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by lftl 16y ago
What should be the goal of a tax policy or a government? Maximal total economic output? Equal opportunity for everyone? A low Gini coeffecient? I think his main point in talking about taxation and government is that there are philosophical
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by lftl 16y ago
I'd go one step further and say that some of this is even a design flaw in the platform. Depending on developers to check a system setting to see if they should make updates is absolutely backwards. The OS should provide an API that allows
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by lftl 16y ago
I've always thought of this problem in reverse for both Twitter and Facebook. I have certain followers/friends that are interested in my thoughts about programming and business and others who would care more about where I'm going this after
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by lftl 16y ago
There aren't a ton of details in the post, but I really hope this doesn't mean the end of an unlocked Nexus One, or whatever Android phones will follow. That being said, Google needed to kill this. Along with the no retail try it before you
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by lftl 16y ago
I haven't used FB's ad creation in depth, but I don't think it would take much personal-type information to do this. One of the biggest ways FB offers to target is by the pages/groups a user likes/is a fan of/whatever they call it now. So y
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by lftl 16y ago
I definitely think thats part of the picture, but I feel presentation is part of it too. Google has spent a TON of time testing their ad formats to get the right measure CTR without annoyance. I don't get the feeling FB has invested as much
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by lftl 16y ago
One issue with this may be that for awhile FB let you use create ads that would pull from a user's and their friends' profile pictures. This led to some pretty amusing ads for dating services with people's signifcant other being protrayed a
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by lftl 16y ago
I was honestly shocked at the $120,000 median net worth statistic. That's WAY higher than I expected. That was listed as 2007, so I wonder if the housing market and stock market changed that dramatically in the last few years.
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by lftl 16y ago
That definitely makes sense when you're at home or in the office, but I've recently started working off my laptop a lot more, and this is helpful when I'm at a cafe or a clients site and I don't have any access to the router and need to giv
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by lftl 16y ago
If by hash you mean a one-way hashing system, then he did say significantly different and not just different. You couldn't do that with any common one-way hash.
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by lftl 16y ago
If you're on the dev channel, web inspector has improved immensely. It's seriously cut down on the amount of time I've had to spend in FF. Great job pulling out some of the other annoyances. I've definitely been bitten by that one. While bo
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by lftl 16y ago
For everyone asking what's wrong with Chrome's URL bar, here's one specific example I run into. I go visit Google Analytics relative often. In Firefox, I can start typing analytics.. and it pulls up GA as an option very quickly. With chrome
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by lftl 16y ago
I'm never very bothered handing out my CC details. It's not like I'm liable for anything that happens with it, and when shopping online I generally just the one-time use numbers that all of my credit cards offer. Really, the worst that can
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by lftl 16y ago
I should clarify. Braintree is perfectly competitive as long as you're handling some volume (20K/mo or so), and are willing to roll your gateway and merchant account into one provider. For smaller ventures, not so much.
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by lftl 16y ago
"High REST" vs. "Low REST" was one bit of vocabulary that was bounced around for awhile: http://lesscode.org/2006/03/19/high-low-rest/
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by lftl 16y ago
The intent here, it seems to me, is to stop Adobe from making crappy commercial middleware for Apple's platforms. This is actually the biggest part of Job's argument that I don't buy. If their intent was actually to stop crap from being p
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by lftl 16y ago
There are literally millions of experiences out there that can't be done with HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. if you want proof, go to theFWA.com and have a look around. I don't disagree with your general premise about flash offering more robu
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by lftl 16y ago
I don't really have a direct answer to your question, but the somewhat official demo for node.js is a chat server that uses http long polling to push messages out, so node can definitely handle that.
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by lftl 16y ago
This please. It doesn't have to be JS, if I can just POST my form to their server, and have the user redirected back with a token that'll work just as well. Braintree does this, but they're rather pricey. I've wanted this feature bad enough
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by lftl 17y ago
Maybe things have changed, but I've always heard that the App Store is pretty much a break even proposition for Apple. The hardware is where they make all their money. If this becomes a race based solely on price I'm confident Apple will ef
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by lftl 17y ago
Parent said AdSense whereas you said AdWords, gigantic difference in the service experience you get. Which is mostly logical since AdWords users are directly paying customers, while AdSense users are more like vendors.
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by lftl 17y ago
I'm less worried about energy, and more about time. Not having to stop at every stop along a route would cut a lot of commute time, and make adding more stops more feasible.
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by lftl 17y ago
Their review stayed relatively factual. There's only one or two "feeling" type criticisms. The headline is probably the most biased bit. I'd actually be shocked given the drama surrounding this device if it had come out as a thoroughly poli
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by lftl 17y ago
It would be interesting if you added in a question about price that people paid as well. While the sample size is small, I'm surprised that the US is largely on par with Europe in terms of speed. I'd expect though that price / speed is much
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by lftl 17y ago
I don't understand the problem. Why can't you minimize the "People you follow" pane and just ignore it? Is it that shared items appear in the "All items" view? An easy solution is to just drop all your subscriptions into a single folder, an
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by lftl 17y ago
No argument from me that Spock's work was pretty much worthless, but I don't think articles like this or common sense are that much better. The two problems with common sense are that it isn't very common, and it's often wrong. Some of the
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by lftl 17y ago
It is. They mention in their privacy policy that they may disclose anonymized histories, so they might have a decent legal leg to stand on. I don't think this helps them much in court of public opinion, and it helps even less in not pissing
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by lftl 17y ago
Yes, it's netflix's fault unless they clearly obtain permission from people to share information that their customers could naturally assume was private. As stated elsewhere Netflix should just have a clear opt-in for sharing the data and w
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by lftl 17y ago
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/paul/netflixs-impendin... This post, which is linked from the ARS article states a given birthdate , gender, and zip code can uniquely identify most Americans. So, while the parent should probably sp
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by lftl 17y ago
Some of the other browsers definitely have a feature set that's more compelling without extensions. FF really doesn't for me though. The two things I can think of are a slight increase in speed, and the awesomebar (which actually negates so

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