aristus

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541.
by aristus 15y ago
:D It's much worse than you imagine. The entire TLD .cm (Cameroon) was transformed into a typosquat years ago. http://texturbation.com/blog/?p=95
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by aristus 15y ago
You get an offer of X shares or options. What is often carefully left unsaid is how many shares exist. Also left unsaid are what rights you have, once you start vesting, to know about the financials of the company.
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by aristus 15y ago
This was a copyright issue about locally hosted images. Heise changed the initial image and everyone is happy. I'm happy to hear you trust Google, but trying to warp this into a smear on Facebook (my employer) about trust is in poor taste.
544.
by aristus 15y ago
Yes. But it's because everyone is at Burning Man.
545.
by aristus 15y ago
Yep. http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/05/wysiwyt.html
546.
by aristus 15y ago
These are not simple questions. If you are a journalist, follow the money. I personally suspect that the offensive use of patents, both by "trolls" such as Lodsys and large players such as Microsoft, has stepped on enough toes to cause cert
547.
by aristus 15y ago
What precisely are you upset about? I did not work on this feature, but I'm trying to understand your reaction. Your friends entered their phone numbers. They are your friends. You can see those phone numbers if they choose to allow you to
548.
by aristus 15y ago
And by "they", you mean you, right? You are the CEO of Betable.
549.
by aristus 15y ago
The icon is pretty nice. Reminds me of the Front Room screen or whatever it is on the Mac. Glad you fired that other joker who did your icons. I had problems (probably not you) installing it directly from the phone. I got the usual "Terms a
550.
by aristus 15y ago
I think that's the point of disagreement. Advertising is often inane and wasteful, but in my opinion it's not fundamentally evil. If we serve more relevant ads resulting in clicks/sales/etc, we get more revenue. We get happier advertisers,
551.
by aristus 15y ago
If "more about" means "non-zero", sure. I don't work in ads now, but I appreciate the extremely tricky and fractal problem they are trying to solve, in the same way I appreciate the work people do in security, design, features, reliability,
552.
by aristus 15y ago
I happen to work for Facebook, and a large fraction of my friends and family are expatriates. A place to easily keep in touch, share photos of kids, chat with abuelita, all that boring stuff, directly improves our quality of life. When I re
553.
by aristus 15y ago
I really wish Google or one of the big email providers would add an unsubscribe button. It would try to do the right thing in the unsubscribe flow, and apply a personal filter, but not penalize the sender.
554.
by aristus 15y ago
Related tidbit: the Spanish generally use the generic "carne" to mean red meat from cows. But there is also a specific word, "biztec", which is a corruption of the English "beefsteak".
555.
by aristus 15y ago
...perhaps we should demand to see recruiters' resumes in exchange. :D Asymmetrical relationships tend to create feelings of resentment.
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by aristus 15y ago
That's an interesting (and uncomfortable) idea, but a deeper problem is how to tell the "good" and "bad" recruiters apart. This is the same problem of telling "good" and "bad" candidates apart, and the irony is not lost on me. What is your
557.
by aristus 15y ago
It's a rabbit hole. You'd think that banning the name anti is a good heuristic given handles like anti Christ. But anti is a perfectly valid name in parts of eastern Europe.
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by aristus 15y ago
Not even my passport has it right. My "real name" is ridiculously long and formal, and I refuse to use it. Luckily my shortened name passes. Unfortunately it collides with a famous futbol star, so you never know what will happen.
559.
by aristus 15y ago
Looking into it. That domain is not blocked. It is possible to post links to the root domain, just not deep links. It could be a bug or misconfiguration on their side. FB does a ping to posted links to grab the title, thumbnail, etc. That s
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Doppler: Realtime Internet Radar(facebook.com)
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by aristus 15y ago
The biggest problem when the 911 (and equivalent emergency services) was getting the word out there that it existed. It required a huge, years-long marketing campaign. Perhaps they should have inhouse ads targeted at keywords like "report v
562.
by aristus 15y ago
I grew up in a house like that, in El Paso. Old adobe houses are basically caves: dark, quiet, and much cooler than you expect.
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by aristus 15y ago
It's not religion. You are using a different (and objectively better) standard of proof. But it's literally a billion times easier to measure things like that than it was 240 years ago, when all math was done by hand and the fastest communi
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by aristus 15y ago
I can't speak for the rest, but "Why don't they just make Google+ a self-policed community?" is because companies operate, and users live, in sovereign nations and are subject to the laws of those nations. Setting up a parallel legal framew
565.
by aristus 15y ago
If there is one thing I've learned about the public, it's that crazy scales superlinearly. I used to work for a people search engine called Spock. We curated hundreds of millions of profiles for people living and dead. We got howling crap f
566.
by aristus 15y ago
"It’s a testament to our mental potential that today’s children are expected to understand ideas that once confounded ancient mathematicians." Ex-fucking-actly. Math is hard. Compsci is hard. But if it remains hard, then we adults have fa
567.
by aristus 15y ago
What if I don't have a Twitter account?
568.
by aristus 15y ago
Here's animation of the packets of a Facebook page hit over 3G on a moving bus: http://vimeo.com/17248120
569.
by aristus 15y ago
It happened to me twice. Maybe I'm just bad at picking companies. :D The frustrating thing was the silence, once they'd decided to screw people over. All of a sudden HR is incapable of answering email.
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by aristus 15y ago
I humbly suggest that the problem is more complex than it appears, eg: research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/ldg/a10-stein.pdf

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