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by dotBen 15y ago
Yeah but they've either not picked the right companies or they're simply taking out player to protect their incumbent positon. They're not doing anything with the technology that acquired.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Digital distribution is coming, whether GameStop like it or not. Removing the free codes for OnLive is not going to stem the tide. For proprietary media like Playstation, XBox, etc they're going to be disintermediated whether they like it
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think he was comparing S3 to serving the image assets from his application servers, where if he uses a CDN like MaxCDN, the app severs are only used as origin servers and the load is minimal. This assumes you have the disk space on your a
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by dotBen 15y ago
As much as I support what they are doing, I don't see Apple implementing any of this any time soon - even if it is in the Webkit trunk, they'll just rip it out/deactivate it. Apple's strategy for their phone platform runs deeper then just w
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by dotBen 15y ago
For a lot of people, making actual stuff is very satisfying Yes but "manufacturing" can mean all kinds of work, and you've not elaborated as to what your friend's family manufacturing business actually makes. With the type of high-tech el
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by dotBen 15y ago
This is an exciting plugin but in terms of execution, I'd have preferred it based on 3 separate instances rather than MU. With MU it is difficult to keep different versions of plugins, something which you might want to do during development
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How To Remove Yourself from People Search Websites(zdnet.com)
5 points by dotBen 15y ago|0 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
He's joining as a "Software Engineer". Given that this isn't Google, where such generic terms can mean anything and responsibility is flat, my guess is that he is just being employed as a warm body for the Samsung Android engineering team h
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by dotBen 15y ago
Here is a new shared canvas: http://awwapp.com/draw.html#BW0Gw6c2w4 EDIT: Looks like this one got killed too :( How many concurrent connections can this take, Senko?
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by dotBen 15y ago
Look, this is about patents more than anything, given that Google ended up not controlling all the patents it needs for Android (which was kind of dumb, but I digress) . That directly impacts on Google's partners to build phones for the A
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by dotBen 15y ago
By having this tied into github I'm beginning to see how use Ace (or similar) instead of vim/emacs as a day-to-day code edit workflow... Just fork a project to your account on github, edit in Ace, and then make a pull request when you are d
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by dotBen 15y ago
My two thoughts: 1) Before you attempt to deal with a 'caffeine addiction', look at whether you have sugar addiction - which is far more dangerous for your health and more complicated to address. 2) Many of us don't get the amount of sleep
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by dotBen 15y ago
"You can be a techie like Marissa Mayer, and on the red carpet and have people comment on your awesome date or outfit." I stopped reading. The emphasis of the article was on "coders" (fair enough) and then Marissa Mayer was bought into th
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm also appalled at Sam Odio's behavior - the fact that the money is going to charity (albeit indirectly) doesn't make this ok.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Sure, but my point is more to do with the fact you can MiTM Wifi base-stations and poison DNS the urls to updates... the point is why was the phone more susceptible via 4G than Wifi? Also, from what I can tell this wasn't a femto-cell but a
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by dotBen 15y ago
So I was at DEFCON 19 and I'm 90% sure my Sprint 4G Android was hacked. When I make calls there is a beep on the line every few minutes so I'm guessing someone managed to set up some recording of my calls. I've changed all my passwords and
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by dotBen 15y ago
Surely such sentiment should be extended to any startup, not just YC startups?
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by dotBen 15y ago
Unless you're using adblock Interesting. So here's a poll I just created on that: "are you running AdBlock?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843040
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Poll: Do you use AdBlock?
28 points by dotBen 15y ago|43 comments
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by dotBen 15y ago
No
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yes - and I DO work for an ad-supported startup/company
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yes - and I DON'T work for an ad-supported startup/company
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm not sure how people would react to social media sponsored by the DOD - regardless of their actual intentions It's not going to be sponsored overtly is it? Thus if done 'correctly' you would never know whether the strangely pro-govern
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by dotBen 15y ago
It's not very clear on the "the-dma.org" site how you actually request them to remove you, and it takes you via 2 other sites to get there, but the url for consumers is: https://www.dmachoice.org/
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yes, but remember you benefit from combined spam filter heuristics based on the aggregate of all user's marking email as spam. So if you falsely mark legitimate email as spam you're pissing in the well for everyone else.
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by dotBen 15y ago
On this point remember that "5 years C experience" != "5 years commercial C experience". If you were doing commercial- grade programming in Uni (or before) or any open source then consider that valid experience. Finally, just because a job
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by dotBen 15y ago
Repeating the advice of others to move, if only in the hope that the repetition will alude to the validation of said advice. I usually don't have a good word to say about recruiters but in cases like yours it might be worth contacting a few
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by dotBen 15y ago
When someone first told me about AirBnB I immediately dismissed it - just like Fred Wilson did. It fell in the group of ideas which I just find puzzling because the concept is totally alien to something I would want to do/buy/participate i
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by dotBen 15y ago
Great idea - I just don't understand why this needs a different/proprietary button in its implementation. Surely this is just a case of analyzing twitter users who mentions your url (or any url with your domain, even), and then ranking them
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by dotBen 15y ago
I was involved in a major redesign of the BBC News Website - when it went form a sigle column approach to the current two-dimensional layout. What is interesting about Andy's designs is that he's basically taken the current thinking in 'mod

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