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by nir 17y ago
Can't blame the guy, though, since we reward this type of writing by making this "Ciao Apples, Hola Oranges" essay #2 in HN.
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by nir 17y ago
I'm using Google ID, but the technology that enables this is OpenID. It's just under the hood, which IMHO is where it should be. Most users have no idea what OpenID is, and are confused when they are asked for a URL in order to sign up. Eve
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by nir 17y ago
You're right - but for my apps I don't think I'd support these, for the same reasons.
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by nir 17y ago
If you use a Yahoo/Google OpenID, the user doesn't need to know the identifier (or anything else for that matter) - you use a fixed URL ( https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id for Google), Google/Yahoo handles the sign in and sends them ba
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by nir 17y ago
Isn't the single URL approach more user (& developer) friendly, though? It allows developers to just put in a "sign in via Google" button, instead of confusing users by requiring them to enter their OpenID URL.
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Waze: Crowd sourced traffic alerts(waze.com)
2 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
"If you can't make money from attention, you should do something else for a living" - News Corp made almost $33b revenues from attention last year.
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by nir 17y ago
If by reality you mean Buffett or Soros, consider the thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of extremely smart and hardworking people who fail to replicate their success.
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Joshua Allen Harris uses the subway vents to create inflatable bag sculptures(youtube.com)
5 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
There's also RSS, but all of these provide access to mail functionality, while Gmail is a lot more than that. The uses I have in mind are closer to Google Labs' "Unsend", or having web service-like access to moving stuff around in gmail, cr
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by nir 17y ago
Gmail. But more than a specific API, it would be cool if websites simply provided an XML(/JSON/etc) version for every urls. Eg, http://news.ycombinator.com/item.xml?id=955077 would return the data in this page in XML format. This would be
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"Once upon a time Second Life had a Twitter level of hype"(news.bbc.co.uk)
6 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Upmodded you for the first part, but the "that person" and "sink to his level" parts remind me of junior high. Can we just stick to code here? Parsing HTML is nasty enough without these catfights.
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by nir 17y ago
It was a great deal for Reddit, but what did Conde Nast get out of it? Basically they get to foot the server bills for a community whose current #1 story is this: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/a64i6/and_the_big_mild... . They certa
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by nir 17y ago
How about visas etc? Do you need to leave every few months to renew your visa?
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by nir 17y ago
Would any on you guys care to tell a little about the Buenos Aires dev/founder experience? Never been to Argentina but it seems like something interesting is building up there...
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by nir 17y ago
I think you do need to explain this to the developer. I doubt you'll find some magic solution here, and talking to the developers is basically what being PM is all about. Communicating with people is as central to a PM as code is to a devel
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The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown(wired.com)
1 points by nir 17y ago|0 comments
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by nir 17y ago
Er, TheRealURL welcomes our new Panera Bread users.. :P http://therealurl.appspot.com/ (Seriously though, it would interesting to see if Panera will face any issues because of this - might be a measure of Twitter's real world significance
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by nir 17y ago
Garrett Lisi is a pretty good surfer/physicist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_Garrett_Lisi
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by nir 17y ago
I think you're both reading way too much into the fact TechCrunch did a better job on this story than NYT. It's not unusual that some reporter will find or dig deep enough into a story that others hadn't. It doesn't prove that much. The D
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by nir 17y ago
I did read it. I have no problem with the article (and I actually think both Heroku and RoR are brilliant), but the title is so DHH-like I couldn't resist.. I hope you don't take any offense, honestly none intended.
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by nir 17y ago
Does anything in Arrington's background make him better suited to cover technology than a journalism graduate? Eventually, each of them has the chance to make himself into an expert in his field. The journalism grad might also remember some
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by nir 17y ago
Ah yes, the friendly, thoughtful tone so commonly associated with Rails-related discussion :)
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Banker bonuses will be exceptionally large this year(nytimes.com)
14 points by nir 17y ago|2 comments
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by nir 17y ago
One interesting development is that, with the growing number of UAVs, there aren't enough pilots to fly them all, so new operators are no longer required to have flying experience. I heard an interview with "Wired for War"'s author who clai
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by nir 17y ago
There was an excellent article in Esquire on UAVs, which focused on the daily lives of UAV operators: http://www.esquire.com/features/unmanned-aircraft-1109-2 Pretty amazing stuff. Most missions in Iraq and Afghanistan are flown via satel
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by nir 17y ago
Not if you count the London bombings of 2007 or Madrid in 2004. The perpetrators were at least in part European citizens. In any case, it is one thing to have stability in an affluent, post-religion area like Western Europe, quite another t
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by nir 17y ago
I think bringing Bertrand Russel into this is going a bit far. People aren't upset because Dustin's ideas shatter their stagnant world view, but because he presents them as having far more importance than they really do. AA is not doing as
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by nir 17y ago
I wouldn't call it "feel-good hippy shit", exactly because of the trailer park example. Trailer parks have a bad reputation for low quality. His houses demonstrate a well designed, nice looking home in a small space. That's a novel idea to

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