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931.
by codexon 16y ago
Kirkland isn't a small town and I think most people prefer to live 30 minutes away from the city to avoid being stuck in traffic for an hour.
932.
by codexon 16y ago
I hope they succeed and HTML5 replaces Flash, but this seems like a very risky move.
933.
by codexon 16y ago
If their contribution is greater, then why isn't somebody willing to pay them more? If there was such a trove of hidden value, you would think that some greedy capitalist would snap it up and exploit it. Because a capitalist would prefer
934.
by codexon 16y ago
Until most jobs stop requiring diplomas (probably never), college will continue to be job training. It is a win/win for businesses to have the colleges manage the risk of a weak employee as well as training costs.
935.
by codexon 16y ago
Can you honestly say that to the people who were buying triple A investments that turned out to be junk thanks to credit default swaps? Who's fault do you think that is? Do you blame sick people for not being smarter than a doctor in diagno
936.
by codexon 16y ago
Entertainment is essential to every civilization as the Romans discovered with their bread and circuses. Of course you may have a point when games like World of Warcraft ruin people's lives, but from a monetary (and thus time) magnitude, wa
937.
by codexon 16y ago
No we aren't. A bandwagon isn't always started by 1 influential person.
938.
by codexon 16y ago
There are masses. If everyone starts doing it, other people will jump on. Most people value their privacy, they just need a bandwagon to jump on to.
939.
by codexon 16y ago
Every vote counts. What the masses lack in influence, they make up with in numbers... unless you discourage them with comments like yours.
940.
by codexon 16y ago
They were inevitably headed in that direction. There is no other way to justify their sky-high valuation without exploiting private information.
941.
by codexon 16y ago
You are really stretching it if you are trying to say Facebook isn't trying to exploit private data to the fullest extent possible. A more apt analogy using your theme would be this: Saddam Hussein didn't kill anyone, his soldiers did. Only
942.
by codexon 16y ago
You do know that they have a complete history of changes to your account?
943.
by codexon 16y ago
I unfortunately don't think so. They have been stuck with a low-end image for a very long time and will not be able to take back the lost momentum from Facebook. Add this to the fact that it has been bought out by Murdock, which means there
944.
by codexon 16y ago
Altavista faded out really quickly. Myspace? Not so much. Remember, Myspace was far more competitive than Friendster.
945.
by codexon 16y ago
Because I think my attitude represents a huge chunk of Facebook's users A common mistake people make here is to think they represent the majority. Hacker news is a very small community.
946.
by codexon 16y ago
If history is any indication, Facebook will fade out very slowly like Myspace, if there is a new competitor.
947.
by codexon 16y ago
Sure I'll admit that it is not literally packaging private info into a file and selling it. But it sure is asymptotically approaching it. Your argument is analogous to saying Microsoft didn't really have a monopoly because 3% of computers u
948.
by codexon 16y ago
Sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#Beacon The prime example that resulted in a lawsuit settlement. I mean really? Opt-in to reveal your purchasing and browsing habits with selected companies and then spam your friends? http://ga
949.
by codexon 16y ago
What I mean is they are selling your personal information __in addition__ to regular ads (which are selected by datamining your personal information). As opposed to just regular ads.
950.
by codexon 16y ago
Another interesting question would be: how will it make money? Websites like Facebook and Myspace are shunning the simple advertisement model. Selling private data will become the new standard. A website similar to scope and feature like Fa
951.
by codexon 16y ago
And I just wanted to point out that this isn't a simple 2-3 line fix so people won't get their hopes up trying to see if it's ready every few hours.
952.
by codexon 16y ago
Well sure, if someone does the work for them. I'm saying that's probably why Chris and Leah haven't fixed it already and probably for many days to come.
953.
by codexon 16y ago
I don't think you'll see it fixed any time soon. Using a fork per request is the easy way out. The problem as you've all seen, is that memory will be used up very very quickly. The solution is to rewrite the app to use an event loop like se
954.
by codexon 16y ago
I'd like to know that too. The only product I see here is an open standard which would be forked the moment they try to slap ads on it.
955.
by codexon 16y ago
I have written multiple crawlers for sites like facebook with them. import urllib2;urllib2.urlopen(" http://learnpythonthehardway.com/login ).read() Since you only want basic protection, you could avoid the visual captcha all together and
956.
by codexon 16y ago
You mean script kiddie scanners. document.getElementById('p').value='5544e312' This isn't going to stop anyone who knows urllib.
957.
by codexon 17y ago
I'll give you an upvote if you can find the source for that story. I can't find it myself.
958.
by codexon 17y ago
Many mac owners I know repeatedly tell me that they are impervious to viruses. This belief is quite widespread.
959.
by codexon 17y ago
I will be greatly annoyed if Facebook becomes the default login on other websites.
960.
by codexon 17y ago
I thought this was conventional wisdom. Just a couple of months ago, we all kept hearing stories about how a recession/depression was great for finding cheap workers for a startup.

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