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Is Marissa Mayer the right CEO for Yahoo?(blogs.reuters.com)
3 points by pointillistic 13y ago|0 comments
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by pointillistic 13y ago
your cynical remarks are unbecoming of this situation
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by pointillistic 13y ago
There is more to this headline. The way the internet unfortunately evolved is the devil's bargain of gathering intel on people in exchange for the targeted, corporate ads. It's only natural to use the giant spy tools like Facebook
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Jon, I detect an evolution in your views on the subject. I commend you for that.
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by pointillistic 15y ago
What is legal is not always ethical. America was built on the slaves, the extermination of the native nations. A lot of "entrepreneurship" involved in the process. It's your prerogative to absolve yourself and the industry. You have done no
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by pointillistic 15y ago
who claimed a "scientific way" with this poll? for real!
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Disagree with the second part of the reasoning. On the forums people show motivation to report dislikes and negative reviews. So for sure you would hear about the negative user experience, especially after people invested time in the gizmo.
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FBI targets scareware scammers(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pointillistic 15y ago|0 comments
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by pointillistic 15y ago
they probably can only tell with precision the box, not a particular server. remember they are not the hosting company. So they just take it all to sort out later, makes sense.
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by pointillistic 15y ago
If hackers get out of hand it already playing havoc in all business.
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by pointillistic 15y ago
And by little guy you mean all the multinational corporation that got hacked?
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Wait, are we still in America where every surface in the virtual and real world is covered with ads? In general I have a problem with the ad supported universe, it turns the creative expression into a commodity to sell shoes and lipstick. I
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by pointillistic 15y ago
a good name like octopus.com is not even hosted ditto mentat.com
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Yes, you are correct. This seems to be the flaw in the design then , i.e. no organic relationship between the two clusters except the arbitrary golden section boundary.
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Yes this is the question, are the two larger circles also in the golden section proportion? I assume they are. Also interesting is the position of the circles inside boundary of the (golden section) rectangle.
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Technically speaking it takes to much "gardening" to run HN-like site. There are millions of niche forums there already. But it's the platform and the interface that makes HN different. I don't know if there is a technical expertise to simi
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by pointillistic 15y ago
I don't think this is just Facebook, perhaps the so-called social media jumped the shark. I think it jumped the shark a year ago for both Twitter and Facebook (CNN, Ashton Kutcher contest) but the numbers are starting to catch up now. Also
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by pointillistic 15y ago
It's not just the machines but also the machine driven outsourcing. But guess what, people have to eat and it will hit the fan soon enough.
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Man vs. Machine(economix.blogs.nytimes.com)
47 points by pointillistic 15y ago|18 comments
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Beware Groupthink on Groupon(online.wsj.com)
1 points by pointillistic 15y ago|0 comments
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Even when there is a competition, the web mostly have been a winner take all medium. Google being the prime example. It's not even about the usage but all about the technological leadership. If usage was accounted for, IE6 would be a very i
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by pointillistic 15y ago
The Native Google products are far and few between. They are the Mountain View Raiders. Sometimes they buy a company, other times they buy the developers. For example even Chrome was created by ex FireFox developers. It's just that Mozilla
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Yes, I would like to know as well. Who offers data service only? Or you just hoping from Wifi to Wifi?
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by pointillistic 15y ago
The only problem I see is pricing. 12 months is $336, one can buy a full featured laptop for the money. A laptop will work for say 5 years (or more). While 5 years of Chromebook is $1,680. That's top of the line anything plus the unrestrict
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by pointillistic 15y ago
Can make you phone calls with GVoice on this thing? There might be a lot of value right there.
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by pointillistic 15y ago
The elephant in the room is that in addition to the obvious upside these platforms are ripe for money laundering.
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California offers a warning to voters all over the world(economist.com)
30 points by pointillistic 15y ago|25 comments
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R.I.P. Google Video(pcmag.com)
4 points by pointillistic 15y ago|2 comments
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by pointillistic 15y ago
The only reason Cisco bought Flip was because in theory it promised to push more bytes through the pipes and hence the routers. I don't believe the product itself had a noticeable impact on the pipes, i.e. the smartphones are not a direct
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by pointillistic 15y ago
There is a Chrome extension "Keep My Opt-Outs" by Google. Is it different from the DNT and how?

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