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by bl4k 16y ago
the downside of anonymous is that anybody can claim to be from the group and pop their head up on CNN considering what anonymous stands for, I think it is safe to say that anybody claiming to be part of the group while participating in a li
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4chan's chaos theory(vanityfair.com)
63 points by bl4k 16y ago|22 comments
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by bl4k 16y ago
> "PayPal doesn’t want their cut of tens of millions of dollars of revenue we project in the next two years. Any idea of who does?" If you makes you feel any better, I offered them a cut of a projected billion dollars and they still d
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by bl4k 16y ago
http://www.disconnectere.com/
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by bl4k 16y ago
this is what he wrote prior to Disconnect. if you have the later, it does Facebook and other sites
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by bl4k 16y ago
You effectively outsource spam and troll blocking to Facebook. They allow test profiles (I have around 4) - but they know who you really are. Fake accounts get shut down very quickly, they have a mechanism that seems to detect those account
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by bl4k 16y ago
A hotel review from October 2003 isn't relevant information
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by bl4k 16y ago
That is a bit different then. I agree about the conference, I have never been inclined to go. The impression that I get is that the program is full of self-proclaimed experts who pack themselves and their 2 page bio's onto panels to talk ab
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by bl4k 16y ago
terminology is being muddied by calling these 'web applications'. how about 'browser apps'? or just, something else
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by bl4k 16y ago
I hate this attitude. Especially when we all know that it is impossible to be productive for 12 hours a day, 365 days per year - let alone the 16, or whatever hours, some 'hackers' claim to do I would rather work an effective 4 hours a day
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by bl4k 16y ago
out of interest, does anybody know how export.ly gets twitter data? is it by paying for the firehose, paying through gnip or another way?
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by bl4k 16y ago
likeness is ok - for eg. I can take a photo of somebody and sell it for $10. what would not be ok is a copyright and no permission or license from the owner of the original image, even if it has been altered. see the obama 'hope' image dile
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by bl4k 16y ago
because they will eventually have a superset copy of all this data, which these companies are building a business model on. eg. Facebook API access is for Facebook apps that use Facebook credits. Twitter API access is expensive (Gnip charge
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by bl4k 16y ago
So true. The mobile photo sharing space has been around for 5+ years, it's just that most users only caught on with iphones and other smartphones becoming more popular. To claim that this space was 'created' last year and that 'sharing your
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by bl4k 16y ago
thanks
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by bl4k 16y ago
considered just pushing all your code to GH ?
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by bl4k 16y ago
What was the online editing service?
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by bl4k 16y ago
$30M to build Watson to buy all this PR is brilliant. As was Deep Blue. I just hope the next challenge isn't "defeat a standing army"
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by bl4k 16y ago
If you forced a person to give four answers to a question and rank them in probability of being correct, then at least 3 and possibly 4 of them will look 'batty'
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by bl4k 16y ago
> Saudi Princes and other royalty from the Middle East. Getting their orders in before their governments fall We hope
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by bl4k 16y ago
They wouldn't be able to fly without it - they aren't aero stable
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by bl4k 16y ago
I usually setup purge tasks (copy to same table in another db) every week or fortnight in low-traffic periods
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by bl4k 16y ago
This is why I never have a DELETE call anywhere in my app or admin code. I always mark as deleted (there are performance improvements in this for some databases as well)
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by bl4k 16y ago
you almost rescued the analogy, but not quiet.
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by bl4k 16y ago
Does anybody have a link to the HN thread where the clone was first submitted? I can't find it, thx
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by bl4k 16y ago
robots.txt is meant to be read by robots, hence the markup and location. for humans just use normal web pages. like an 'about' page, for example
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by bl4k 16y ago
except HN readers
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by bl4k 16y ago
He said it during a press event in New York. There were ppl live blogging in the room but somehow nobody picked up that part of what he said, but I remember at least one person tweeting it. He said it in passing, while talking about the Goo
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by bl4k 16y ago
They probably would have never made a dollar, but it would have been awesome (btw, Larry and Sergey bought Android without telling Eric, to give you an idea of what could have been)
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by bl4k 16y ago
His first request was "Super Co-Founder"

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