and a whiteboard. I used to think they must be über geniuse
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I believe this is similar reasoning to why a lot of states have made red light cameras and speed cameras illegal. The owner of the car is not necessarily the person who was driving at the time, and it was the driver (not the car) who broke
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by Rudism 14y ago
I don't quite understand how the new method of hijacking gets around using 3rd party DNS servers. If I ping nonexistentdomain.tld, doesn't that lookup occur at the 3rd party server? How does my ISP inject its own IP address for that domain
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by Rudism 14y ago
I still remember using NCSA Mosaic on my Mac Classic to browse the web in the '90s. Back then there were two ways to lay out your website: tables, or no layout at all. All I'm saying is, we've come a long way.
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This reminds me of the backlash against Facebook's "Like" button replacing the "Become a Fan" button. Personally, I would be happy to see G+ get a little more traction among my less-techy friends and family which isn't going to happen witho
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I generally find religious writings to be either neutral to my atheist sensibilities, or (in the case of scriptures or apologetics) sometimes quite fascinating. The only time it dips into the negative end of the scale is in the case of glur