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by pjbrunet 13y ago
Maybe you're talking some sense here but remember they came at him with helicopters and automatic weapons. If you ask me, he's just some fat kid with a website who likes pretty girls and video games. I support copyrights as much as anyone
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by pjbrunet 13y ago
As a U.S. citizen I fear clicking the link ;-)
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
When 3D printers can print themselves. Game over.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
Sounds like a huge time investment and you risk bricking your phone? Doesn't seem worth it.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
Yes I am. If there's a hole in IE allowing a virus to proliferate, don't we blame IE and get a security patch or switch to another browser? How is this any different? The root of the problem is Android and the Play Store.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
"Android shows the permissions each app is requesting before you install" Yes and no. Google often hides the most offensive permission requests under that "see more" arrow. And the permission requests (and accompanying explanations) are t
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
I blame Google and Android and its Play Store. So many apps ask for ridiculous access to everything, they should really discourage this. There should be a big red flag on any apps that ask for "superuser" access to my phone. After getting
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
"I worry that Google and certain other companies are neglecting some important lessons. Their design decisions could make it hard for many folks to use these systems. Worse, poorly configured products might even damage some people’s eyesigh
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Twitter, Facebook, Google all allow you to make edits and/or delete. At the very least, StackExchange-like revisions would be nice. So if something really needs to be rolled back, that's an option.
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Delete HN account?
5 points by pjbrunet 14y ago|4 comments
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
Maybe it's a self-referential, insular sense of what's a reasonable rate of expansion? Pensions for them, while the free market searches its sofa for spare change. How do we compete with India, Philippines and the rest of the world? Tele
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
I think the only way it'll work is if you build a new city from scratch where driving is prohibited. Like Hotel California, you can drive in but you can never drive out ;-)
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
But how clean is a "shared" car? I'm not one of those hand sanitizer people but the thought of sharing a car with 100s of people makes me a little queasy. Would you check the headrest for lice? The other thing is reliability. Read the C
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
Intersection cameras, Police hiding in bushes and behind rocks, crooked towns that give tickets even if you drive the speed limit, trying to find parking where you won't get towed. Owning a car is like owning a business, everybody wants a
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
There's a company here in Austin (can't remember the name) that will deliver fresh organic groceries to your door in a plastic box. They have a form and you just click the interval you want for the "recurring" stuff.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
From the NYT article, sounds like it was a connection problem. Which makes you wonder, was it a DoS attack (either end of the connection?) preventing AA from connecting to Sabre?
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
I came to the opposite conclusion last night and wrote about it here: http://tomakefast.com/seo-vs-social-bots-vs-people-2617/ Essentially, SEO can really work against you if Google doesn't see your business the way you see your business.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
You think I'm wrong but you wholeheartedly agree? Funny. Every situation is unique but bottom line: you can't receive content without a connection. Most apps NEED a connection to function. So an error message "No Connection, Retry?" is
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
If my phone has no signal I'd rather see an error message. I don't want the app to pretend everything is fine when that's not the case. If I press "Delete" in the app, don't pretend the thing is deleted if it's not really deleted yet, tha
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
Unless they changed the law recently, certain roads you need to walk your bike, such as "The Drag" and Congress Ave. Yes you do see a lot of hipsters riding around the East 6th Street area. Generally speaking it's not a pedestrian friendl
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
But you'll find most Texans have never left the state of Texas. Texas is just that big. By and large the people here are very isolated.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
Yall should stay in SF. You won't like it here. 1. No beach 2. Snakes 3. Scorpions 4. Coyotes 5. Steel guitars and country music 6. Guns 7. Heat kills everything, you better love the color brown 8. Few sidewalks and biking is a misdemean
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
There was an Austin Hacker News Meetup but looks like it died. Probably because it costs $ to start a Meetup now.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
OK thanks for explaining it better. My initial impression was that everyone was just brute-force attacking the same mathematical problem and there was only 21 million solutions. Apparently it's way more complicated than that.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
I think people new to Bitcoin could be confused by this. Mining difficulty is not "adjusted" by anyone. Only 21 million Bitcoins can ever be found. It's like hunting for Easter eggs. The last egg is hardest to find. Lots of math but loo
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
I agree it's an excellent resource. I have several profiles there http://stackoverflow.com/users/722796/pj-brunet Because it's an excellent resource, it could be monetized with a paywall. We can't predict the future but we can learn fro
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
@Maximillian Try a smaller font for smaller transactions.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
They're not bound to that license. Are you a lawyer? It's just another content farm looking for unpaid labor.
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
The difference is, people would pay. Classic bait and switch. That's how things have played out since Geocities. You young guns sweating over Stack Exchange points don't remember those days. That's why you register a dot-com, to protect
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by pjbrunet 14y ago
You're assuming Google would reveal the source feed with a redirect. They could give us that information now, right in the feed, but they don't--I checked. So why would they change their policy after closing down the product?

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