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by mapgrep 14y ago
I see your point on that - interesting overall take on how you can't judge from the outside.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
You referenced and tried to refute the article, but how do you know Musk is happy? How do you know he has found his personal balance? From what little I know about his personal life -- and it may be unrepresentative, again -- you can argue
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Wait, why is Elon Musk being used as example of someone who doesn't need vacations? We don't know what his personal life is like, in comparison to all we know about his professional life. There is no data. Digging into his personal life is
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Customer: It's not much of a cheese shop, is it? Owner: Finest in the district! Customer: (annoyed) Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please. Owner: Well, it's so clean, sir! Customer: It's certainly uncontaminated by cheese....
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Good example, definitely shows this is not "unprecedented" as OP says. Except maybe for the "extremely sorry" part :)
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I'd be really interested to see the argument in which the city is better off in the opposite case - the startups all, as OP suggested, keep to the suburbs (like Pleasanton) or cheaper Midwestern cities (won't the gentrification just move to
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by mapgrep 14y ago
He also decried most of the controversy as confusion and press hype. "We're not perfect, phones aren't perfect." This letter says "We are extremely sorry." Extremely! Imagine Steve Jobs saying, "I am extremely sorry" is tough to imagine. P
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by mapgrep 14y ago
At least we're agreed it's not part of an "ugly urban cycle."
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Yup, it's less obviously progress for people whose rents spike up, because that is objectively bad, as I said. But long term it's better to have people moving back into urban centers than the massive outflow we had in the 1960s, which did n
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by mapgrep 14y ago
That's not an ugly urban cycle, that's progress! Rents and real estate prices go up, prompting new development and increasing density. Much of San Francisco, even near(south of) the downtown core is 3-5 story industrial buildings and parki
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by mapgrep 14y ago
If your email is hacked, you don't necessarily even know your email is hacked. With traditional username/password authentication, an attacker has to reset passwords to leverage email, and you have a very god shot at noticing a password some
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by mapgrep 14y ago
This turns your email inbox into a giant password manager, except without the extensive storage encryption used by real password managers. Thought experiment: What are the possible unintended consequences of that? Just a few off the top of
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Funny subtitle: "The Apple iOS 6 Maps are amazing. Not." People seem to think "amazing" == "cool". Not so! It just means astonishing or surprising. Which makes the word so much more interesting to use. "We charge $9 for a bottle of Corona."
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by mapgrep 14y ago
The whole concept of "supporting Linux" is odd. Linux is a kernel. As a Mac user I don't go around asking if people support XNU. A company like Netflix has to target relatively consistent environments -- operating systems -- so a much more
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Agreed. Too often we hear of new tech via "this is the best thing ever" commentary, followed a few months later by the inevitable "actually that thing sucks" commentary. Much better is "here are the trade offs, based on actual usage" commen
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by mapgrep 14y ago
"It seems like I’ve been rubbishing the whole ‘REST’ project. Actually I think the current situation is healthy. Monolithic ‘enterprise’ protocols like SOAP usually end up being a bad idea."
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Very interesting, I did not know that.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
If Dropbox were designed to handle sequentially-numbered blobs of encrypted data, changing one file would require your other devices to download only that file (an encrypted blob of roughly the same size). With a TrueCrypt volume or othe
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by mapgrep 14y ago
When one (of many) underlings falls far short on one (of many) company edicts and you don't know about it, that's not "completely failing" as a manager.
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I apologize for the karma comment, it was a jerk thing to do so I removed it. Sorry. That said, I really wish you wouldn't take the thread wildly offtopic, I was just trying to answer the guy's question. And I honestly wonder if you read my
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Really? It was really asking too much to ask you to read the second sentence of my post? Your reply has nothing to do with what can be said by a political opponent. The OP asked "what is the political motivation for keeping the TSA in
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by mapgrep 14y ago
The political motivation for keeping the TSA intact is that if you abolish the TSA and there's a terror attack or high-profile crime involving an airplane or airport, your political opponents can say "Sen. So-And-So put us at risk by being
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by mapgrep 14y ago
From the article: "The White House unexpectedly cut short the time period for the petition." This is distinct, by the way, from a separate outage for maintenance: "The site ALSO went down for 'maintenance' following a Wired article that s
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by mapgrep 14y ago
That's a little disappointing, because it means your claim to have no file size limits can't really be true. What is the real limit for sending a file to someone who doesn't have the app installed? Would a 100TB transfer really work? I don'
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I don't. Open source tends to work better in mature markets where there is something relatively stable to copy and where there are a lot of players who are incentivized to cooperate and adhere to standards. That's not mobile right now, and
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I've wanted this too. I have information in Gmail (Google Apps version), Google Reader, and Google Docs, plus information I've read randomly on the internet, and I often can't remember where I saw something. The more integration they can do
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by mapgrep 14y ago
>Who gives a damn about mobile? Some of us have work to do Who gives a damn about these "personal computers"? They are toys for obsessive nerd hobbyists. Some of us have work to do. Who gives a damn about this "multimedia?" It's all toy
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by mapgrep 14y ago
Honan no longer works at Gizmodo. It says so right in the OP, along with the name of his new employer. So... ?? You say that post "got you thinking." Got you thinking what?
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by mapgrep 14y ago
What are you even alleging? What is the rat?
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by mapgrep 14y ago
I'm a little disappointed how this article and many of the comments here ignore the specifics of what actually happened. Yes "use different passwords" and "use a password manager" are good general advice. But this blog post expressly uses a

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