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Getting smarter about bandwidth(news.latakoo.com)
1 points by benwerd 15y ago|1 comments
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Patent: centralized registration for distributed social content services(google.com)
1 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
OkCupid having relationship problems behind the scenes that it diffuses using stand-offish, counter-productive measures = pretty much the definition of irony. This is terrible management, which will hurt morale even further, and smacks of c
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by benwerd 15y ago
Stephen Downes emailed me personally about that. I'm mortified. I've changed the title and have left a note, and am in the process of editing the text. The phrase predates the racist connotation, but nonetheless, I'm more than uncomfortable
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by benwerd 15y ago
I don't disagree with you at all. Updated my post to make that clearer.
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Please, call a spade a spade(benwerd.com)
63 points by benwerd 15y ago|35 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
Very cool. Rapportive is a great product. Well done to the team for a well-deserved acquisition.
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by benwerd 15y ago
Everyone is an exception. (Let's try and catch each other.)
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by benwerd 15y ago
For "man", read "humans". For "relationships", read "to be connected". I need to be connected with my fellow humans.
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How to stop your images from being pinned to Pinterest(benwerd.com)
3 points by benwerd 15y ago|1 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
Seems like there's an opportunity for some kind of middle ground. Books are emotive. Why not embrace the community's desire to make titles available in different markets, but manage it in such a way that the publisher is involved in the pro
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by benwerd 15y ago
Yeah, this is what happened here. It's an issue that makes me angry and I said something I shouldn't have. Do I get an "I derailed a thread on Hacker News" t-shirt? Definitely something I'll try not to do again.
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by benwerd 15y ago
Without wanting to get into a political debate (although I'm happy to do that off-site), I see this as baseline infrastructure: part of the solid platform underlying a healthy economy. I do see it as government's job to provide that.
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by benwerd 15y ago
A thousand times this. I find the ultra-libertarian stance that our community sometimes takes to be counter to what web applications have been about. Are we empowering people or aren't we? Libraries are hugely important knowledge transfer h
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Pinwheel, Outmap and the literally global web(benwerd.com)
1 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
"It will get you laid"? I know Valentine's Day is kind of a soulless, transparently commercial cash-in on human affection, but way to take it to the next shallow level. Otherwise, cool.
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by benwerd 15y ago
Replying to Me1000, with hashes it would still be trivial to create a system that determines when a friend's signed up, and alerts you. That doesn't require a full address book entry - or any contact details at all beyond an identifier. It'
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by benwerd 15y ago
It's not a perfect solution, but I don't understand why Path don't hash the contact details before uploading them, and check against the hashes. You can still infer all kinds of social graph information, of course, but they're at least not
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Private, easy, affordable enterprise video management. Hi.(benwerd.com)
1 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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How Europe can save the Internet(imperica.com)
3 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
One of my favorite aspects of that is that they're actually going to make a ton more money while making us feel like they're treating us like adults. Don't kid yourself: it'll be $20 rather than $19. So they make an extra cent, which isn't
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ACTA has same dangers as PIPA and SOPA(thedailyaztec.com)
3 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
Great judgment. But if I was an overly cynical person, here's where I could see this going: Data gathered by voluntarily-placed GPS units aren't covered by the ruling. If they want the data, the onus is then on cities to create incentives t
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by benwerd 15y ago
Surely on a free and open Internet you wouldn't have to declare your real name to show support?
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by benwerd 15y ago
They're fantastic! I'm definitely not trying to say that low budget cinema can't be amazing. In some ways, low-budget indie films more consistently amazing than the blockbusters. But are they MVPs? For me, the crux is in this argument: htt
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by benwerd 15y ago
Fair points :) I've updated my post to reference the MVP discussion - and the idea about 3D processes hadn't occurred to me. Presumably those films also come through the standard distribution companies though?
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Die, Hollywood, die(benwerd.com)
93 points by benwerd 15y ago|30 comments
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Identity is the operating system(benwerd.com)
1 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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SOPA and PIPA: how lawmakers are out to take my job(benwerd.com)
2 points by benwerd 15y ago|0 comments
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by benwerd 15y ago
I do think HN should go dark in SOPA - but I also think everyone on HN who controls a site should commit to make it go dark too.

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