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721.
by objclxt 13y ago
Snapchat is not only not anonymous, but it's a pretty poor platform with a significant number of past security flaws. About six months ago their API was exposing cellphone numbers for any username (to their credit, when I pointed this
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by objclxt 13y ago
> you can run, and preload if you are an OEM, any competing service on an Android device. Seems reasonable. ...that's only kind of true. OEM's who are members of the Open Handset Alliance are prohibited from producing devices
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by objclxt 13y ago
Samsung primarily make phones which run Google software, and unless Samsung want to do an Amazon and ditch the Google Play Services infrastructure for all intents and purposes they are Google phones. Samsung sells lots of phones: how many o
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by objclxt 13y ago
There are lots of good reasons to release a mobile app's source, especially if it's a side project. Maybe you don't have time to work on it anymore, and it's not getting the love you think it deserves. Maybe there's
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Still nothing has been sent, and he has had 50% of the money. ...but you have a contract that presumably sets out the delivery, and how you resolve disputes, and what happens if somebody delivers late, presumably. And if you don&#x27
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't doubt this is true for you, but there are an increasing number of apps on the Play Store that are hardware-exclusive (typically Samsung exclusive). A number of broadcasters cut deals with Samsung to give their VOD apps exclusiv
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by objclxt 13y ago
They're still there, at the least last time I ventured down Market. I would be genuinely interested to find out how many Twitter employees actually lived around the Tenderloin, versus the Mission (which has gentrified dramatically more
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yes, I think the OP is rather mis-informed. There are plenty of places in the UK where you can get a one bed apartment for between £50-70k and not get a 'brick through the window'. Are these places you're likely to be able
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by objclxt 13y ago
...it's particularly misleading because you could be sentenced for 124 years for a several dozen different offenses but serve your time concurrently .
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by objclxt 13y ago
> will we start to hear horror stories of the mess behind the scenes of healthcare.gov, after real professionals get to see the sausage factory in operation? I strongly suspect - guarantee, even - that there are parts of Google and Ora
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think it's any more buggy than Microsoft's own mac desktop implementation (Outlook). I tried using Outlook with a work exchange account on my Mac, and ended up switching to Mail. Mail was, in my opinion, marginally be
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by objclxt 13y ago
> there's no point in writing something unless people are compelled to read it I would probably disagree with this, if only in the sense that there are several works I can think of that at the time of publication were ignored, o
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by objclxt 13y ago
> it is sad that we don't seem to have authors who write fantastic prose anymore To spin this around a little: we don't talk about authors in the past whose prose isn't worth going back to. Shakespeare had many contempor
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by objclxt 13y ago
...because Google buying a loss making company for $12 billion+ on the basis of some notional 'value' to the business has worked out fantastically well for them in the past (replace 'Twitter' with 'Motorola', a
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by objclxt 13y ago
If you haven't seen it already, you might find the WWDC 13 session video 'Continuous Integration with Xcode' useful, it covers bots. https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/videos/
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I've also read that they won't exceed the speed limit I don't see any way they can exceed the speed limit right now - the legal liability alone would be huge. The best solution to the problems you're posing woul
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by objclxt 13y ago
> if the 1/10 of deaths are caused by computer errors then at least the problem can be fixed over time. This only follows through if you don't introduce new technology and innovations to your software (and thus new bugs), whi
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true - insurance companies make money out of insuring far safer modes of transport than driving (like air travel). The liability merely shifts from the driver to the software developer. Whoever is
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by objclxt 13y ago
> * And infuriatingly, you can't use OS X as an AirPlay target, only as a source* Have you looked at AirServer? http://www.airserver.com
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by objclxt 13y ago
> As far as the video thing, the only reason I can imagine is because MRIs are basically huge magnets so they have to build the whole thing out of non-ferrous materials. Plus the customary medical equipment mark up, but still that can&#
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Google bought Android in 2005, two years before the iPhone was announced. Not only, as has already been pointed out, did the UI change, but if you look at the Android architecture it's clearly evolved along an very different pat
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by objclxt 13y ago
I'll be honest, I'll be surprised if Google Voice is alive in a couple of years. I've been an avid Google Voice user since before it was even owned by Google (back when it was GrandCentral), and Google have showed it little l
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by objclxt 13y ago
Given the seriousness, I would hope it is in the five figures (Facebook don't go into details about rewards, but a comparable exploit for a Google Account would net you at least $10k).
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by objclxt 13y ago
...except Vitamin D, which doesn't really come in fruit and veg. Vitamin D deficiency can be a real problem if you're a vegetarian and/or work in an environment without much exposure to sun. I just had a physical and my D was
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think Apple are still selling the iPhone 4...perhaps there is some inventory that's still available in certain markets, but if you go to an Apple Store it's the 4S, 5C, and 5S.
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by objclxt 13y ago
The opening weekend sales for the new iPhones exceeded even the most bullish analyst estimates by a million. I'm not totally sure I'd call this a 'downward spiral'. The fact no analyst came close to predicting the launch
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by objclxt 13y ago
> you would almost certainly have to reveal the exploit publicly in a court. That's definitely not true. Often police and prosecutors will go to great lengths to hide a wiretap from the courts, especially if direct evidence didn&#x2
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Do you happen to know why they don't and what do they use? Google originally used a modified version of Apache (and, as you have linked to, contributed a module to it), but my understanding is the Google Web Server is now so far
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by objclxt 13y ago
> it will relieve some of the demand that would otherwise be placed on housing for lower incomes. I don't know if this is necessarily true, in the same way that if you build an extra lane on a freeway you don't inherently red
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by objclxt 13y ago
SF has a lot of homelessness, which seems to be due to a combination of both culture (generally liberal, reasonably good provision of social services, reasonably relaxed attitude to drugs) and climate. As brutal as it sounds, cities like Ne

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