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Microsoft hits new low – sneaks Win 10 ads into IE security patch(betanews.com)
24 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|17 comments
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How list prices lost their meaning(nytimes.com)
4 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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That’s What She Said – The Google Voice Version(medium.com)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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Building a Startup Doesn't Make You Special(medium.com)
3 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
I read this entire article, nodding my head throughout: why would a large country, with many other problems, invest time, effort, potential embarrassment, and legal implications, just to hunt down a few critics. Then the Snowden rendition p
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China's crackdown on dissent goes global(cnn.com)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|1 comments
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Object.observe deprecated in Chrome 49(developers.google.com)
2 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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Google engineer finds holes in three 'secure' browsers(engadget.com)
2 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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Startup Templates: Job Description(medium.com)
2 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
Yes, the internet is full of offending stuff. But we're discussing stuff you can avoid here (by using adblock), and you actually opt into. And some of those ads are just plain disturbing.
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
I want a compensation when a tasteless add, showing a gif animation of a scantily clad woman, trying to sell something irrelevant, pops up while I'm in my office. Or when a religious, inciting ad tries to piss me off. Yes, we all learn
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Request from sites asking me to turn off my adblocker
5 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|5 comments
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Ode to the Selfie Stick man(medium.com)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
I'm glad MS finally open-sourced LiveWriter (yay Scott Hanselman!), but I wonder who is Brian, and how many times was he called?
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Don't call Brian(github.com)
33 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|6 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
The solution, as always, will lie somewhere on the axis between allowing advertisers to run rampant on your page with obnoxious, harmful ads, and content providers charging you. Perhaps we'll all agree to unblock a small part of our pa
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
That reminds me of a discussion we had when I was working for * (one of the large tech companies in Silicon Valley): The conclusion arrived at was that if a freak meteor would hit our campus and take out just middle management, the res
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
I've been successfully using proXPN on my laptops and tablets for a couple of years now. Used it all over the world, though not in China. They have several exit points, in different countries, to choose from.
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Gmail Android App Bug Lets You Send Emails Pretending to Be Someone Else(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|1 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
Ouch! Too close to home.
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Diversity is for white people: The big lie behind a well-intended word(salon.com)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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The people behind Peeple are not going away (sadly)(recode.net)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
1. Not really possible: context potentially includes specific projects, specific privileged technology, customer information, not to mention private data of other people. Take for example the following: I use the reporting system to say tha
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
Several points on this privacy angle: 1. Many of the facts in your HR files are based on heresay - what your colleagues/managers/HR personnel think about you. These are highly subjective facts, very domain and company specific. Ai
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
Please look at the bigger picture: this is Amazon telling it's current (and future?) employees: if you ever say anything bad about us, all your records will go public, and our head of PR will use any inconsideration in them to argue th
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
My $.02: maybe they are starting to feel the fallout in their recruiting efforts about now. I get about one recruiting email from Amazon a month on average, and I assume others do as well. It's enough that 10% of candidates reply with
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Mail Notifier Chrome Extension for Yahoo Mail(chrome.google.com)
1 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|0 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 11y ago
Question: after reading about Omidyar's duplicity, does that take away from the integrity of The Intercept? Can we trust that guy to not be spinning another big hoax?
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EBay/Craigslist: Pierre Omidyar’s corporate spying scandal(pando.com)
8 points by TravelTechGuy 11y ago|1 comments
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by TravelTechGuy 12y ago
Thank you all for your comments and support! While I did not derive any financial gain from this little cartoon, I wouldn't mind paying a one-off to the artist. However, this looks like a scam, or a way to get me to admit guilt. So her

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