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by rahoulb 8y ago
> GUIs on phones/desktop are tremendously productive They used to say that GUIs were toy interfaces and only CLIs could offer real productivity. I don't know where chatbots are going but I wouldn't expect the current stat
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by rahoulb 8y ago
I use my Apple Watch (LTE) as a minimal smartphone. I take the dog for a walk at lunchtime, or take an afternoon off. I can listen to music (Apple Music is crap) and receive texts. Clients can call me. But I don’t get the normal smartphone
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by rahoulb 8y ago
That's probably the issue. The news site itself doesn't have to do much. But the ad code and trackers and beacons and all the other stuff that they have installed on each and every page - the news site has no idea what it's
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Jobs said that what he learnt at Pixar was to hire and trust great people. I think there is a big difference between people who try to act like Jobs and Jobs himself.
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Rails and the books were both byproducts of 37 Signals (ie stuff they were doing anyway, so they released it to the public - not that that is cost-free, but it's not as intensive as doing it from scratch). And cars are his hobby.
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by rahoulb 8y ago
In business circles there appears to be widespread panic about GDPR. Amongst "ordinary" people, there is a growing sense of unease about data collection - reflected in the "Facebook must be listening to my phone because they
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by rahoulb 8y ago
GDPR basically says “get consent for what you do with peoples data”. If you can’t do that I would say your business model is it very ethical. Edit: or have “legitimate interest” - in either case it’s a very low bar for ethical standards so
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by rahoulb 8y ago
Maybe if the service is only marginally profitable without acting unethically it should shut down.
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by rahoulb 8y ago
GDPR is very specific. You must have written policies describing what you do with data, what you do if there’s a breach, how people can find out what data you hold, how people can have their data deleted. And you must have consent to contac
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by rahoulb 8y ago
"You must balance your interests against the individual’s. If they would not reasonably expect the processing, or if it would cause unjustified harm, their interests are likely to override your legitimate interests." https:/
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by rahoulb 9y ago
As is Lastpass/1Password
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by rahoulb 9y ago
They are incredibly good at targeting their pubs. In Leeds there are ones that are aimed at students, ones aimed at day-time drinkers, ones aimed at night-life and dancers - all based on where the pub is located.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
If you want it to become common place then it has to be easier to use it "correctly" than "wrongly".
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Because you end up with emails that are 24 pages long as the entire history is included in there, because it doesn’t thread properly and 90% of the email I receive is meaningless crap that I just delete or spam (which in turn means that my
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I was going to say that circles work much better in WhatsApp. Mainly because you define the group/circle before you send the message
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I use Tweetbot as my Twitter client precisely because it uses a chronological feed. I will start scrolling and if there's too much to go through I just scroll to the top, missing hundreds of items. If it's important it will reap
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by rahoulb 9y ago
There are also fat binaries - a recompile for apps that don't do anything too esoteric and you've got both formats in one bundle.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I have 75 relatives on Facebook who live around 3000 miles away from me. If I want to share a photo do I send a mass email to all 75 annoying those who aren’t interested, do I BCC everyone so I get repeated responses (and those responses ar
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by rahoulb 9y ago
CA state that the data was collected by a third party as "academic research" and they didn't know that when it was given to them - so they violated the terms of service in good faith. Whether you believe them is another matte
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Yes and no. I've had a lot of people ask me if Facebook is listening in on the microphone on their phones - because they've been discussing something offline and then started seeing ads for it. Of course, maybe they've searc
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by rahoulb 9y ago
As I understand it, originally the Facebook API allowed you to access friends of friends - hence the millions of records. They changed this a couple of years ago (but apparently after CA had accessed the data). It was also against the term
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by rahoulb 9y ago
The root problem is that people use these tools as a brief diversion, not something to engage their critical faculties. If there was a "long-read social media" platform, it would be ignored, because you wouldn't check it in t
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I use mine (which also goes out as an email) to consolidate the things I’m working on in my mind. The benefit to me is I write reflectively on what I’ve learnt, the benefit to my audience is that it positions me as an expert (you only need
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I see Android Pay signs and stickers and logos all over he place. That’s a lot of branding to throw away and replace.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I would say Britons are 95% comfortable with government surveillance. But there is a growing backlash against private/corporate surveillance. Of course, there is a grey-area with government surveillance when things like ANPR services
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by rahoulb 9y ago
One of the greatest things about the Twitter native apps were that the guy who originally wrote them (Loren Brichter, who Twitter acqui-hired) literally invented the Pull-to-refresh gesture that is used everywhere nowadays. Before Twitter k
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I care and on HN there will be a lot of people who do. The wider internet, probably less so.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Yet when the Cookie Law came out the ICO basically said "we know it's complicated, it's an education job, not an enforcement one".
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by rahoulb 9y ago
Are you careful and open about what you do with personal data you have collected? You'll be fine.
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by rahoulb 9y ago
I also used to love the fact that the equivalent of kernel extensions (totally forgotten the name) could be disabled by moving them to a different folder. The file system IS the computer.

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