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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Has he never heard of the Streisand effect? "Please stand by for a demonstration of relevancy."
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Plus, an amendment has been adopted that decriminalizes acts against the TOS (though I guess it has not yet passed the full Senate): http://cdt.org/blogs/joshua-gruenspecht/169senate-tweaks-bil...
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Good point.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Sorry, no. I led AOL's mail team in the '90s, and we had the same philosophy. Many, many complaints about lost e-mail, but it was Necessary And Right to block spam, our #1 complaint. (In fact, we once got sued for trying to deliver the b
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
"It suggests that Apple, which has pledged to be true to Jobs' vision, may try to derail Android in court." Apple has pledged to be true to Jobs' vision? Really? Because I think we just saw a better-sourced article state that Jobs himself s
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Second. If you wear contacts, dryness is a killer. Hydration is critical; I keep a glass of ice water at my desk at all times. (This also forces you to take brief breaks for the bathroom, which are good for both your eyes and your spine.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
I'd never heard this, but it's a great idea.. if you want to change your focus from near to far, a mirror will get you double the distance. Brilliant.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
FWIW, I looked into this a few months ago. I don't have any cites, but I found some reasonably persuasive articles that light-on-dark is best only for dimly-lit rooms. If you're in a bright office, dark-on-light is best. (And being in a b
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
D'oh. Of course. The state is shared along exactly the same media as the perceived, "intentional" communication. Thanks.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
That actually seems like something that Google should be good at. In "The Plex", they talk at great length about the bigram/trigram problem (New vs. New York vs. New York Times) and the context of deciding when you're searching for a per
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Remember, on Google +, you don't mention @somebody, you mention +somebody. I'm sure they're going to reuse + so you can search for +somebody.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
I guess my question is about "how does that propagate?" I have no physics background, so maybe the answer is obvious, but I have trouble intuiting how, in my thought experiment, the experimenter and the subject have any shared state.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Something I've been wondering, and I'm way out of my depth here - would determinism be something that could eventually find an explanation in information theory? My layman's argument against determinism was something like: OK, even if my bi
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Dropbox can be subpoena'd.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
"My phone stores my private key" is very, very far from "Dropbox's servers can see all my data".
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
I thought one of the big lessons of OpenID is that the non-technical world thinks FQDNs are for web sites (or something you type into Google!) and user@host is for identity? I still have trouble explaining that jay@jay.fm is my entire e-ma
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Actually, I do exactly this, and I do remember them all correctly. The key is to be consistent about WHAT you mix in from the site. I also use 1Password, but it's frankly a pain on the iPhone (there's no good way for them to integrate wit
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
1. Stick non-alpha characters in the middle of words. Not 31337 substitutions; additions. Now your dictionary word isn't a dictionary word anymore. 2. Use the first letter of each word in a phrase. Again, now it's easy to remember but
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Until now, it was believed you couldn't set a "geofence" (location-based reminder) for anything except home or work... but if this tip is right, "home" and "work" are just the two default instances of "named location types".
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Ask PG: Could you, would you, add some RAM?
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
I'm kinda shocked that of all the "experts" the reporter talked to, nobody used more than a dozen passwords. I'm no crypto geek, I don't force SSL everywhere, I've never used TOR or anonymous VPNs or anything - but I have a few different p
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
I print everything on a color printer, and more than once I've tried to click on a blue link. And that was BEFORE touch screens.
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
Can this flow be used by non-app apps, or whatever we're calling Facebook Connect-type web sites these days?
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
In fact, I'm working on a Rails app right now facing this choice. We're a small site, barely a thousand users, but we have some complex queries for relevancy ranking that are just too slow in ActiveRecord - it ends up creating lots of expe
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
I'm self-taught. I also wrote the world's then-largest mail system, which eventually handled 4,000 TPS at zero downtime on servers about as powerful as my iPhone. I also don't know algorithms. E-mail, at the time, didn't need them - there
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
"I just bought a new point and shoot camera for about two hundred bucks. It can shoot 1080p video. The same revolution that happened in music is about to happen in movies and TV." But the music revolution - low-cost converters and mics, pow
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by jaylevitt 15y ago
DARPA's rule is that if more than 10% of their projects succeed, they're not taking enough risks. Blue sky projects are presumably much, much lower probability than that.