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by bonaldi 14y ago
Sorry, if you want to turn this into a flame war, I'm out. I understand that it's difficult to see or admit flaws in a system and an industry that has personally benefitted you, but the flaws remain nonetheless. In particular, you have not
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by bonaldi 14y ago
"However, when you include immigrants and their children in the mix, the numbers appear disproportionately low." Your post doesn't adjust for immigration levels. In particular, income stagnation was not similar at previous periods when immi
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by bonaldi 14y ago
"It would be better for everyone if we had this disagreement in public. -- Nobody, ever" I disagree. I am hugely glad on both eBay and travel sites when I can see a scathing review from one person and a response from a seller or hotelier li
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Why can't a middle class person who became "rich" (although most people don't consider >1.5x median to be rich) do the same thing? Starting new businesses: It's more a matter of "Don't" than "Can't." A middle-class person who became r
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by bonaldi 14y ago
You are making large omissions of quality when claiming things like "more" food and "more" education. America's educational rankings are descending rapidly. More HFCS is not more cane sugar. "go ahead and find that single category." Income
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Yes, if it leaves in its wake massive income inequality. The middle class is the engine of wealth generation. It both spends high proportions of its income and has enough income to start new enterprises. A middle class drives an economy. Wh
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by bonaldi 14y ago
The essay is truly horrible. I don't have the time to take it to bits, but a couple of starting points: - he conflates earnings and effort, as if by earning 100 times you were necessarily 100x more productive at some point. - related: wealt
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by bonaldi 14y ago
The coming tighter rules on client apps are worrying. The "things that make twitter twitter" are not geegaws. It's time for someone to blow the dust off identi.ca
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by bonaldi 14y ago
and today they post this https://dev.twitter.com/blog/delivering-consistent-twitter-e...
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by bonaldi 14y ago
... except that they add the tax on top of the £159. It's actually £168 here, I've just discovered.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Same here, although they have recently changed the wording of their T&Cs to include 2FA. I asked them about this, and they said they were considering its introduction. (HSBC already has it). Also, they use that "second letter from your
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by bonaldi 14y ago
It drives recipients to the Dropbox website. Eg, right now I can put an image file in my /public, get the link and embed it in an img src tag without the anyone else ever having to know it's on Dropbox. This way, I can't do that. I can make
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Nearly all blogs require you to authenticate with some kind of account. The alternative is spam city. RSS: There's nothing wrong with it. But if you object to Disqus centralising "your" users, you should equally object to eg Google Reader c
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by bonaldi 14y ago
This is a huge advantage. I want to be a disqus user, not a user of 4000 tiny blogs. When I make comments on x, y and z random blogs, I want to be able to follow replies to them in one central place. I especially don't want to give a userna
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by bonaldi 14y ago
You need a meta outlet. Deleting threads about moderation won't wash: a site won't allow itself to be secretly moderated, especially in ways it doesn't agree with. Every single online community learns this; every one benefits from the meta
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by bonaldi 14y ago
I read that Intel is no longer manufacturing the CPUs the Mac Pro used, so Apple had to do an unscheduled upgrade, which would explain this horrible spec-bump.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
The point is that LinkedIn haven't even confirmed they know how the passwords were stolen (they haven't even confirmed they were stolen, yet). In that case, when you change your password and feel all secure again, what's to say the hackers
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by bonaldi 14y ago
I guess you need to do both: change your password, but to something throwaway. Then when the hole is closed, change it again .
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Given they haven't confirmed they've found and closed the leak, is it wise for everyone to be changing their passwords already?
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Was the GUI really written in BBC Basic? Coo ur.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
Yeah -- but I think a service that offers to handle all the server stuff for you that also requires you to set up a server has missed a step somewhere.
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by bonaldi 14y ago
They use a game in their JS documentation! And as they wrote it it's totally vulnerable to the user incrementing their own score. It's not just games, either. As soon as a client-server solution gets beyond utterly trivial it becomes hard t
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by bonaldi 14y ago
"It Takes 6 Days to Change A Fundamental Business Practice" sounds a lot more reasonable. Should you be able to extend the backlog of a factory by an entire month just by changing a variable, pushing a build and going for lunch? No.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
tldr: It wasn't that they couldn't keep up with the times, it's that they didn't , because they were milking their cash cow hard and wilfully ignoring the future. Quark committed suicide: they outsourced virtually all of their R&D, l
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Nearly anything can be made to work, but in many cases it means jumping through a lot of hoops to get there. Without a trusted party you have to be much more suspicious of everything coming in, as you say, and that means coding additional
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Yes. The discussion was over whether proper security is something it could ever be equipped to handle in an all or mostly-client world. The founders have been saying it is (and pointing to Office as an example). You have been saying it sh
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Sorry, I have no idea what you are shadow-boxing at, any more. There are questions over security with Firebase. They say it will be fine when they're done. You say it will be fine in 80% of cases if they implement your idea. I suspect that
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Read their front page. "No servers, no server side code". Of course there are actually servers involved, but they're inaccessible by the developer. That's the whole point of this post: how much access will devs have to the servers, and how?
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Don't be a condescending prick, especially when you're the one who's wrong. Stop, just stop. This isn't right/wrong, because we don't even seem to be having the same conversation. Everything you talk about assumes and depends on having
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by bonaldi 15y ago
over the standard practice of hashing A hash (like a plain password) is just a meaningless string unless you have something to compare it to . That means you have to store a trusted version elsewhere. Eg: a server. any developer can man

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