TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I've been reading the comments here and I think most are thinking of this the wrong way. Chrome OS is simply not going to be a viable corporate environment out of the gate. That's not even a question (the incremental updates that are auto
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'll be honest and say I only got through about half of this because of the Author's tone. I'm sorry but if you're going to start your piece claiming one of the most respected economists of the last century "didn't quite understand banking
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I don't think you're seeing the longer game Amazon is playing here. Yes they could make a small amount of money licensing 1-click to you so you could use such a system with your user info. But if they only offer the service through the Ama
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Both times by the author submitting his own work
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
He (you) is (are) only 16 so I give him (you) some leeway here but this makes the same mistake a lot of technology pundits do in assuming users will have to adapt to technology rather than technology adapting to users. The idea that you sim
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's not an issue of being emotionally scarred it's an issue of losing one's passion. Again it's not the same as other closed Betas. It's a movement towards an entirely different computing model. One that not everyone accepts is valid (in
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's not emotionally unstable to be upset with rejection it's the normal reaction (and to be honest there's probably no psychological phenomenon that's been documented more than that). Beyond that I think suggesting it's just "free stuff"
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
UPS' API delivers this kind of information and I assume they got the address from someone who already received one and then queried for packages from that address.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
One interesting point here. This seems to use the UPS API so I assume they're using info from tracking information of people who already received one. But the question is Did Google ship all the CR-48s via UPS? Where I work we send out gi
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You could be right but if that's the case I think it's a mistake. I can get why Google would want a certain type of person to test these things but the problem with an application process is it makes the whole thing a question of worthines
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm sorry but that just isn't correct. I'm absolutely not saying all socialists are Nazis but the Nazi party was an extreme example of the socialist philosophy. That philosophy being that the Government should use its power to socially en
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I was in the same situation (besides being a little younger thanks to the outrageous salaries of the late-90s) and what I did was to join a non-profit that helps people. The pay sucks and it won't get you completely away from politics but
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I was thinking about this while reading the other thread on this topic. I have no inside information but if I were Google what I'd do is have an automated system that profiles the Google accounts given with each application. Since they cou
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I have no inside information but I'd assume this has something to do with automation. They ask for your Google Account when you fill out the application and they said outright that they were looking for people who "live on the web". Since
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I’d argue this doesn’t count (or at least shouldn’t count) as freedom of speech. Because Freedom of Speech is an absolute value in that anyone should be able to express their opinions without being punished for it. But the Wikileaks situat
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
The Sarah Palin thing was Yesterday.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You make valid points but I don't think they support your conclusion. I'll go down the list. Cape Town Peace March, The Berlin Wall & Salt Satyagraha: In these cases the Government felt it didn't have a choice but to capitulate lest it
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Just out of curiosity, can you name a time when a Government has responded positively to this kind of attack? Where a protest has defied the law and the Government has reacted by giving the protesters what they want? Because I can't. In e
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I can't speak for anyone else but my dismissive attitude is based on the fact that he seems to have done no more than 15 minutes worth of research for this article and what research he has done is badly attributed. To give an example of th
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
My favorite was when he just starts making up actual scenarios. This paragraph is classic... "It’s mid-summer 2014 and a drawn-down U.S. garrison in embattled Kandahar in southern Afghanistan is suddenly, unexpectedly overrun by Taliban gu
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Actually they don't but in the opposite direction. I set it at 7200 initially just to see if it would work and found not only did it work but updates came even quicker in most cases. Google's DNS for example will update after about 10 to
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
You can scream boycott from the top of the highest mountain for all I care. Up vote every item that posts on your boycott. Just don't disrupt every other conversation on HN.
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Oh for God's sakes let it be. If you want to boycott Amazon then Fine. Do it. No one's stopping you. But don't spam other threads with your political views.
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
As someone who uses Nettica for Dynamaic DNS (which this seems to be targeting) I think it's great that Amazon is creating some competition in this area. Not enough web developers consider Dynamic, programmable DNS and that's a shame becau
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
It's not that I don't think your points are valid (except for 2 which is easily fixed through CSS). But I can't see the time taken by writing a few good tracing functions or waiting for a compile to finish coming anywhere near the amount o
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm just curious, can anyone give me a reason why you wouldn't use Appcelerator ( http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-applica... ). I can understand there might be projects where you need to code natively but I think 99% o
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I was speaking in the theoretical. Honestly I think Google would be overjoyed if other browsers decided to make themselves reliant on Google's server farm to function. I think that's why the issue isn't really addressed in the proposed st
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
I'm assuming there would be some kind of algorithm to generate the encrypted key.
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Not really. I mean, if Google chose to let them than sure. Otherwise it wouldn't be that hard to have Chrome (which is based on an open source project but is not itself open source) send an encrypted key in each packet ensuring it came fr
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by TomOfTTB 16y ago
Whenever I see one of these "boycott Amazon" threads I wonder whether that person would be so brave if FBI agents showed up at their door. Because that's what happened to Amazon here. A very powerful Senator showed up at their door and es

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