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Google deflects PR firm's attack of Gmail privacy(usatoday.com)
2 points by credo 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN:App contests -why do you Not participate(or participate) in app contests?
2 points by credo 15y ago|1 comments
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Using Economics to Help the World’s Poor(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by credo 15y ago|0 comments
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by credo 15y ago
from the article Android phones must adhere to a "compatibility" standard determined by Google. In an e-mail on Aug. 6, 2010, Dan Morrill, a manager in the Android group, noted in passing that it was obvious to the phone makers that "we ar
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by credo 15y ago
imo what is worse is the lack of transparency around the flagging. We don't know how many people flagged that article, whether it was manually pushed down by a moderator etc. All we can guess is that it is artificially moving down because
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by credo 15y ago
At first glance, it does seem unfair. However, I'm assuming that this law was put into place because (a) Most non-lawyers can't do a good legal job and don't know the law (or loopholes). So they are likely to do themselves harm. (b) I think
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by credo 15y ago
I've seen this issue with external-link-posts as well. So my guess is that that other factors besides (self-post dampeners) are involved. That said, I should confess that I haven't attempted to read the ranking code for HN. Regardless, sinc
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by credo 15y ago
The post doesn't explicitly mention this, but this $3/day diet is also a vegetarian diet (with milk being the only non-vegan item in it).
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by credo 15y ago
Amazon has promoted RightScale in the past (and presumably the two continue to have a close relationship). So it seems understandable that RightScale would want to adopt a diplomatic tone. However, imo an executive summary that starts with
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by credo 15y ago
In general, I don't agree with Stallman's hyperbole and think that many of his beliefs are extreme. However, in this case, I respect the fact that he chose to reply to the OP. Many arrogant people might prefer to ignore criticism. It appear
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A Customer Who’s Always Satisfied - User Reviews by Intuit software(nytimes.com)
5 points by credo 15y ago|0 comments
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by credo 15y ago
It looks like the original O'Reilly post was a bit imprecise. On one hand, it says "your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file." Later on, it mentions a "a list of hundreds of tho
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by credo 16y ago
>>Spark refused to pay a $200,000 break up fee to help cover the expenses the lean company had started to take on .. So this "lean" company spent around $200,000 on expenses relating to the possibility of getting VC investment
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Sexism Charges Divide Surgeons’ Group(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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B-Corp & Triple bottom Line: A Scorecard for Companies With a Conscience(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
Sometimes, I do the reverse of what you described. I upvote comments that are at -1 (even though I wouldn't have upvoted the comment if it hadn't been less than 1.) In these cases, I have a neutral feeling about the comment, but upvote it b
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by credo 16y ago
English is his second language and the grammar mistakes weren't a big deal for me.Some of the over-the-top language (especially in his recruiting post yesterday :) was. imo the post essentially says that the people he liked at Bing were all
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Expedia to split into two companies, separating out TripAdvisor(geekwire.com)
1 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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IPad 2 sold out in the afterlife as Chinese pray for the dead(reuters.com)
3 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/business/01author.html is an interesting article that talks about what the book has to say on Google's experience in China.
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by credo 16y ago
What I find interesting is that the first two submissions got a total of 15 points over >10 hours each. This one has 78 points in around one hour Timing matters :)
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The happiest billionaire: Paul Allen violates rules of "Seattle Nice"(crosscut.com)
5 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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Tax Havens and Treasure Hunts(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
5 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
>> That is not exactly correct Why is it not correct ? When I click the search button, it takes me to the GoDaddy site. Did you really try clicking the Search button on instantdomainsearch.com ?
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by credo 16y ago
Typing in a domain name and clicking "search" on instantdomainsearch.com immediately takes you to the GoDaddy website which shows the domain name you typed in and quotes a price for it. GoDaddy is allegedly one of the biggest domain frontru
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by credo 16y ago
imo the "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" guideline and related submissions add a lot of value to HN. Besides, I don't agree with the notion that mean-spirited or dumb comments or ideology-based downvoting/upvoting are
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by credo 16y ago
In his post, Fred dismisses critics by saying "I got a lot of heat from Apple fanboys for that post" However, you don't have to be a "fanboy" to recognize that Fred is a huge proponent of "free". It makes sense for VCs to promote a zero-r
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by credo 16y ago
>>But when you look on the desktop web you see the overall ratings are vastly lower and that they seem to game the system by releasing "new versions" to reset their ratings and then probably paying people to write positive reviews
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University of Washington students surprised by teacher's role in Libya (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
2 points by credo 16y ago|0 comments
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by credo 16y ago
The PC/Mac app market was fairly small for independent developers and very few people bought a large number of desktop apps. It is true that the web (mostly free sites and e-commerce sites) was able to deliver a lot of new "apps" to desktop

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