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by dagobart 17y ago
as you get auto-subscribed, this is no early adopter. Gmail's around for years
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by dagobart 17y ago
> The second is that all the people that frequently contact > HER (via an anonymous account which forwards to her Google > account) now have her personal Gmail account and are > following her on Buzz (and Google Reader), whi
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by dagobart 17y ago
then I'd likely resort to getafreelancer or something and get the initial stuff done. There is quite a bandwith of talent and cheap, too. Though, I wouldn't get excited about it. For an initial version, I guess, everything you get there mig
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by dagobart 17y ago
I'm with you. Unfortunately, that applies to the whole world.
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by dagobart 17y ago
I often experienced the issue that friends I pointed to xkcd either didn't get it because of poor English skills or lack of geek background. Maybe I should try to point them to xkcdexplained.com instead -- thanks for the hint!
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by dagobart 17y ago
even 2^20 wouldn't be a megabyte rather than the figure of 1048576 (which happens to be the amount of bytes a megabyte happens to have), so, a number != a storage
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by dagobart 17y ago
If you'd fit such a balcony to an existing app building and the balcony indeed would hold the weight of a group of people, I would still wonder whether the house's frame would hold the balcony.
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by dagobart 17y ago
I guess once you can tell who is who, you can start targeted marketing. Or collect data on people. Likely only a matter of time until you can build up a complete record, including name, address, social security number.
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by dagobart 17y ago
IIRC this was on Hacker News less than a week ago. 4 points for simply repeating it? I'm startled.
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by dagobart 17y ago
I've been in figuring out how to encode content using the tools the brain has "at hand", for a while now. Originally, I thought similarly, but then: The less interesting part might be to decode information from the brain but to it.
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by dagobart 17y ago
I guess since Google is (that) profitable there's little benefit in seeking an income by detection of copyright violations.
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by dagobart 17y ago
Ah, so I'm not the only one experiencing suffering when having to use Windows. :) Recently learned about AndLinux [1] and CoLinux [2] -- running a Linux kernel atop Windows. Didn't use it yet but looks promising. [1] http://www.andlinux.or
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by dagobart 17y ago
maybe someone should redo the Monthy Python "Spam" sketch with the term "bomb", in flight, to get everyone back down to earth
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by dagobart 17y ago
people (authorities) should learn to realize what kidding is
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by dagobart 17y ago
maybe just a person who accidentally saw the tweet in question, but did know nothing about the person who wrote it. Did they bother to ask any ofthe other followers about the seriousness of the tweet? Or even the originator? That sounds lik
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by dagobart 17y ago
I've got an other question: Might that shying away from humans be kind of a folk tale amongst species? Which new/remote species don't know about? Like Galápagos?
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by dagobart 17y ago
I read most of the thread here but not all, so I hope I'm not repeating anything yet said: I'm convinced that once we can produce meat rather than butchering animals, why in the world would anybody want to farm animals? I guess cows and pig
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by dagobart 17y ago
A while back Vancouver Film School (VFS) released a short-film on how Iran embraces new media, namely the web. The piece is titled "Iran: A Nation of Bloggers", can be watched at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MChlT0GvFPM . With about 100
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by dagobart 17y ago
Despite this contributes nothing to the Iran thread, I find it amazing that you say 'we'. I neither want to go off-topic here. But it occured to me that people closely attached to the web tend to realize a 'we' amongst them, across all bord
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by dagobart 17y ago
I thought so too, but I don't grasp how a stationary "Twitter access point" would be of use while the revolution is going on at the street.
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by dagobart 17y ago
found yasnippet some days back, also that Chrononaut provides snippets “automatically converted from the TextMate repository” to be used with the yasnippet. blogged a tiny howto to get it running. http://is.gd/ruUx
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by dagobart 17y ago
because of that a shortcut answer would have been to delegate the issue to the CS department as sorting words is not a task for a tech writer. Nice that he identified the question as being off-topic. Poor that he didn't dismiss it because o
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by dagobart 17y ago
right. Even better the service could become if they'd watch the status pages for the services they'dget asked about. But takes a little more effort than a plain GET.
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by dagobart 17y ago
Besides of the above URL, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ works not only for google but any other service too. However, I got suggested that tool via twitter, but I have no clue how it works or how reliably it is.
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by dagobart 17y ago
> The best you can do is allow the post to go thru and > make it appear to the spammer that they have succeeded. I read the cons on this suggest, but what about turning the approach just around: Keep the spam in by default, just th
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by dagobart 17y ago
Honestly, Marissa Mayer would appeal only to geeks & nerds. And those might be more interested on what she can do , than look.
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by dagobart 17y ago
Wasn't it services like learn.to, beam.to and similar that came first? With the intend to have freely pickable shorthand URLs, where the shortness of them was just a byproduct? I'm not sure of this, but iirc the learn.to/beam.to etc service
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by dagobart 17y ago
Yepp, I made that experience too. But to work out the details took inexpectedly long.
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by dagobart 17y ago
Well, originally, tinyurl just went for sequential short URLs too. But as those were predictable, abuse was afoot: "Early on, the resulting URL aliases of the service were predictable, and were exploited by users to create vulgar associatio
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by dagobart 17y ago
...which in turn might make oone wonder whether or not that's happening already all the time and on just any poll around. Haven't it be the respected TIME one could suspect they kept the poll as it turned out just because the Anonymous grou

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