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by pavs 13y ago
Why is it shame its from facebook? FB has been at the forefront of awesome UI design concepts for al long time, specifically in mobile.
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by pavs 13y ago
Different google team did quite a few AMA on Reddit, to my knowledge, most of them were semi-live/live and very effective.
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by pavs 13y ago
Alternatively. Take everything you pointed out plus additionally you could generate revenue by showing ads on the body of the taxi cabs (which also generates decent revenue). Google could pursue this idea to show the viability of self-drivi
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by pavs 13y ago
alexa is the least reliable source for any type of metrics whatsoever.
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by pavs 13y ago
difficulty or incompetence?
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by pavs 13y ago
non-native. They have a chrome app where you can have a desktop shortcut and looks and pretty much works like a desktop native app (almost). I guess its not truly a OS agnostic in that sense, since if you don't use chrome/chromium
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by pavs 13y ago
You can "rewind" from youtube live stream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g
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by pavs 13y ago
I love the idea of Bullet Journaling. I used to do something similar couple of years ago. Now I use Wunderlist mostly because its OS/Device agnostic and reasonable looking. The reason Bullet written journaling didn't work for me b
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Later [2010](newyorker.com)
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by pavs 13y ago
No one claimed 100% of every TED talks are about groundbreaking stuff and all of them are things that have happened in that particular year. Not to mention, more specifically TEDx is more about local issues, not necessarily global.
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by pavs 13y ago
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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by pavs 13y ago
>You have very little choice to avoid Google Analytics. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout Its been around for a looooong time.
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by pavs 13y ago
Is nexus devices available in every country? Can you walk to a store and buy a nexus phone? Do Nexus phones have SD card (very important for me)?
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by pavs 13y ago
Along the same line I would like a good book recommendation on Mandela.
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by pavs 13y ago
Its been a while, I don't remember specifics. But I think most of my questions where related to server admin stuff. I don't remember which email I used, I might have to open a new account and see if things are better now.
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by pavs 13y ago
It is possible that I wasn't following the guidelines at least in some cases. But I vaguely remember is some of the cases where a simple paraphrase of a sentence would have been enough. Questions were simply closed wasn't allowed
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by pavs 13y ago
In my case, nine times out of ten my questions are closed down by overzealous mods. I still find SO very useful but not for asking questions.
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by pavs 13y ago
You give HN and its small eco-chamber way too much credit.
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by pavs 13y ago
I think there are other admins besides PG. I don't know who they are or how many there are.
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by pavs 13y ago
something like this would be interesting I think: <randomnumber>+accountdeleted so unlike reddit, in a discussion if multiple users delete their account but keep their comment, you don't get confused if its the same user or diffe
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by pavs 13y ago
I remember the days when Shredder was practically unbeatable in computer chess tournaments and ratings but now it's not even on the top 15 in terms of strength (Check CCRL: http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040
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by pavs 13y ago
From the blog post: "While we aggressively rate-limit login attempts and passwords are stored properly, this incident has involved the use of nearly 40K unique IP addresses. These addresses were used to slowly brute force weak password
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by pavs 13y ago
About 5 years ago I sold a site on flippa (was called something else back then) for 15k, later worked on the blog for the new owner for about ~$600/month for ~6 months. It was PR-5 and at its peak (when I sold it) it had about 600k pag
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by pavs 13y ago
You are not a target user for google products and services, thats why they are not too worried about how you or users like you feel about it. See also: Facebook. A lot of noise was made about facebook privacy (inside the HN and other tech e
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by pavs 13y ago
Is there a legal way to leak or expose abuse of political and intelligence use of power? The legality you talk about, the rule books were written by the same (type of) people. They get to break it but you get to do nothing about it.
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by pavs 13y ago
But isn't it cheaper on the long run if your drives fail less often?
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by pavs 13y ago
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell This might not be a popular opinion, but I honestly think that its not possible for a for profit news organizat
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by pavs 13y ago
More importantly, whats the difference between Chinese and American government when it comes to privacy?
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by pavs 13y ago
It's a shame that Arrington carries any weight, really thats where it all started.
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by pavs 13y ago
> I generally do trust police You probably never lived in NY.

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