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Google now supports third-party readers using its PuSH hub(googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk)
12 points by bonaldi 13y ago|1 comments
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by bonaldi 13y ago
How is the popularity being determined? I can't believe some of these oddities are more popular than Feedly or Feedbin
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by bonaldi 13y ago
The Guardian can still publish, is why. The government telling people in its employ that they can't read the publication is a different matter from the government telling people they're not allowed to publish.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
It's not really funny — because when you actually do care about the underlying feed parsing, you end up searching in vain for a replacement among readers that are, as you say, lazy prettification on top of bad fetch/parse engines.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I get exactly the same thing with the chest. But put it on a blanket and it overheats. Arg.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
You're putting way too much baggage on to "how hard". It doesn't necessarily carry any implications of "yesterday and with no budget"; it's a scoping question. "How much will it take and how much will
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Nobody has a singular device. Nobody. Even if they only own one piece of hardware right now, they are surrounded by other hardware they have access to. Why should their stuff be locked to one physical object when it's digital? This isn't
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Thinking that sync is optional is a really weird thing that seems to linger in the Apple world. You know the old William Gibson line that cyberspace is the place where telephone conversations happen? Not in the hardware at either end, but i
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I think we agree. My complaint is that they're replacing an instant messaging service (which most people treat as synchronous) with an asynchronous service and pretending there's not a fundamental difference here. Sure, some people treat it
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by bonaldi 13y ago
That's what away statuses are for! "I'm signed in, but I'm not willing to be interrupted". Hangouts takes away the very thing you say you need. The SMS model is much less useful to IM users. If I was willing to wait for a reply at the other
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by bonaldi 13y ago
I think when this hits GMail in earnest there's going to be another huge outcry. Judging by my contact list and the lists of others I see, statuses and presence are a really big deal: people use red-dot to mean "I'm here but interrupt me on
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Online isn't the same as "available". A green dot in GChat means actively saying "you can interrupt me". A red dot means "this better be important". Currently about 2/3 of my GChat list is "away". There's a whole world of etiquette here tha
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by bonaldi 13y ago
So there's no presence/status notifications? I'll miss that when this hits GMail.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Not to mention that some of the Libor fixes were discussed over IM.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
http://www.postbox-inc.com
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Postbox. Like emailing yourself without the duplicates and with added editability and great search.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Suspect it's a joke, intended to be read as "(yes, really, blankets)"
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Instapaper's parsing is 3x better at least. Very often I see Pocket lose chunks of articles over innocuous divs.
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by bonaldi 13y ago
Even a GET is a signal. As henchman on the outside I can create a page, linked from my wikipedia personal page or on some otherwise innocuous page, that says something like "Boss, should I off Big Tony? Click here for Yes, Click here for No
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by bonaldi 14y ago
IOS gives you a friendly and official-looking "accept this certificate?" dialog when you connect to a router that offers one. Non-technical users will accept and proceed without blinking.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
It's also a pretty trivial task if you control the user's routers and can give them installation disks to make "the internet work". As corporate and university wifi shows, people will willingly accept new certificates required to join hotsp
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Or have it added to their chain beforehand. An ISP could trivially include this as part of their "welcome pack" installer CD or the like. Would that silently affect people like us? No. Could they do it to all their non-technical customers?
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by bonaldi 14y ago
HTTPS will not prevent this: the ISP can issue their own CA to their users and then decrypt/encrypt https as it passes through them. (Many corporations already do this). What will prevent this is legislation and/or competition. It amazes me
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by bonaldi 14y ago
i) From the OP: "the function does not allow users to tweet" ii) The bloomberg connection doesn't go over their local firewall in the way you imagine. The tweets will be shown inside the terminal app, not via any connection to twitter.com
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Sexist defence of the patriarchy is far more embarrassing, and I don't want to witness that, either. Virtually all the replies here are moronic. As the piece is not talking about literal grandfathers, there are plenty of non-gendered terms
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Yes, because the contexts are wildly different, and so are the genders of the jokers. In terms of power relations, this is exactly the same as how people of colour can use the N-word and white people can't.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
So what you're basically attempting is the Discourse equivalent of a StackOverflow "This question is offtopic" thread-close. Good job. What you're attempting is amateur anger management. It doesn't work like that. Your approach is almost cl
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Or false, theatrical crap like building themselves massive stone buildings more suited for courthouses than branches and decking their interiors out with dark wood and brass? Banks are all about theatrics in the service of image. They depen
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by bonaldi 14y ago
"And not just the same general layout, but the exact same components." Funny how on the desktop designers demand HIG compliance and standard UI widgets, while on the web they want us to get all Kai's Power Tools on every button and widget.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
"Login to the website not via the suspicious link" requires understanding what URLs are, how to isolate which part is "the website", how to edit them and how to enter them. The amount of people Googling for "log into Facebook" proves none o

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