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by joh6nn 16y ago
actually, i know several people who still use both broadcast TV and radio. a major issue that many people seem to miss is that all communication necessarily self-selects for people who can receive it. today, in what many people consider to
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by joh6nn 16y ago
i like this idea; it's one of the main reasons i check out places like HN and Reddit on a regular basis: to see what other people are talking about. it's good that you've already got a "pause" button, but maybe "faster" and "slower" button
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by joh6nn 16y ago
dude, if you want us to look at something you made, just post it with "Show HN: ". don't try to link bait us: we're not stupid, and it makes you look like you are.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
well, thanks for posting that publicly: there goes the idea for my YC '12 entry.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
what's your asking price for your first born?
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by joh6nn 16y ago
i read it, and commented on why that was the important factor, as opposed to licensing. and i did so without copping an attitude.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
no. Apple bought Next, they didn't license tech from them. Nokia is licensing tech from MS. those are very different circumstances indeed.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
oh, for the love of god! "gate" is not a goddamn suffix! you do not add it to things to connote scandal! this is not an acceptable practice; it's down there with "irregardless" and "should of". stop doing it!
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by joh6nn 16y ago
this works out a little better if you go shopping with recipes in mind. that way, as the days/weeks go by, and you're looking at the food on the shelves, you already know at least one recipe that they can be used for. this might be a littl
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by joh6nn 16y ago
were you trying to taste food in a different orifice previously?
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by joh6nn 16y ago
seconded: login proliferation is a real problem that i face all the time. i've been on the web for very nearly 15 years at this point, and there's no numbering the accounts i've created in that time, let alone all the ones i actually still
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by joh6nn 16y ago
actually, i think it's the kind of system that just works well, period, as long as you can devote an entire day to cooking. i actually live with my fiancee, and the practice has become go shopping one day, do all our cooking the next. we
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by joh6nn 16y ago
this used to describe me, but my brother-in-law turned me on to doing all of my cooking on one day of the week, and freezing everything. this has several advantages (and one major disadvantage): cons: * you lose pretty much an entire d
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by joh6nn 16y ago
i can verify that i received a password reset email from sourceforge on saturday, that explained there had been an attempt made to get at the passwords, and that rather than wasting time speculating on if they had been compromised, they wer
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by joh6nn 16y ago
it's surprising to me that so far, no one has pointed out that this sort of user behaviour is A Bad Thing. while Undo is definitely important and desirable, a user base that ignores attempts to communicate with them is not. i don't know i
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by joh6nn 16y ago
so, as promised, here are things i'm still having issues with in Chrome: no script session management tab management auto-discovery for RSS feeds user-scripts password hasher https everywhere for several of these, there a
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by joh6nn 16y ago
it's actually been a while since i tried chrome, so for all i know, the things that held me back before, are available now. i know that before i sorely missed some of my FF extensions. when i get home this evening, i'll take another look
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by joh6nn 16y ago
thank god. this was one of the missing features that currently helps keep me tied to firefox.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
"But in this case it's the site choosing to share the search term with the ad network" in the same way that most users probably aren't aware of this, most publishers probably aren't aware as well. i, for one, never considered that the refe
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by joh6nn 16y ago
you guys have officially crossed the threshold from disagreeing to flaming-without-purpose. dial it back a bit, or take it outside.
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by joh6nn 16y ago
someone with binoculars would probably work better. the ski-masks have a connotation of criminal behavior, and while i think this is undesirable behavior, it certainly isn't criminal. as an aside, i don't think i've ever seen someone weari
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by joh6nn 16y ago
yes, that's right: this is just one arrow out of the quiver. sanitizing the search terms out of the referrer does not fix the full problem. whether the advertisers are receiving the headers are not depends on how the ads are served. to my
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by joh6nn 16y ago
well, i think Gabriel's point (though he's had some trouble getting it across) is not that Google is building the profile on you, but rather that other ad networks are. you do raise an excellent point about the email example, though. hopef
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by joh6nn 16y ago
From the American Heritage Dictionary: "Gout: (n) A disturbance of uric-acid metabolism occurring chiefly in males, characterized by painful inflammation of the joints, especially of the feet and hands, and arthritic attacks resulting from
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by joh6nn 16y ago
Gabriel, there seems to be some confusion here in the thread about "breaking HTTP_REFERRER" or in some way changing the current referrer behavior, which was not how i understood your post. can you confirm quickly that you are proposing that
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by joh6nn 16y ago
yep, you're not being malicious enough :) the issue is not whether the destination site receives the search terms (and indeed, Gabriel suggests that they should continue to do so, either through the GWT, or some other method). the issues is
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by joh6nn 16y ago
"Google doesn't track you. Your browser sends a referer header..." that's missing the forest for the trees, i think. while it's true that the browser is what sends the referrer, Google has some say in 1) what the referrer is (ie, what url
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by joh6nn 16y ago
1) actually, to my understanding it's a pretty common practice. i know that i at least have been served ads based on queries i just made, or pages that i just visited. i'd be very surprised if i was the only one here on HN who has had tha
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by joh6nn 16y ago
Gabriel mentions in this post that https does not fully solve the problem, as referrers are still sent when using google in https mode. Can you confirm whether that's correct?
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by joh6nn 16y ago
Why should we believe a guy who beats weather experts? Violence is no indicator of trustworthiness.

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