cph1

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by cph1 15y ago
> That's getting close to paranoia. Selling users' personal data to data mining and advertising companies is very common. It's not really paranoid to think that Facebook would do such a thing, considering that they call their users trus
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by cph1 15y ago
> Why would my email and contacts be locked into iCloud? Don't ask me, ask Apple - they're the ones who're doing it :) Contacts was one of the things that Apple mentioned would be stored in iCloud at their talk a couple of ago. I'm not
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by cph1 15y ago
I certainly hope so.
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by cph1 15y ago
> To move your data you will need to sync to a mac and then manually move your data. Which is exactly what a lot of users will be unable to do. They'll rather avoid the hassle by buying a new Apple device yet again. I'm not pointing my
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by cph1 15y ago
Photos, documents, contacts, email, music - just about everything that "normal" users have on their computers.
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by cph1 15y ago
It's true; iCloud has the potential to be a massive lock-in mechanism, ensuring that people will continue to buy Apple devices for years on end because buying anything else will mean manually moving your data out of iCloud - which probably
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by cph1 15y ago
"Gandhi.net seems to have..." It's http://gandi.net (without the H). "I can't find any outside references for the trademark registration however." Search for "no bullshit" here: http://www.tmview.europa.eu/tmview/welcome.html
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by cph1 15y ago
I know their ad system - I've used it myself. My point is that they may do other kinds of things without you knowing.
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by cph1 15y ago
- "Facebook doesn't really give your information to the advertisers" How do you know? I think this is an appropriate time to mention what Zuckerberg once said about Facebook users: "They trust me - dumb fucks." - "Apple will always care" Ap
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by cph1 15y ago
You're absolutely right. You can't always tell whether there's more content below if there's no scrollbar. I don't want to have to scroll just to see if there's more content.
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by cph1 15y ago
"...Germany’s traditional engineering-driven approach to business, with its emphasis on perfection, longevity, pride in ingenuity and culture of deep-thinking..." I fail to see how those things are negative. As a matter of fact, I wish more
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by cph1 15y ago
I see a lot of "Europe is like this, Europe is like that" comments here... I wish people would realize that in terms of culture and legislation the various European countries are wildly different. The difference between Southern and Norther
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Ask HN: Any experiences with Flask (Python micro-framework)?
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by cph1 15y ago
Not to mention Disqus - they use Django.
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by cph1 15y ago
Python is the most popular serverside solution among startups according to this poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083 Ruby was second, PHP third. (JavaScript got the most votes, but everyone uses JavaScript on their website, a
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by cph1 15y ago
I'm willing to pay for email instead of using Gmail. The combination of Google's massive accumulation of data about you and American authorities' relatively easy access to the data strikes me as somewhat creepy. Google claims to not be evil
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by cph1 15y ago
Btw., they only used their homemade submarine to tow the rocket platform at the first launch attempt (last September). This time around they decided to enable the rocket platform to sail on its own: http://politiken.tv/nyheder/videnskab/ar
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by cph1 15y ago
Here's a picture of the rocket and the submarine: http://i2-images2.tv2net.dk/s/49/20942149-29ce372936dd69adf1... The picture was taken in September last year when the first (failed) attempt to launch the rocket was made. Here's a picture
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by cph1 15y ago
I'm not sure there's an official video. The Danish TV station TV 2 filmed the whole thing from their news helicopter, and that is the footage you see on the YouTube link I posted and on http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-40453154:dansk
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by cph1 15y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGmymAWI4E
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by cph1 15y ago
Video of the lift-off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGmymAWI4E