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by casca 14y ago
To be clearer, I'm not saying or implying that HN is becoming Reddit. Rather that this particular content looks like it belongs on Reddit given the lack of substance and allegedly amusing animated gifs.
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by casca 14y ago
Reddit has come to HN
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by casca 15y ago
TL;DR - Some people are bad advisors. Avoid them somehow.
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by casca 15y ago
Before Android came out, each vendor had their own OS. Google doesn't care about the OS, they just want a platform that will allow users to consume their services. In order to convince the manufacturers that they should switch from somethin
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by casca 15y ago
This article lists a few characteristics that intelligent and successful (for some definition thereof) people have. The characteristics seem to be neither necessary nor sufficient and the examples are clearly cherry-picked. If there's any s
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by casca 15y ago
This is good manipulative psychology. The $18 is to anchor your expectation of the price and will appeal to people who just want to get the product as cheaply as possible. If you love the product, you can pay the "maximum", and because ther
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by casca 15y ago
This looks like a decent app but unremarkable. Is this really the state of the art? Or does cussing and poor spelling make for more upvotes?
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by casca 15y ago
Given the huge margin on mobile voice minutes, I'm surprised that it's taken this long for one of the operators to try this. Anecdotally, other operators in Europe have silently degraded VoIP traffic in the hope that the better quality GSM
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by casca 15y ago
"Nicira, the most intriguing startup in Silicon Valley". Really? It's not clear why a virtual switching company is the most intriguing but I guess if Wired says so...
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by casca 15y ago
TL;DR: time = money. Waiting for a cab costs time. Therefor waiting for a cab costs money. Uber takes the money and gives you time.
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by casca 15y ago
When companies or people make mistakes, it's great to see an apology. However, this one is very late and given the reputation that Kickstarter has, I'd have expected more from them.
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by casca 15y ago
While they'll probably go a little too far, this is a good thing. The Olympics are an incredibly expensive event to put on that many people love and someone needs to pay for it. There are a limited number of people who can visit the games d
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by casca 15y ago
Sadly this article does not provide the actual numbers that the expert witness presented. All it really says is that sn0wbreeze and iReb (for iPhone jailbreaking) were downloaded a lot which might change the statistics a lot. It's good that
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by casca 15y ago
If offering support was in any way required for Google's business model, they would consider it. As it's not it would only be a waste of time as people calling as Google "customers" would ask about their search difficulties or Gmail formatt
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by casca 15y ago
This is very interesting - YT link for those who prefer to download and watch at a faster speed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=t... "Ben Schmidt used the R language and data recorded in by hand in ship logs[
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by casca 15y ago
It's really easy to bash Microsoft based on their history of interaction with the OSS community - remember Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? However it is no longer 1999 and the environment has changed. Microsoft is no longer the Great Satan tha
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by casca 15y ago
RIM is quite correct that the way that apps are distributed under Android is particularly insecure and risky when compared to the Apple model. Most people don't care about rooting or jailbreaking, they want a simple interface that lets them
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by casca 15y ago
The real problem with CSRF vulnerabilities is that in most organisations, they're nobody's responsibility. The architects, designers and developers all think that security is someone else's problem. Like much security engineering, it's not
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by casca 15y ago
FreeBSD 9 has another neat option - Capsicum ( http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/ ). If you're interested in a good way forward, have a look. Authorization will always be hard because working out what each person should be
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by casca 15y ago
Another solution where I'm expected to upload my address books to an untrusted third party to sell to the highest bidder. This data is worth a lot, it's not surprising that organisations are popping up to "store" it for you.
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by casca 15y ago
TL;DR - no. And that's before considering the validity of their data collection method. The general OSS project tend to start when someone has an itch to scratch. They build something which solves that problem and upload the source somewher
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by casca 15y ago
bodog.com was shut down because of charges of illegal gambling and money laundering. They are accused of deliberately offering illegal (in the US) gambling services to people in the US. The assertion of the author of no jurisdiction might n
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by casca 15y ago
TL;DR - Timo Zimmermann believes that your web browser should fetch all content that you decree on your page, regardless of what site it links to. Apparently evil Firefox is adhering to the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, which makes mo
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by casca 15y ago
Wonga is a great example of a company taking advantage of people who are too desperate to have a choice and feel that their local loan-shark is too inexpensive for them. The banks are not scared, they're just currently unwilling to plumb th
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by casca 15y ago
While it seems reasonable to look at your per-hour rate when deciding whether to do a task yourself or farm it out, it's often not. The cost of farming out a small task is often orders of magnitude higher then completing it yourself. Plus y
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by casca 15y ago
There have been a lot of these "help me find a technical co-founder" posts. All the ones I've seen have missed the fundamental point: without technology, your idea is worthless. Your technical co-founder is supposed to be doing all the work
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by casca 15y ago
Something doesn't smell right with this story. If a big company clearly breaks a contract, there's money to be had and the lawyers will work on retainer. NDAs are legal agreements. They can include terms that prohibit the creation of a simi
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by casca 15y ago
Internet privacy is one perfectly valid area for government to get involved. The average person has no idea about cookies, Facebook or Google tracking or how online ads are profiling them. The sop offered from the supply side has been to of
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Do data caps punish the wrong users?(fiberevolution.com)
1 points by casca 15y ago|0 comments
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Where Did the Benefits of Technology Go?(www1.cs.columbia.edu)
1 points by casca 15y ago|0 comments

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