patrickaljord

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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   > except for google Well, no. You can upload any document you want on google docs now. And they give API to manipulate, there's a company that offers a dropbox like solution based on this. Google it.
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   They are probably going to announce streaming from itunes from their lala purchase.
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   What's the point in reading HN on paper? I would hate to type all those links manually after reading them.
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   > We want to fix the “Achilles heel of the cloud”, so that everyone has their data with them at all times regardless of Internet connectivity. Isn't that what HTML5 offline storage and indexeddb are supposed to solve? Installing couchdb
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   I don't think the xbox would be of much use in that case. Can he run a USB sniffer on an Xbox? Makes more sense to connect it to his PC and use one of the hundreds USB sniffers available.
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   FTA: > We’re also exploring some further additions to the type system to make generic programming easier.
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   Here is a very nice metaphor by Andrew Tridgell (from Samba fame) on the subject: http://www.samba.org/ftp/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt "I call this method the "French Cafe technique". Imagine you wanted to learn French, and there were no
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   So why do you feel the need to call it an "advertising company"? Or was that a snarky anti-google comment? ;)
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   by patrickaljord 16y ago

   Friday is part of the weekend for Palestinian children too. Another problem with this system is that it only works for people who can read and understand English.
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    > Which is precisely Facebook's reasoning for not providing an API to download your friends' email addresses. So why does it give it to Yahoo mail and Hotmail? Please answer that question. Relevant link: http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    Facebook and twitter are advertising companies too ;)
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    The problem is that they actually do with yahoo mail and hotmail http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889234 or read the other posts on this threads.
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    See this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889378
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    > I'm glad facebook doesn't give out the email addresses of friends to third parties without permission The problem is that they actually do with yahoo mail and hotmail http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1889234
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    There is also the fact that Facebook does allow yahoo mail and hotmail to export their friends emails, proof: http://searchengineland.com/facebook-you-have-no-right-to-ex... So why not gmail?
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    I would love to see what Mike Vernal has to say about that.
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    In my original post I said everything you can do with c# you can also do with perl when it comes to building a SaaS. Is there some kind of website that can only be built with c# but not perl? I'm curious.
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    Why don't you provide that in your dump?
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    > Because of this, we think it makes sense for email applications to export email addresses and for social networks to export friend lists. But a list of friends is useless without their emails or at least, their facebook ID which the d
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    > The ability to export my friends' email sounds good, but as with so many social product ideas (e.g., themed backgrounds for profiles), it stops sounding so good when you realize everybody has the same power. Then why does Facebook all
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    Seriously. C# syntax looks too much like Java, python and ruby have much better syntax IMO and they have way more libraries than C#. But again, to each his own.
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    > If the C# code that runs on Windows and mono is still more advanced than, say, Java or Perl The problem is that it's not. You can do anything you want when it comes to SaaS using python, ruby, php, node or java. Actually those have hu
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    Link to the live collaboration demo: https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/demo.html edit: updated link to saikat's suggestion
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    Or maybe it's because powershell and C# only run on windows and are not open source and we're not interested in using a technology that is playing catch up with a moving target (mono).
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    Kubuntu 10.10 64 running on a custom PC with 8G of RAM, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 670 @ 3.47GHz, 24" LG LED with DVI connected to my modest Radeon HD 4350. Software: Emacs, chrome, konsole, gitk, git, choqok, firefox, ksnapshot, gwenview,
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    > Disgusting. Go ahead, down mod me. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says: "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you. "
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    His youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/jetmanofficial#p/u/1/xWIoOzrGnOU
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    On Ubuntu if I go to chrome://plugins it says: /opt/google/chrome/libpdf.so Is that foxit SDK?
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    by patrickaljord 16y ago

    I think that's what google did when they let him work on google wave, didn't work quite well. Let's hope it does work better this time.