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by gergles 14y ago
> it was said more than once there—hate the game, not the player. No. This line of argument is so dumb it makes my head hurt. The "players" choose to participate in the "game". Apple could have quite easily decided not to pursue inj
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by gergles 14y ago
You're not going to be able to sell this on HN. The HFT apologists will come invade this thread and go on for paragraphs on end about how market makers provide a valuable service that would otherwise not be provided. Without scalpers (HFT)
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by gergles 14y ago
It would be nice if the website contained more information about the providers, service area, fees, you know... anything that might actually help me decide whether I want to use the app or not. Currently it's just a very slick ad for "downl
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by gergles 14y ago
A router is not a 'cloud service'. I give specific information to a cloud service to do with as it sees fit; I give my router literally everything I do on the Internet. Somewhat of a difference there.
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by gergles 14y ago
$280 a year is an absolute joke for a weather site for an individual user.
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by gergles 14y ago
It's a legal term of art. Search around for the "make-whole doctrine".
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by gergles 14y ago
You can't own an idea. The idea of 'searching with your voice' is not something Apple can own. They can own a specific implementation of searching with your voice, but that's it. The general concept of "doing this thing" is not something th
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by gergles 14y ago
Yes, the limitation is that new tweets cannot be pulled in, but existing tweets are not going to be deleted. I agree that seeing twitter feeds on the LinkedIn feed polluted it with garbage, and am glad on a personal level to see them going
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by gergles 14y ago
In addition to the other response, most of these are terrible resources for people trying to learn. Forums: "omfg search u fucken noob!!" Documentation: Haha, what documentation? Q&A sites: Find 1000 threads with no replies all asking y
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by gergles 14y ago
The law is intended, in the Constitution, to 'promote the progress of [technology]'. Using the patent system to browbeat your competitors out of business by wielding bullshit imaginary software patents does not promote the progress of anyth
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by gergles 14y ago
That would help some of them, although it still cuts you out of potentially great feedback from your users (if you care about that.) Instead, users will file their bugs/raise their concerns/send their suggestions to Icestoat instead of your
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by gergles 14y ago
Fair enough; I hadn't even thought of someone wanting to drag-and-drop from/within a webpage. Thanks for the insight.
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by gergles 14y ago
I hate hate hate hate this model, because it just splits off people who could be using, advocating for, and contributing to your product (by documentation, by bug reports, by leaving positive reviews, ...) into two groups of people: those w
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by gergles 14y ago
Why does this parameter exist? What possible legitimate use could you have for disabling selection?
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by gergles 14y ago
The next phone you buy will not come from the OEM that screwed you out of an update. Theoretically, at least.
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by gergles 14y ago
For me as well - I get redirected to a domain squatting page. [ld] [~] nslookup blog.wakemate.com Non-authoritative answer: Name: blog.wakemate.com Address: 208.43.167.112
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by gergles 14y ago
I used to live in a building near a Google shuttle stop on the border of the TL. They wanted to raise my rent almost 20% y/y for a lease renewal, and the place was a trainwreck quality-wise (as was the neighborhood.) When I went to move o
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by gergles 14y ago
They already do on eBay - the "veRO" program gives any company that wants one an unappealable, instant takedown button for literally every auction on the site. Try reselling your weight watchers program materials on eBay and you will learn
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by gergles 14y ago
Nobody can possibly think it is a good idea to use someone's API to create a product that directly competes with the API providers' paid offering. The sense of entitlement to be allowed to use someone's product against them frankly baffles
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by gergles 14y ago
More to the point, showing your skills after you've been granted an interview, and being forced to do spec work before you are allowed to apply (wtf?????) are not the same.
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by gergles 14y ago
I am a sysadmin, and I can guarantee that I would much much much prefer a private office to a shoebox in the basement with somebody else crammed in there.
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by gergles 14y ago
Yeah, that part of Fog Creek has always amused me to no end. ~Developers~ are special and unique snowflakes who need a private office and a personal happy-ending masseuse, but sysadmins can work from the bottom of a shoebox, because fuck
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by gergles 14y ago
I do use Chrome, but no GMail related extensions (and specifically not either of those.)
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by gergles 14y ago
Well, that depends on why I need the "emergency help". If I need it for their problem, then I expect it for free, given that I am already "paying" for the service with my ad views and my personal data. If I need it because I screwed som
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by gergles 14y ago
Yeah, I have no clue how it got flagged. See my update above. And yeah, I had 2FA on -- I was challenged appropriately logging in to GMail even, it was post-login where I got the "you're bad" page.
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by gergles 14y ago
I am, of course, already using 2FA, but I completely agree that everyone should have it set up.
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by gergles 14y ago
So close to zero as to be zero; my password is strong and I use 2FA. My account works on every other Google service but GMail.
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by gergles 14y ago
$50, the same they charge Apps users. You can't buy support for @gmail.com accounts.
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by gergles 14y ago
I do pay for GMail storage, so the predictable parade of "WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FOR FREE?????" (answer: exactly what was advertised, a working email service) is tiresome -- and besides that, there isn't even a contact form for this issue. The
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by gergles 14y ago
You can't pay for @gmail.com addresses, or else I absolutely would. If I'm going to make everyone change the e-mail they send me things at, I'm sure as hell going to change it to a non-GMail address now.

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