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by ary 15y ago
sixtofour's response is dead on. No offense, but how many companies have you worked at? Developer's ideas (good and bad) get shot down all the time for incredibly trite and/or stupid reasons. Until the people in decision making positions ta
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by ary 15y ago
You would be very surprised at the number of people in management positions at any size company that think this is OK. At the jobs (consulting and otherwise) I've held in the last few years 75% of the companies stored passwords in plainte
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by ary 15y ago
Just for curiosity's sake, how is this dataset populated? Is ThriftDB just scraping HN? Is there some kind of back-end DB feed?
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by ary 15y ago
Good point. In your home yes, but not everywhere.
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by ary 15y ago
I'm talking about how it keeps happening to Sony .
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by ary 15y ago
Given how much bad publicity and legal exposure costs a corporation of Sony's size I'd say that getting their affairs in order across the board should have been a bigger priority. As it is wildly unreasonable not to have taken a good hard l
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by ary 15y ago
At first it was embarrassing, now it's just absurd.
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by ary 15y ago
Agreed. If it's getting excessive to the point of astro-turfing or making the front page less diverse then we should just start flagging them.
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by ary 15y ago
Now just imagine it being used at political events or to suppress collection of evidence of abuse at demonstrations. Edit: Probably worth noting that were this to take off it would probably also be embedded in every TV out there.
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Apple patents system for iOS devices to prevent image and video capturing(9to5mac.com)
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by ary 15y ago
> If you did not have specific plans for 285 domain names (which would cost over $2200 to register for one year), you normally would not purchase them. Clearly the author has never worked with a content company on the web (writing for a
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by ary 15y ago
It has been speculated that MS has lost their backwards-compatibility religion, but you still see vestiges of it in their strategies. Maybe they don't have the discipline to ditch Windows for tablets, but they certainly have the willingness
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by ary 15y ago
Never noticed the Github 404 page until now. Clever. https://github.com/eveonline/eveonline
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by ary 15y ago
It makes me sad to say so, but this looks like trolling.
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by ary 15y ago
First off, I never said the entire value, but meant to point out that their potential stake could be worth far more than $65 million. According to the linked article they're claiming Facebook lied about its value at the time of the settle
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by ary 15y ago
I'm not sure that the surge in membership has anything to do with it. Even at my karma level I still can't down-vote, so new members certainly aren't bringing me down. Seems more religious to me.
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by ary 15y ago
Since pointing fingers at the Winklevoss twins is a common theme in these threads I'll just post at the top. Regardless of who's side you're on in this you have to accept that the value of what's contested (who came up with / owns / started
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by ary 15y ago
Care to share what you think it is?
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by ary 15y ago
Let's be realistic. New product announcements from Apple happen at planned press events. The 10th anniversary of their first store will probably just have fancy new store displays and a give-away. Edit: Disagreement probably warrants a repl
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by ary 15y ago
Basically because Apple wants to control the whole experience from turning it on to turning it off. Not saying that everyone cares about that level of integration, but if the past is anything to go by then Apple does .
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by ary 15y ago
Because there is a layer of UI/UX between the screen and "their box" that Apple traditionally hates. If there is an Apple TV with a screen (and I'm not saying there will be) then you can be sure the input switching madness, weird motion int
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by ary 15y ago
Compare the traffic in an American mall on Thursdays to the weekend and you have your answer.
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by ary 15y ago
Could we perhaps just give sub-threads a descending rank (starting at 1 for the highest voted comment) instead? Comment scores were never an indication of accuracy, so validation may be the wrong word. There do seem to be more than a few pe
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by ary 15y ago
I was hoping something like this would eventually happen with node. This is interesting from a technical perspective, but I think even more so from a business one. Creating more of an overlap between the technology used on the server side w
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by ary 15y ago
Immediate up-vote for the flagrant flaunting of Godwin's law.
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by ary 15y ago
Ack. I must have missed it. I'll ditch this one.
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by ary 15y ago
Comment scores should be HIDDEN.
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by ary 15y ago
Comment scores should be SHOWN.
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by ary 15y ago
You need to reword this as a top level comment and repost. Some will say that having to make such a request is proof that scores need to come back, but I'm just concerned that everyone on the "pro" comment score side will never see it.
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by ary 15y ago
Having done some redesigns of HN to see my own reaction towards the concealment of scores and other elements I have to come out in full support of concealing comment scores. After playing with a layout that concealed the scores for comments

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