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by alandarev 12y ago
I will happilly pay for the service, as much, as advertisers earn on me. Sounds fair, and I doubt it will be a large sum, based on how often I click on ad's.
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by alandarev 12y ago
An ability to sue a company they do not like for any arbitrary reason.
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by alandarev 12y ago
Oh god, you have reminded me of a 'No tax paid' by Google/Amazon/Starbucks scandal last year. [1] Yes, definitely, the Tax card is enormously effective in UK. I wish the legacy businesses would rather change themselves,
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by alandarev 12y ago
That!! I now completely disable Google+ and advice all my friends to do the same. I actually enjoyed some of its features like automatic Photos Backup. But then I would find out my phone's battery died overnight, while it was almost fu
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by alandarev 12y ago
Issue is severe, but the proposed solution does not sound efficient in any way. In comparison to blackout day: 1. Turning site off is a lot easier than installing apache module and configuring it. What if site admin does not even have root
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by alandarev 12y ago
Because people perceive video not to be 1 frame/second.
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by alandarev 12y ago
Yes, yes, logical thinking, I even agree with it. But imagine this happening, average users will become fully IT illiterate. Growing children will no longer know anything about computers, as they grew up in an environment where everything i
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by alandarev 12y ago
Is it some kind of a test? Why is knowing IRQ relevant? I am joining many people here, who prefer having configurable tools. I do not want to configure 'IRQ' on any tool I use, but if it will misfunction, I will search for it and
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by alandarev 12y ago
You are the product, sorry to hear your story. I think situation would be better if there was a competition.
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by alandarev 12y ago
Less elements to worry about. I switched from Firefox to Chrome few years ago and now find separate bar being unintuitive. If I stayed on Firefox, I would say that having united bar is intrusive to privacy and illogical. My final point, let
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by alandarev 12y ago
That is assuming the cracker did not go further than the website's folder. From my own experience, when one of my sites with username www-data was hacked (default apache installation), the client-side malware JS was injected into .htac
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by alandarev 12y ago
I had internship in a gaming company as a Software Engineer (internal systems, not games directly). Eventhough I did not do games, I was literally working in the same environment. In addition I have a small business in games industry, and a
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by alandarev 12y ago
Technology by itself, existing inside of computers alone, limits the possibilities of impacting our lives. Companies which manage to use technology to actually change the lives of people usually cause greater impact overall, and I am just a
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by alandarev 12y ago
Stock apps, disabled Google+ (it was causing CPU usage spikes on both phoens randomly), minimal/no services running in the background. My daily usage usually consits of (accumulated): 30min browsing, 1h hangouts, 2h podcasts/music
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by alandarev 12y ago
The exact reason I ran away from games based companies in UK.
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by alandarev 12y ago
3100 mAh shall actually be around 2 days of semi-heavy use. Owning Nexus 4 and 5, they both exceed two days of normal use or 1 day of heavy use, but the advertised oneplus one is going to have extraordinarly larger battery. So I would say,
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by alandarev 12y ago
Any clue on how do I choose the 'edition' in subscribing? Living in Europe, I would prefer American edition, but cannot find such an option.
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by alandarev 12y ago
Looks great, will try out, thank you.
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by alandarev 12y ago
Not availible on Android :( Found an interesting tech-independent alternative though: http://www.theskimm.com/
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Ask HN: Keeping up with news with minimal effort
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by alandarev 13y ago
Imagine yourself being a highly respected business owner, where your main product is sending personalized newsletters to privacy concerned customers paying you much for their data to stay safe. Will your argument still stay the same? Are yo
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by alandarev 13y ago
Despite all my hate towards GoDaddy, I cannot see the happening being their fault. As tomp pointed out, disclosing email address is part of the process, probably not clearly stated, but GoDaddy handled it well. They issued a fine to a spamm
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by alandarev 13y ago
True, renting does not give you rights, and I see no reason why it should. But do not risk believing that buying a house for youself is a true investment. I have been renting for last five years, and I see nothing bad in renting. Though my
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by alandarev 13y ago
But it was simple in first place. Though a self-explanatory picture describing it is a huge plus to refer for non-IT people.
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by alandarev 13y ago
The pictures on drop-dropbox sites are self-explanary and exponentally stronger, than common comments on why tech X shall be avoided I come across every day. That is first time a "stop using tech X" site made me change my opinion.
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by alandarev 13y ago
A fanboy of ..? Due to so many downvotes I must have not expressed enough the absurd of "PC, or Linux". I know the reasons Apple is branding itself not as PC, I got used to it. But saying "PC, or Linux" is something comp
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by alandarev 13y ago
> Install on Mac, PC, or Linux... Am I the only one feeling this is wrong? I know Apple wants their Macs not be called PC's. But a distinction between PC and Linux is something new to me.
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by alandarev 13y ago
Rehabilitating from gaming addiction gets significantly harder when topics like this pop up on hacker news :(
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by alandarev 13y ago
Author does not say that smartphones is a preferred choice for developing. Look at everyday of an average person, and you will notice that most are indeed spending significantly less time using PC's than few years ago. I am scared to o
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by alandarev 13y ago
They still were intercepting it anyway. But I completely join the train that Skype is a virus needing to be killed.

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