harryf

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   by harryf 11y ago

   In most Western European countries rent is tightly controlled so it's not possible for landlords to make big increases overnight.
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   by harryf 11y ago

   ...and the real nasty here is if you're doing this to small / independent landlords, once you're making enough income you could make yourself very difficult to remove by "out-lawyering" them
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   by harryf 11y ago

   If you consider the evolution of homo sapiens and it's predecessor, homo erectus, you have about 1.98 Million years where their diet would have been rich in Vitamin C; berries, fruit, vegetables etc.; their primary food sources, supple
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   by harryf 11y ago

   That torture doesn't work to extract information has been known anecdotally at least since the 2nd world war - read up on Hans Scharf - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff But tortute does work when your
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   by harryf 11y ago

   Alibaba? Would be funny if Yahoo! was involved in this
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   by harryf 11y ago

   Reminds of the Urinal Flash Game - http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/urinal - one of the first flash games to go viral in early 2000's if I remember right.
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   by harryf 11y ago

   I've heard tales of Google engineers creating tools and frameworks largely as a way to attract positive performance reviews and enable promotions. That said there projects like Google Web Toolkit that have a long history and well cared
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   by harryf 11y ago

   Meanwhile Wordpress has failed so completely to establish itself on mobile (e.g. SDKs developers can use to make their Wordpress content present in their apps) that whole startups like Contentful ( https://www.contentful.com ) a
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   by harryf 11y ago

   Those numbers don't include WhatsApp or Instagram, which Facebook owns.
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    by harryf 11y ago

    I found Design for Hackers ( http://designforhackers.com ) does a pretty good job of sensitizing a more engineering driven mind to the value of design
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Perfectly timed post ;)
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    by harryf 11y ago

    > I'd probably sacrifice my firstborn Secret question: what was the name of your first born?
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    by harryf 11y ago

    > I can't see how people think returning 404 for a "this product doesn't exist" is defensible. To tell Google for example to stop sending traffic to this URL because it's gone.
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    by harryf 11y ago

    > The Iraqi thing has been done to death. That's like saying "The Holocaust thing has been done to death." Louis CK nails this beautifully http://youtu.be/LQEqbTWa0Aw?t=48
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Who's to say it's not already happening? Could be an interesting twist on this mystery... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391723
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    by harryf 11y ago

    At this point Facebook has enough data and capability to tell you not just who you're dating right now but who you're likely to date in the future, based on preferences and who you're likely to meet. They may not be doing it
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    by harryf 11y ago

    I wonder if it's possible to capture audio through the motion detection sensors? Would a phone lying on a table be able to pick up vibrations caused by someone speaking? Does the OS provide APIs for app developers to access the informa
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Awesome job! Would it be do-able to visualize the _frequency_ of public transport connections too? For example it may take me only 20 minutes from Uster to the center of Zürich but if there is only 1 train an hour would be nice to know that
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    by harryf 11y ago

    noted ;)
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Meanwhile Google badly needs to go on a mobile spending spree. Companies I would buy in their position include Localytics, AppsFlyer, Contentful and mParticle. Buying those would significantly increase trust and buy-in from mobile app devel
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Step 15: Spend 2 hours browsing for something to watch
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Wonder how long it takes before we find BMW, Mercedes et al. are doing the same as VW and this is car industry "standard practice"? That in turn could lead to German economic collapse... this is gonna get really "interesting&
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Same applies for web. There is so much crappy mobile web UX out there. Good developers, good designers etc. are all essential whatever the platform
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    by harryf 11y ago

    It has a feature to download new block rule sets. Perhaps that's where iCloud is used?
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Also free and fast with a scrutinizable list of rules is AdMop - http://admop.iphonso.com - the developer talks about it here: https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3ljsx9/admop_free_vs_oth...
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    by harryf 11y ago

    They warned about cookie alerts as well but now we got "this site uses cookies" everywhere
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    by harryf 11y ago

    > If the content that best informs our thinking is increasingly only available to those willing to pay then it has troubling impacts for those living in poverty or countries for whom a $9.95 monthly subscription is out of reach. ...incl
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Really useful! Thanks for making this - big help for anyone doing product management related to Android (like me)
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    by harryf 11y ago

    Wasn't this the plot of Prometheus more or less?
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    by harryf 11y ago

    ...meanwhile mobile gaming in the US lost share to messaging, social and entertainment according to Flurry... http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/127636097639/seven-years-into-t...