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by gregcohn 13y ago
>German executives and intelligence officials called Mr. Snowden a hero and said his disclosures had been a boon for business, as N.S.A. suspicions prompted global companies to look for alternatives to American products and services. I f
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by gregcohn 13y ago
One reason may be to verify what territory the user is from in order to match it to the developer's permissions. If you have an app that is released only in the U.S. for whatever technical, business, or IP reasons, it would be matched
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At the RSA Security Conference, Things Get Testy(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by gregcohn 13y ago
This is exactly the point of getting a warrant: to have this dialogue with a judge.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Another way of putting this is that investors value optionality and will maintain it if you give them the option to. If you tell someone you're raising $1,000,000, and they'd be the first $25K in, many will tell you to come back
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Reflexive but actually relevant (in the sense of incredible pace of advancing efficiency): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5cYgRnfFDA
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by gregcohn 13y ago
also, how do you know this?
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by gregcohn 13y ago
http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/code-for-sale/ looks to be pretty active, though I cannot vouch for it.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
This is an easy question to answer in the form of "do it the right way if you can afford to; do what you have to if not." As other responders have pointed out, there are various reasons it's better for the company to provide
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by gregcohn 13y ago
We use Burner ( http://brnr.me ) for various individual and company phone numbers. Dogfooding FTW!
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Hulu argues anonymous user numbers that identify unique accounts are not PII(blog.zwillgen.com)
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by gregcohn 13y ago
One of the realities with surveillance systems is there they create so many hours of footage, per camera, that it's impossible to watch them all. This is a good idea if: - you can find ways to get the watchers cost-effectively (reward
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Los Angeles, CA Ad Hoc Labs is the maker of the privacy and temporary phone number app Burner ( http://burnerapp.com ). We are a small team of very talented and driven engineers from companies like Yahoo!, Nokia, Amazon, Whisper,
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Lessons from a Coffee Mill for All Small Business Owners(zoho.com)
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Shark Tank — What You Didn’t Know and Wished You Knew(medium.com)
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by gregcohn 13y ago
it depends precisely what your goals are, but assuming you want to get some traction and data, i strongly encourage you to launch free. we would have if we could have afforded to (as we have hard costs associated with our product). once we
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by gregcohn 13y ago
The value proposition of your service is generally interesting, but I don't think you are telling your story very well, and considering you are marketing "creative story and message development" as one of your core skills, yo
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Byliner Weekly: Weekly, curated stories from the world's best writers(byliner.com)
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by gregcohn 13y ago
This is interesting but most likely a consequence of their affiliate program, which like any affiliate program rewards traffic and thus tends to spawn a lot of referral volume at the expense of authenticity.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
This answer is generic to managing delegates, not specific to tech, but the number 1 thing is to re-orient your own thinking around the goal of building a sustainable system, not on perfect outcome of the next project. You have to be able
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Burner - Los Angeles, CA - is looking for mobile engineers, a quantitative growth person, and a "startup" assistant. Passionate hackers with generally relevant experience are always welcome. Our app (burnerapp.com) was named a top
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by gregcohn 13y ago
Agree with this sentiment, but I think the effort would be better spent taking steps to switch to trusted DNS providers, as well as building layperson tools to monitor them.
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by gregcohn 13y ago
its
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by gregcohn 13y ago
this looks really interesting. should be a Show HN?
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Ptch was incubated at Dreamworks and was a pretty high-profile project internally there. As another commenter noted, it was something along the lines of an instagram video type of app, with very notable enhancements (think the equivalent of
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by gregcohn 13y ago
This kind of behavior is absolutely insane on the part of a developer, but is also the kind of thing that happens when a platform doesn't vet its apps.
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(Book) Exploding the Phone: ...the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell (explodingthephone.com)
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Reuters: Most 2006-2009 NSA queries of a phone database broke court rules(reuters.com)
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The Anonymous Critic(blog.burnerapp.com)
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ZZ Top fan site.

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