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by greyman 14y ago
I obviously can take my RSS feeds elsewhere, but: 1) That elsewhere doesn't sync with my iOS Reeder app 2) RSS Caching! Google Reader cached the feeds, so after subscribing I can see older items, which are not in the current state of the fe
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by greyman 14y ago
Fixed "anything" is driving me nuts. In my opinion nothing fixed should be on the page.
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by greyman 14y ago
No, people also do optimization for Bing (you can Google about it ;-)), and also in certain countries, local search engine can be a good source of traffic, so there is a SEO for that as well. But Google is usually most important, that's rig
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by greyman 14y ago
Good for him, he is quite brave regarding how much he uncopyrighted. But still, I checked just now and - correct me if I am wrong - not all his books are free, for example "The Little Guide to Un-Procrastination". Also, he is selling course
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by greyman 14y ago
I am not so sure. You are right about the beach, but honestly, how frequent is this case? Many people read at home most of the time. I myself actually own Kindle, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the device, but I am not still
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by greyman 14y ago
I would side more with Popova here regarding the aff links. She seems to having read hundreds and hundreds of books, and then she picks those which she found interesting and blog about them. But what I see a bigger problem is that her askin
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by greyman 14y ago
Yes, and what is interesting, the need for efficiency haven't faded away, despite the computers being more powerful every year. I am a veteran C++ coder, and I still find C++ a viable choice. You are getting native compiled objects, which i
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The Writing Revolution(theatlantic.com)
2 points by greyman 14y ago|1 comments
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by greyman 14y ago
My wife works for a recruitment agency and lying in the resume (especially about work experience) happens sometimes. Why people do it? Because if you are not an expert on anything and want to break into sales or lower management, for exampl
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by greyman 14y ago
As I remember, they want IQ above 130, which isn't such a big deal if you are into math, logical puzzles etc. I did one IQ test myself and scored 135, while around 75% of questions were kind of small puzzles I used to solve on math competit
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by greyman 14y ago
But they might want to send you some attachments or URLs, while not knowing other techniques to pass them to you.
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by greyman 14y ago
I am looking forward to this. Currently, I am using my wife's iPad now and then, and while the display and smoothness of interaction is top notch, I can't say I like the operating system... iOS isn't bad as an application launcher, but I fi
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by greyman 14y ago
It's because of two years warranty, higher taxes, toll, and for more expensive items, smaller number of sold items. It's not fair you singled-out Apple, since this is true for several gadgets I bought, software, or for example more expensiv
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by greyman 14y ago
I agree - if you don't want that, it is unfair. Making it opt-in would be more fair, but probably much more difficult to enforce. My main point was, that I personally agree with this model, and it is generally not that disadvantageous as th
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by greyman 14y ago
I am also from other European country, but I believe that tax is favourable for me as an ordinary citizen and I am happy to pay it! Really, I don't joke here. It is not "You Are All Pirates" tax - this tax allows me to legally make a copy o
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by greyman 14y ago
"If you’re never really going to escape Google—and if Bing is pretty much exactly like Google—what’s the point?" From my perspective, there still is a point doing so - enhance privacy by feeding less personal data to Google. I still use Goo
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by greyman 14y ago
I don't know why you was downmoded; I also use startpage, along with DDG, Bing and Google. Actually, it is technicaly not Google scraper, their results are different than Google's. I use them when I don't want to reveal my search string in
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by greyman 15y ago
Why "going to good night"? They will still exist in the digital form...
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by greyman 15y ago
I don't think #1 about where you have bigger impact is universaly true. I worked in BigCo on a big (and commercialy successful) software project used in hospitals. More than 1,000 people (soft devs, QM, sales&marketing) are employed by
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by greyman 15y ago
Good question. I tried Priv3 today, but it seems to be the subset of Ghostery. BTW, it is necessary to use ABP, when I have Ghostery installed? (I don't intent to block ads, unless they actively track me, like Adsense, etc.)
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by greyman 15y ago
I use Ghostery and Https-Everywhere add-ons, plus startpage.com when I want to use Google search engine.
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by greyman 15y ago
I did it a few years ago, for the concern that someone can log into my account and see or steal that data. The second reason was, that there actually wasn't a practical utility for me to have access to that data.
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by greyman 15y ago
I see two reasons why one might want to do it: 1) If someone breaks into your account, that person can steal all your search history. This is why I disabled search history recording a long time ago. 2) It was uncovered that Google passess s
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by greyman 15y ago
Killing Google's cookies will not make your search anonymous, since you can still be identified by your IP address.
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by greyman 15y ago
> Google itself issued a statement saying the Wall Street Journal "mischaracterizes what happened and why. We used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled. It's important to stress that the
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by greyman 15y ago
Yes, I know. I don't use Gmail anymore.
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by greyman 15y ago
I stopped using Gmail recently, but the primary reason wasn't that Google algorithm reads my email. I just finally realized, that by storing all my emails to some company server is potentially dangerous to my privacy. I just don't know, who
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by greyman 15y ago
I agree with you, and you missed to mention the most private data Google owns, and that is our search queries.
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by greyman 15y ago
AmazingWill, in my opinion, if you want to ensure privacy, online service with IMAP is not the solution, because: 1) You don't know who has (or will get) access to the emails stored at the servers. 2) You don't know if your account will not
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by greyman 15y ago
I begin to understand what Richard Stallman has been saying all those years. Although I don't like the guy on the personal level, this incident make him completely right - running closed source software can compromise your rights. (rights t

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