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by profeta 11y ago
> search amazing in gmail. really? until a few months ago, you couldn't find anything besides whole words with textual search on gmail. why do people have it's search at such high standards? how bad was the alternative you had?
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by profeta 11y ago
They tested the waters with GPUs. after nobody complained at all, they just moved to CPUs.
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by profeta 11y ago
just because the car owner allow search of his property, it does not make your property available. and i am also pretty sure even a bad lawyer could get you a criminal kidnap case out of this.
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by profeta 11y ago
great arguments there. specially the closing one. also not sure what you are comparing from that fellow on your first vague argument. He was a Governor of a lowly state. what's the comparison to president or the dictators? but well, i
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by profeta 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish worked in the past, they hope it will work now. The fact that ubuntu laid in bed with them is extremely scary.
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by profeta 11y ago
i don't know what is worse. "Embrace, extend and extinguish", or "Acquire, hype, abandon".
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by profeta 11y ago
> is it illegal if the bribes are called campaign contributions no. and yes. there are donation limits. So what they do, is to create super-PACs and such. which means, lots of little people and companies donate the maximum to the candida
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by profeta 11y ago
> People in Brazil are rioting on the streets right now because the current president gave immunity to the former president, accused of huge corruption and money laundering allegations. you don't have that right. Current government
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by profeta 11y ago
> you can't get away with it just because it was done through a third party. To get away you probably need a third party plus good lawyers. Which your training was successfully in teaching you that lowly programmers can't affor
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by profeta 11y ago
> But don't listen to me, if you believe in Yahoo go buy some shares. If you're right you'll make a ton of money. well, probably not because they are succeeding in crashing the company as it is. Also, if you look at the &q
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by profeta 11y ago
<quote>- Handpixeled graphics in MulticolorCharset Mode of the C64 (in short: 4 colors per 4x8 square, three global out of 16, one unique out of 8) (or: two colors in 8x8, one global, one out of 8 / maximum of 256 such squares)&
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EU: Public Wi-Fi Owners Cannot Be Liable for Piracy on Unsecured Hotspots(techweekeurope.co.uk)
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by profeta 11y ago
well, on the other hand, the toxic environment you describe would be also weird for men that do not want to participate on it. i still haven't found it on tech (i did when i was working on a news room, and i quit, as did a lot of peopl
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by profeta 11y ago
can't wait for the freedom of information request for that ;)
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by profeta 11y ago
the problem with those industries is that the software is closed because of the hardware. while on one hand it is ready for disruption, on the other it is locked down by ever changing hardware interfaces outside of your control. You would a
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by profeta 11y ago
press release at the top of the front page? i thought Ycombinator self-posts were not "votable". this is hardly hard-tech since the same thing is being done in a garage with off the shelf parts http://www.bloomberg.com&
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by profeta 11y ago
sadly, this one very interesting aspect is buried down the spiffy but hardly useful table scanner.
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by profeta 11y ago
The point is not the entire product. Everyone is afraid that the product will still be around, but the feature that drove them to it will be killed. and there is no way you can disprove that fear from google products. You guys do that even
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by profeta 11y ago
they also used google reader for gmail (it was integrated on the top of the inbox). it didn't stop them from killing it.
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by profeta 11y ago
a car company founded by a guy that created a bank in cyberspace shows that he has the power to push software to your car at will, though this time he choose not to, but do not care when his underlings do the same.
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by profeta 11y ago
the proverbial redneck
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by profeta 11y ago
more recently didn't he lobbied for drone laws two years ago after he saw one flying near his property?
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by profeta 11y ago
i think that is great.
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by profeta 11y ago
nope. have to use it daily as my main number is gVoice. sadly. no dropdown whatsoever. Also to dial via gvoice you need a hangouts dialer addon, and everytime you last selected sms on hagouts and select to dial with the dialer addon, it com
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by profeta 11y ago
hangouts does everything BUT this. The UI shows several user accounts that you have to keep switching. it is a total nightmare. then, the worst offense, you have absolutely no idea if you send a message to someone, if it will go via hangout
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by profeta 11y ago
it is an attempt to standardize what whatsapp made popular: instant messaging with authentication based on phone number. the spec even includes the big-brother way of you having to hand over your contacts to pair the phone numbers to other
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by profeta 11y ago
bulletproof + free = ? what happens when the contract is contested? and what if you lose?
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by profeta 11y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/DarknetPlan forum about mesh networks, such as those products.
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by profeta 11y ago
you usually bad mouth things you want to buy. it brings the price down.
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by profeta 11y ago
intent can be many things. i disable javascript. so i can't even see their page (and hence i don't know my access is being denied since i got a 200 http response, which means "OK") so i try different user agents with the

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