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by eric-hu 15y ago
I was thinking of the same thing when I read this. To be fair, one of the letter's suggestions was that they hold people accountable for failed products. Excerpt: "Just because someone may have been a loyal RIM employee for 7 years, it do
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Is there any place it's more appropriate than a site called ycombinator?
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by eric-hu 15y ago
My first reaction is that you'd basically be able to do what a webpage with javascript could do. On further thought, I realize that having tools like this lowers the learning curve for publishing interactive or formula-based documents. Ho
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by eric-hu 15y ago
First time I've seen that phrase with the 'espionage' added in there. Makes perfect sense though, espionage should have been part of that term decades ago
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by eric-hu 15y ago
> You don't want to SEO yourself into a murder investigation. I think this will be the most brilliant thing I read today
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I half agree with this. I've employed some of the above productivity tricks when I want to get things done really badly. I was productive. I've also ignored all of these tricks had equal productivity. When I don't want to do something, el
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I'm starting to see from this perspective. I switched to Firefox 4 on release day, which was great. I did the same with FF 5. On my Windows boot, I've seen way more crashes with FF5 than I did with FF4. I also see some crashes on FF5/Ub
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Firefox 5 is already out. Mozilla's aiming for shorter development cycles on each major version release to compete better with Chrome. As a Windows/Ubuntu user, I'm under the impression that most apps I use are still 32 bit unless stated o
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Even if Apple does do this, there are going to be tons of copycats throughout China. I'll bet we'll see some interesting variations like an apple with bite on the left side or a black apple on a silver background.
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Agreed on all counts. IMO, these arrests will deter some, as intended. I think it'll also motivate coders/hackers to write more sophisticated tools--maybe something like bittorrent + TOR + LOIC, maybe with an installer fired off from an em
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by eric-hu 15y ago
I remember reading a job description for one of the YCombinator startups. For any new hire, they offered $2k to the hire in the first 6 months if he/she decided it wasn't a good fit. I forget the specific company, but this sounds like a r
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by eric-hu 15y ago
Doesn't a salt just make a rainbow table attack more expensive, in direct relation to the length of the salt?