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by axod 16y ago
FWIW I think it was an absolute edge case bordering on silliness. if there is a crappy silly caching proxy, an attacker can use websocket to get it to cache things it shouldn't. I think the fact Chrome hasn't done anything about it, (espe
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by axod 16y ago
tl;dr; Advert for his new 'self help' book. An advert for Sarah Palins book would be more relevant to HN IMHO.
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by axod 16y ago
Ah true, I'd forgotten about the firefox and opera hoo-haw. Hopefully they sort that out ASAP It's a great shame really.
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by axod 16y ago
Yeah it's convenient to not mention the massive successes like Chrome and Android...
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by axod 16y ago
I'm not sure if you'd really call it 'in flux'. We've been using websocket for over a year now on Mibbit. I think around 20% of our users currently do websocket. Fair enough to wait and see though, hopefully they'll do it the same way every
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by axod 16y ago
Why don't they just implement the accepted WebSocket standard instead of their own competing API?
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by axod 16y ago
true, but there's always other options - having a fulltime job and running it as a sideline, doing contract/consulting work... Or just running toward 'profitable' earlier on.
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by axod 16y ago
FWIW, I doubt it costs too much at all to run. All credit to him, he seems to put in a ton of effort, but this game isn't only for the rich. Any school kid can start something similar and run it 'unprofitably' for 3 years. 3 years hosting c
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by axod 16y ago
Definitely. I understand the business reason they want to encroach past what people actually want. When I attended Google I/O last year we got given a free HTC EVO. Fantastic hardware, but the thing was so laden in Sprint crap I felt dirty
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by axod 16y ago
It shouldn't be anything to do with the carrier. The carrier should be a pipe. Why is the carrier market in the US so terrible compared to other places? I guess same reason that internet access itself is so bad in the US. The market needs a
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by axod 16y ago
Sonys problem is that they make the most expensive games console hardware, but make a loss selling it. If I were them I'd fix that first. And get rid of the ridiculous and outdated blu-ray crap. Spinny disc things? In this day and age?
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by axod 16y ago
Question 14 is quite telling - 66%+ are using Windows :/ I'd think that the % here would be significantly less.
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by axod 16y ago
> Once again, they were not kids movies. Thats fine. I just wish they'd made that clear in the trailers.
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by axod 16y ago
Fair point, there's a market for adult animated movies. But I think it's small. The scene in Up! which showed the old couples life story was well done, but I doubt any child would really remember it or rate it. It was for sentimental adults
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by axod 16y ago
Thanks. Looks good to me, but I like kids movies.
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by axod 16y ago
Those are some of the best Disney movies :/
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by axod 16y ago
I liked Cars. I absolutely hated Up! and Wall-e with a passion. Cars is obviously a reasonably simple storyline, but it's a good movie with good characters. Kids like cars shrug it's a movie about toy cars... what's not to like? Better th
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by axod 16y ago
I really worried they'd lost the plot after Wall-e and Up! (The 2 worst releases imho). So Toy Story 3 was great to see. Story outlines usually sound rubbish IMHO. So I'll give cars 2 the benefit of the doubt. Glad there's a new movie with
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by axod 16y ago
I'd say the vast majority of apps area ripoff. The majority are available on various websites for free.
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by axod 16y ago
sure, but if you're making money and having fun, other peoples opinion shouldn't really matter. It seems to be popular at the moment to laugh at Justin Beiber online and say how much you hate him. But he's the one making millions out of tee
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by axod 16y ago
FWIW, I think parents/friends give blind support and encouragment. HN/peers/tech community should give complete honesty. If that means saying "That idea is terrible" so be it.
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by axod 16y ago
idk there's nothing more irritating as a creator to be told "oh that's nice". I'd rather everyone tells me it's utter shit than tells me niceties.
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by axod 16y ago
Sure... both.. Society should change and stop relying on credit.
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by axod 16y ago
People don't have to get credit cards. They don't have to buy stuff they can't afford. People should be taught self restraint and living within their means in schools. Personally I wouldn't blame credit card companies one bit. They are taki
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by axod 16y ago
Is there any evidence they've "got used to it"? People got used to paying for ringtones, and then the market pretty much disappeared. Part of me thinks the app store model is a short term fad.
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by axod 16y ago
My use of 'sensible' was there because young people tend to take more risks, think of the short term rather than the long term. etc
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by axod 16y ago
> For instance, the ability of the older wealth to influence politics. I know this is a popular one, especially on Reddit etc to moan about - old people vote the most, but they don't like our drugs, gay marriage etc But the fact is old
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by axod 16y ago
Why? Do you think that success should also be uniformly distributed amongst the entire population? I'd say reward people who are successful. The fact is the majority of people aren't successful or really very useful to society. The top 1% o
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by axod 16y ago
> I implemented a heartbeat-based web stats service but it's too resource-intensive to run affordably on Apache/MySQL. I don't buy that. Maybe with the default configs, but apache+mysql are incredibly tunable.
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by axod 16y ago
FWIW Linode has 5 datacenters, and at least 5 address ranges, so there may be more undercounting going on for them.

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