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by casca 15y ago
This is just silly. Anyone who has industry experience knows that it's trivially possible to spoof SMS phone numbers. Just like with email, it's possible to make the system more secure but given the margins associated with SMS, not likely.
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by casca 15y ago
It's Google vs Yahoo on the menubar! Currently we use the Yahoo method (hierarchical information based on someone else's curatorship), Mark is proposing the Google model (everything through a single search box). Either one will not be as un
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by casca 15y ago
It's true that a small number of people are installing the excellent CyanogenMOD (1 million out of 170 million), there are believed to be far more people who have jailbroken their iphones. Just like CyanogenMOD, this will always be a niche
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by casca 15y ago
Having people say your name gives a good psychological hit of goodness, but the only reason you'd be willing to spend the time and money required on this is to gain a greater advantage. So you're trying to impress someone else. And worse, y
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by casca 15y ago
Many people think that they're the proverbial nice guy. In many cases, they're wrong. You're not a nice guy because you don't kill people or verbally abuse old people on the bus. You're not a nice guy because you managed to avoid being abus
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by casca 15y ago
This is a good read, particularly for HN. As naturally optimistic people, we all believe that the "9 out of 10 startups fail" statistics apply to everyone else. This is a good read as perhaps it reminds us that 9 out of 10 means us, not jus
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by casca 15y ago
Even worse, in the UK they've managed to trick the generally trusted national charity Citizens Advice Bureau into endorsing their "Our cookies are for your convenience!" claptrap. The CAB is featured prominently on their marketing all over.
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by casca 15y ago
This is a very strange post. nginx is highly mainstream and anyone working with webservers in any capacity should have come across it a number of years ago.
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by casca 15y ago
I'd conjecture that one of the biggest barriers for HN folk is acknowledging that they are ignorant about a certain topic. In the Western culture, we are trained from a young age that admitting ignorance is one of the worst things you can d
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by casca 15y ago
The main reason for the nature of credit-card fees (fixed+percentage) is to manage the fraud. Stripe's simplicity of access means that it is going to be completely destroyed by fraud. The reason for the effort in getting merchant accounts i
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by casca 15y ago
Perhaps he does not understand the connection between setting goals and achieving them. The purpose of setting the goal is not a random NYE drunken wish, it's to assess something that you think you'd like to happen more seriously. Want to s
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by casca 15y ago
The best result would be if the Eudora features were available as a/several Thunderbird add-on(s). Woz still uses the original Eudora because of some simple features: http://lifehacker.com/5222989/how-apple-co+founder-steve-woz...
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by casca 15y ago
One reason that some textbooks are so expensive is that they can take a lot of time and effort to produce and they're selling a few 10k of copies, at best. If you have a professional at the top of their field earning $200k/year, writing the
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by casca 15y ago
So Quora works for you now? That must be nice...
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by casca 15y ago
The amusing part of this is that scaling data is really cheap. You just don't do anything. It's not like voice where you need to allocate a certain amount of throughput to have a conversation work - when any part of the network is congested
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by casca 15y ago
While this might be frustrating on the surface, this is exactly the sort of thing that should be decided by the lawmakers. You might personally dislike what the US legislative branch has become, but if you follow that it is acting in the in
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by casca 15y ago
You are not the target audience. Yes, if you're reading this, you are not the audience that Facebook is building for. The Timeline is there after being extensively tested and stays there are long as the results (Facebook definition) are bet
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by casca 15y ago
I'd be much happier with a replacement for the social buttons that don't tell Facebook/Google/whatever every website I go to until I click the button.
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by casca 15y ago
Just what we need - another bogus ranking based on press releases for cities that the "author" has never been to. Cue hand-wringing from politicians aiming trying to boost their "ranking" as a justification for spending/SOPA/plow chops.
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by casca 15y ago
Who doesn't like cheap meat? Externalities FTW.
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by casca 15y ago
The in-house dev team is the secret here. You can pay each person $60k/year and they have management who will say "No, that's not possible with our resources". Compared to the Four Seasons outsource model where anyone can say "I want that f
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by casca 15y ago
If you've never been involved in the building of a website for a large company then this might come as a surprise. Getting agreement for so many things would have taken many people months of time. "Lean Startup" where things don't work on
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by casca 15y ago
RIM has a few competitive advantages: They are the only company that provides a secure handset. Their integration with corporate email systems through BES is unrivaled. If they license their software to less trusted handsets then they lose
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by casca 15y ago
This is a huge shift for Blackberry. It seems that the stifling stranglehold of Mike Lazaridis may be broken in time to save the company. But I wouldn't bet on it.
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by casca 15y ago
Network locking is a form of money. If I can lock your phone to my network, that's worth money to me because you're more likely to stay with my network. As such, I can offer the phone to you for cheaper. If I can't lock it, I'm going to cha
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by casca 15y ago
It's nice that computers are now powerful enough that full disk encryption is almost performance-neutral. But realistically, if they want your data then they can get it. Spear phishing works very well and if not, there's always indefinite
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by casca 15y ago
Hiring is hard. Hiring someone you've never met is a whole lot harder. Someone you know, have worked with before or from a personal recommendation? Sure. Some guy who you've assessed can pass a coding test? Not so much. As I'm sure many her
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by casca 15y ago
Cancelled my Fire pre-order and ordered a Nook Tablet. The extra $50 is worth it for the microphone and extra storage. Amazon is selling a product (at a discount on cost) that is aimed to lock you into the Amazon experience. While I like th
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by casca 15y ago
Cute, but I'd have thought that one of the purposes of the Team pages is to associate that person with the company through a search engine. So this might look good, but in my mind doesn't meet the primary requirement of the Team page.
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Seven basic rules for developers setting up password systems(dropsafe.crypticide.com)
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