jahmed

14 ms·

91.
by jahmed 14y ago
Well they still haven't enabled HTML form file upload which makes uploading through a web app difficult if not impossible.
92.
by jahmed 14y ago
Can you explain this a little more? I cant quite get it to work.
93.
by jahmed 14y ago
Im curious if reddit will make any information public on any requests for user information by the government. Something like http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/ would be nice for a site that is as open as reddit.
94.
by jahmed 14y ago
This is more akin to financial arbitrage but my mother did a variant of this for her car payment. The card company would send her 'checks' to use for 0% balance tansfers that she would get 5% rewards on. So she'd use the checks for her 3.9%
95.
by jahmed 14y ago
Another recent example on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/t7ma1/so_my_roommate_...
96.
by jahmed 14y ago
Im curious why?
97.
by jahmed 14y ago
Valid strategy does not ensure success.
98.
by jahmed 14y ago
Sometimes I forget that services I use everyday have login pages. I cant remember the last time I logged in to facebook.
99.
by jahmed 14y ago
You could argue that but you would lose. Generally there needs to be overwhelming market power by the company engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Even when restricted to the mobile phone market Apple doesn't exert nearly enough power to
100.
by jahmed 14y ago
Agreed. Many people are starting to ask less for a general purpose computing machine and more for something that can go on the internet or watch netfix or use skype. They want a simple to use appliance like an iPad that simplifies the exper
101.
by jahmed 14y ago
>But if what you say is right, the pendulum, at the consumer level, will soon swing back the other way the first time that someone can't access the "cloud" on a trip or forgets to pay their "cloud access bill" (phone/internet whatever)
102.
by jahmed 15y ago
Traditionally don't people that bomb things like it to be a surprise?
103.
by jahmed 15y ago
Yeah the music in the video really brought me back for a second. I was just thinking about my old NES wondering where in my parents house it could be and if I could play earthbound.
104.
by jahmed 15y ago
If you havent used it recently its much better. I've been using mine since the day I got it and I'm using it right now. Considering this is $200 hardware from 15 months ago I could see this doing really well on $200 hardware today. I always
105.
by jahmed 15y ago
The N1 is over two years old and what two maybe three hardware generations behind. I don't think its unreasonable that it isn't supported by the latest OS or that Google has stopped communicating about it. I love my Nexus One (its birthday
106.
by jahmed 15y ago
Well its not really tax evasion if I move to another country to live under a more advantageous tax scheme. Voting with your feet and all that.
107.
by jahmed 15y ago
Many small shops have a separate credit card terminal where they enter the amount to be charged.
108.
by jahmed 15y ago
Back in the day there used to be serious social stigma to colored people using the same drinking fountains as white people. Nationalism is just as bad as racism. People are people. Black and white are just the same as people from Country A
109.
by jahmed 15y ago
How legal would it be for a US based company to just not keep logs?
110.
by jahmed 15y ago
True and governments have the unique position to have a longer view that would ideally introduce a whole new range of potential outcomes that might not be rational at shorter timescales. One problem we face now is that the time scale of gov
111.
by jahmed 15y ago
Just because government can or does provide a service does not mean you cant as well.
112.
by jahmed 15y ago
The weird dot backgrounds makes the font look terrible.
113.
by jahmed 15y ago
Seems like a good opportunity for a honey pot.
114.
by jahmed 15y ago
I meant it more in the idea that they are less apt to hide what were traditionally "private" thoughts. Its less about trying to live by the standards of generations before them and more about embracing the new blurred boundaries of public a
115.
by jahmed 15y ago
Maybe we should be concerned with the perceptions of the future. The younger generation is already accepting the idea of unforgettability and I think this could push us to accepting the idea that our past acts, thoughts, and words have rele
116.
by jahmed 15y ago
the blackouts are drastic but they need to be to capture peoples attentions. If SOPA/PIPA passed the first site to go down wont be reddit it will be foreignmusicdemosharing.com. People dont notice slow gradual change and by the time they do
117.
by jahmed 15y ago
Because they can and not enough customers will switch to competitors to make them care.
118.
Snowy Google(google.com)
5 points by jahmed 15y ago|0 comments
119.
by jahmed 15y ago
People pay for convenience. I wonder how many people used their two streams and would pay another $1 to stream it again.
120.
by jahmed 15y ago
Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires -John Steinbeck

More ›