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by ary 15y ago
I hear you. Though you have to admit that Paypal's heavy-handed "fraud protection" is a big part of why people want a viable competitor.
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by ary 15y ago
Dropbox has received a total of $7.2 million according to CrunchBase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox Perhaps you meant to reference their valuation when they last took money? http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/index-leads-4-bill
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by ary 15y ago
Why would Google buy Yahoo so that Yahoo could obtain Google's talent? There is no way Google would water down its engineering pool with Yahoo's engineering staff.
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by ary 15y ago
Don't make the mistake of confusing the word most with the word all when considering what happens in mergers and acquisitions. The application of natural selection to these situations is apt. Consider both TechCrunch and The Huffington
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by ary 15y ago
In case you're interested in reading the actual study here's a link to the PDF. Why the article didn't link to it directly is a mystery to me. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...
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by ary 15y ago
You can count me as a supporter if only on the hope that this lowers the desire of lecherous men everywhere to attend anything .
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by ary 15y ago
I liken it to (in the United States) one gas station advertising at $3.00 and another at $2.99. The latter will get more people to pull in based on lizard-brain impulse. Young men are (mostly) going to have their attention snap to where eve
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by ary 15y ago
You'll notice I didn't make a specific suggestion regarding technology. I merely suggested that what he is strongly advocating is archaic.
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by ary 15y ago
Markup, not layout.
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by ary 15y ago
> That's basically the majority of developers, in any language. You have a point there, but I'd argue that on a platform like the web the impact of skill stagnation is much bigger.
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by ary 15y ago
I stand by my comment. A few things to note. > Some people write crappy code in CFML. Yes. But people write crappy code in [your preferred language] too. No, I said CFML code is universally hard to understand. Even more so for
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by ary 15y ago
Cold Fusion? No, no... no . > CFML. I really like programming in CFML (a programming language, “ColdFusion Markup Language,” as opposed to ColdFusion, a commercial CFML interpreter made by Adobe). I know it’s not "cool" like Node.js
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by ary 15y ago
This coupled with the abandoning of Places makes me think Facebook is undergoing a serious narrowing of focus. While I'm clearly not a fan (as you can probably judge from my comments), I'd still like to see a company that gets lots of press
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by ary 15y ago
Sudden love for Gundotra's favorite authoritarian? Sounds more like a sigh of relief. Vic Gundotra at Google I/O 2010: "if Google did not act we faced a Draconian future, a future where one man, one company, one device, one carrier would be
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by ary 15y ago
Should I feel better about Facebook trying to crowd-source their developer support? This doesn't address any of the real concerns with usable documentation or proper API deprecation. I get the impression that this is an attempt to spin pa
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by ary 15y ago
Never, ever be embarrassed with how long a work of creativity takes you. Most of these weekend projects you see on HN are simply minor derivatives of existing ideas or twists on web API usage. The implementors usually work with the involved
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by ary 15y ago
> Seriously: Android needs to hire a UX designer, although I will say that 3.x is getting much better. You're not familiar with Matias Duarte then? http://allthingsd.com/20100527/exclusive-palm-loses-mobile-d...
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by ary 15y ago
That's hardly true. iTunes is/was based on SoundJam which Apple bought. Before iTunes was available on Windows Apple recommended a third-party package (the name of which escapes me) for using iPods on that platform. The iTunes Music Store h
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by ary 15y ago
Asking for features "before I buy" is lame, I know. These are merely suggestions. 1) Avoiding the verboseness of something like LittleSnitch is an admirable goal, but there's too much work for the user in your case. How difficult would it b
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by ary 15y ago
Given that so many books have been written about Apple and Steve Jobs with nothing but tea leaves for sources I'm interested to see where this goes. It is stated that Jobs cooperated with the author, but requested no control over the conten
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by ary 15y ago
That's exactly what I was talking about.
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by ary 15y ago
The last line stood out to me. > ... passing by along the way the idle fiber infrastructure that the FCC set aside nearly a decade ago. Can anyone elaborate on what exactly they mean? Is this dark fiber sitting around somewhere? Did the
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by ary 15y ago
You could make roughly the same points about the iTunes / record label relationship. If it were enough of a strategic advantage it might happen. I wouldn't cross your fingers though.
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by ary 15y ago
> Think back to 2006. Name one site... Salesforce.com was founded in 1999. They've had some of what you quoted for some time. Also note that the Facebook API features you mentioned (FQL & FBML) are now deprecated. I imagine in large
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by ary 15y ago
Having interfaced with the Facebook API when FQL and FBML were all the rage I'm left scratching my head at your comment. > Actually the Facebook API has been pretty impressive functionality-wise, over the years. What's your definition o
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by ary 15y ago
That was my first thought too. We're mostly adults here, but the name is seriously terrible. Please, please change it.
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by ary 15y ago
It's always been my belief that one should try to stick to the browser's native behavior when possible. Web browsers (on personal computers) have pretty consistent pointer states for links (which take you to another page) and form elements
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by ary 15y ago
Perhaps he's come up with some novel ways to deal with the dishonesty of his students. Time will tell. Preventing cheating ultimately comes down to changing the incentive structures in the university system in America. Allowing students to
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by ary 15y ago
I saw your comment before it was edited and calling someone to the carpet (in your case by calling him a coward) isn't the kind of name-calling that should be frowned upon here. He is a coward. He comes out and plainly says that it's in h
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by ary 15y ago
This is a clear case where 'Exodus for Google+' would have been a much better name.

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