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by irons 16y ago
The crux of his prescription is to reserve insurance for the catastrophic, low-probability events like getting cancer or hit by a bus, but high-deductible catastrophic plans seem carefully calibrated to make you go bankrupt anyway. Given an
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by irons 16y ago
I stopped using GoDaddy when Bob Parsons started opining in public about national politics. I'd rather pay an extra couple bucks a year than support that nut. Though where certs are concerned, StartSSL also has the benefit of being cheaper.
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by irons 16y ago
How does Aunt Millie distinguish Verisign certs from those of any competitor with good browser support? Are we just covering the case that she might be using Netscape 3, or is there another angle I'm not seeing?
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by irons 16y ago
I use and like StartSSL for class one validation, which is free, though the class one certs are only for single hosts. (Don't forget to load the intermediate certificate in the web server config, or Firefox will act like there's no root cer
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by irons 16y ago
Who keeps the world by the tail for longer than that? One or two companies a decade?
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by irons 16y ago
How would you even identify every scrapeable endpoint? Follow all the twitter users? I don't know if pre-Snowflake status IDs were reliably consecutive, but the current ones definitely aren't.
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by irons 16y ago
In the past, firehose access has meant public tweets only. I presume Gnip is getting the same data as the Library of Congress and other firehose consumers, but details haven't been spelled out yet.
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by irons 16y ago
Number portability in this context means the ability to use an existing number with new service, not the ability to use a new number which points back at your existing number. Google's been on the record for several years as hoping to suppo
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by irons 16y ago
I'd love to find some rigorous way to measure it, but (as of six months or so ago) when I sat with two phones, held down a button, and waited for a tone to come out the other end, the delay was observably longer with a GV-to-GV call than wi
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by irons 16y ago
For an upsell to work, you'd first have to believe that people buy iPhones primarily to make phone calls. Then you'd have to believe that these phone-centric individuals are tolerant of the voice latency in GV calls. I don't see it.
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by irons 16y ago
I'm on 4.1. I noticed the caching behavior after seeing that the text and voicemail views start with no data loaded, even after viewing the inbox. Forcing the app to exit zeroed out all three views. Loading data is pretty fast on wifi, and
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by irons 16y ago
I'm struck that it appears to do very little local caching. In that sense it feels like a highly polished web app, always at the mercy of an available network. Also, it's iPhone-only. Following the direct download link from an iPod or iPad
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by irons 16y ago
Almost any country would up security measures and, as a byproduct, deprive itself of civil liberties. That's exactly wrong: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelifi...
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by irons 16y ago
I'm not sure you do -- queue management in the official iOS app is lousy, and streaming-only to boot (except on the iPad, where it just presents a slow webview of the Netflix site). iPhlix has its problems, but is a much better overall pack
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by irons 16y ago
Given his previous throwdown for Android, and because he doesn't come to a point about the challenges facing web developers, I interpret it as a swipe against the existence of fragmentation as a developer challenge on Android. I sympathize
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by irons 16y ago
One major pilots union is already instructing its members to bypass the scans, out of concerns that the radiation dose is absorbed disproportionately by the skin: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/american-air... ... a conce
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by irons 16y ago
How many years-old projects with deep hooks into a proprietary OS, written with no intention of ever being open sourced, would or could be opened on any reasonable timeframe? Any precedents spring to mind?
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by irons 16y ago
You're accusing Gruber of ignoring certain competitive products which, by your own admission, aren't competitive products. The Nook is also in the "same basic hardware class for less money."
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by irons 16y ago
Any "Android tablet" lacking Market access, as these do, might be competition for the iPod nano, or the Nook, but it's not in the same space as the iPod touch.
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by irons 16y ago
No product which cleans its competitors' clocks from the word go can be fairly described as rudimentary, regardless of the competitive landscape a decade later. If the motion picture cameras Chaplin was using ninety years ago seem rudimenta
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by irons 16y ago
The trouble with this analysis is that the 1.0 iPod wasn't "rudimentary", it was simple . Likewise the original iPhone, which was so rudimentary that a year later, the only competitive devices looked just like it. If you're going to ship a
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by irons 16y ago
Seems like only a few hours ago that http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883748 was asserting that the door-closing button in most elevators is a no-op.
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by irons 16y ago
* There are more Android units out there than iOS devices, yet iOS devices yield something like 92% of the dollar sales of applications.* Android's only outselling iOS in the US, and only since October — iOS still has a 4:1 or 5:1 edge on i
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by irons 16y ago
More to the point, they define high-end as "over £500". The site isn't aimed at us.
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by irons 16y ago
That sounds like more than enough to keep him busy.
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by irons 16y ago
I worked out the first 5 PiB to be $462,336/month at the older pricing, and $433,433.60/month at the new rate. Edit: fat-fingered a couple of columns. New figures are $449,536 and $433,423.36, for $16112.64/month savings, or 3.6%. All the s
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by irons 16y ago
While Apple hasn't announced anything yet, I have to think that a lot of iOS APIs are going to show up in Lion to make it easier… Prepare to be disappointed. Technology stacks aside, if the interaction models between desktop apps and mult
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by irons 16y ago
Who's asserting it's illegal? You seem to be setting up a straw man. Google should remove it because its use is unethical, and its continued presence is an indictment of the market's legitimacy.
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by irons 16y ago
You received overt rejections? So far I've just heard nothing back.
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by irons 16y ago
Bad enough if he'd said "make sure you trust the people who handle your phone", but he went full-bore, saying "make sure people trust you." He's preemptively blaming the victim — the person on whose phone his software runs. The lede for the

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