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by kgarten 13y ago
Google Glass? As far as I know, Google Glass is originally a Google X project ... they did not acquire a company if I know correctly. They hired some people from the wearable computing field.
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by kgarten 13y ago
sorry for the meta discussion: really wondering about the quality of the hacker news front page posts recently. Yesterday, there was a spam post about a fictitious iOS Hackathon from Google. Today this ... It's not even news, already o
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Windows Phone climbs to nearly 10% of smartphone sales in Europe (thenextweb.com)
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by kgarten 13y ago
On a side note (unrelated and a bit self-promoting) ... it makes me sad to see a hoax like that getting so much up votes on hacker news, when I just submitted one of my blog posts last week and did not get even one comment or up vote :S ht
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by kgarten 13y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a hoax ... check there's no information about the event organizers. All forms etc. are from free google products (forms, drive maps) and at the stage right now it's highly unlikely in my opinion tha
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by kgarten 13y ago
sorry ... but this is likely a hoax maybe phishing. It's hosted on a sites.google.com account with the old google logo. Who is up-voting it? Can you give some more information about the legitimacy of the event?
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My grandparents using Google Glass(kaikunze.de)
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by kgarten 13y ago
They reference Koushik Dutta in the sources. He believes it's intentional, see: https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/ZeHgRXS6...
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Wordometer and Document Analysis using Pervasive Sensing(kaikunze.de)
1 points by kgarten 13y ago|0 comments
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HSV Color palette for every Programmer(paletta.mrk1869.com)
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Google Chrome security flaw offers unrestricted password access(theguardian.com)
23 points by kgarten 13y ago|20 comments
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by kgarten 13y ago
This depends on how you argue ... some lawyers think this is covered under the freedom of expression. As far as I know there is also some international law covering the protection of sources. Yet, I'm not sure and have no clue about la
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by kgarten 13y ago
You think the German intelligence bugs embassies of other countries (and the UNO ??) and has secret deals wiht Google, Apple etc.?? I highly doubt it, the ramifications would be too high in case it became public. Anyhow, we are discussing U
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by kgarten 13y ago
ha ha :) nice example for ad hominem. The author is part of the Green party directly fighting the law you mentioned. Also if you cannot see the difference between the law Germany passed and what the US is doing with PRISM, you seem to be on
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by kgarten 13y ago
for me as well ...
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Are you reading Onion or Salon.com? Then you might be a threat to the U.S.(mcclatchydc.com)
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On Confirmed Assumptions or, Not Trusting Google is Good Idea(anarchism.is)
1 points by kgarten 13y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 13y ago
In Germany half is currently stored in an old salt mine which is at risk of water breaking in (in a region with seismic activity) ... the other half sits in bright daylight under tin roofs (not my definition of very very deep ... :)
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by kgarten 13y ago
just watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_(film) for a start ... (it can silently kill even in generations).
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Nearly 70% of Packed Windows System files are labeled as Malware(sarvamblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by kgarten 13y ago|2 comments
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Dieter Rams: Ten Principles For Good Design(readymag.com)
1 points by kgarten 13y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 14y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Hijacking Android like Facebook does it, might mean trouble for Google. Google's revenue comes from advertisement in their products. If you use an app to rebrand the smart phone, so people won't use Google servic
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Take the bloody shot -- experiences with taking your picture everyday(manuelgrabowski.de)
1 points by kgarten 14y ago|0 comments
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Google blocking Jabber invites?(tech.slashdot.org)
1 points by kgarten 14y ago|0 comments
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by kgarten 14y ago
There are 2 major problems I have with world war II stories (the article tackles the first one extremely well) ... First of all, most Holocaust memorial articles etc. in general just focus on jews, however, there were other people also equa
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by kgarten 14y ago
"We can better service them by being able to refund them, look up order status issues, and potentially contact them with issues they may have." Order status issues for apps? Giving developers the option of contacting users regarding issues
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by kgarten 14y ago
fair enough ;) though / usually redirects to index.html
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by kgarten 14y ago
strange ... I submitted this 4 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5176279 Seems the duplicate detection is not really working.
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by kgarten 14y ago
any recommendations where to start? :)
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'Android' Is Over – Normals Call It 'Galaxy'(businessinsider.com)
4 points by kgarten 14y ago|1 comments

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