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by dotBen 15y ago
If Growl is going to remain Open Source, as the note says, then someone should really compile a free version from the google code repository and give folks the option to buy it in the App Store or download the community version. Although I
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It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality(aclu.org)
1 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is an example of one of those situations where it doesn't pay to be 'over clever'. If you call the bomb squad to report a bomb under your car but as a technology-inclined person/geek know full well it's a GPS receiver then you're commi
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by dotBen 15y ago
If you have access to the code that is storing your data, you have the option to host it yourself or pay someone else to host it with the same client. That's certainly true in 'regular' open source economics. But storage is somewhat uniqu
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by dotBen 15y ago
Although I'm personally all for open distribution of crawl data like this and all of my personal websites are CC-licensed, isn't there something to be said for the copyright status of the pages in the crawl file? The crawl file presumably c
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is one of those examples where yes, that sounds like a good idea but the size of the addressable market is rather slim. Most self-publishers are not making huge amounts of money to justify spending more than a token amount on such moni
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is beyond scope.. ..or to put it more bluntly: this is not appropriate for HN.
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by dotBen 15y ago
You could look at it the other way... Yes, those Web APIs broke things when they were deprecated and then removed - but in many cases they allowed progress and innovation to occur swiftly within the vendor that offered them. Conversely, whi
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by dotBen 15y ago
Just to point out, if Apple did what I'm suggesting they would still achieve the same effect because the laptop would be on and thus shining through. It's only when it's off that they would miss out - but most of the time if my laptop is ou
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'd have to respectfully disagree, or at least suggest the situation is a lot more nuanced than that. Dems (well, Obama) 'clarified' (read: changed the law slightly in a way that didn't need new legislation) the USCIS guidelines for self-
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by dotBen 15y ago
As a Canadian I have to say it's easy to get short-term non-immigration visas (TN's, which technically are a status not a visa). But green-card/immigration visas are no easier for Canadians than anyone else.
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by dotBen 15y ago
sure but that's basically a "constant" in that it's going to happen regardless of where you receive your emails.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Same here. Once I figured it out, I wondered why they don't ever use the same technique to expose the Apple logo on the lid of the laptop - so that the lid is perfectly flush/clean when the screen is closed but the Apple logo is shown duri
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by dotBen 15y ago
the tl:dr of this comment thread is that most HN'ers have sadly taken the question too literally and are commenting on the fact Google reads emails with a definition of "read" being that of "parse" (ie computationally). I think most people
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't see the point of doing anything for the "hipster" factor. Sometimes people are surprised that the reason I buy macs is not because they're metal and shiny.
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by dotBen 15y ago
"So, this guy started working before he had his visa? Even worse he started a job that required personal, non-refundable investments of time and money. " Have you read the requirements of an E2 Investor Visa? You have to: * Set the compan
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yeah but you also wound't want to run an equal number of seats to developers either. If you hire a new dev there is a time + $ cost to raising the PO to allow the procurement of a new seat, etc. Additionally, you usually financially plan f
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm a little sad to see Github continuing to move in on Fogbugz/Kiln territory Competition is healthy for everyone and no company would expect to own an entire vertical (I'm sure Fog Creek doesn't). In this instance, this is actually a go
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by dotBen 15y ago
(to question 1...) It's worth considering that if you're an enterprise then you* might not actually want a constant stream of new releases to deal with. Where you = the CTO/CIO/Security/VP Operations, and the purchase decision maker. Many
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Silicon Valley’s Race Problem(zdnet.com)
26 points by dotBen 15y ago|3 comments
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Awesome Halloween costume using 2 iPads and Facetime(gizmodo.com)
1 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
Must have been a policy change, it used to be IE only.. http://garry.posterous.com/matt-mullenweg-and-toni-schnei
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by dotBen 15y ago
Actually, it is true. I'm not sure the exact history of it all, but I know that at a State of the Word presentation at a WordCamp many years ago, Matt M said that they were serving ads to Internet Explorer users to try to convince them to s
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by dotBen 15y ago
we have 800+ million monthly active users Assuming we = you work for FB, can you help us out with what a "login" is defined as internally, given that the stat is 1 billion logins a day and you're saying you have 500+m active users. ...doe
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by dotBen 15y ago
I don't understand how they have "1 billion logins a day". They only have 500-600 million accounts (and not all of those are active). I'm assuming a "login" is the specific act of typing in your username and password into the site to authen
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by dotBen 15y ago
I appreciate the notion, but the massive success of github's private repositories (which of course are stored on their servers) would suggest otherwise.
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by dotBen 15y ago
This happend to me a few years back in one of the swanky up-market apartment buildings in SoMA. Paying close to $3k a month for 1BR to owner who in turn decided to stop paying his mortgage one year into my tenancy. $100 visit to the lawyer
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by dotBen 15y ago
In one example they have blurred the financial details on the screen from anyone viewing from the side. I wonder if that could be iterated further such that all of the screen is blurred from the sides (presumably by dynamically altering the
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by dotBen 15y ago
The ultimate hybrid is to find a budget VPS (or premium VPS) provider who is based in the same datacenter as your 'bare metal' servers. Granted VPS != cloud, but depending on your requirements you might get the same benefits. The benefit h
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by dotBen 15y ago
All I need is to handle the HTTP requests for the "directory" of videos. Have you considered just using Amazon S3, especially now they offer full 'httpd'-like functionality (no more bucket XML listings if you try to visit the root of the

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