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by ankimal 16y ago
A tweet doing the rounds is "Julian Assange is trying to make a private phone call so they took down Skype." I dont pay for skype so I cant really complain if its down. But what about those who pay? I would be really pissed if I had a ton
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by ankimal 16y ago
He was a runner-up. http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... I wonder if certain people and agencies had a hand in this?
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by ankimal 16y ago
Its more of a history lesson with some highlights. A good recap of the last few years as well.
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by ankimal 16y ago
What happens when you lose your laptop or netbook or whatever handy device you use to browse the web? Are you then leaving it to the OS login screen to protect everything? I d rather have passwords I remember in my head. If I forget often,
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by ankimal 16y ago
I ve always considered Engineering an application of science to solve problems (to make humanity better, if you want the pure, idealistic definition). In my opinion, Engineering = f(Science). Someone wanna take a shot at the function?
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by ankimal 16y ago
Rule number one in online retail is looking up the vendor before you buy anything, no matter how much money you are saving. I dont see why any one should blame Google for this. Next thing you know, people are gonna want directions on google
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by ankimal 16y ago
You re spot on. Whether the protocol needs to change with changing times and network speeds is an entirely different question.
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Protect Your Data During U.S. Border Searches(howto.wired.com)
2 points by ankimal 16y ago|2 comments
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer(wired.com)
2 points by ankimal 16y ago|0 comments
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by ankimal 16y ago
"Cable television companies that sell internet connectivity are considering whether to limit their Internet users to downloading only the company’s mix of entertainment," This is the big one for me and should also include mobile providers.
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by ankimal 16y ago
It woke me up after a heavy lunch. Thanks guys!
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by ankimal 16y ago
HFT = High Frequency Trading ?
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by ankimal 16y ago
Chef is awesome. We recently virtualized our entire production environment with the help of KVM + chef. Now installing a package or tweaking an install is a matter of updating some code. Did you use Chef for deployments?
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by ankimal 16y ago
I wonder why Android powered phones were left out? Whats truly amazing is that there are a bunch of Blackberry models, a tonne of Nokia phones but only 1 iPhone.
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by ankimal 16y ago
I feel another issue is that management sometimes feels that paying big bucks means your rear end is covered. It takes a lot to convince them that this is free and works great at the same time. Whats more, the community is great!
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by ankimal 16y ago
We use an Enterprise Search Platform (our biggest software acquisition) minus the support (another dumb idea). The entire thing is like a Black Box. It takes days to figure out what "Error: FS error" actually means. For a new project, we us
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by ankimal 16y ago
I was alluding to the initial dilemma of where to host, how to host etc. Ideas without the implementations are just that, ideas.
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by ankimal 16y ago
I wonder what this would do for the startup community. Free hosting for a year means, all you really need is an idea.
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by ankimal 16y ago
My solution to sleep problems: http://itunes.apple.com/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id320606...
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by ankimal 16y ago
Whats that old saying? "Dont give a man a fish, teach him how to fish." Unfortunately, some people cant even afford fishing equipment. So a mix of both is very important. Why throw tonnes of money? Throw some jobs with that too.
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Hunch personalizes the internet(hunch.com)
1 points by ankimal 16y ago|0 comments
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by ankimal 16y ago
The best way to use it would be to ask a question, and paste the link to the question in the relevant chat room. You dont "have to" paste the link as it shows up part of feeds in the chat room anyway(if you tagged the question correctly), b
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by ankimal 16y ago
The UI is not intuitive. You need some messages that help the user navigate and use the site effectively. Right now I m just clicking around trying to make sense of it. (you could include messages with a "Dont show this again" option)
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Rate this startup(movingtunes.com)
2 points by ankimal 16y ago|2 comments
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by ankimal 16y ago
KISS - Keep it Simple Stupid. Very addictive, hugely successful and deservedly so.
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by ankimal 16y ago
I m mostly always doing 'site:www.stackoverflow.com how do I do XYZ ?' in google ..
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by ankimal 16y ago
Finally MVC on the front end as well and no more custom json objects to keep all your data in one massively redundant and unreadable object.
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Computer reads the internet(techeye.net)
37 points by ankimal 16y ago|23 comments
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by ankimal 16y ago
If you liked Scala, you defnitely wanna go ahead and give Lift a shot. http://liftweb.net/ EDIT: http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-repl...
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by ankimal 16y ago
Firstly, as a free user you really shouldn't be asking for HA. (I m assuming their paid customer are kicking some butt as I speak .. or maybe not .. the site is back up :)). However, as a business you really want to give ALL your customers

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