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by dewitt 11y ago
Certainly some email does (expose political corruption and influence peddling), for sure. And if we published all email of every person everywhere, then we'd uncover a whole lot more. Do you think we should do that? Where is the line?
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by dewitt 11y ago
Absolutely shameful that WikiLeaks would choose to publish stolen, private correspondence, and frankly I'm surprised and disappointed there are people in the HN community that don't seem have an issue with it. Even if you supporte
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by dewitt 11y ago
> HBO has been remarkably progressive on the piracy front. I'm not suggesting that's not accurate, but I'd love to better understand your sources for that, as my single point of anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Abo
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by dewitt 12y ago
Thanks! That sounds a lot more reasonable. I'll amend the original comment.
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by dewitt 12y ago
Looking at the cap table (to the extent it's visible in the S-1) it appears that the big winners are the investors: Breyer, USV, Accel, Tiger Global, and Index add up to 92.3% ownership of the company. [Edit, 65%] Or am I totally readi
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by dewitt 12y ago
That's awesome. And I think it scales for just long enough, too. I don't think hiring real, intelligent humans to make on-the-fly shopping decisions like this (think, an old-school concierge desk at hotel) costs more than the incr
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by dewitt 12y ago
Oh come on, that first sentence is uncalled for. Cromwellian (while awesome, and someone who never fails to impress me with his writing) is not speaking for Google, or even other Googlers. He is speaking for himself. As is his right, I&#x27
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by dewitt 12y ago
This isn't my area of ownership, (and I actually agree with a number of things you said), but as far as I know it is exactly why Google goes out of its way to NOT retain those logs, and to explicitly NOT serve this traffic off of a dom
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by dewitt 12y ago
I'm not speaking in any official capacity, but to at least get the conversation started off with data, here's Google's public FAQ regarding the Fonts API privacy policy: https://developers.google.com/fonts&
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by dewitt 12y ago
I thought this post looked familiar, and sure enough it's a straight copy-and-paste from an identical piece on a different site last year: http://www.boredpanda.com/extinct-jobs/ Not sure if it's licensed cop
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by dewitt 12y ago
Apologies about the link to a restricted site. I didn't notice it since I landed on the article via a search. Out of curiosity, since several comments here complained about the paywall ("paywalls are nsfl"), and an equal numb
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RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing(wsj.com)
205 points by dewitt 12y ago|222 comments
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by dewitt 12y ago
There's a chance that the audience here hasn't yet seen http://forecast.io or the Dark Sky app. This is a shame. They are radically better weather experiences than any you've seen before. Go check them out now.
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by dewitt 12y ago
Everything you said is true, of course, but I think it applies more generally to inexperienced startups with first-time technical founders, or larger corporations with a "B" technical staff. In this case, you're talking about
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by dewitt 12y ago
Before anyone mocks this guy (sadly, partly too late), please try to keep in mind that he (a) does have a reasonable right to what he says he wants (to have some say in what he believes are his inventions), and (b) it's an illustration
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by dewitt 12y ago
Hi hosay123, The App Engine team has a proactive policy about posting about downtime: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-appengine-dow... Since the team highlights basically anything that looks like it
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Let me tell you why I’m mad at growth hacking. Again(medium.com)
7 points by dewitt 12y ago|0 comments
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by dewitt 12y ago
Thanks for the fast reply, kens! Those reasons make a lot of sense. And thanks again for the article itself. Very much enjoyed it.
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by dewitt 12y ago
Super informative post. Thanks for sharing. One thing I didn't understand was the author's comment that "I bought the part off eBay, not from a reputable supplier, so it could have come from anywhere." A 5-pack of qualit
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by dewitt 12y ago
If I were running Apple, I'd be more worried about becoming great at online services (cloud, auth, security, identity) rather than doubling down on their expertise in fashion and user interface. This is probably just some poorly timed
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by dewitt 12y ago
Not directly related to his post, but if you haven't tried Pocket Casts yet, I highly recommend it. Best podcast app I've ever used, hands down.
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by dewitt 12y ago
I wish I had more adventures like this one, but I've found one of the things that holds me back is the language barrier. I don't speak any of Mandarin, Korean, or Japanese (I wouldn't be surprised if bunnie does, given how br
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by dewitt 12y ago
> I don't like working on projects that are actively pitting me against someone though. I'm surprised you didn't also didn't mention the ethical problems with trying to take something (search results) without permis
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by dewitt 12y ago
"The Wall Street Journal got its hands on some secret documents..." If a hacker did this someone would be going to jail. But when a newspaper does it, it's journalism. Edit: Jonknee's theory below makes sense. I jumped t
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by dewitt 12y ago
Fair question. I just posted a similar response in the comment below. Specially to your point here, it's because Tweetbot is actually the exception, not the rule, in that it arguably is part of the web. The vast majority of native mo
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by dewitt 12y ago
It's entirely possible to build a native app that is "of the web". But not all apps are, even if they use HTTP. In fact, most apps are not. Just take a look at the most popular apps: http://www.apple.com/itune
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by dewitt 12y ago
The crux of John's argument is this: "We should think of the web as anything transmitted using HTTP and HTTPS." Which unfortunately, because there's hardly a single modern internet application or service that does
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by dewitt 13y ago
Effective or not, I didn't like many of the more negative parts of the "Get a Mac" campaign at all, for all the same reasons.
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by dewitt 13y ago
As much as I'm genuinely excited and sincerely optimistic about the great work from their developer group (e.g., the open source announcements this week), I also feel that their "if you can't compete on product, slander"
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by dewitt 13y ago
Thanks, I didn't see that on the Wikipedia page. Still, while I know it's not good to say "data" and "gut feel" in the same sentence, I just have a very hard time believing that IE usage is trending upward wh

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