ontoillogical

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by ontoillogical 14y ago
The ISP can still track what domain you're going to if you use https.
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
He says he made the app 2 years ago, where as WhosHere is from 2008. If it is in fact a trademark issue, sounds to me like they beat him to the name.
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
Or use A/B testing to figure out which testing method customers respond to better....
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
37signals is a web products company, most famous for Basecamp. Ruby on Rails came out of there. I don't know if their generosity to their employees translates to their bottom line. I think it works the other way: they are profitable enoug
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
Michael Bloomberg is a very bad example to pick as a prototypical person who would not benefit from learning to program. Bloomberg has something that most of us don't, a staff. The value proposition of learning to program is that it will
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
It's interesting that their first client was a Russian film. Looking at my Russian friends, I thought predominately pirate from non torrent sources (vk for instance). Anyone have a good sense of what the Russian pirate scene is like?
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
I generally agree with you, but I just want to point out that Toronto's housing market is anything but depressed right now. Houses are regularly selling for a few 100K above list price. See for instance http://fmlistings.tumblr.com/ .
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
I don't think that the TSA is about health policy...
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
You know how if you look at polling data, you'll find that a representative democracy doesn't actually act according to the will of the majority? Well, the connection between the actions of a corporation and the shareholders is even more t
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
Theft from the government?
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
Corporate governance is a lot more complicated than that. In a stock corporation (generally) shareholders elect the directors which then appoints executives that execute the day-to-day management of the corporation. This doesn't necessari
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
Walmart was recently involved in a Mexican bribery scandal, and I'm going to use that fact to conclude that we shouldn't allow profit seeking enterprise anywhere near healthcare. Rigorous safety standards for consumer goods are one of the t
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by ontoillogical 14y ago
You're saying that if Instagram had a revenue model, each user would be worth on average between $50 and $125?
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
I love that the "infographic" is created by OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.org
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
I use google apps for domains and I get the following message: "Web History is not available for MY_DOMAIN. Learn more about Google products you can use with MY_EMAIL." Is Google collecting this data and not giving me the option to turn it
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
I've never heard of anyone starting a company from a library. Was that something that was commonly done in the 90s (I'm assuming the Chicago office is that old)? If you were starting again in 2012, would you pick a library over a hackerspa
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
While I agree with you that the punishment Paul Christophoro got from the internet is too severe for the crime being a bully (and bad at his job), please don't make a medical diagnosis on the basis of a reddit comment from someone else desc
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
If you liked the cartoon, you'll probably like the book that it's based on: http://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Busi... It's from 1985 and a little bit dated, but still I think highly relevant
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
People used to do this way back when. Here's a video from a 90's TV show called NetCafe. At some point they take a break to stream some downloads to the viewers. They ask you to plugin their TV Modem to get some random shareware. Then t
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
While somewhat out of style, "she" is often used as a universal gender neutral pronoun. To me, it's far less distracting to read than "he/she" or "(s)he." I personally prefer the singular "they" as a gender neutral pronoun, but some people
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
"The reasons for both have to do with the country’s overloaded, backed-up patent system. A startup’s design and branding can be protected with a copyright or trademark, which takes six months to a year to process. A new technology or method
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
The link gives no information about what the attack actually is. Considering that Jullian Rizzo was presenting padding oracle attacks against .NET at last years ekoparty, if I had to guess I'd say it's something similar. Here's a padding o
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
Is it me or is there a mistake in the cited part of that patent too: "where d(FI[n],FO[n]) is the squared Euclidean distance between the fingers" The formula that is then given is under a square root, i.e. it is the Euclidean distance NOT t
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
Not the NSA, it came from the Navy. See here: http://www.onion-router.net/
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by ontoillogical 15y ago
When Intellectual Ventures first started they claimed to be trying to fix the broken system by buying up tech patents in the interest of all the players that invested in it. This is how they initially got big investments from the major tec