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by SCdF 14y ago
You haven't been to many countries then. I don't think any country I've been to except the US accepts US currency. They'll accept it in a bureau de change, but you can say that of lots of currencies. (For reference, that's mainly Australasi
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by SCdF 14y ago
Nope. I'm in my late 20s, so admitedly I've only been active on the Internet for 10-15 years. I've had email addresses at my (NZ) ISP, my uni, Operamail (really), hotmail and yes, gmail. Basically, I think I just didn't publish it raw anywh
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by SCdF 14y ago
Interesting. I've never gotten spam before (actually never, not once), until I put my email address-- obfuscated-- into HN. Now I get one every week or so (the horror!). I guess the reason we obfuscate is the general horror that once your e
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by SCdF 14y ago
0 days old? What does this mean anyway?
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by SCdF 14y ago
So I don't know about other people but I find it creepy because the goal seems to be to shag as many chicks as possible. If the goal was to have a meaningful lasting relationship with another human being then PUAs wouldn't exist, because th
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by SCdF 14y ago
Maybe this is just me, but if they have their own app store, their own UI, their own idioms and their own devices.... from any useful user or branding perspective, how are they Android phones? And so more importantly, why does it matter for
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by SCdF 14y ago
They're not thinking of you because Facebook had to remind them. Try making your birthday private in Facebook one year and see how many happy birthday messages you get when people aren't prodded by Facebook to care. It's a lot less.
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by SCdF 14y ago
I think the most polite way to put it, is that the article is written with a certain audience in mind. You and I are not that audience.
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by SCdF 14y ago
That was unintentional sorry: I use the word patient far more than patent, didn't notice.
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by SCdF 14y ago
That and it's a one-time counter claim for this specific situation. From the title I presumed that they had somehow made a 'generic' weapon that could be used to shut down any patient troll.
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by SCdF 14y ago
I'm honestly not sure what you're saying. Yes he made a mistake, that's why this thread exists. But making a mistake is not the punishment for making a mistake. Until he comes around, apologises and reverts what is arguably censorship, all
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by SCdF 14y ago
Pocket is fairly popular: http://getpocket.com/
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by SCdF 14y ago
I have tried to follow Marco and DF on and off for years, because I like to keep up with what Apple is doing and they seem to be pretty good at talking about that. Unfortunately they are also pretty good at being utter children about near e
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by SCdF 14y ago
Quick aside, there are still (in NZ at least) various conditions that you can attach to property sales. For example, if your property had some native rainforest on it, you could state to whomever you sell it to that they are not allowed to
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by SCdF 14y ago
If someone is paid based on the number of books sold does that count as a marginal cost?
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by SCdF 14y ago
That's a great quote, and it is definitely true that often times users don't know what they want until they've been shown it. However, we still use horses as transport. Sure, it's often just for pleasure, but the Police still use them, and
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by SCdF 14y ago
I'm sorry but none of that is even vaguely true, as true or false as something can be when it is entirely opinion. Touch screens are to desktops as push bikes are to tractors. You need both. Some people even use both. Or just one. Or neithe
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by SCdF 14y ago
I'm sorry, this is a bit OT, but your last sentence has a lot of metaphor in it. Like, a lot. I just wanted to lean back and appreciate how rich language is.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Totally :-) You get to see what works and what doesn't
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by SCdF 14y ago
I think I would be on the side of excited. It would be nice to make a batrillion dollars I suppose, but I already have a day job and a growing list of books that I haven't read, and as much as I like coding in the case of my main idea I'm k
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by SCdF 14y ago
>Most of these have wide acceptance among the HN/Startup crowd; I might expect to see more disagreement if the list were exposed to corporate programming environments, or especially to their managers. Hi, corporate code monkey here: tha
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by SCdF 14y ago
So I enjoyed using Ubuntu w. Gnome2 more than any other OS/window manager that I've used, which includes Win 98-7, and Snow Leopard->ML. I thought it was designed well . So what does that make me then? "if you want to run a linux deskt
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by SCdF 14y ago
Yes, and WhiteHats would raise those security concerns with the company, privately, and work with them to get it solved. If the company didn't work to fix them, that's when you raise it publicly.
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by SCdF 14y ago
Ahh, but I have two interfering security cards in my wallet, one in each flap! With your system I'd need to actually take the cards out of the "wallet" before I used them. Also, coins. Also, the inside of your wallet is less abrasive than t
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by SCdF 14y ago
Because the Internet is supposed to 'flatten' the world, and it does in basically all cases except where money or media licences are involved. Which is annoying, because while I can happily read the New York Times while not living in New Yo
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by SCdF 14y ago
I'd actually love this internationally in general. Actually , I'd really just like companies who deliver services to realise that people outside of the US may be linked to their site, care, and easily and obviously list the countries they
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by SCdF 14y ago
Spideroak works pretty well for me as a secure Dropbox replacement :-)
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by SCdF 14y ago
re #2, dominance is an interesting word, and it can mean a few different things. In terms of percentages of devices in pockets, I believe Android (including all versions) as an OS is doing better than iOS as an OS. In terms of physical smar
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by SCdF 14y ago
It's interesting that so many consumers (read: not java developers) have Java installed at all. I code in Java for work and so it's on those boxes, but I have never found a need for it at home. I've only rarely come across a website that re
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by SCdF 14y ago
So in Chrome for Android the problem comes only when you zoom in by double-tapping. Your site is quite readable without zooming so it's mostly fine, but it does definitely break. For your pleasure, some screenshots: * Chrome: https://dl.dr

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