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by nivla 13y ago
>have been anti-competitive. Although it seems so now, keep in mind Google bid for these patents themselves and lost. They were also offered to join the Rockstar consortium, which they declined. Unfair definitely, but not enough to quali
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by nivla 13y ago
Ya that seemed really unprofessional. It goes the way of nasty politics. Not matter how screwed up your competitors are, its a cheapshot to point it out, especially in a message trying to justify your own evil doings.
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by nivla 13y ago
The original KeePass was only for windows. Someone forked it and made KeepassL for linux. It was then rewritten for cross compatibility and came to be known as KeePassX. Now that the Keepass itself is cross compatible, it kind of makes Keep
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by nivla 13y ago
How does a merchant go by accepting Bitcoins? Is the price conversion based on the last trade? Average of the day/week/month? Are the Bitcoins going to be converted to $ right way or at certain intervals? Given the high volatility
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by nivla 13y ago
I find comments like these interesting and at the same time ironic, especially on a sites like HN. I could think of 10 reasons why PHP is the "wrong" language but I could also think of 100 reasons why it made a successful one. Ras
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by nivla 13y ago
This is going to be interesting to watch since Nokia now belongs to Microsoft. I wonder if this is a tactic by Microsoft to tackle Google on their own turf. Atleast its better than those embarrassing Scroogled campaigns. No matter what it t
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by nivla 13y ago
Wait so you changed your course of comment from "always-upload" and "lie-detector" to "syncs to a central server" when plugged in? Then how is this different than existing products such as Nike fuel band or fit
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by nivla 13y ago
>rest assured that the embedded system and controller board will be equipped with software that defaults to an always-upload mode, dumping all data to microsoft.com ... Is Microsoft trying to convince women to submit to continuous lie de
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by nivla 13y ago
huh? I know this isn't going to be the popular opinion but I have to get this off. As much as I respect FSF, this mentality is one of the things I dislike about them. Statements that imply either you are with us or you are evil, trying
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by nivla 13y ago
Keeping aside Godaddy's ethical issues, their support is actually pretty good, definitely above industry average. The times I had to contact them in the past, they did go the extra mile to resolve the issue and even waived any invloved
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by nivla 13y ago
What is the general consensus on TPM? Is it trustable? Bitlocker is the only encryption I know that makes use of it. Weirdly, Truecrypt is stern about never ever using it. Assuming no foul play, I think a combination of TPM (Hardware based
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by nivla 13y ago
"None of those products are Google's core competency." - I agree but so is the product we are discussing. (+) The probability of this shutting down given the history of Google shutting down non-core products before. (+) The l
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by nivla 13y ago
> Rather, we should see it for what it really is: the norm. I don't know maybe I am an exception but I see companies shutting down products far from the norm. I normally tend to trust bigger companies with stability and invest most
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by nivla 13y ago
>There is a long, long history of other companies and products closing down, too. Yes but it also natural for human beings to follow: "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
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by nivla 13y ago
>As opposed to options and products provided by other companies... I think GP is rather trying to make an assessment based off Google's history of closing down services. Similar to I rather trust a stranger than a known con-artist,
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by nivla 13y ago
>This is obviously an advertisement Could you care to explain? From the article and the video, I got the notion that both pros and CONS were touched.
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by nivla 13y ago
>If you've ever complained about surveillance then I don't see how you could even consider buying this. If I was concerned about surveillance, I wouldn't consider buying anything in the future, because sadly this is going
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by nivla 13y ago
>It literally says "fork me on GitHub" at the top right. It din't show up for me either. After a bit of investigating, it looks like Ghostery (and maybe AdBlock Plus too) sees Github ribbon as a tracker and automatically h
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by nivla 13y ago
Huh? Why is 37 signal taking a PR based ad out of context? Its clear that the message of the advertisement is "You can" and not "You should". I could very well come up with 10+ reasons not to eat dinner late, yet I can c
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by nivla 13y ago
Quiet ironic given that most of your comments are only on posts about Microsoft. I therefore direct the question back to you.
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by nivla 13y ago
If I knew what I wanted, had already test driven the car and Amazon offered it for less (No tax perhaps?), why wouldn't I get it from Amazon? Off Topic: I see you appended the referral tag. Good luck grabbing the 4%-8% on it.
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by nivla 13y ago
The main stronghold of MariaDB is the drop in replacement for MySQL. If you already have a well established web app and you are planning on get off the clutches of Oracle, MariaDB is your easy choice. You don't have to make substantial
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by nivla 13y ago
>It's vestigal on a server. Do you have any source for that? If it is vestigial, why would it need to suck up so much ram? Unless I explicitly activate it, what is point of draining the power and filling up the ram by default. Not e
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by nivla 13y ago
>IMO YouTube on its way to be the MySpace of video. Highly doubt it. Youtube is one of the hardest thing to compete with, even Google search is much easier to go after. Did you read that article about Youtube where Google pays local ISPs
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by nivla 13y ago
Yes it does, how is it going to ask for my permission in a server environment? It automatically sets "report_crashes=true" under (/etc/default/whoopsie) when Ubuntu is first installed. Here are some resources with m
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by nivla 13y ago
>Selling Xbox and Bing will only seal MS's faith as another IBM. Windows Phone and Surface will stagnate (even more) and eventually they will have to be let go too. These types of comments sealing the fate of MS comes up at any post
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by nivla 13y ago
This reminds me of "whoopsie" when I first came across it after upgrading my servers to 12.04. Its a program that resides in the ram, automatically homes in the crash reports and would have to be explicitly disabled. At first I di
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by nivla 13y ago
>Just to be clear, the rest of the browser world offers modern browsers across a wide array of operating systems. Microsoft can't even be bothered to offer a modern browser across more than two of their own Operating Systems. Keep i
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by nivla 13y ago
>Outlook 2010 in Exchange mode usually occupies about 50MB of memory, at least for me. Think of all the functionality Outlook 2010 has in those 50MB. Ohh I wish my beloved thunderbird only took that much memory. I remember it occupied so
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by nivla 13y ago
I am curious, given that the new generation doesn't seem to care much about quality and as planned obsolescence is getting more common, from a business perspective, is it worth putting more effort into ensuring quality beyond the warra

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