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cowbell
12y ago
If only "important" traffic is https, then that narrows the search for them quite a bit, doesn't it?
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12y ago
Terrible compared to what? http? I don't understand why we get big scary warnings from browsers for self signed https, but never a peep out of them when submitting the same form over http.
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12y ago
>The question then remains "If they're so bad, then why do websites have them". Short answer: "Because it works. They drive sales. They drive engagement." The same argument could be made for spam email.
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12y ago
Applied correctly, I can see it being useful in modeling machine learning algorithms. More data points are almost always a good thing there. If simply dumped in front of school teachers and administrators, I suspect it would be harmful. The
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12y ago
Not smart enough to get around region restrictions though apparently... http://www.gmodules.com/ig/proxy?url=http://www.livestation....
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cowbell
12y ago
I came here to say the same thing and reference an earlier article I saw on this site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7226871
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cowbell
13y ago
I was under the impression that yahoo was against the Obama administration's surveillance policies. It seems I have been misled.
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13y ago
I would suggest there are many developers who have the potential to be 10x, but are constrained by their environment. How many of you have suggested a course of action that is plain to you as a developer, but is shot down by non-technical m
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13y ago
Management team is here http://appendto.com/team/ I guess go ahead and find where one of them contributed to prop 8 or something. According to the readme, the guy only worked on the repo for a week while he worked ther
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13y ago
This. Has everyone forgetten about Snowden while they argue red vs. blue? Bush started it. Obama intensified it. If your main gripe is "She's a Republican!" then you have missed the point my friends.
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13y ago
>Just because someone doesn't program properly It isn't just accidental errors you need to worry about. Obfuscated intentional errors are a problem too. If the language design prevents bugs that an NSA mole would try to slip in
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13y ago
This is silly. Their reasons boil down to: 1)Android is hard 2)Android is hard 3)Android is hard 4)Because android was too hard for us, nobody downloaded our app. Let me add a rebuttal: There are many hungry Android developers out there. De