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by kevinchen 15y ago
To add to point 2: If this service becomes wildly popular, then the cities it operates in are going to have hell of a cleanup job. Yes, they say they use "eco-friendly solutions," which I take to mean biodegradable soap, but that soap has t
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Ironically, the class is taught by Professor Mulligan. Heh.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Exactly. Those sites (the big ones, at least) will not go down without a fight. They have too much to lose.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Looks like they went down. Cached in Google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by kevinchen 15y ago
I use ClickToFlash, which gets rid of the annoying, CPU-hogging ads while supporting most websites.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
The “let’s cut corners because most people won’t notice or care” mentality you mentioned is where sub-par software comes from. Good software shouldn’t be a luxury that one can be “spoiled” by — it should be the standard.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Did this remind anybody else of a cell membrane with proteins and stuff attached?
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Looks legitimate: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/ Goodbye, sir. Thank you for changing my life.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Of course there's value in what they're doing — to advertisers. As a user, I am not 100% comfortable with any tracking service, supercookie-based or otherwise. [Edit: Made the wording clearer]
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by kevinchen 15y ago
According to IV: > Imagine an inventor out there — someone with a brilliant idea, a breakthrough. This inventor has a patent, but companies are stealing his idea. And this inventor doesn't have the money or legal savvy to stop them. Tha
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by kevinchen 15y ago
The problem is, what if somebody stores their data in your server, and then you decide to turn it off? Will the data have to be automatically mirrored on several other servers (inefficient) or will it have to be mirrored when you want to sh
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by kevinchen 15y ago
…and then after you get one of those "hot-shots" testing your product, create an artificial scarcity by doling out beta invitations slowly. [Of course, this will only work if you set up some kind of website with pretty / cool-looking screen
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Even if it can't carry cargo one day, it could still be outfitted with a tiny camera, some sort of radio, and maybe a little onboard storage. Paint it like a bird, and boom — a sneaky surveillance system. [Somebody's already said this, huh?
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by kevinchen 15y ago
lmkg is correct. The SAT is not a test that tests your knowledge; it's a test that tests how many test prep classes you've taken. It's shaped by money and politics, and not by how to better assess students' knowledge.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
I've been to China many times, and I've never seen a Mexican restaurant there.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
Exactly - I fail to see how this is news at all. Anybody with a camera and internet connection could figure this out in a few days.
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by kevinchen 15y ago
99.99% of users will not notice or care. I can see a use case where devs who don’t feel like building for Twitter’s API will want to use RSS to quickly get a user’s recent tweets. But I don’t think this will significantly impact anybody’s a
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by kevinchen 15y ago
I was really hoping this could avoid Hacker News.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
troll (noun) one who says or does inflammatory things for the purpose of entertainment or seeing a reaction
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by kevinchen 16y ago
Forget the Amazon example (there are plenty of legit sites that self-sign, like my school's online grading system). It scares the hell out of your average computer user, and it doesn't provide much gain.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
Those people aren't "idiots," they're normal (non-geek) people. They just want to buy stuff on Amazon or whatever and not have their credit card number stolen.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
I don't think the solution is as simple as that, but references do help.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
However, we are still teaching and emphasizing arithmetic and memorization in high school — even in the advanced classes. That's the problem, really.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
They just don't want to get sued. Simple as that.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
Perhaps you're right. But I think that the article could be summed up in a few bullet points without losing detail.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
From the 90’s, Steve Jobs has done a lot of good things for Apple. He plans and thinks through everything he does. I don’t think it’s likely that he hasn’t thought of a plan for Apple for when he’s gone.
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by kevinchen 16y ago
Very interesting findings. But, can you imagine the author explaining something more complicated?
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by kevinchen 16y ago
…why is a resume on hacker news?
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by kevinchen 16y ago
So Rémi Denis-Courmont is basically putting his open software principles ahead of the utility users would get on their iPhones. Very noble indeed...