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Missing iPhone redux(sfgate.com)
1 points by kaptain 15y ago|0 comments
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How and Why to Hash Passwords in PHP(phpsec.org)
3 points by kaptain 15y ago|3 comments
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HN-esque conversations on Reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by kaptain 15y ago|1 comments
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by kaptain 15y ago
Just because something is illegal doesn't mean that it is evil. Google paid $500 million because of "its improper advertising practices with regard to these pharmacies". There's no indication that they tried to trick people or steal from th
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Confusing evil and illegal(daringfireball.net)
1 points by kaptain 15y ago|1 comments
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by kaptain 15y ago
It's only missing a midi background track.
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by kaptain 15y ago
Related to this question is: 'Why is Google investing in and developing Android?'. Google's core business is NOT software; it's building connections between businesses and customers (i.e. advertisements). This is how Google makes money; Goo
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Cultural Exchange Students and the Chocolate Factory(nytimes.com)
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Response to Sam Odio(jonathanstark.com)
6 points by kaptain 15y ago|3 comments
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by kaptain 15y ago
A lot of the discussion here is focused on teachers because we think that they are the keystone to a quality education. I would argue that teachers are a vital part but they lack the power that family and culture have. In many Asian culture
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Heated Unicode discussion on emoji(unicode.org)
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by kaptain 15y ago
This article seems to echo this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2283636 . I still find it difficult to understand the business motivation behind Android; in this case, it seems suicidal. All the work that Google has put int
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by kaptain 15y ago
I'm not declaring it a bad idea. I'm pointing out how this idea is similar to a previously posted concept that other HN'rs thought was interesting. I saw the parallels so I thought maybe HN'rs might think this was interesting too. But with
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Cobra Effect: Lionfish-style(nytimes.com)
15 points by kaptain 15y ago|8 comments
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by kaptain 15y ago
I like to give myself small, somewhat easy to achieve tasks that are subtasks of the larger task. Then I like to create time limits to accomplish those things. This keeps me focused on what I have to do…
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WordPress 3.2 Released(codex.wordpress.org)
27 points by kaptain 15y ago|3 comments
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by kaptain 15y ago
Look for a mentor who is already working on a real-world project. The problem with learning things on your own is that the examples from which you are self-learning are (by design) too simple and often unrelated to a result that you want. T
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Tell HN: China's firewall allowing 'banned' sites(?)
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by kaptain 15y ago
What I was trying to say was that, you can't justify iCloud if people were going to buy books, music, etc. from you regardless of whether you released iCloud. If those folks were going to buy from you, having iCloud would just be an expen
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by kaptain 15y ago
I live in China but I am an American. My business partner and I intentionally decided not to pursue business here, instead focusing on an outsourcing model. The most obvious reasons are culture and language (I'm referring to the culture and
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Ask HN: Is iCloud a sustainable offering?
4 points by kaptain 15y ago|6 comments
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by kaptain 16y ago
> If you think about what information they have about somebody using their services (Search, GMail, Voice, Reader, Blogger, Maps, Shopper, Books, Finance, YouTube, News, Picasa, etc.) adding mobile to that set of data is the obvious ne
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by kaptain 16y ago
> What a loaded question. Whoa. Let's rephrase the question then. The parent defined better smartphone as better browsing. Let's replace iPhone with Palm Pre (or something else other than an Android phone). My point isn't that the iPho
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by kaptain 16y ago
Hrm. The number quoted doesn't sound interesting because it sounds fake. $1 billion dollars sounds like something Dr. Evil would say, not a real figure that got worked out in some SEC filing. I like how you broke down the different categori
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by kaptain 16y ago
This is the only reply that I've seen so far that makes sense to me.
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by kaptain 16y ago
Better smartphones = more browsing = more google traffic. Android makes smartphones better and cheaper Android might make smartphones better but it doesn't make better smartphones; that's up to the phone manufacturers. When we say 'bett
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by kaptain 16y ago
But they AREN'T insuring themselves against this. The mantra is: "Anyone can modify the code because it's open source". With regard to all these other search engines, I find it hard to take them seriously. If all these specialized searches
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Ask HN: How does Google make money off of Android?
32 points by kaptain 16y ago|35 comments
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by kaptain 16y ago
You might think so. It would be hard to test this empirically since I would need an alternate universe where people inside apple did not test unreleased software on themselves before releasing. But seeing the process that goes into deciding
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by kaptain 16y ago
When I started working for Apple (about 5 years ago now) it was my dream job (I had serious fanboitis). The new hires got a security orientation which was your basic "We spend lots of money protecting things; don't do anything lame." But th

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