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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
WiFast ( http://www.wifast.com ) Mountain View, CA We're a well funded 14 month old startup just starting to poke our heads out of stealth mode. We're reimagining what internet access looks like in the modern world. We've proven and prototy
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
Kids get some flu shots, Larry Page gets some press. Who isn't a winner in this situation?
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
Citation? I'm genuinely curious. I don't think anyone is against doing something that could potentially save lives -- but I've never seen any evidence to support the current status quo and the number of these types of articles is growing. I
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
A late fee is a tool to encourage payment, if they ignore it and pay even just the invoice amount earlier than they otherwise would have you could say it has done its job. As long as they pay the invoice, most people at that point will waiv
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
More importantly than just being slow, the site crashes my iPad. After about 60-80% of the page loads, Safari closes to the home screen.
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
Does this work with hosted jekyll sites or just those that live within github? The documentation only mentions github, but after a quick look at the source code I can't see any reason this wouldn't work (at least with some minor modificatio
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
Given the speeds we're talking about (17,000 mph [1]), regardless of what you make your space station out of, debris hitting you is likely going to go straight through. [1] http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-sy...
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by craigmccaskill 14y ago
I'll +1 this, I have the same exact issue. This is the single most annoying thing about signing up for services. If they disallow this or the +flag chances are I won't sign up for a service.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
I was going to post the exact same thing, but spent the last five minutes searching site:apple.com virus for a direct quote. Seems they've changed their lingo as I definitely remember (around the time of the whole mac vs pc campaign) a defi
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Chrome (currently available as a beta on ICS android devices) does this.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
I'm not suggesting this is free, by any means. However, given the cost of buying existing POS hardware solutions, I'm confident I could handcraft bespoke ipad cases with card readers, sell them an ipad and still make a profit, all while u
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
The Application looks amazing. Well done. What I do wonder though, is why they're shipping this with such a terrible stand/card reader attachment? I can't see those lasting 6 months in a busy shop environment. I'd like to see a swivel stand
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
It's easy to focus on Apple because they're making an awful lot of money. Selling a premium product with a profit margin of 60% [1], this race to the bottom for labour costs becomes questionable. [1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/02/
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
My wife works at Google. We both live in San Jose, and she frequently gets the shuttle to work in the Mountain View office. For tax reasons, I'm not allowed to get the shuttle with her to or from work, so I'm pretty sure that some if not al
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
This looks like (from my admittedly limited perspective) an attempt by Google to build their own language ecosystem to reduce the reliance on Java and limit any potential future liability from patents held by sun/oracle.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Indeed. Bean-counters are looking at things totally upside down. A few billion to further the human understanding of the world around us vs the 1.4 trillion spent on the war effort. I know which I'd rather have backed.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
I wonder if this has been timed specifically prior to a major product release (iPhone 5) to help combat any stock drop.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
That wouldn't help if the backend controlling requisitions is what's compromised (as other comments possibly point to), but you're right, it doesn't sound like these guys have any clue about security at all.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Initially, the free tier did offer unlimited (ad supported) streaming. It was only more recently (6 months?) that this has changed.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
I agree with everything you've said, especially about them no longer being interesting, but for one point. You couldn't listen to any song and as such it didn't eliminate the need to buy (or pirate) some tracks. Certain record companies h
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Tangental but - the Facebook app on Android has done anything but mature. It's been stagnant for the last 6-8 months while the web interface has come on leaps and bounds. At this point in time, I see no reason other than persistance of data
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Some quick napkin math on numbers: If you're to believe Eric Schmidt when he says 'millions' and put that at 3 million users (being generous), guessing that each user uploads 20 megabytes of content (again, generous) thats: 3x10^6 × 20 MB 6
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Fascinating article, thanks.
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
Not really sure what the problem is, a screen saver manages to work perfectly well detecting when I'm not using the computer. I guess the assumption is that most people don't leave their computers on all the time, so it's designed to run as
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
A concern I always have over services like this, is that they tend to back up at the most inopportune times. Holding a VC and your call suddenly drops? Playing an FPS or RTS game and things start to become unresponsive? Uploading your lates
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by craigmccaskill 15y ago
They did have one piece of identifiable information they could use, the houses themselves. If they had a list of properties on craigslist, they could tie that to anyone who signed the same property up on airbnb. Not an easy metric to add to
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by craigmccaskill 16y ago
GoDaddy has now lost all current and any future custom they might have had from me.
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by craigmccaskill 16y ago
That makes more sense, thanks.
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by craigmccaskill 16y ago
That's certainly possible, theoretically. However, I'm not sure if those conditions can actually be met (rods should not ever come into contact with water and nothing should be able to ignite the gas, especially not at higher pressure level
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by craigmccaskill 16y ago
The nuclear power plants were automatically shut down, the power grid buckled at that point.

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