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by aiiane 8y ago
A question worth pondering is if this is something that should continue to be fixed at the site level, or whether it's representative of an overarching problem with the data that browsers make available around cross-origin requests. ac
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by aiiane 8y ago
What is "company time" for a salaried employee that doesn't have required working hours?
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by aiiane 8y ago
If corp purchasing is interfering with your ability to do your work, that's the corp's problem, not yours. If you choose to make it your problem and choose to solve that problem by using your own hardware, well, you made that choi
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by aiiane 8y ago
You have to ask for it, it won't just be given to you, but I think you're making assumptions about the answer if you asked for it.
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by aiiane 8y ago
How do you figure?
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by aiiane 8y ago
Define "easy" - if you start out just eyeballing it, then spam blogs will steal historical content from reputable news sites to try to slip through the process. So then you have to start checking for plagiarism/copied content
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by aiiane 8y ago
Latency != Bandwidth
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by aiiane 8y ago
The same is true for reading a book but you don't see people up in arms about that.
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by aiiane 8y ago
This is one of the things that impresses me so much with EVE Online - that the economy has stayed as stable as it has. (Sure, there has been some inflation, and some interesting swings at times, but it still fundamentally works .)
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by aiiane 8y ago
Reading between the lines, what this statement actually means is likely "we have a lot of this user data in flat logs, which makes it hard to delete a single individual's data out of the logs, so we need to move from flat user-agn
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by aiiane 8y ago
As someone that has been part of costlier incidents in the past, no. Blaming people for an accident the system allowed is generally not useful. You fix the system so that the accident isn't possible.
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by aiiane 8y ago
There is a risk if you were relying on sync to be a backup solution (which in the absence of discussing the risk of remote data loss, someone might be tempted to do).
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by aiiane 8y ago
Discord doesn't really solve any problems in the text chat space any better than Slack, and introduces additional problems like its lack of ability to leave/join channels.
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by aiiane 8y ago
The closest thing to a standards-based, non-walled-garden option that has the possibility of widespread adoption?
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by aiiane 9y ago
N.B. the startup he joined is run by one of his former coworkers (Laszlo Bock), another long-time Googler.
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by aiiane 9y ago
It takes longer for data to get purged out of backups than it does for the live data stores, but Google does clean up backups for deleted account data.
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by aiiane 9y ago
There's a significantly higher barrier to having your personal information show up in a book or magazine (eg editors). People make stupid mistakes on social websites on the time.
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by aiiane 9y ago
+1. It's a good idea to have some way of contacting your users regardless of what authentication scheme(s) you use.
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by aiiane 9y ago
That last bit is actually relatively straightforward - you send them a response with a link they click on taking them to a permission prompt.
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by aiiane 9y ago
Depends on whether you've opted into Location History or not, which is the master setting for most of Google's persistent location-based features. You can check the setting here: https://myaccount.google.com/activi
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by aiiane 9y ago
Maps app -> Settings -> Notifications -> Your Contributions (and uncheck boxes as desired). The controls exist.
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by aiiane 9y ago
Why exclusive to Facebook users?
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by aiiane 9y ago
https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ fwiw.
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by aiiane 9y ago
That's entirely uncalled for.
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by aiiane 9y ago
The computer science field would seem an empirical counter-example to your statement.
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by aiiane 9y ago
Nobody writes about the times where they successfully and painlessly got back access to their account after forgetting their password. If a service has thousands of times more users than another, you'll expect weird edge cases to show
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by aiiane 9y ago
Yes.
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by aiiane 9y ago
That's why U2F is a better alternative - it avoids the phishing issue as well as the password reuse issue.
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by aiiane 9y ago
As the page you linked indicates, the Audi RSQ was from I, Robot. The car in Minority Report was a Lexus 2054 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexus_2054 ). :)
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by aiiane 9y ago
Who says there are different variable names used inside Google? This is a single-function code snippet that is entirely public.

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