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by bobf 16y ago
Wrong. Google has a vested interest in protecting the information (whether or not they internally exploit it for contextual advertising is another issue). External auditors have more incentive to leak the information to increase public outr
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by bobf 16y ago
Of course. I agree that it shouldn't be illegal to access it; however, simply being trivially accessible doesn't necessarily mean people don't care.
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by bobf 16y ago
Isn't that like saying "if you don't lock your mailbox, then by implication you don't care if people read your mail"? Or, "if you don't lock your telephone junction box, then by implication you don't care if people tap your phone"? Although
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by bobf 16y ago
There are several comments below the article which noted that Google had turned over data to external French auditors, who reported finding passwords, emails, and other sensitive information in the WiFi data captured by Google. Personally,
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by bobf 16y ago
If you're a Trade Joe's fan and are in the mood for a more Autumn-esque beverage, try their spiced apple cider.
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by bobf 16y ago
This is the first long term support release of Asterisk since version 1.4.0 was released in 2006, and there's >200 notable new features. A few important features that stuck out to me were Google Talk & Voice support, improvements to
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New LTS Asterisk release v1.8.0(lists.digium.com)
5 points by bobf 16y ago|1 comments
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Science behind new Gap logo's failure(newsfeed.time.com)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Agreed, although I took the slightly longer Digg->Reddit->HN path.
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by bobf 16y ago
Western Digital just released a 3TB drive (~$239) - that would only require 24 drives to net 72TB.
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by bobf 16y ago
Disable prefetching. In Firefox, here's how: 1) Enter about:config in your Firefo address bar. 2) Type network.prefetch-next in filter text box. 3) Change the value to false by right clicking.
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by bobf 16y ago
Definitely. Just about anything Jordan makes is probably worth checking out, actually.
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by bobf 16y ago
If you become successful at <random common, unimportant thing>, you can leverage that to pursue <really great idea>. One example that comes to mind is Andrew Mason's Groupon talk at Startup School. Before Groupon, the Groupo
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by bobf 16y ago
Amazon EC2 micro instance for free? http://aws.amazon.com/free/
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by bobf 16y ago
I couldn't agree more. Nginx and HAProxy will seem like miracle workers after seeing Apache's performance.
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by bobf 16y ago
+1 for loggly -- check out logstash http://code.google.com/p/logstash/
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by bobf 16y ago
There was a defined number of Startup School attendees, which means the amount of pizza needed is easily calculable (X participants * Y slices each.. maybe + Z "extra, just in case"). From hosting numerous events, I would definitely expect
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by bobf 16y ago
I thought pg's comment on "naughtiness" was interesting, as I was tempted to use a shorter version of the story I'll relate below in response to the "hacked" question, as it was a very recent experience. I ultimately shied away from using i
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by bobf 16y ago
One of the most interesting things about Amazon is how they have iterated their business over time - from a website selling stuff to a marketplace to becoming a platform (in multiple areas).
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by bobf 16y ago
In the startup world, the biggest benefit to being able to do some level of technical work seems to be being able to more quickly attract a truly high quality technical co-founder. If you just have an idea and promise equity, you'll have
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by bobf 16y ago
I don't live in the Bay Area, but I attended Startup School and was actually surprised by the opposite - I met many, many more non-technical people than I would have initially expected.
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by bobf 16y ago
A more concise way of saying it might be that for founders it is a way of life , for employees it is a job .
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by bobf 16y ago
Equally important, a technical co-founder must be able to explain complex technical issues in a way "regular people" can understand them. This is dramatically more difficult than it seems. In general, I think one of the true signs of well-r
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by bobf 16y ago
New-ish MSI and Asus laptops actually have a Turbo button. It basically performs automatic CPU overclocking (at the expense of battery life).
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by bobf 16y ago
At least, if not more.
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by bobf 16y ago
That's why I majored in business, instead of CS/IS/etc :)
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Google Mobile Voice-based Search in Russian, Polish, Czech, and Turkish(googlemobile.blogspot.com)
2 points by bobf 16y ago|0 comments
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by bobf 16y ago
Doesn't it just depend on what is printed on your degree? You put whatever that says on your resume, simple enough.
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by bobf 16y ago
I'm not sure if you're referring to getting a degree, or approaching it in the way that I did. I won't try too hard to convince you that a degree is important, but it introduces you to think about things in different ways than you otherwise
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by bobf 16y ago
Those are all quite reasonable questions. The biggest difference was in not living the carefree life many people seem to think college should be -- but I suspect people on Hacker News don't necessarily fall into that mindset to the same ext

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