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by charlieok 15y ago
I wouldn't call LDAP "90s database technology" because a much better word choice would be "directory". The data is arranged in a tree, in very much the same way directories on your local filesystem are arranged in a tree. I think the primar
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by charlieok 15y ago
So your comment here just got inserted back into the story? I'm not sure if I've seen that happen before
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by charlieok 15y ago
Actually the one about third rate products is in the article
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by charlieok 15y ago
in Jobs' case you could add a rather Appley looking building, too (when it's built, of course)
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by charlieok 15y ago
Glad to see this trend. How about using https links in the RSS feeds, so that anyone coming in from their feedreader gets https by default?
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by charlieok 15y ago
You might be right. I'll confess to a limited knowledge of this subject :) As for which groups have more tribal loyalty... maybe there is something to be gleaned from which have an easy time keeping their members marching in lockstep, vs wh
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by charlieok 15y ago
I think there is some overlap between what you and I are suggesting. If people on the right put more weight on allegiance to a tribe, and respecting authority, I'd expect them to be more inspired by an idealist past attributed to their trib
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by charlieok 15y ago
I'd guess the definition of "right-wing" slides along with the definition of "moderate" or "center" (and also "left-wing") in any particular place. If the US is in general more right-leaning than Germany, then "right-wing" should also be fa
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by charlieok 15y ago
Mainly, I hate the proliferation of passwords, and I hate typing those passwords in all the time. I'd rather consolidate those down into a handful of distinct purpose-specific identities that I have some ownership and control over. Also, yo
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by charlieok 15y ago
SRP is cool stuff, but if we're going to do SRP I would be more interested in doing it right. I think that would mean having browsers support a standard SRP protocol binding (eg http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5054.txt ) and then really nailing
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by charlieok 15y ago
I've been frustrated for a long time by the lack of browser support for strong authentication with a good user experience. Form-based authentication always felt like a terrible hack. That's the only dog I have in this fight. I certainly did
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by charlieok 15y ago
I posted this on the StackOverflow page. I'll put it here too. Apologies if it is too long. I think BrowserID[1] (or perhaps more precisely, the Verified Email Protocol[2]), the recent effort by Mozilla's Identity Team[3], deserves a mentio
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by charlieok 15y ago
Interesting, maybe I misunderstood. I've had the horrible experience of trying to use a phone with a European carrier and finding that not only was it SIM-locked, but there was basically nothing above-board that I could do to unlock it. I g
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by charlieok 15y ago
That was fast! http://blog.airbnb.com/introducing-new-trust-safety-features
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by charlieok 15y ago
And so I would like to see Google, who are so intent on fighting anti-competitive business practices, throw its weight behind this in their negotiations with carriers, so that they can make such an offer on their home page. I seem to rememb
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by charlieok 15y ago
I agree that patents are a problem. And, I saw Google's offer today for a free Android phone with a 2-year contract. I would love a deal on a phone, but I think it is unethical to bundle products in this way. I would rather have the opportu
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by charlieok 15y ago
I guess I'm hoping for standards in this area to hurry up. Then you could do it between any major site and any other major site. Kinda like linking accounts for easier sign-in (one site becomes the identity provider, the other becomes the r
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by charlieok 15y ago
Anyone know of a good app along these lines (not necessarily browser based) for working with timelines? I've been reading a lot, opening a lot of tabs, and taking a lot of notes lately. I'm finding that organizing things by date/time works
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by charlieok 15y ago
It would be nice to be able to use an "internet-wide" reputation on sites like Airbnb, instead of recreating it on each site. If I can easily prove to Airbnb things like, "this is my identity on couchsurfing, that is my identity on ebay, th
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by charlieok 18y ago
Very interesting! This reminds me of http://creativeclass.com/whos_your_city/ which I came across recently. I live in Denver, and I've been increasingly aware that it doesn't feel like a very ambitious place, at least in the ways that I c