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by edw 15y ago
Yes, your partner can do this if you let him or her access to your computer's account. Keep in mind that if you let your partner use your account, he or she can also look at all your cookies, your browser history, and probably your Facebook
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by edw 15y ago
So you think it's defensible to say that Apple is raping its users? Let's get some people who have been victims of rape in here and ask them how they feel about this over-the-top analogy.
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by edw 15y ago
I think you are confused: you say that "Apple collect[s] data." Apple's software is collecting data, but is it the case that Apple has access to this data? I don't think so. There are issues of agency here: in my interpretation of things,
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by edw 15y ago
You're welcome: http://bbb.poseur.com/post/4777454362/the-last-year-or-so-of...
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by edw 15y ago
Yes, good point. Note to self: don't accidentally lose phone.
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by edw 15y ago
Wow, you're making a rape analogy. Glad you decided to stay classy and not make your post an instance of Godwin's Law.
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by edw 15y ago
Does no one else agree with me that this is awesome? I love being able to visualize my comings and goings. It's the story of the last year or so of my life, in colored dots. I hope Apple doesn't respond to the "outrage" by no longer collect
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by edw 15y ago
Having worked at CDnow back in '98-99 and being part of one of the grand front page re-designs, I had to deal with every department (of a company of only about 350 people, mind you) that wanted a piece of the above the fold space. • Operati
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by edw 16y ago
This is a ridiculous "resource;" if you don't know shit about HTML5, how are you supposed to figure out which of these one hundred and eighty tutorials and round-ups you should read?
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by edw 16y ago
I don't disagree with you: the building blocks of Drupal are fine for what they are until you want to think in richer abstractions. When I talk to people who want to create a content-driven site, I walk them through the three types of web s
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by edw 16y ago
A lot of my designer friends love Drupal, and they wonder why the veins in my neck and forehead start to bulge when they mention it. They love it because it allows them do things that they never could have imagined, whereas I despise it bec
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by edw 16y ago
Maybe I'm too Buddhist or something but "pivot" has come to mean, "observing and adapting to what the universe is saying," which is another word for not being obstinate. It's a linguistic gang sign the insecure flash to show their starters
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by edw 16y ago
And man, is that title dense or what?
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by edw 16y ago
1a. Come up with strawman idea. 1b. Come up with real idea. 2. Publicly "pivot"* on HN. 3. Funding? A least there's a step two... * Could we please declare "pivot" an exhausted concept and move on to the next start-up buzzword?
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by edw 16y ago
It's not clear to me that this argument holds a lot of water: more Linux servers do not necessarily mean more administrators. One of premises that underly the cloud movement is the benefit that comes with centrally administrating machines.
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by edw 16y ago
How often does your OS X box as you're programming it? /me runs `uptime`... 17:32 up 27 days, 2:13, 11 users, load averages: 0.11 0.15 0.24
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by edw 16y ago
His profound disgust for Terminal.app to me is a case of Princess and the Pea syndrome: I remember typing into actual glass terminals, so—without trying to sound too much like grandpa here—he sounds a bit spoiled to me. I knew a lot of peop
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by edw 16y ago
Sounds like a plan: we can cue up Amazon a bit over the sinister threat horizon, although Amazon is kinda mid-nineties by now. On the other hand, Jesse Jackson, Jr. seems to be making a go of making Apple into American's next Great Enemy, s
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by edw 16y ago
I wouldn't say I e-mail them regularly (they may disagree) but when I run into a problem with Coda, usually related to abusing the tab bar by opening a score or so documents, occasionally design ideas pop in my head, and I send them off to
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by edw 16y ago
This press release served chiefly to remind me that Walmart still exists. Remember when Walmart was the most sinister threat to America's future? Was that before or after the terrorists? Or climate change? I know it came before Sarah Palin
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by edw 16y ago
I love Panic, and it heartens me to read things like this, from the bottom of the post that describes Panic's status board: "And no, it didn’t slow down development on [insert the app you want the most here]. Check the board!" Whenever Pani
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by edw 16y ago
Without dismissing climate change as a serious potential problem, I have a couple of points: 1. Bill Gates once remarked that when projecting five years out, we tend to over-estimate the amount of progress you expect to see, but we wind up
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by edw 16y ago
The RSIZ for an instance of `node' running on OS X 10.6 after banging at the keyboard for a while, but doing nothing of note, is about 12M. The RSHRD is about 4M. The numbers are nearly identical for a small-but-not-trivial Node.js-based we
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by edw 16y ago
It's like Edward Tufte, Leni Riefenstahl—and, I dunno, Polyphonic Spree?—got together to brainwash you. I've got to hand it to the video's production company, The Cultivated Word, for creating an triumphantly insipid piece of propaganda. So
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by edw 16y ago
By Lisp, perhaps he was referring also to Scheme and Clojure. Not everyone is aware that they're Lisps, too. (Detailed rationale and citation needed.) For Scheme, nothing's ever really gotten off the ground. Little more needs to be said on
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by edw 16y ago
Please read this article and pay attention to the quotes. RIM is an amazingly self-absorbed company. Almost everything's about RIM, not their customers (save one mention). Great products get their users laid, or barring that, help them make
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by edw 16y ago
Meta: I come to HN not because it is a logical syllogism server but because it often has thoughtful, interesting comments. I own a couple of single speed bikes--for all we know shii does too--and I didn't get offended by his comments. While
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by edw 16y ago
RIM is not a credible player in this market based on my reading of this review. They are a year plus behind, yet they all but promise that there will be multiple form factors (and therefore screen sizes) for PlayBooks. Have they thought thr
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by edw 16y ago
I didn't say that he argued against an L2! He ultimately recommended that CL stay an L2. That is why my hand-waving CL fanboy friend referred to it. Please keep in mind that if I were in his position I too would have recommended keeping CL
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by edw 16y ago
I want to know who just down-voted this comment and what the basis for doing so was.

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