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by graue 14y ago
You're right. And now I feel bad that my whiny comment is the top-rated one, edging out that interesting discussion, but oh well. Hopefully I motivated people to prove me wrong. :)
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by graue 14y ago
I can't be the only one getting tired of sites like this making the front page. Really? It would be one thing to see someone write a legitimate article on why they think the move to JS frameworks is harmful and/or the benefits of using plai
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by graue 14y ago
It's not worth getting worked up over a jerk on the internet. The comment you are replying to was indeed rude, but stick to disagreeing on the facts and leave it at that. I find that's the best way to get others to do the same.
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by graue 14y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't the real issue be whether the Windows 8 client will use SSLv2, not whether the server does? I'm imagining a third party doing a MITM attack, posing as Microsoft's SmartScreen server and saying it onl
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by graue 14y ago
"In exchange, the 'hacker-entrepreneur' is expected to buy their own food, build a startup in town, and 'pay this kindness forward.'" Sounds like after 3 months, the now-established startup is expected to host a new startup.
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by graue 14y ago
Sounds like a pretty bad case of NIH. Maybe you should fork? (Although, I haven't heard the other side of this, so that's assuming the project's code standards were followed, your code was good quality, etc.)
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by graue 14y ago
Plenty of feature phones have qwerty keyboards, including the one I used up until a few months ago. They're not all T9. Anecdotally, many of my friends have feature phones with qwerty keyboards...
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by graue 14y ago
If you're thinking in terms of Facebook showing deleted updates to law enforcement to track down activists — or some rogue employee at Facebook HQ taking a peek — then we're talking about totally different levels of paranoia. Sure, that is
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by graue 14y ago
> we do have crystallographic methods to encrypt a message such that an arbitrary group of people can decrypt it. This doesn't solve the problem you're responding to: "once data is given out, it can never be retracted". That remains the
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by graue 14y ago
"Shouldn't clip ever" is overly simplistic. If you're trying to get a track loud (making it sound drastically better in cars and on laptop speakers — a trade-off), you have to find a balance between distortion and compression. Badly done
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by graue 14y ago
Direct link to source: http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/08/22/tumblr-becomes-next... I wonder if they tried to negotiate behind the scenes, to get Tumblr to pay $$$ for that access, and couldn't come to an agreement. Or if this is part
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by graue 14y ago
rateyourmusic.com sort of has this, but it's not in the default view. You have to go to an album and click a "View my suggested rating" button, then it whirs for a few seconds before giving you an average of ratings from users with similar
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by graue 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing. I'd love it if they grew like Dropbox, charging users who extract more value from their service so that they can stay independent. The pro offering for $25 is a good sign in that direction. Still a tiny bit wo
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by graue 14y ago
No, I agree with you. There are an awful lot of people failing to engage with reality, stubbornly insisting what this article just debunked. I like the OP's name for these — "zombie facts" — you shoot them down and they just keep getting re
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by graue 14y ago
I don't think it's fair to call any of the post's suggestions purely "technical solutions". They all involve changing the user interface and that can make a dramatic difference in how an online community functions. (In contrast, pg's idea t
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by graue 14y ago
Well, that seems like apples and oranges to me. Space exploration may (or may not) end up being important to human race's survival super-long-term, but breaking Facebook's monopoly, replacing it with services that offer clear, honest privac
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by graue 14y ago
This also reminds me of a study mentioned in Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational (currently reading, great so far). Tversky and Kahneman gave people two scenarios. You go to buy a new office pen and find one for $25, but then you remem
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by graue 14y ago
Great summary. Yeah, TextDrive was presented as an alternative to Dreamhost that, although seemingly much more pricey, was not oversold (you can use all the space/bandwidth they give you), had better support, ran more smoothly, etc etc. By
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by graue 14y ago
> What individual choices would it make a big difference for? As I said in the linked post: choosing not to use Facebook is currently a high-cost/impractical choice for many people. That means we're almost obliged to accept how they use
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by graue 14y ago
Funny you mention that. My server with them (shared hosting, lifetime account) just had a two-day outage Monday through Wednesday and still isn't totally recovered.
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by graue 14y ago
Facebook is a powerful societal force at this point, and successfully disrupting it with a distributed, non-corporate-controlled service would make a big difference for individual choice. See what I wrote here: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by graue 14y ago
I'm really curious that people are having this reaction. I looked at the side-by-side pics and saw two fairly generic e-commerce layouts with a few small similarities, but just as many differences. My immediate reaction was, "Huh? There's n
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by graue 14y ago
When you exclude Brooklyn and Queens, which are ~70 miles away from this site, Long Island has only (7568304 - 2532645 - 2247848) = 2.8 million residents. And that 70 mile distance will be far enough out of the way to exclude most out-of-ar
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by graue 14y ago
> it seems like when you get to use a free service or website that costs many millions of dollars to develop, giving the company access to your data is a fairly small price to pay. Unfortunately, using Facebook is hardly a free choice a
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by graue 14y ago
Cool idea, but does it make sense to put a museum 70 miles outside NYC on the far end of Long Island? How are people going to get to this museum? It's not near anything.
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by graue 14y ago
Sounds like a No True Scotsman fallacy to me. I've commuted daily for years, plus occasional longer trips, on a used bike that cost $150 (plus another $100 to add lock, rear rack, fenders and lights). Maintenance may be a little bit more wi
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by graue 14y ago
rsync.net's warrant canary seems to be a good implementation of this type of idea: http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
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by graue 14y ago
Genetic survival, yes. Survival of the individual, no.
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by graue 14y ago
Very cool concept. Unfortunately, this only proxies the starting hostname and doesn't rewrite absolute URLs, so on most modern websites, image/CSS/JS resources (being served from subdomains or S3 etc.) will load unproxied and not get slowed
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by graue 14y ago
Personally I appreciated this article (and the ensuing discussion) as a good overview of the philosophies behind Haskell.

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