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by gottam 10y ago
What is the tension about exactly? That they don't align with their own personal political views?
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by gottam 10y ago
if someone is turning you down on airbnb based upon some arbitrary discriminatory factors, do you think you'd really want to stay with a person like that to begin with?
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by gottam 10y ago
No matter who wrote this post, what it says, or what the people here say in the comments this will always read as viral marketing as if people are paid to praise microsoft. It's a consequence of the fact I'm now wired to expect it
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by gottam 10y ago
just an assumption here but I'm going to guess it doesnt apply for all netflix content, just the content where the owner is unnecessarily strict about where they view it
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by gottam 10y ago
its better to have two major players then just one even bigger player.
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by gottam 10y ago
How would you even validate the password server-side if you're salting it at the client level?
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by gottam 10y ago
its knee jerk reactions to the extremist left politics the internet and the media has taken away a lot of the moderates
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by gottam 10y ago
If I remember google video was superior in video quality and looser limitations, it was a place where you could commonly find full documentaries while youtube still had a 11 minute video limit. It was actually google acquiring youtube that
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by gottam 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Videos They did make their own version of youtube at one point, apparently it wasn't enough and they wanted the userbase too.
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by gottam 10y ago
I'm rooting for a competitor that isn't bing. If Microsoft gets any significant market share it could mean yet another monopoly under their belt. They can't even compete directly without having to lock out their competitors.
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by gottam 11y ago
So basically SQL server on linux is supported until the project isn't fun to work on anymore which then it will be left to rot and eventually support dropped entirely.
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by gottam 11y ago
Well, that's not entirely true. A decade ago Microsoft was a big player in PC gaming. Microsoft game studios made some big sellers like age of empires, mechwarrior, freelancer, etc, but was dismantled after their xbox initiative took o
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by gottam 11y ago
There's no problem just as long as things stay that way. Microsoft's PC gaming innovations of the last decade is nothing but half-assed attempts of trying to lock users into their own store front and milk them like they do on thei
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by gottam 11y ago
Given that from this article's stats it even admits there are 15 times more male self-identified programmers then women on github, a 4% difference in pull requests accepted is tiny. The data is just convenient for anyone with a politic
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by gottam 11y ago
They will however lose exposure and upvotes on places like HN, which means their overall traffic will drop and they'll lose money like that instead.
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by gottam 11y ago
They're very shortsighted. I only ever get to wired.com through things like links from HN so I'm not going to pay them money or disable my adblocker for the reasons they even list in their own article. This means since I can'
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by gottam 11y ago
The biggest thing I can think of that MS research delivered in the last few years is the kinect. They hinged a lot upon that being the next thing in gaming, but what is it now really? Their competitors aren't exactly in a rush to copy
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by gottam 11y ago
Microsoft's independent innovations of the last decade are the kind the average person doesn't really want or need. They're making a skype translator... fantastic... but the market for that is still pretty niche. When Google
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by gottam 11y ago
There has been no society in history that has ever truly had an answer for people born into privilege, except ours. We're in the information age, and its possible for people to learn highly technical skills through a bunch of free inte
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by gottam 11y ago
Rich people network and want their kids to be successful, what a shocking revelation, so different from us poor people. Chances are if they're slacking off in university then they're going to slack off at work too, which means wha
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by gottam 11y ago
> You're probably not a woman in the tech field on the internet, then. Can you be sure? You may have just invalidated my own experiences as a woman. Am I obligated to now tell you my gender so you know for sure if you're being
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by gottam 11y ago
That is a problem, but that's not one that's solvable through human intervention or policy updates since its more a spam issue then simply harassment. Services all the time like email have to work to combat spam, this is no differ
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by gottam 11y ago
> instead of simply some USENET servers used by some college kids and bored sysadmins, there isn't really a distinction between "threats on the internet" and "threats" any more. The biggest thing that changed is
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by gottam 11y ago
I find that hard to believe. Trolls who make threats on the internet (and not simply having differing opinions) typically make up a very small minority so they should be manageable by a small ban list (and if they aren't - what kind of
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by gottam 11y ago
I don't understand about the scope of this problem, maybe someone can tell me but is it really that big of a deal? What horrible things are being typed out that can't possibly be ignored or dealt with in other ways?
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by gottam 11y ago
It's because they DO look through people's files for their own purposes. Example: https://blog.onedrive.com/onedrive_changes/ > a small number of users backed up numerous PCs and stored entire movie collec
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by gottam 11y ago
The more baffling thing is they went as far as to prevent you from blacklisting the telemetry servers via hosts file. The data SO important to them they put that amount of effort into obtaining it. The only reason I can think of that doesn&
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by gottam 11y ago
The site loads about ~30 scripts in the HEAD tag before it's allowed to render the body, its disgusting.