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by logic 16y ago
You summed up in five words, what I was planning on writing quite a few more on. Well done. :)
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by logic 16y ago
If you enjoy Reader in Safari, may I suggest the Readability Redux extension for Chrome? https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamnea... (It's basically a port of arc90's Readability to Chrome.) In a perfect world, it woul
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by logic 16y ago
You haven't seen anything yet. They'll be moving their content behind a pay-wall in 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/business/media/21times.htm... This move (going after perceived commercial use of their public RSS feeds) is actual
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by logic 16y ago
Never say never. Froyo currently runs (in very crude form; drivers need work, as does power management) on an iPhone 3G today, dual-booting iPhone OS. (I'm currently experimenting with Android 1.6 on my 3G.) As long as the phone can be jail
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I was going to mention something along these lines; there seems to be a fixation on titles in his rant, possibly as a function of his argument that programmers don't get a lot of respect. That position doesn't gain much traction with me, wh
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by logic 16y ago
Probably because the headline of his blog is no longer "Zed's So Fucking Awesome", with the attendant imagery that complimented it so well. He's remarkably relaxed these days. :)
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by logic 16y ago
At the risk of parroting a good chunk of other folks here: your employer's business model is dead. My personal suspicion is that we're moving quickly toward a world dominated by local newsrooms covering local stories (with international dis
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by logic 16y ago
Late reply: yes, it's annoying, but thankfully not many folks seem to have rolled this out. You receive a single popup for a given domain, confirming that you want to block tynt for that site; the page is then reloaded, sans tynt. There's a
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by logic 16y ago
The "juggling tasks" test proved to be significantly more interesting; it certainly didn't feel as though the UI had as much of an impact on what my brain was working on (which, presumably, was the goal).
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by logic 16y ago
Maybe it's just me, but this feels like a poorly-constructed test. My own approach was to simply ignore anything blue; since my browser window is blue-framed, the Times background is black and white, and the UI elements are all blue, I simp
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by logic 16y ago
So, 10.0.45.2 is vulnerable. Oh look, that's the only available version of the 64-bit Linux plugin, because they don't do 64-bit builds along with their 32-bit builds: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
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by logic 16y ago
My reaction to feeds I subscribe to moving to teaser-only goes in two directions. I either: a) Unsubscribe. Probably not a bad thing for my productivity anyway; it implies I was remaining subscribed purely because of inertia. b) Spend five
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by logic 16y ago
"WARNING! Tynt Blocker has detected Tynt.com's tracer script in use on this site." I can't recommend this Chrome extension enough. :) https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/achmnghbfplhfomh...
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by logic 16y ago
They've never actually used their remote "kill switch" for any apps; if an app is simply removed for a change in policy or after-the-fact enforcement, deployed apps have remained. However, there is most definitely a remotely-controlled kill
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by logic 16y ago
Realistically, there's no way a typical end-user is going to deploy their own seed at all. I suspect they know this, as suggested by the fact that they plan to build a hosting service. (I presume that's how they're planning to monetize this
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by logic 16y ago
I think it's important to mention that this PDF pre-dates their Kickstarter campaign, lest anyone think this is a new architecture discussion. I really want these guys to succeed for a variety of reasons (not the least of which is that they
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by logic 16y ago
Sorry, this is long, but hopefully it'll be useful. My first startup was a "ramen profitable" ISP in central Canada during the mid-90's. I was very young and foolish, IMHO; I had just entered a relationship with a woman I'd met at Universit
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by logic 16y ago
Interesting that so many solutions posted thus far use strlen(). My C is beyond rusty, but this is what I came up with; do/while is so underappreciated these days. (HN needs a "spoiler" formatting tag, methinks. :) void condense_by_remo
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by logic 16y ago
In this context, "common carrier" is a legal designation reserved for telecommunications carriers under the Communications Act of 1934. To date, ISPs are specifically not under that broad category, although I'd wager it's simply a question
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by logic 16y ago
This is the reason I manually logged out of Facebook on all machines I use, deleted the cookies (and blocked 3rd-party cookies in Chrome), and have now made a habit of logging into Facebook only when in incognito mode.
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by logic 16y ago
I'm late to replying to this, but your response is the reason why many geeks don't get the problem here. None of what you just said makes any sense to my sister or my wife's aunt, both heavy Facebook users. "Cryptographically-secure", "MITM
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by logic 16y ago
For completeness, a counter-point to what happened: http://www.miconian.com/2010/05/23/metafilter-and-the-russia... (It was posted by someone who actually went to the club the young women were supposed to go to. I have no involvement in t
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by logic 16y ago
Hubris is the hallmark of entrepreneurial endeavors. I don't know how many sympathetic ears you'll have here if you're concerned about the "arrogance" of scientists.
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by logic 16y ago
A specific concern I've always had about this idea of indefinite lifespan is that of monoculture. How often have you heard a phrase along the lines of "this is a temporary problem; once the 'old guard' is no longer in charge, society can mo
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by logic 16y ago
Interestingly, the SSL version doesn't have the Pac Man game. ;)
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by logic 16y ago
Compare that graph to Google, though: http://www.quantcast.com/google.com Even YouTube shows a similar curve: http://www.quantcast.com/youtube.com I suspect this is a reflection of Quantcast's measurements, rather than something specifi
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by logic 16y ago
Nope. Unless, of course, you're googling "Do you feel lucky, punk?". http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=&q=do+you+fe...
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by logic 16y ago
Surely it's relevant to point out that those are from a month ago, during their fundraising push?
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by logic 16y ago
I don't see a draconian future ahead of me as an iPhone owner. I just installed Android on my 3G last night (as a test; it's nowhere near ready for day-to-day use yet, but it dual-boots, so you don't lose the iPhone OS), and can see a very
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by logic 16y ago
What a fantastic blast from the past. Thank you!

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