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by antninja 14y ago
The stream, the circles, the IM and the notifications make it a social network modeled after Facebook. Hangouts are a different service as is YouTube.
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by antninja 14y ago
The Google+ API is not designed to empower third-party developers. Maybe they're still searching for a way to do it right, but currently it's too limited for an ecosystem to flourish. Why should a challenger come from a big company anyway?
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by antninja 14y ago
Yeah, we remember how the constitution, which has been rejected by referendums, became the "simplified treaty": exactly the same text but with articles moved, rephrased, obfuscated. The polite way to describe the EU is as a very-indirect de
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by antninja 14y ago
The richer are some, the poorer are others. There is a limited amount of money/wealth in the world. If some people take/earn/inherit more than average, then less wealth will remain available to others. The only way to fight poverty is to pr
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by antninja 14y ago
It's very much like the predators who detect and hunt the weakest prey in a herd. Sects target the weakest people too. It's not just the email scammers.
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by antninja 14y ago
Plus, if politicians have nothing to hide, why do they fight Wikileaks? Why don't they publish all administrative documents, accountancy books, meeting reports, etc? Those who push surveillance policies refuse to eat their own dog food. The
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by antninja 14y ago
Yes, Windows Azure is very similar to Amazon Web Services, but with Microsoft's technology stack. You're supposed to use SQL Azure (the 'managed' version of SQL Server with some cool features like Federations and Data Sync) as your main dat
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by antninja 14y ago
Lots of data won't do any good with imperfect algorithms. Just look at all the nonsense generated by Google Translate. It doesn't even know grammar.
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by antninja 14y ago
Firefox used to be my browser of choice, but now it's the worst of all for me. There are two main problems: 1. Sometimes I start FF and it tells me that its process is still running. It happens too often that I close FF and it fails to prop
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by antninja 14y ago
When I go to a job interview, I like to check what the street looks like and where is the entry of the building. It relieves some anxiety (although it didn't prevent me from getting completely lost once). Street view is one of the most usef
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by antninja 14y ago
I think one can be excellent at both design and front-end development. That's what web design is all about anyway. It's made of CSS and Javascript and Canvas animations, not just Photoshop mock-ups. Back-end development, however, is a ful
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by antninja 14y ago
just add &cc=us at the end of your query string. http://www.bing.com/search?q=hn&cc=us
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by antninja 14y ago
The German government is a good defensor of Internet freedoms, along with the Netherlands and Scandinavian contries.
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by antninja 14y ago
RSS will die if isolated blogs à la Wordpress die. RSS is a solution to the problem of following those isolated blogs. Collective platforms like Tumblr or Facebook solve this problem by featuring an integrated reader. There are other soluti
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by antninja 14y ago
Email is broken by spam. It's incredibly difficult to send mails without being blocked by one of the antispam systems. The big names easily block IP addresses of the SMTP servers if one user has been declared a spammer. This is not a "perfe
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by antninja 15y ago
I think that what "real names only" people don't understand is that unique real names are designed for a physical world in which we can say and do things behind walls and closed doors. The internet doesn't have walls or distances. There is
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by antninja 15y ago
SSO is good for free apps. If I built a premium app, I would be reluctant to rely on Facebook or Twitter to protect my customers' paid accounts or the access to their credit card numbers.
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by antninja 15y ago
That's what constitutions are for: if one of its articles declared that what happens within the Internet is outside the jurisdiction of the Republic, then they won't be able to try and pass any more law like this one. Of course, since the p
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by antninja 15y ago
Consumers don't want to pay at the vendors' price and vendors don't want to sell at the consumers' price. The market is blocked. (20 euros for 90 minutes of entertainment is a bit high)
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by antninja 15y ago
I would appreciate a better HTTPS rather than a better but still unsafe HTTP. I hope they integrate security into HTTP 2.0.
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by antninja 15y ago
> Get a job. Any job. There's even more competition for the shitty jobs than for the good/specialized ones.
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by antninja 15y ago
Personally I would reply that I'm an application developer and none of those questions are related to my job. 'this' refers to the object, I don't give a shit how it works. From their questions, I would say they're searching for a low-level
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by antninja 15y ago
I don't like reading articles on Google+. The typography is unpleasant. And it's not the pseudonyms that lead to incivilities, it's the lack of a good moderator system. Google seems to hope to not have to develop such a system if they enfor
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by antninja 15y ago
http://subscene.com/ and a few other sites offer subtitles in many languages for pirated videos. No doubt it violates all sorts of copyright.
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by antninja 15y ago
Azure's pricing seem optimized either for medium to big sites (who need more than 2 front-end servers, hence would benefit from the per-hour pricing) or for agencies that will host multiple sites on the same server. Also, Azure is more "man
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by antninja 15y ago
There's a script in this blog page that makes Firefox freeze and crash.
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by antninja 15y ago
They do the same with Google App Engine. They pretend their cloud platform scale but, because of quotas, a GAE app can't scale much. Technically it can, but not without Google's permission. And they have no contractual obligation to let the
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by antninja 15y ago
So it hopes to become an alarm system for everything, not just robbery and fire. The smartphones are replacing specialized devices like cameras and music players, so maybe there's an opportunity for a generalized alarm system. People want t