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by mankash666 8y ago
I've had 2 instances where the IRS erroneously concluded that I owe them large tax bills. It took a few months of back and forth paperwork and phone calls to resolve, and have the IRS note on paper that I owe them nothing. With this la
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by mankash666 8y ago
Why doesn't flockport use layers? I would think it beneficial on many fronts: 1. If user's machine already has some of the layers for other images, no need to download them 2. Updating an app becomes an actual update to the so lay
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by mankash666 8y ago
Quick - call the lawyers and incorporate the caving company, brand a few generic flamethrowers and sell to the HN sycophants, and shit all over the free press for noticing the truth about financials and product quality
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by mankash666 8y ago
> as a local device with iCloud disabled, they provide the most usably private device that is widely available This! The very fact that you perceive Apple to be more private than the competition is the exact point I'm harping on. Th
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by mankash666 8y ago
It certainly isn't Apple's problem. But their marketing screams "We care about your privacy", while their actions show otherwise. It's completely OK for Apple to pursue their business interests, but the false moral
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by mankash666 8y ago
Apple's pretentious stance on privacy is baffling. Threatened with a blackout in China, they rolled over like an obedient lap-dog and quietly transitioned ALL iCloud-China related compute and storage to a government controlled cloud. A
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by mankash666 8y ago
Truth has a funny way of catching up!
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by mankash666 8y ago
This makes the whole "Sites contained within their own links" untrue. You need a server to host the javascript.
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by mankash666 8y ago
Hello Martin - slightly off topic. There's no pricing section on your website. Does one have to get in touch with sales for a quote?
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by mankash666 8y ago
> web apps seem to be JUST barely now getting there when it comes to app quality, polish. True. And this is the time for Apple to support and reach parity with other browser vendors on emerging Web features. Unless their true intent is t
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by mankash666 8y ago
Despite initial plans, that ship has long sailed. Apple's all about exerting control over the app store, and purposefully breaking the open web on their platform, to drive users and devs to the app store. Non exhaustive list of web API
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by mankash666 8y ago
1. You appear to be a Google employee, or a huge Google fanboy. Either is fine with me, but I hope you see your pro-Google bias. 2. In general, I'm defensive of Google, against all the unreasonable shite hurled at them. However, I stan
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by mankash666 8y ago
People perfectly get this. When Google is used as an auth provider, people get accustomed to robo-clicking the "allow" button. While there are legit use cases to grant permission to emails, many 3rd parties rely on you robo-allo
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by mankash666 8y ago
When people signed up for Google, the expectation was for Google (at worst) to have access to email content. But divvying up personal email to third parties shouldn't have been so much as a thought at Google, let alone an API! Everyone
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by mankash666 8y ago
Email workflows existed prior to the GitHub's of world. The latter won because of genuinely superior workflow
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by mankash666 8y ago
The leaks, they keep on coming for Tesla. Tesla employees seem genuinely worried about shortcuts, despite taking pride in being associated with the most innovative automaker of our times. I believe Musk should heed to concerns, instead of f
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by mankash666 8y ago
Yes - the REAL MZ wants to secretly, voluntarily drive traffic and engagement to Twitter
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by mankash666 8y ago
Yes - Because the real MZ is into making everyone on HN delete their FB permanently
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by mankash666 8y ago
I doubt you'd have the time, what with all the fellating you provide ISIS.
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by mankash666 8y ago
You're grossly misinformed about the importance of corporate sponsorship and involvement. 1. Google's use of Linux legitimizes Linux (further) 2. Corporations have contributed far more to Linux's source code than individual v
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by mankash666 8y ago
The first question to answer is WHY user adoption remains anemic. Once there's an understanding of the cause, solution proposals make sense.
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by mankash666 8y ago
The tech and applications have existed for a while now, but adoption hasn't been comparable to large, centralized rivals. I'd argue activityPub isn't the future, until it root causes the reason for anemic adoption. Also, the
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by mankash666 8y ago
You can always dynamically resize at the rate of 1GB. That's still a drawback as your app needs to manage dynamic resizing. While aws may not be more expensive, it's more convenient
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by mankash666 8y ago
What's the use case for this? Are native C binaries/libraries not invokable in rust?
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by mankash666 8y ago
It's more predictable, when generated from a strongly typed language. Most of the times, due to the strong typing, it is faster. However, there's a cost involved in compiling, invoking and passing data in and out of a wasm module.
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by mankash666 8y ago
But you are. The "military" follows the orders of the executive branch. Period. Employees at Google are protesting the military's efforts to advance itself, while their real beef is with the executive branch.
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by mankash666 8y ago
I wish they published total number of installs and active monthly users.
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by mankash666 8y ago
Let's face it - Google has cash to burn. They can entertain the development of 3 OS-es!!
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by mankash666 8y ago
And how's that the fault of the military? Go after Rumsfeld and his falsification of intelligence if you have to, the people who gave their lives, and those who continue to put themselves in harm's way for your right to shame them
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by mankash666 8y ago
Software engineers in the valley seem disconnected from reality. Maybe they believe politically correct fairies drop from the heavens and secure the US, it's borders and interests. Or maybe the Taliban and ISIS don't deserve drone

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