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by bonaldi 15y ago
I shouldn't trust a hashed username and password? How are server-based systems more secure? How are you going to verify the password without a server? Passwords are a server-based system. That's a non-issue if it's handled by ACLs on t
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by bonaldi 15y ago
It all amounts to the same thing: no server means putting your trust in the client. Which you should never do. You don't trust who the client says they are (authentication), you don't trust what the client says they can do (authorisation),
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Security needs less implications and more explicit answers. Besides, there is more to business logic than simple (or complex) access control. More than one Facebook game has discovered to their cost the problems of trusting the score the cl
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Yes, but virtually the only business logic in traditional Office is in the licensing, which has been repeatedly cracked. You're not really comparing like with like here, unless you're saying that Firebase will solely be used for making non-
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by bonaldi 15y ago
You're missing that the pitch with Fireball at least is there is no server code as such. To which everyone is pointing out "what about the business logic and validation?". The answers so far seem to be "we'll come up with, er, something in
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by bonaldi 15y ago
... And, setting aside that Office is compiled, Office stores its files locally. When then those files move to shared space like servers, those servers get their own authentication and controls. Unless you're really saying the Firebase can
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Am I the only one who wants to see multiple, proportional fonts in editors? Sure, I want to keep the methods themselves in monospaced font, but can't I have the method declaration in a larger size, and comments in a proportional serif? Ther
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by bonaldi 15y ago
In much the same way that if you live in a world of Word, vi is hostile. Don't get me wrong -- I use and love irc, for many of the reasons given above. I just think if I could have all or many of its benefits in a way that all my non-techni
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by bonaldi 15y ago
And yet a fair few people (including 37 Signals) have tried, because there's a recognition that irc is plain hostile to modern users. A real-time low-friction shared chat service would actually be a hugely compelling thing inside Facebook.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
I find it most interesting that they rely on irc internally. They work on one of the world's largest online communications platforms -- surely they could solve their problem in a way that gives it to their millions of users too?
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Then there are those who care very much how pretty the deliverable is (Eg Apple) but who also hit their deadlines. How? It's not via Phase IV as stated.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Right, they can buyback, but no matter how far they go in that direction they won't end up as a private company. The shares they purchase don't transfer the ownership they imbue to the board of the company -- they are either retired, held a
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by bonaldi 15y ago
"In reality Apple could probably just become a private company by buying back most/all the public shares, but I doubt they want to do that." They can't use the shareholders' money (which is what this is) to take themselves private. You can'
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by bonaldi 15y ago
I think that was carefully worded - note the "in the process of switching". The email sent to existing owners this morning says the new pricing will only apply to reserved instances purchased since March 6.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Not dropping the hourly rate for existing reserved instances leaves me feeling very short-changed.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
It's bizarre that we're reduced to forms-based authentication. Surely even basic authentication could be improved to include the basic signup/forgotten flows. Odd that this crucial UX is so overlooked by browser devs.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
So they burnt the Convore customers ... why would I trust them with Grove, exactly? Pivoting in real life is an elegant move; this feels more like stumble-and-run.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Will they delete all their user data, shut down their service and present this as "Great News!"? /checks. Yes, yes they will.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
1. Scrolling is not a "computer concept", it comes from scrolls. 2. Paging and scrolling are different things. Paging can works well when you're dealing with things that don't need compared (like a list of names in a phone book) but it bre
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Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed
117 points by bonaldi 15y ago|30 comments
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Would be great if this included my twitter timeline (am amazed Twitter still don't let you search that). Possibly even my Gmail.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
HTML/JS is up to running Doom now? Is that the best example? It puts it 17 years behind native. The article also says the water level is rising -- which is true, but why assume native is standing still? On the contrary, I see native APIs ev
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Shows exactly how far apart the distance between native apps and web apps really is. People were impressed with the GMail web app when it launched; this is basically a skin around that same app and they're recoiling from it in horror.
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Doing this correctly was Google's USP. Right in the early days, when Altavista had default-OR searching, searchers did "x AND y" almost as a tic. When you did that in Google, it boasted "Google searches for all terms by default. No need for
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by bonaldi 15y ago
Steve did see it as a priority: Project Builder/Interface Builder were "prosumer", when launched. NeXT put a lot of effort into the developer tools, and not just for developers: the "Why the World Needs A New Computer" brochure had a wh
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by bonaldi 15y ago
"in the valley" suggests that geography matters as much as the smarts and the hard work. What other assumptions have you missed?
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by bonaldi 15y ago
It's possible, but given these were raised as issues in the first few days that Plus launched, and in the meantime they've managed to do a large number of big ticket but utterly frilly items like games, Occam suggests screwed priorities s
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by bonaldi 15y ago
So why is all the grinding on things like "New! Now you can play games in a huddle started from a +1 button made in Lynx" instead of "ignore people from this stream" and other social network noise-control fundamentals?
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by bonaldi 15y ago
so if someone could make a 68030 as efficient as an i5, I could have a PowerBook 170 that would run for a week on a charge? Yes, please . ( I'll need someone to knock up a Twitter reading client in MPW too, pls)
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by bonaldi 15y ago
And still they have the world's smallest body font.

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