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by featherverse 9y ago
> Ease of use has always been a major selling point You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting. Shared hosting is a gimmick model designed to make hosting companies rich
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by featherverse 9y ago
I wrote an article about this called Shared Hosting is Bad for Business. I pointed out that shared hosting as a business model depends on the failure of it's customers' websites. You can't run 1,000 high traffic websites on a
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by featherverse 9y ago
Have you looked at Pride Tech Design? Managed VPS and cheaper than hostgator. Full disclosure: I am an employee
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by featherverse 9y ago
The right future is one where 100% of users use password managers or keyrings locked by some sort of simple but secure (and most importantly stable) biometric system. Tho ignorance of technology concepts is not something to be tolerated, it
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by featherverse 9y ago
tl;dr, headline is false. Smartphones aren't killing people. Stupid behavior is killing people. They know better, and they do it anyway. Smartphones make it easy for everyone to record all of their phone calls, protecting them from pho
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by featherverse 9y ago
This is the second time I've seen this story with a completely misleading headline, it makes a person wonder what the agenda is when creating the headlines.
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by featherverse 9y ago
Yeah I would rather have a php based webapp that I can download and install on my own server, than any sort of SaaS thing. I hate SaaS, I think it's a kind of gamble, I am gambling that the people providing that service will be success
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by featherverse 9y ago
Unfortunately there's a large number of business owners who think it's better to just have a facebook page. They think they're using facebook to promote their business, when really they're using their business to promote
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by featherverse 9y ago
Here we see an example of people who discovered the web long after high speed internet was commonplace, and they think it's "hip" to force everyone back into the dark ages when visiting their site. That isn't a website,
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by featherverse 9y ago
This is a neat idea but unless I can operate my own private version then it's not really useful. I've got a private wiki that provides essentially the same function. It's not as convenient to add new notes, but that convenien
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by featherverse 9y ago
Duh, Senator. We knew this when Experian got hacked. Experian, Equifax, TransUnion, and any other credit bureaus are going to fail to protect people's personal data. There is no such thing as "unhackable", they are the bigges
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by featherverse 9y ago
Yes, not because they were hacked, but because their reactions after the hack have shown their technology department to be wholly incompetent.
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by featherverse 9y ago
First, that article is apparently a re-post, is it an old story? If so what motivation was there to re-post it if not political timing? Second, nobody with a rational mind, nobody with critical thinking skills, would ever or has ever asked
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by featherverse 9y ago
Well it's been a few days and no answer. That's a strange result for an "ask me anything".
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by featherverse 9y ago
Does anyone else notice a pattern of behavior with this guy? First he takes it upon himself to decide what websites get to exist, and now he says DDoS will die forever because HIS service offers mitigation. In other words, EVERYONE is going
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by featherverse 9y ago
So are all major piracy operations in existence today and yet most of them operate without any real penalties. Look at The Pirate Bay and Giganews, both of those have been operating under enormous "legal risk" for over a decade. P
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by featherverse 9y ago
The only people who give a @!#$ about the DMCA are lawyers. It's going to be repealed eventually.
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by featherverse 9y ago
You nailed it. The user cares about access to content. The user does not care about DRM. The user does not care about corporate interests. Ad blockers are proof of this. The user wants what they want, and the people who provide that to them
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by featherverse 9y ago
> They have no market influence. In other words you have no idea what you're talking about, and why should anything else you say be treated any differently?
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by featherverse 9y ago
There's like 1,000 programming languages and we don't need most of them. If a new language is truly amazing, by all means use it, but if it's hated by everyone I don't know why you'd choose it over something like C
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by featherverse 9y ago
Well if you really want to get into the philosophy of this, it is important to first acknowledge that concepts like "society", or "property" are completely fictional, made-up ideas, that people simply invented. It's
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by featherverse 9y ago
but google will die under the mountain of lawsuits and justice for their various crooked enterprises, not to mention people are going to (again) get sick and tired of being spied on by f'ing corporations. so that part of the headline i
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by featherverse 9y ago
Yeah, human beings en masse are stupid. And they are ruled by thieves, and they never do anything about it. That is the single _biggest_ problem facing the human species.
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by featherverse 9y ago
You don't own the land you own, even if you bought it. You are paying the zombie tax. Which is to say the population is growing too fast, there isn't enough land, and if there weren't regulations humans would kill you and ste
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by featherverse 9y ago
The article false apart early because it is based on this premise: "There is no serious political theory according to which my pre-tax income is ‘mine’ in any morally significant sense." Stated in Paragraph 2. That's false, t
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by featherverse 9y ago
Why did you choose to use Electron? It appears to be universal reviled by developers.
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by featherverse 9y ago
I would suggest not underestimating Mozilla's market influence. It would be possible to create a browser that displays DRM content and ignores DRM. The only thing that content publishers could do is ban that browser. And then it would
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by featherverse 9y ago
It isn't crossing a threshold. The old iphones and their "affordable" price tags was crossing a threshhold. Apple was dipping their toes in the middle-america Market in order to grab market share. And now they're returni
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Ask HN: Where is E-mail 2.0?
4 points by featherverse 9y ago|0 comments
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by featherverse 9y ago
I absolutely agree there are some loose ends. That's why there were a lot of court cases about 10-15 years ago, mostly spearheaded by large corporations who were late to the game and suddenly realized they needed to protect their trade

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