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by akamaka 16y ago
Although the headline is conjecture, the article mostly quotes experts in the field, so I would hardly say that it has zero substance. The main point is that highly technical websites and mailing lists that deal with the hardware and softw
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by akamaka 16y ago
I left the site without realizing there's anything else, before being prompted to scroll, and only realized that there was more after I read the comments here.
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by akamaka 16y ago
One point that has been made (and which I agree with) is that this leak will reduce the influence of those in government who are in favour of more openness, and strengthen the position of those who argue for more control of information. ht
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by akamaka 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction_over_inte... To the person who posted this and those who upvoted this: you have power over the quality of the conversations on this site. Please give some thought to how you use it.
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by akamaka 16y ago
Yes, he has brought attention, and in a very reckless way, I believe. But I didn't come here to debate that, I just wanted to point out that it isn't some government campaign of misinformation that has shaped my view of Assange.
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by akamaka 16y ago
I feel the same way as the original poster, and I don't see how government misinformation has anything to do with it. Do you remember when wikileaks launched, it was described as an anonymous organization "founded by Chinese dissidents, jou
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by akamaka 16y ago
Thanks for the link. I see that the official statement is using much more measured language. I'm pretty amused by this quote: "what Level 3 wants is to pressure Comcast into accepting more than a twofold increase in the amount of traffic L
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by akamaka 16y ago
In case you're wondering who wrote this, they are closely connected to Comcast. From digitalsociety.org: "Digital Society is an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization, funded by donations from Jon Henke and from Arts+Labs." From arts
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by akamaka 16y ago
My instincts agree with his basic point, and there is probably much to learn from the individual companies he has studied. However, the numbers are totally useless. He has only profiled companies from Minnesota, and many of them are over
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by akamaka 16y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=799494
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by akamaka 16y ago
I don't believe that was what he was trying to say. I think his point was that Windows was successful by bringing features made popular by MacOS to a wider market and more diverse hardware, just as Android is doing that with the iPhone conc
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by akamaka 16y ago
Thanks for the tip, I just remapped it to control like on the old Sun keyboards. I wish I knew about this sooner!
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by akamaka 16y ago
The discussion about CNNIC's inclusion in Firefox is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1095121
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by akamaka 16y ago
I went there on my last trip to the UK, and had a chance to talk to a 92 year-old gentleman who had helped build some of the machines during the war, and had been involved the project to reconstruct the Colossus machine. There isn't the hug
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by akamaka 16y ago
<idle speculation> With Apple about to open a giant data-center in North Carolina, they've clearly put some thought into what kind of servers they will be running in there, and there's little chance that it will be full of Xserves.
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by akamaka 16y ago
Thank you for finding this!
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by akamaka 16y ago
By far the best article I've read on procrastination was published in the Harvard Business Review a few years ago. It looked at behaviours like procrastination and perfectionism in terms of the psychology of the relationship of the worker w
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by akamaka 16y ago
I'm pretty confused about this. Are you guys trying to compete against GoDaddy's domain name registration service, or something more like EasyDNS's managed hosting? If you're doing the latter, then perhaps you should focus on explaining wh
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by akamaka 16y ago
I'm not going to pretend that I am qualified to judge this, I just wanted to point out that the article did offer an explanation.
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by akamaka 16y ago
Since people have been complaining about unfair downvoting lately, I'll give an explanation of why I downvoted your comment: The article itself says that the customs agent "suggested that I had used the burqa in order to move undetected thr
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by akamaka 16y ago
I went to watch the video titled "Anders Hejlsberg: Introducing Async – Simplifying asynchronous programming", and I got a message saying "To view this content, please install Silverlight". I hate getting involved in bashing any company, in
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by akamaka 16y ago
Hi everyone, I posted this in response to some other articles that have been posted to HN recently, such as this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833767 I found that most articles tend to praise the media for publishing the leake
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WikiLeaks and the Culture of Classification(stratfor.com)
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by akamaka 16y ago
I've been doing independent consulting on and off for many years, but there have been many times when the work wasn't there for me to pay the bills, and I had to go back to a regular day job. Early on, I also missed several good opportuniti
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by akamaka 16y ago
This is amazing. It's not amazing to use a vector editor, but amazing that this is the first one I've ever used that feels right , and that all the Flash-based graphics editing apps written in the last couple of years couldn't achieve that
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by akamaka 16y ago
Xmonad is easier to understand IMO Ooh, that's harsh, but I feel your pain. If you like tiling, though, you may want to check this out (although I don't use it): http://www.mizage.com/divvy/
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by akamaka 16y ago
Thank you!
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by akamaka 16y ago
Agreed, criticism is great. But what Fred Wilson wrote is closer to flamebait than well thought-out commentary. Kind of like Gruber calling Eric Schmidt "creepy".
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by akamaka 16y ago
In his original blog post, Fred predicted that Android will take over the iPhone market share the same way that Windows beat MacOS back in the day. As politely as he worded it, his post was pretty much flamebait, and the response was unsur
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by akamaka 16y ago
I think that you're imagining a problem where there isn't one. Examples 1 & 2: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately explained by stupidity. (These comments only have one or two downvotes, which can be easily explained by

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