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by davidu 15y ago
Social sharing is not producing. With unlimited storage, space, etc. there is no encouragement to focus on quality either. That's another topic.
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by davidu 15y ago
That we have become a consumer culture concerns me greatly. That said, if people switch from consuming via TV which is entirely one-way, and switch to a consumption medium like the iPad that is two-way, that's a revolution. The iPad is a re
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by davidu 15y ago
Please, seems simple and useful.
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by davidu 15y ago
That's not what actually happens. Your query is lost. It's mind numbingly bad UX.
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by davidu 15y ago
The margins on software and services are many multiples greater than consumer electronics hardware. If they make $20 net revenue per phone sold just imagine if they can make another $20 net from revenue shares by way of Dropbox, LogMeIn, an
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by davidu 15y ago
1) This article is two years old. Referring to the first generation iPad. 2) Stop using your iPad for extended periods in the sunlight. 3) Nobody actually ended up caring.
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by davidu 15y ago
Very bad karma in a very tight-knit community that is dependent on investors. Google has been said to do at least one M&A action per week. With that kind of pace, you can't burn bridges.
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by davidu 15y ago
There is no connection between a stub resolver as Chrome is implementing it, and the system-indicated DNS server. This, as an aside, is what's wrong with HN. People cite RFCs or other datapoint as if it validates their point, when in fact,
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by davidu 15y ago
Of course this is what is going to happen. They will make it an "option," naturally. Like picking your default search provider when you start Chrome for the first time.
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by davidu 15y ago
Don't troll on HN. My comment is the exact opposite of paranoia. Wesley's post papers over their strategic goals with technical jargon. That's not paranoia. That's the standard operating procedure for Google. They are an ad company.
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by davidu 15y ago
So much smoke. I like how they mask very crystal-clear strategy with barely-relevant DNS statistics and data in an attempt to obscure what's happening. My prediction from 2 years ago + and again a couple weeks ago rings true now: http://w
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by davidu 15y ago
Gorgeous Interface. Not über-intuitive, but really gorgeous.
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by davidu 15y ago
My older BMW had voice commands and it was terrible. My new Audi has voice commands that get sent to Google to be parsed back into commands. It works really well for address book and navigation. It's not Siri, but it's pretty close. I can
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by davidu 15y ago
I was actually intimately involved in that particular case and one of the named parties in Diebold's C&D. Support the EFF. They got the proceeds from our settlement.
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by davidu 15y ago
There should be punitive punishment for filing inaccurate takedown notices, and instead there is immunity.
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by davidu 15y ago
I think this is really a smart move, and would create a brand new revenue stream for the carriers coupled with (ideally) cost-savings for the customer. It'd also encourage efficiencies by app developers in how they use the network.
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by davidu 15y ago
This is interesting, and I saw the one Example (Hello World) they have on the site. So I guess my question is, why? What's a real use case example of why'd I want this? PHP isn't syntactically more tragic than JS. JS doesn't have so many
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by davidu 15y ago
The lack of security and authenticity in BGP is really one of the great weak points of the Internet. Problems are resolved quickly, but problems and mistakes are easy to make which is the first order problem. There is work being done to be
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by davidu 15y ago
Since BGP related topics are super rare here... If any of you are programmers interested in writing code that impacts the global routing table, we're hiring at OpenDNS. We are AS36692 and anycast thousands of IPs, route a few dozen prefixes
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by davidu 15y ago
I've always assumed the Google News link losing state was a bug. It's a tab bar, and it used to keep state. Now it doesn't. I suppose they had to do it this way or nobody would ever really see the Google news homepage (as if that matters)
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by davidu 15y ago
I've never understood how any company could let this happen and yet we see it constantly. Perhaps it's because Wordpress or TypePad or Posterous don't let them change the link at the top, but I doubt it. It definitely ranks as one of the m
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by davidu 15y ago
250ms matters. That's 1/4 of a second. It matters for a crawler tremendously. DNS query sizes are wrong. I'd double each. But still, inexpensive from a bandwidth standpoint. I get it.
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by davidu 15y ago
Nope... but we like Bert (the author).
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by davidu 15y ago
We had a 500 cluster web crawler using us. Probably doing about a billion queries a day. They had the option to pay us or switch to Google Public DNS. Guess which they did? :-) A few hundred, even if a few hundred per minute, is not a pr
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by davidu 15y ago
Just to add a couple data points: 1) Tons of random indy web crawlers, mail cannons, etc. use Google Public DNS. 2) We actively discourage large machine-based usage of our service. Even with some aggressive handling of large machin
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by davidu 15y ago
MA already pointed out that Dan wanted to work for TechCrunch numerous times. How much more direct do you want?
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by davidu 15y ago
It's as if people think that any journalist is unbiased. At least MG, MA, and SL all share their bias so openly. You don't think Dan is biased in his reporting? Please.
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by davidu 15y ago
You missed his point. He doesn't care. He thinks the market can deal with it. He thinks the schools should stay out of it. As a professor, he can route around it by being smarter than the note sellers. You want to restrict his right to
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by davidu 15y ago
Maybe I read a different blog post. In my reading, I am pretty sure the professor agrees with you.
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by davidu 15y ago
This can't possibly be a violation -- this is standard operating procedure in the SEM world.

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