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by mehrdada 13y ago
While there might be broad laws and regulations out there, you have to go out of your way to implement technological measures to restrict access to a certain service. Not all services are created equal: I think it is reasonable to advocate
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by mehrdada 13y ago
About 4 years ago when I was leaving Iran, you could see physical establishments (i.e. shops) publicly advertising VPN access. While I'm not sure if you can sell VPN access as obviously as before, I'm quite sure that most internet
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Having lived the first two decades of my life, and naturally had to circumvent network blocking, in Iran, I can tell you that's not how they work. Most of the blocking they do is targeted at the masses, and most people actually do circ
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by mehrdada 13y ago
So DRM is considered ethical, as opposed to malware? That's a low ethical standard to adhere to.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Also, without accessible web fonts, developers will have to use images containing rendered texts to get text pretty on their web pages, which is not so easy to index for a search engine.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Mmm... Looks like they haven't quite abandoned it, after all. ;)
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by mehrdada 13y ago
This was publicly admitted by Bill Gates himself in his joint interview with Steve Jobs. Just pointing out that it's not been a secret act. It made practical sense because of the nature of the Xbox360 processor architecture (triple cor
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Why would you want to carry just one credit card when you can carry zero with Square (or Google Wallet)? If it is because of the "tradition problem", it's not much better than Square Wallet either: In more than one place I&#x
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by mehrdada 13y ago
> Uhhhh... Way to prove the point, man. I am not SV. The point I am trying to make is that it is irrelevant that SV comes across as arrogance. Certainly not worthy of a WSJ article. Similarly, you can say that the article comes from an a
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Note that stock prices are "Wall Street" metrics, which by the way constitutes two thirds of WSJ's name. By their metric, SV is doing well.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Interestingly, I do not even think the main point of the talk is to actively seek independence for Silicon Valley, but rather, it's simply projecting a future that will happen, and in fact, is mostly a continuation of the trend that&#x
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by mehrdada 13y ago
"Stealing" has a very narrow definition. Causing someone to lose some potential revenue is not necessarily stealing.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Get a used (prev. gen) MacBook Air off of Craigslist.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Note that Stack Overflow itself was not VC funded for a good amount of time. They only raised VC funding when they wanted to push StackExchange towards other areas outside programming. They certainly were not VC funded from the beginning.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Alright, fine. If you believe calling Experts Exchange names by a tiny startup, that had just joined the QnA business, had anything to do with killing EE, you are horribly wrong. It's like me calling for Microsoft's death as an in
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by mehrdada 13y ago
I know that was what he said, but I believe that sentence was just a simple way to communicate their vision like using "XYZ done right" to describe a company. He did not particularly care about Experts Exchange IMO.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
I joined Stack Overflow about 4.5 years ago and I was one of the top 10 all time users on Stack Overflow for a couple years or so, so I have seen my fair share of SO/EE arguments on the web. What's interesting is that not a single
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by mehrdada 13y ago
I am a big fan of the Nexus 4, but it is objectively inferior: it lacks LTE, battery life is probably far worse, and it has worse screen than 5c (just look at the screen in sunlight and see the visible digitizer dots). Also, Nexus 4 pricing
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Sounds like an integer overflow bug in the drive controller firmware.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
You can make the screen bigger without making the device bigger. There's a lot of bezel to get rid of. Case in point: Moto X.
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by mehrdada 13y ago
It's true that the number refers to its size; that said, Nexus 4 is really 4.7". 4.7 is closer to 5 than 4, so I would not be surprised if they did name the next one Nexus 5 .
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by mehrdada 13y ago
If you want to kick yourself for not buying anything, which is not a wise thing to do considering there's always something growing faster than you'd expect, kick yourself for not buying TSLA options, not the stock. That's whe
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Modern processors are much more complicated than old at-most-single-instruction-per-cycle processors. There are techniques collectively known as Instruction Level Parallelism that enable a processor to execute several instructions in each
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by mehrdada 13y ago
My gut tells me that everything falls down to your last bullet, i.e. Google does not care if the full app is HTML5, but they want the an HTML5 YouTube player with appropriate DRM to be embedded in the app so they have full control on the ad
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by mehrdada 13y ago
Thanks for your reply. I'm glad you cleared this up. I'm sorry if I read too much through your statements. The last feeling you mentioned is totally aligned with I was trying to say: to emphasize if you are an inventor type, you&#
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by mehrdada 13y ago
The title implies all that. At least that's how I see it. My main point: in my view, the logical reasoning process that leads to the decision of inventing Google Reader inside Google or outside Google should be independent of Google cu
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by mehrdada 13y ago
If his primary concern had been Google Reader staying alive, he arguably had "false sense of comfort" back then, and this is exactly what I am saying. He made a mistake in evaluating risks. The news is not for him, of course, as i
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by mehrdada 13y ago
>> I don't see any whining about a wrong I don't think it was a wrong decision either--hence the quotes. I think it was not easy to pull it off outside Google. >> I see somebody saying that Google is different today fr
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by mehrdada 13y ago
"Google Reader founder Chris Wetherell said that if the idea came to him in today’s Google, he would leave the company and build it on his own rather than put it at the mercy of Google leadership." Guess what dude?! If I were in t

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