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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>He said companies should hire non-American talent through traditional immigration proceedings, What traditional immigration proceedings are you people talking about? Get a company employee to marry him/her and bring them here on a
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>It absolutely, positively hurts local labor - naturalized citizens - etc. Without a doubt. So does buying hardware that's made overseas. Interesting that this argument is made now, but how many local programmers ever bought anythin
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>As for me confusing HN and YC, I'm quite aware of the difference between the two and as far as I know I didn't confuse them in the least. Lots of start-up people frequent HN Felix said he's the MS person for YC. You misre
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
Great job on completely derailing the topic here with unrelated flamebait by confusing HN with YC. Hint: HN is a message board, YC is a startup accelerator. They are NOT the same. And yes, there are plenty of startups that do quite okay on
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
Very few merchants do that. I am talking about the end result of the current setup where a typical consumer pays $400 per year in credit card fees while buying things. This is because the true cost of using cards are hidden from them becaus
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
They just need to tie it to store loyalty cards for discounts and coupons for it to succeed. At the grocery store I shop, people even go to the trouble of entering their phone number to track themselves if they don't have the card, to
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>Well, if you shop for it, a cardholder can get a minimum of 1% rebated back to them, more in cases of special promotions. This actually makes it worse, since the people who pay with cash are typically poor and homeless who cannot get a
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
Cash has close to zero fraud, why does someone paying cash has to pay the merchant the credit card fees %?
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
We will move to a cloud based model and all your data will be owned by the cloud providers. Google, Apple and Microsoft are already ensuring this. From a Google filing in court about Gmail privacy: >Indeed, “a person has no legitimate ex
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
And where is the banks' money that they're paying Apple with coming from? This is like how people are made to think a new flagship smartphone from AT&T costs them $199.
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
Apple Pay charges 0.15% and the credit cards 2 to 3%. If the costs were really revealed to the consumers, I wonder how many of them will opt for the convenience versus entering a PIN with a debit card, use a check or pay cash.
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>Points 2-4 would involve Google violating (likely) their own Ts&Cs with customers and (possibly?) state/federal law I don't think it does. Until recently, they seem to have been using the paid apps for Business e-mails to
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/02/webkit-isnt-breaking-the-we... Co-Chairmain of the web standards group: http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2012/0... Mozilla
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
The problem isn't that developers should be developing for the lowest common denominator. It is that the prefixes are not being dropped by websites even after other browsers start implementing the feature, or it's that they contin
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
Edit: The previous title was "Windows Phone's IE starts masquerading as mobile Safari to render pages properly" Looks like the webkit prefix tags are creating the new IE6. As usual, it's the web developers fault for not
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Judge Orders Microsoft to Turn Over Customer Data Stored Abroad(recode.net)
2 points by ntakasaki 12y ago|0 comments
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>if you'd bothered with any follow-through on these topics you'd have encountered a very different picture Why don't you expound on that very different picture instead of such a hand wavy kneejerk dismissal without any rea
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
That is still upwards of a 50 million install base. Even Vimeo has had a official app since long, and Microsoft offers to pay for it, so the reasons given by Google don't add up since it's actually hurting the content creators who
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
I was hoping for a Windows Phone Twitch app soon. I guess this kills any chances of it given how they refuse to make a Youtube App and even lawyered up a took down a Microsoft made one over a year ago with no sign of an official app still.
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>If they did then the average Wal-Mart worker would be making a lot more and have much better benefits. But tech people seem quite okay with buying things made in China, and third world countries. When was the last time someone bought a
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Azure Machine Learning: A Brief Introduction(projectbotticelli.com)
98 points by ntakasaki 12y ago|18 comments
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>I think the real problem here is that the tech industry does not know how to manage their workers It's not just the tech industry, almost all companies struggle to measure productivity, especially as a comparative measure. People l
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There's a (cloud) app for that: Microsoft adds app store to Azure(infoworld.com)
1 points by ntakasaki 12y ago|0 comments
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Young Chinese couple sells 2 newborns to buy in-game items(techienews.co.uk)
11 points by ntakasaki 12y ago|4 comments
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
I missing the web directories of yore that have such nice lists. Search engines only bring up a few relevant results and the rest are all keyword and link stuffed. Hope you take some pull requests or make this a wiki.
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
>Everyone has a guilty pleasure or two, and it's not always as obvious as a cheapo Mercedes Even the person in the OP's Imgur picture? Everytime someone is given money, it's coming from someone else and not going to someon
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
I am interested what the answer would be to the below question. Would she have sold the Mercedes and made do with the Honda they had, to feed their babies, if there were no WIC or food stamps programs? >> In just two months, we’d gone
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
This incident comes to mind. http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee... Hope they have better controls now so that snooping on your data is not so easy for a Google employee now. But they're u
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
The CA system is broken, so is BGP with routes being essentially hijacked by the word of mouth protocol. Wonder what the fixes or a reboot of the internet would look like.
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by ntakasaki 12y ago
Not sure I am understanding you, but are you implying that it'd be okay for Microsoft to upload all your keystrokes and all your data on your laptop(without letting you know about it) on their servers and show you ads based on them as

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