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by declan 11y ago
This is horrific. Eventually the product will become so bad that, at the margin, foreign tourists will cease to be interested in it and take their (NZ) dollars elsewhere. Though I've had a nasty experience at Canadian immigration. On
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by declan 11y ago
The advice seems like a bit of an anachronism in the mobile world. Nice, short .com domain names were probably more important for desktop web browsing -- and I suspect are less relevant to startups that are focused on the iOS App Store, Goo
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by declan 11y ago
>I wish Amazon allowed me to cap spending to say 200USD... Agreed. We use Google App Engine for our recommendation engine ( https://recent.io/ ) and daily budgets are a core feature -- just tap on the "Application set
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Tinder and the Dawn of the “Dating Apocalypse”(vanityfair.com)
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by declan 11y ago
The Apple IIgs was the last and the best of the Apple II line, which had a cherished place at the heart of what we might now call hacker culture. Remember the first Apple II predated the first IBM PC by four years! Each platform had a diffe
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by declan 11y ago
> reads like a plant from an industry pressure group A useful alternate headline could be: Think tank funded by pro-SOPA MPAA board members Viacom, Time Warner, Disney Corp., and News Corp. attacks Google for doing the right thing and op
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by declan 11y ago
If you're talking only about coding (and not other life challenges), the hardest problem I've solved so far has been figuring out how to build https://recent.io/ with my co-founder. Recommendation engine, fetchers
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When mobile apps outperform mobile web pages (hint: less bloat)(declan.io)
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by declan 11y ago
Nice choice! I opted not to get the M6 because I wanted something closer to ~3400lbs, which is about what the 911 GTS is, but you can't go wrong with a twin-turbo V8! Though now that I'm in the middle (well, almost done with the f
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by declan 11y ago
Quite right. I should have been more clear: Criminal libel laws may still be in the statute books, much like laws may still exist requiring someone carrying a red flag to walk in front of horseless carriages. But we should expect prosecutio
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by declan 11y ago
> sue Cecile... Then expose her once she has been sentenced to prison. First, if you sue someone, it's a civil action, not a criminal prosecution. Second, if any statements are defamatory, they would be libel, not slander. Third, tr
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by declan 11y ago
>Not until the Tesla goes around the Nurburgring in the same fashion the GTR did. Or manages to go around the Nurburgring at full power at all: http://insideevs.com/expected-tesla-model-s-fails-lap-nurbur... “Unfortunat
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by declan 11y ago
>I believe this is the fastest production car under 300k that you can buy. The 2014 Porsche 911 Turbo S was tested by Car and Driver at 2.5 seconds 0-60, and it's ~$200K, depending on options: http://www.caranddriver.com&
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The Uber for Onesies Is Here, but Is It Worth $20B? [video](recode.net)
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by declan 11y ago
I've worked at companies during layoffs, and have been a manager at these companies as well (though fortunately never had to lay someone off personally). My advice: - Managers should tell their direct reports personally, rather than de
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by declan 11y ago
My intent was to describe newsroom practices, not to express an opinion about the NYT's rewrites. It is commonplace for important stories to be extensively rewritten and amended. I don't know enough about the Reddit saga to discus
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by declan 11y ago
I worked as a journalist for over a decade -- CBS, Time, CNET, Wired, etc. -- before founding https://recent.io/ and every news organization I can think of updates articles after publication. This practice predates the Inte
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Help to help the Internet: a startup defensive patent pool(nlnet.nl)
2 points by declan 11y ago|1 comments
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by declan 11y ago
I believe it was my 2010 article that was the first to highlight law enforcement obtaining cell site dumps: http://www.cnet.com/news/feds-push-for-tracking-cell-phones/ "When the FBI was stymied by a band of
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by declan 11y ago
Congrats to David Ulevitch for building a great company and taking it to a successful conclusion! Well done. I could tell he was on a good trajectory when he hired away one of my more capable colleagues at a previous employer. :)
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by declan 11y ago
I'm not certain, if I were emperor for the day, I'd write a law that would result in this outcome. But given that the law is what it is, this was certain to be the eventual outcome, as I wrote in July 2012: https://plus
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Craigslist, 3taps Settle Their Scraping/Antitrust Suits; 3taps to Pay $1M(techcrunch.com)
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by declan 11y ago
Kevin: Thanks much for the excellent advice! My fears were finding serious bugs in the app or problems with the recommendation engine that would come to light with more users. But in retrospect my fears seem to have been launch anxiety: The
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by declan 11y ago
I'm a co-founder of Recent ( https://recent.io ), and we've created an iOS/Android app and recommendation engine that we describe as news powered by artificial intelligence. We have technical backgrounds; one of us
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On Circa News, algorithms, and business models(declan.io)
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by declan 11y ago
This happened 12 years ago when the FBI tried to eavesdrop on conversations taking place in a car with OnStar or a similar device. Agents wanted to remotely activate the car's microphone; I wrote about the case here: http://
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by declan 11y ago
FYI I'm running Chrome 43.0.x on OS X 10.10.3 and Enable "Ok Google" is disabled under chrome://settings. I don't remember ever enabling it, so this behavior is correct.
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What I would do if I were CEO of Twitter – a seven-part plan(calacanis.com)
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by declan 11y ago
It would be one thing if all Apple did was send publishers email saying: "We love your writing. We plan to include your RSS feed in Apple News unless you opt-out (here's how to do it). We will respect your copyright and will only
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by declan 11y ago
I agree with <tomnipotent> about being able to update the server independently of the app. That's a good reason right there (the app requires network connectivity for email, after all). Another reason is specific to this use: Ama

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