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by nikster 16y ago
It's not that simple. Real cheaters will react, and devise counter strategies to whatever you are tying to do. I can understand that Google is strict about this, that's their core business, CPC and conversion rate are what makes them the be
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by nikster 16y ago
My experience with DSL customer support is you have to lie. You don't use OS X - you use Windows, and IE. You don't have a WiFi router connected to the DSL modem - you're connected directly via Ethernet. You have re-installed your operating
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by nikster 16y ago
Why would you turn it down? I mean... I guess I haven't thought about it. $100k aren't going to make a huge difference in your life. I'd also imagine the money would come from the scammers. Not from the bank. If I write you a check for $95,
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by nikster 16y ago
Does Eclipse run on Chrome? No Eclipse, no coding...
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by nikster 16y ago
ROFL
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by nikster 16y ago
Nah, no way. PayPal wouldn't go down from a few 10k additional hits. PayPal is huge, and needs 100% uptime, and in addition to that has undoubtedly prepared for a major DDOS attack. They have unlimited resources, they have expertise, and th
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by nikster 16y ago
You know, I am really glad that you're not at all concerned about the invisible hand which seems to synchronize actions across governments, Visa, MC, PayPal, Amazon, and other major businesses. All in the name of shutting down free speech.
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by nikster 16y ago
A few thousand hits doesn't make any difference. It takes millions and billions to rattle PayPal.
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by nikster 16y ago
It's back up. But that sure was impressive. Anyone have a link to uptime statistics?
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by nikster 16y ago
I can attest to that. Before my final high school exams (oral - this is quite serious in our country) I drank a can of red bull - the first of my life. I was so hyped that despite knowing everything I had trouble concentrating - I passed bu
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by nikster 16y ago
Yeah. If you working on a nuke for Iran, you know you're a target for the Mossad (at the very least). Whether you call yourself a civilian or a soldier doesn't matter.
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by nikster 16y ago
The King of of the UAE even begged the US to bomb Iran... Obviously Iran wants the bomb, and given the crazy guy in charge it should make anyone feel _very_ uncomfortable. The last time they pursued this the Israelis at some point bombed th
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by nikster 16y ago
I love Jobs' endorsement of Miele washing machines. Where I grew up in Austria all everyone had was Miele. They were ridiculously expensive. Their slogan was "reliability for many years" which was an understatement as they actually ran for
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by nikster 16y ago
I'd argue that saying something today that will be common sense 25 years in the future is the very definition of prophetic. None of this was common sense back then, that's for sure. I got my first email account in 1995.
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by nikster 16y ago
WebObjects was just a really well designed app server. It's obvious things would work that way - even though WO didn't, in the end, "win". Too lazy too look it up but WebObjects might have been designed around the same time as Java. A prede
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by nikster 16y ago
I agree - but his view on Twitter is pretty interesting as well, namely the fact that Twitter is countless parallel groups and cultures that have little or nothing to do with each other. I am using Twitter to follow friends - though, sadly,
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by nikster 16y ago
Zynga - The Game Aim: Make money How to: Gather more played time. The more hours are spent on Zynga games, the more money is going to come in. More hours can be had by recruiting more players and making existing players play more. Add stuf
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by nikster 16y ago
You make time. Same reason people "have time" to gamble, or do whatever feeds their particular addiction. Speaking from experience here.
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by nikster 16y ago
I'd already wasted countless weeks of my life on offline RPGs - the idea of WoW just instantly screamed "stay away at all costs". I've never played WoW. I know better. I know it would suck me in and weeks later I'd wake up and wonder what h
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by nikster 16y ago
Wait so the company that's set out to clone BBM is located in the same place as RIM? Dramatic Chipmunk time! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw&feature=playe...
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by nikster 16y ago
Translation: "You're competing with our BBM service and you have to go before it starts costing us sales".
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by nikster 16y ago
^^^ Yes.
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by nikster 16y ago
None of these are especially created for mobile. Or aimed squarely at BBM with the same features. I had been thinking about creating BBM for other platforms simply because I'd like to have it on my iPhone.
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by nikster 16y ago
^^Agree. Kik is a BBM clone. Surprisingly badly done, actually, from what I can tell - but still, it's aiming straight for BBM. If it gains traction, it might turn into a BBM competitor which is available on all platforms, thereby removing
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by nikster 16y ago
Thanks for the summary. I tuned out right in the beginning when the author claimed that OS Xs file system is "broken for use with git". I followed the reference and it turns out that git breaks when you upgrade to OS X 10.3. Which was relea
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by nikster 16y ago
I wonder why they only offer $10k. It seems cheap, particularly, as you say, they probably spent WAY more than that trying to do this in-house. $10k is honestly hardly worth my time. I guess they're hoping for that one bright high school ki
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by nikster 16y ago
"Why are we spending all this money on a "miniscule" threat? Why are sexually molesting the population over a "miniscule" threat? (Rhetorical)" There are companies that are selling these things are and are making fistfuls of money, some of
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by nikster 16y ago
Google Voice is kind of the wrong product for the wrong time. It improves voice telephone calls exactly at a time when that's no longer very interesting. The only semi-interesting thing would be cheap international calls - but I have Skype
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by nikster 16y ago
You raise some valid points - let's look at it from a completely different angle, namely what's our goals. I'd like two things to happen: First for the lady blogger mom to get over it, and second for the TSA to be sharply pulled back from t
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by nikster 16y ago
+1 - Same here - I guess they didn't use their customer email database to tell us about it. Kudos to them.

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