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by funkah 15y ago
No kidding. These people are awful.
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by funkah 15y ago
I know what you mean, but the original Jonathan's Card thing made it seem like buying someone Starbucks was the height of charity when it's actually quite frivolous. At least this idea is real charity. It's still in the spirit of Jonathan's
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by funkah 15y ago
Of course not. It just isn't the only game in town anymore.
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by funkah 15y ago
Given that patents are not at issue here, it's worth noting that software patent reform would not prevent something like this from happening.
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by funkah 15y ago
Emailing the password is bad and they should stop, but where is the evidence that they are storing the password in plaintext?
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by funkah 15y ago
I keep seeing this idea that Apple is filing patent lawsuits because they are afraid of their competitors and their business is on the verge of collapse, and I just don't understand. Their business is better than ever, breaking records ever
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by funkah 15y ago
Amazon's money.
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by funkah 15y ago
Depends on your definition of failure. Looking at sales figures for the app store and iTunes, would you honestly say that Apple's code-signing and other DRM techniques have "failed"?
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by funkah 15y ago
Disagree, they only should have been chastised if he didn't agree to speak to them and they revealed his identity anyway.
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by funkah 15y ago
It's true, but quite reductive, that that these smart people are working on these interesting projects in the service of advertising. If you think in these terms, Walter Cronkite worked for ads, too. Also, consider that to the extent that t
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by funkah 15y ago
Wow. It's hard to believe people come out of this thinking Khoi is the "jerk" here. And that he doesn't do his job well. It's sad that you think that.
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by funkah 15y ago
Depends on what you keep in there. For a lot of people, losing access to their documents would probably be worse than the (very small) risk of someone else seeing them. But anyway I don't think a discussion of Dropbox's security model is ve
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by funkah 15y ago
That's a great point, Dropbox totally had a security bug that one time.
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by funkah 15y ago
> "I always disliked the XML impact on the Java frameworks. It didn’t come from nowhere, though, let’s be fair. Java as a languages is not as readable as Ruby, so it wasn’t perfect for configuration. Yaml wasn’t popular and JSON was sti
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by funkah 15y ago
That's what I figured as well, but the execution was too confusing as it turns out.
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by funkah 15y ago
Wow.
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by funkah 15y ago
Agreed on both counts. I think it's too unnatural with a mouse so I switched it back on the desktop. On my laptop I left it alone.
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by funkah 15y ago
Do you really think that Fijian skiiers are analogous to women scientists?! That is messed up. I don't think it's amazing for a woman or a girl to be accomplished in math/science, that's my point. It happens all the time.
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by funkah 15y ago
You would think we could just celebrate that they're smart, but apparently we need to celebrate that they're smart and that they're girls. I think that sends a bad message, that girls are hothouse flowers or somehow need more encouragemen
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by funkah 15y ago
Yes, from everything I have read it seems to be a foregone conclusion.
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by funkah 15y ago
He's not really wrong about anything, but none of this is novel or insightful. We're all set on "JaveScript[sic] is an Abomination" and "CSS -- who thought that was a good idea?" rants. That last quote just makes him sound crotchety. I gues
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by funkah 15y ago
In that situation I just cross the street or turn down another street or whatever. One less thing for her to worry about and I avoid being thought of as a potential rapist. I wouldn't say it's a fear-based thing, though. It's more about avo
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by funkah 15y ago
In my experience, people will always find a way to pooh-pooh the open source contributions of organizations they don't like, e.g. Apple and WebKit/Darwin.
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by funkah 15y ago
What if you have a contact who has been hacked and uses Hotmail, but you don't? (This is actually the case for me right now.)
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by funkah 15y ago
140 is a feature, not a bug. But anyway, hashtags have nothing to do with the character limit, and everything to do with search and conversation. They make it easy to find people all talking about the same subject, with no group setup or ot
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by funkah 15y ago
That's what I was thinking. An awful lot of effort for such a bummer of a website.
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by funkah 15y ago
That's not what bothers me about software being used in important physical systems like the brakes of a car. What bothers me about that is not knowing anything about how that software was developed or tested, the amount of rigor that went i
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by funkah 15y ago
The quoted text is painful to read. I don't know why so many mailing list pages have to look like this. At the very least could the linebreaks be taken out?
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by funkah 15y ago
I really enjoyed it as well. It provides enough technical detail while still being accessible. Some of the analogies are a bit of a stretch, but you'll have that. I was disturbed by the implication that the researchers should stop investiga
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by funkah 15y ago
Unfortunately, the reality is that we’ve collected less than $800 in sales for FingerKicks, and Apple’s policies (or lack thereof) are the primary reason for the huge losses. Wow, I really have to disagree -- piracy is the primary reason

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