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by olegbl 13y ago
So... People who already had my email/phone in another service were able to get it as part of downloading all their facebook data. Consequently, my email/phone was not disclosed (by Facebook) to anybody who didn't already hav
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by olegbl 13y ago
No, but this article was a bit of sensationalist hype (which, btw, I thought was against hacker news conduct?) This kind of stuff should be taken in context.
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by olegbl 13y ago
Clearly, no other company ever tried to tweak sizing or dimension of products in diagrams for their own benefit. Definitely not Apple. http://www.pcworld.com/article/238047/apple_offers_flawed_ev... http://www.itworld.com/it-managementst
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by olegbl 13y ago
My impression was that he meant that at that point it was potentially viable to scam some financial information out of the target.
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by olegbl 13y ago
I think it makes sense. They have the most incentive for people to stop using their outdated product (it's hard restoring the image of software like IE).
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by olegbl 13y ago
Looks cool, but seems to immediately fall into Lisp's parentheses hell even in the Hello World apps.
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by olegbl 13y ago
I guess I'm one of the few. While he headed a company that spearheaded internal innovation, it also stifled external innovation. He was also a jerk, as well documented.
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by olegbl 13y ago
Neither does Hulu. https://hulu.com/ Amazon redirects to HTTP: https://www.amazon.com/ Netflix redirects to HTTP: https://netflix.com/ Etc... Etc... Etc... Why pick on Bing?
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by olegbl 14y ago
"Yes, and if a Chevy Malibu could be sold for what BMW 5 series sells for then GM wouldn't have gone bankrupt." This is probably the best product quality analogy I've ever read. I remember the days of using LibreOffice on Linux. I always ga
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by olegbl 14y ago
To go along with it, making XKCD diagrams in Mathematica: http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/10/05/automating-xkcd-diagrams-...
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by olegbl 14y ago
Looks like a great game! Any plans for a windows phone version? ;)