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by cbs 14y ago
Nothing better than artificially creating a problem, just to charge for the solution!
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by cbs 14y ago
This is a really long and angry way of complaining that Silver assumes good faith on the part of those tasked with creating models and policy. The underlying issue is my biggest peeve with both the buisness and political world. There is a
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by cbs 14y ago
If it seems offensive, you're reading the directionality wrong. The closest thing to use as an example, but doesn't exactly fit this situation, is the formal fallacy of affirming the consequent. Like it or not, we live in a society where "
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by cbs 14y ago
There is nothing mutually exclusive about running a business and being honest. What exactly are you trying to say about HN and/or startups that would make him out of place here?
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by cbs 14y ago
>I have a hard time imagining a more better apology from Instagram. I don't. This message from on high wasn't particularly bad for a startup, but there are plenty of internet "lifestyle businesses" that can communicate with their user
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by cbs 14y ago
I know you mean well, but I'm aware of that and it is tangential to my point. What I'm taking issue with is the underlying inertia that causes it to be in a self-reinforcing loop as most widely supported protocol for mobile. When I got my
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by cbs 14y ago
The responsibility is not Facebook's I agree that Facebook has no legal responsibility here, but the responsibilities they have willingly to take on in the past does create an level of expectations in the userbase. The userbase is comple
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by cbs 14y ago
Why you gotta look at it in those terms? Relative advantages and disadvantages can exist without couching it in the terms of pro-x anti-y. Seriously, would anyone actually give a damn about this if cellphones were not uniquely tied to the
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by cbs 14y ago
This is the same case with the Android e-mail client Just to put this out there, K-9 is the fork of the andriod mail client you really want to be using, it does IDLE.
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by cbs 14y ago
Holy over-the-top rhetoric batman! I think this shines light on a problem with iPhone and Win mobile architectures. I commented on this in another thread, but android's interoperability through intents and custom sync providers means it do
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by cbs 14y ago
This is why I tend to prefer the android architecture over the iphone's. If I still had an android phone and a not-google 3rd party provider stopped offering ActiveSync, I'd just use whatever their new thing is. iPhone says I have to sync
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by cbs 14y ago
Any idea on stuffing a web font into a multipart message so the tracking-adverse email clients can still use it? Could be impracticable depending on volume anyway, 18k (size of font in example) extra per message isn't nothing.
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by cbs 14y ago
>I've yet to meet someone who intuitively figured out that feature. At the risk of being called a Philistine, I think there are a lot of things about the iOS UI that are not made obvious or convenient, even to dudes used to using a lot
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by cbs 14y ago
If you want to solve the problem you're discussing in this article, you seriously need to talk to some dejected netadmins. Most corporate technology problems where a solution exists but isn't used aren't technology problems at all, they're
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by cbs 14y ago
Its fun to rail on internal IT. Most organizations inadvertently set the department up to fail and then find themselves shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that they have failed to deliver. The boys in the basement aren't a bunch of Luddi
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by cbs 14y ago
So, assuming my impression and Hahn's are both accurate - what changed? Nothing. The only difference is if you're on a mailing list that Linus frequents, or if you're only reading a single post from that list bereft of context because so
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by cbs 14y ago
This isn't a justification of why geeks should be into sports, it's why people looking for a new market should consider that domain. That's fine and all but a bit misleading. I follow a few sports, the one my brother is on a team for I fol
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by cbs 14y ago
Isn't email just an example of a fundamentally threaded medium, with emphasis on quoting in responses?
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by cbs 14y ago
There doesn't seem to be any sort of overarching strategy here, just flailing. I thought we were were calling "flailing" a "pivot" these days?
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by cbs 14y ago
I'd like to subscribe to your e-zine.
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by cbs 14y ago
I think this is an example of seeing the past through rose-coloured glasses. We have taken two steps forward, is it all that bad to reflect on the step we took backward? A lot of the improvements we've made do not come at the cost of the
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by cbs 14y ago
What if a django dev gets a bug that cannot be fixed in the framework? Presumably the same thing that happens when the python dev gets a bug that can't be fixed within the language. In the past, two bits of identical python bytecode nett
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by cbs 14y ago
I've heard they've axed that rule, but generically speaking in business nothing is set in stone. Most app developers just aren't in a position to negotiate.
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by cbs 14y ago
Have iOS6 users been waiting this long to get GMaps back?? Yes. Very much so. I was frustrated with the app for a few weeks, then one day driving back from out of state I ran into a closed section of interstate. After half an hour of f
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by cbs 14y ago
I don't know if its still common practice there, but Google used to trial new code by rolling it out to geographically limited audiences.
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by cbs 14y ago
>None of them can be used to single out and identify individual users ...by 42 floors. They're still telling all those networks that I visited the website.
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by cbs 14y ago
>him not really knowing facebook from the perspective of a consumer/user and only knowing it primarily as a broadcast tool That's funny, because as a "regular user" he perfectly voiced my opinion of (what I now know to be called) edgera
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by cbs 14y ago
>I expected better from Schneier. What did you really expect? Him to buy into your weak hand-waving rationalization for this information exposure? Computer security is about what is possible for malicious actors, contractual "strings
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by cbs 14y ago
The number of completely wrong generalizations about distributions I hear by people being sincere prevents me from reading that as anything but one. People saying "only Ubuntu X" when they really mean "only debian-based X" is one of the mos
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by cbs 14y ago
>the same way that aptitude and dpkg-reconfigure are Ubuntu only tools. No. ufw can run on other distros, its just a frontend to iptables. A quick googling makes it look like its there in Arch repos, you have to compile yourself on Ce

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