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by nir 16y ago
John Robb has been writing about these kind of tactics for a while, he calls it "Open Source Warfare": http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/11...
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by nir 16y ago
It's not the tears. I could tear up as well. It's the disbelief that anyone would want to harm you, even though they never met you, just because you belong to a group (eg nation) they're opposed to. It was strange to me, since I grew up kn
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by nir 16y ago
I definitely don't single out Americans. In my experience it's just the same in Western Europe and other places. People who live in places where they are forced to exist "closer to the metal", eg Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa tend to
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by nir 16y ago
I don't really have a particular beef with Americans. My statement is about people I know in Europe and other Western nations as well as the US - it's less about politics than people's (politicians included) basic premises.
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by nir 16y ago
I'm sure you're not reading support for the Iraq war in my comments? My problem is not with the anti-war point of view, but with naivety of the legality argument.
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by nir 16y ago
Sure (btw, reworded it a bit, hope it's less inflammatory). A good example is the Iraq war: the pro-war side just assumed that, given the option, Iraqis will be happy to adopt the Western liberal democracy model. On the other hand, the anti
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by nir 16y ago
As someone who grew in the Mideast and spent some time in the US/EU/Aus, I was often amazed how completely detached Westerners are from the way the rest of the world works. Left wingers or conservatives, so many guns & money have been s
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by nir 16y ago
The whole Gruber-school of finding hidden meanings in whatever Apple does read like Talmudic Torah interpretations, pontificating on why a comma is in a certain place in a certain sentence. If you want to resell your iPod, don't engrave it.
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by nir 16y ago
People come into the US every day to meet clients, visit suppliers, talk in conferences etc, usually on tourist visas. The author's story really is outstanding, I don't know whether it's a particular customs official or his answers. But it
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by nir 16y ago
> When I started out in web development, my billing rate was $325/hour, ??? When was that? What technology? That's easily the highest rate I've ever heard of.
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by nir 16y ago
Anyone tried Flask/Bottle on GAE? These Sinatra-type mini frameworks seem like a good fit, but I never had a chance to try it out.
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by nir 16y ago
The article mostly describes obvious, well documented limitations of GAE. It's really the story of a team that needed a saw, picked a hammer, and spent months trying to get it to cut wood. This is a pretty common pattern in software, so it
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by nir 16y ago
http://prixfeed.com/ just makes some beer money - but it's ok for a single short PHP script..
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by nir 16y ago
"Gestapo me", "BS" - you seem pretty decisive. are you basing your comments on actual knowledge of the process or anecdotal evidence? My personal impression from countless times of passing via TLV is that the profiling is mostly itinerary b
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by nir 16y ago
Actually most people don't find it much fun, and don't use these apps. TC, NY Times & the rest of the hypeosphere are those pretending these products have any impact.
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by nir 16y ago
[shameless plug] If you have an Android phone around, you can just run your own gateway from it: http://kalsms.net Put an unlimited SMS plan SIM card in the phone, scan the QR image, configure two settings and you're done, anywhere in the
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by nir 16y ago
Having read the comments there, I don't see why they had him banned. Perhaps a few were offensive, but nothing the community can't handle. I prefer reading someone like this to safe comments that just recycle bits of PG's essays. HN could u
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by nir 16y ago
I'm curious about Giles Bowkett's comment on that story - is he really blocked on HN? If so, why?
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by nir 16y ago
Very cool! (Would be nice to be able to just get a random username instead of logging in via Twitter though..)
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3D-Printed Hybrid Uses Sunlight, Ethanol or Gas(wired.com)
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Microcredit 'death trap' for Bangladesh's poor(bbc.co.uk)
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by nir 16y ago
The author is not going to single handedly push forward the cryogenics or life extension industries. Maybe life will be significantly longer in the near future, maybe not. In the 60s we expected moon colonies around now and in the 50s top r
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by nir 16y ago
If you're 60 now, you don't necessarily have "decades to come", so the author's sense of urgency is understandable.
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by nir 16y ago
At least one person is benefiting from this, having fun & gaining experience by creating this project. Other people might benefit too, or perhaps not. There's no extra charge.
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by nir 16y ago
Using X the way it wasn't meant for is the definition of hacking.
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by nir 16y ago
Is it harder for Hipmunk to build an infrastructure comparable to Orbtiz, or for Orbitz to put together a UI comparable to Hipmunk? (That said, I could definitely imagine an Orbitz/etc TechCrunch-reading management buying Hipmunk instead of
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by nir 16y ago
I doubt someone committing to donate $x for every retweet validates Twitter as an activism tool. It's just a well meaning PR stunt that uses Twitter instead of any number of on/offline tools. A real test would be something like the protests
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by nir 16y ago
What I meant was that I already have an app called rmmbr running on appspot - http://rmmbr.appspot.com/ - so it would be cool if you used something other than rmmbr. I don't have any trademark etc, so there's nothing I could do about it,
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by nir 16y ago
nice app, but I wish you chose another name... http://rmmbr.appspot.com/
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by nir 16y ago
Excellent point, and often (as now) overlooked. PHP does have some brilliant design choices, for example attaching itself to the Apache process, terminating when the request ends - this makes a lot less vulnerable to issues like memory hand

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