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by bitskits 16y ago
I do the same, but s/Rdio/Mog. So much easier to simply pay for access to everything than to figure out what music I want to own. In the past year or two I have done a complete 180 on my thinking about this.
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by bitskits 16y ago
I managed to paste the link incorrectly and am unable to edit it, my apologies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil
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by bitskits 16y ago
Actually, it's "Don't be evil". It often gets confused/merged with the hippocratic oath. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil
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by bitskits 16y ago
I have a feeling it has more to do with the sharing of cookies and tracking code than anything else. Once everything is https:// , marketers aren't able to share information across sites, and although the internet is made of cats, those c
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by bitskits 16y ago
Pretty accurate actually, at least for me. I read the title of this post as a cliffhanger, promising a shocking ending, but it doesn't really do it for me. I'd rather have them show me relevant ads than random ones, personally. I opted ou
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by bitskits 16y ago
...Or you could use Google Voice in the same way for free. In fact, you can selectively block from GV (send certain callers to "number is no longer in service"), which makes it better than a throw away, IMO.
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by bitskits 16y ago
I have to think this will launch with Google onboard, unless there is some reason Google is specifically targeted (which the article says they weren't.)
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by bitskits 16y ago
That's actually the example [CALEA] I had in mind as well. I don't see a huge technical hurdle here, other than maybe a script to disable all peering interfaces for every ISP in the US. This could be done by hand just as easily should Uncl
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by bitskits 16y ago
Wouldn't it just be a law requiring ISP's to kill peering upon the government's request? Am I missing something here? If it isn't feasible, I would think that's because it isn't legal, not because of a technical hurdle.
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by bitskits 16y ago
Yes, that is indeed what I meant. Specifically, tech/web companies who's product you could use, but choose not to for some reason.
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by bitskits 16y ago
That's a good point, I was picturing customer facing businesses when I wrote the question. I think it is probably less of an issue when you're working on something that you really could never be the customer of.
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Ask HN: Would you work for a company if you do not use their product?
4 points by bitskits 16y ago|10 comments
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by bitskits 16y ago
Is there any value for a company (probably not a startup, since they are still pretty expensive from that perspective) to buy MySpace as a "pick n pull" of sorts, to repackage as a new social product? I am not a software engineer, is this
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by bitskits 16y ago
A waterfall of nostalgia just washed over me. Thanks, just subscribed (I know this was for back issues, I decided on some new content). 2600 is great. Anyone else remember the knockoff Blacklisted 411? Or the definitely not knockoff, Phr
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by bitskits 16y ago
...or it's users are not savvy/don't care enough to stop them.
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by bitskits 16y ago
I don't understand what this would give you that a mobile optimized site, or an app wouldn't. Given that, and Facebook's history of making private data public, rather abruptly (even today, with the news of sponsored checkins), I'd be inter
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by bitskits 16y ago
I think there might be something else at work here: our rising expectations of how search engines should work. In years past, Google's results were measurably less relevant than they are today. In the time between "then" and "now", we're
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by bitskits 16y ago
That's a different issue than what is described in the article. What AT&T seems to be asking for is a "freedom from embarrassment", rather than a protection of trade secrets.
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by bitskits 16y ago
For a second, I thought this was an Onion article about a spicy TMZ story or something... A publicly traded company could have a "right to privacy"? What a country.
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by bitskits 16y ago
Counterpoint: In the 1970's software engineering wasn't a common major, or career path. Back then, you had to have a PhD because the building blocks of the internet, and microcomputing were still being developed. Since then, the amount o
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by bitskits 16y ago
Care to elaborate on why you feel that way? I'm not a BSD user, but I am interested in why you might feel it a good alternative to Linux or OS X.
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by bitskits 16y ago
As time passes, and the users of the internet get more sophisticated, this wont seem so much like a rant, it'll seem like an opportunity for the next social networking phenomenon. The thing that replaces Facebook wont look much like Facebo
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by bitskits 16y ago
I really hope you're right. The demos I saw of Lion scared me a bit about the future of the OS. I was hoping for some new features/refinements, along the lines of tabbed Finder windows, better Spotlight, and Resolution independence. Inst
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by bitskits 16y ago
"Ten years of work on OSX barely shifts the needle; less than a year of iPad sales breaks the gauge. It's pretty clear which OS is more important to Apple now." It's unfortunate, but I think you're right. OS X is BY FAR my favorite Apple p
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by bitskits 16y ago
It will be interesting to see just how much influence he's able to have. Even without being the leader of a major government, this could make a difference in how the party is perceived. Just having a Pirate Party member in government is p
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by bitskits 16y ago
I'm surprised to see that it might just be an API issue. I have to think that many of LinkedIn's users don't like being rated, and having those ratings be made available without their users' opt-in. For a service like LinkedIn, dealing wi
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by bitskits 16y ago
Company shuttle? Several companies in the valley offer this (including mine).
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by bitskits 16y ago
I'm an atheist who feels the opposite. I'd much rather have someone wish me "Happy Holidays". Assuming people celebrate a certain (your) religious holiday is presumptuous, IMO. Aside from that, with "Happy Holidays", New Year's is inclu
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DDOS without a botnet(d0z.me)
4 points by bitskits 16y ago|1 comments
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by bitskits 16y ago
As an American, I agree with you. I remember the days before this was called "terrorism", it was called "muckraking". I worry that as a country we are so used to tagline/twitter/sound-byte news media that we forgot what actual news looks

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