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by jen_h 15y ago
Any idea why the lack of audio (besides the voyeury-creep factor audioless video grants)? This will be a perplexing omission for a lot of users who are already familiar with personal video chat apps like Tango/Oovoo/Google+ Hangouts et al.
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by jen_h 15y ago
But how does a pushy email from a founder prove this in any way? Doesn't call TechCrunch's credibility into question at all. (Also, check the update on the original article--the email was apparently sent to VB, not an accidental TC misaddre
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by jen_h 15y ago
Not sure how this email proves a backroom deal - it's a founder saying they bought something and they expect something. Sketchy, but all on the founder's part -- all suppositions to/from the founder, not the publication. Did they even get a
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by jen_h 15y ago
Hrm, DDG's Privacy Policy http://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html is enough reason to move over, methinks! Now to move muscle memory from g to d. ;)
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by jen_h 15y ago
Which is terrible. I use Bing as a backup for Google when Google fails me (not often), and I just don't like all of Bing's noise, the background graphics, the sidebar stuff, the slow load time, the Facebook Like button (FFS, WHY??), the "
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by jen_h 15y ago
I didn't realize they'd hidden cached pages this way...but here's a data point on human behavior that may be non-optimal for Google: So, yesterday, I searched for something on Google, found what I wanted, went to click Cache and it wasn't t
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by jen_h 15y ago
Been watching what may be the server side of this hack for the last week or so...it's not very subtle and retries obnoxiously enough to stand out/get itself blacklisted. It may also be possible that some developers' apps aren't catching dup
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by jen_h 15y ago
The developer agreement indicates that only authorized payment processors can be used. AFAIK, Google Checkout is the only Authorized Payment Processor. Good thing for the GOOG, too, because reliability and support is often so bad as to be c
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by jen_h 15y ago
Seriously. Two weeks ago, the GRAIL project sent two satellites on a Delta 2 to the moon. To the MOON. The entire mission, soup to nuts, cost 496 million dollars. To put this in perspective, with this cash, we could have also purchased one
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by jen_h 15y ago
netstat -s |grep "connections established" is pretty fast and does the job if you're not filtering for certain ports or IPs. But running plain old netstat on a system with so many connections is a really bad idea. I almost fired myself once
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by jen_h 15y ago
This article series is kind of a Bible to me. It's not going to solve all of your problems, for sure, depending on yer stack, and setting yourself up for a forkbomb isn't the wisest in all situations, but it's got a lot of good advice &
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by jen_h 15y ago
A. That is AWESOME. Props, guys! B. Just how long did it take for that netstat to return? ;)
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by jen_h 15y ago
This reminded me of a case back in 2003...the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the FBI in a case where they were tripping "recovery mode" to surreptitiously monitor drivers under Federal investigation: http://news.cnet.com/Court-
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by jen_h 15y ago
The old UI had its issues, but it was much faster than the new one. Issues I see on a daily with new Twitter: - There're a lot of little weird inefficiencies if you use the keyboard - for instance, if you expand a tweet, space bar no longer
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by jen_h 15y ago
One of the issues I've seen with startups that do this is that they end up being consumed by the consulting work and aren't really able to crunch on their own thing. Whether it's demanding clients or the cash, your attention gets sucked awa
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by jen_h 15y ago
Or, "It's sure to make millions of dollars, but the idea is so revolutionary and so top secret that I can't tell you anything about it until you agree to do all the work." Oy.
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by jen_h 15y ago
What in the world must DigiNotar's business plan for the future include? How could anyone trust them again? How is it possible that root-level certs were being issued and they've got no warning systems, no logging to determine what actually
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DigiNotar Damage Disclosure (with full list of issued certs)(blog.torproject.org)
178 points by jen_h 15y ago|57 comments
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by jen_h 15y ago
Absolutely! Many of our very best and most involved beta testers are visually impaired; their involvement and feedback's been invaluable -- not just on matters of accessibility but also/especially when piloting new & experimental featur
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by jen_h 15y ago
Put pedal to the metal and get it out there! Mirroring everyone else...well-funded competition means: 1. Your idea has legs. You have less to explain when people ask you about your startup. This is a good thing and saves a lot of time. 2. T
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by jen_h 15y ago
+1. Market support hates me. I just keep writing them, and writing them, and encouraging users to do the same. It always feels like tilting against windmills and I've never had Market Support solve a single issue or respond with any details
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by jen_h 15y ago
If this means that developer issues are going to be reviewed, responded to, and addressed by a real human being, and real public communication (maybe through the Dev Console, eh?) will be exchanged between Google and developers when issues
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Google closes Android developer complaint forums(theregister.co.uk)
86 points by jen_h 15y ago|35 comments
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by jen_h 15y ago
It looks like it's coming: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/
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by jen_h 15y ago
I like it, but I don't know where we'd be without our egos - much good work would never get accomplished. I, for one, would be worthless without ego. My favorite "guiding principle," when faced with a tough question, however politically inc
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by jen_h 15y ago
I actually find Groups within Google Apps mail to be pretty easy to set up and effective for our needs--setting up private groups is a really cheap & easy way to sort mail for free. I have groups like: - productA-support (which is reall
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by jen_h 15y ago
I think this is a real YMMV subject - using a single email address can be a little dangerous if your startup has a chance of "going big" (and don't they all??). Even 50 extra messages a day can be overwhelming and you may find yourself skip
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by jen_h 15y ago
The most fun one I ever found was a situation where a daemon analyzing & forwarding traffic through a bridged interface would lock up & stop passing traffic when you popped backwards and forwards through time on the box.
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by jen_h 15y ago
This one was a blast back in the day: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua... No need to run the test case, you'd run into it soon enough on a 2.6 kernel on VMWare. ;)
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by jen_h 15y ago
"The system clock can, and will, jump backwards and forwards in time due to things outside of your control. Your program should be designed to survive this." This is one of my favorite go-to test cases. I've found some really fantastically

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