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by random42 15y ago
Would it be possible to make readonly url from the baseurl manually also, instead of server generating it. eg., http://codr.cc/s/xyz/ as read only url for http://codr.cc/xyz/ base url, instead of waiting for server to spew out http://c
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by random42 15y ago
Sure, they have legal rights to do so. However, just because it is legal it does not make it fair (Ref - Sony vs. Geohotz). Punishing for the suspicion of crime, rather than actual crime, just because you are can get away with it, is evil
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by random42 15y ago
Yeah, I agree to enforcing the violation of ToS. I was writing for the DMCA take down notice for the possibility of illegal file sharing via dropship. (as mentioned by arash/drew in comments.) I am actually curious to know what ToS were v
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by random42 15y ago
As mentioned before, IANAL, and I do not have deep/any knowledge of the laws Dropbox is incorporated in. However, "Presumption of Innocence" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence ) aka "Innocent until proven guilty" is one
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by random42 15y ago
Then they should fire the lawyer who a-OKed to send the invalid DMCA takedown notice(s), which makes Dropbox culpable for it.
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by random42 15y ago
> illegal file sharing has never been permitted and we take great pains to keep it off of dropbox. Which is great, except you are punishing the crime, before it even occurred. Remember use of torrents are not illegal per se, sharing fil
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by random42 15y ago
No votes showing up, is bad for "Ask/Show/Tell HN" type of submissions, where the submitter is asking to see what "wisdom-of-the-community" says (even if he has the entire knowledge for subject matter). For example, asking for feedback or f
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by random42 15y ago
My personal observation has been that, while blind-folding might have been good for curation of the comments, by avoiding the bandwagon effect, but it has serious ill-effects on the readability, especially for the new subject matter for t
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by random42 15y ago
http://future.rouli.net/?query=year%202042 The net predicts that year 2042 is most likely to happen before 2050
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by random42 15y ago
I have been in your position (the dreadful guilt of leaving the startup) before, so I suppose I can offer some advice. 1. End things on good terms. Do not say any thing which puts company/people in the bad light, when you are asked on the r
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by random42 15y ago
I am certainly not saying that Apple products are not excellent. I am just saying that Marketing/Salesmanship/PR etc. also has a part to play in Apple's success.
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by random42 15y ago
> Apple's success is based primarily on aesthetics and user experience. I cannot say that Marketing and Salesmanship is not as important factor of the success of the company, which has undoubtedly the most charismatic CEO of this era,
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by random42 15y ago
Btw, has Amazon commented about potential irrecoverable/lost changes/damages, if any?
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by random42 15y ago
This is what I meant. What other way did you infer?
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by random42 15y ago
A big reason of Mozilla/Firefox surviving is, Microsoft taking a 5 year long vacation from releasing web browser. (between IE6 (2001) - IE7(2007)).
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by random42 15y ago
> As a reducio ad absurdum, suppose that Amazon was secretive beyond all dreams of a CIA director, but never ever failed. Would people care about their communications strategy? This is not the same. No one cares about active communi
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by random42 15y ago
You are thinking in the line of, A * Idea + B * Execution == N Units of success/value. Most of the people here believe, C * Idea * Execution == N units of success/value. Ideas all alone ARE worthless. Only when coupled with decent execution
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by random42 15y ago
If I were you, I'd send them an email requesting this, on your behalf. At the end of the day, its their responsibility to make the console unavailable. I will be more than unimpressed if they dont see this logic here.
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by random42 15y ago
Assuming the outage is only for a day, right?
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by random42 15y ago
Actually, I'd expect Heroku to not charge for when the site was down, as they are clearly not available, it does not sound fair if they charge for it. Am I expecting too much from them?
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by random42 15y ago
I am a little surprised that #1 spot on HN fetched you 5000 odd page views. For some reason, I always thought it to be much more.
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by random42 15y ago
Why abuse?
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by random42 15y ago
I cant say anything for your management, but my management (actually my immediate boss), is very reasonable. Being a developer himself, he understands what programmers need to be productive. He allows remote work, time to time. In time is a
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by random42 15y ago
I suppose for the premium amount you are being paid, as compared to the Indian worker, being physically present is a requisite. I cannot say, I disagree with the logic myself.
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by random42 15y ago
No, no. Trust me, I am with you. I will not listen to Tiger Woods on Education. and I too, am pro-learning (by traditional means). I do not imply to say, "Everyone should drop out of schools, because steve jobs did, and see.. he is success
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by random42 15y ago
> Steve Jobs never graduated college. I would still take his opinion on education. Yes, Steve Jobs is a real-world success. He obviously did not feel the need to finish the college, and took a deliberate decision to do so. His opini
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by random42 15y ago
Pretty Awesome. I'd love it even more, if it had auto-complete on the command-line too.
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by random42 15y ago
> I am just saying I do see a need to put code in comments sometimes. Yup, There are rules, and then, there are rules. The important thing is to realize what practice makes sense, for the given condition... and why .
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by random42 15y ago
Why not actually write an example (like a short blog post, containing some code snippets), in the comment, using the native language, instead of commenting the live code? Dont you think it would improve the readability of the code? Sure it
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by random42 15y ago
No it will not. That is a business decision anyways. I dont think this is what the post is concerned about. It is about the dead code, developers leave as commented (for some reason), instead of actually deleting it.

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