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by reso 15y ago
Well, don't I like an asshole.
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by reso 15y ago
Not surprising, this is just good corporate intelligence. On the other hand, Larry and Sergey do not have FB accounts.
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Ask HN: Is the black bar at the top of HN now a G+ joke?
6 points by reso 15y ago|5 comments
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by reso 15y ago
AppEngine is great for rapid prototyping, but it still has several limitations that make me hesitant to base a real infrastructure off of it. I've used it for http://www.minehub.net , http://www.quickcite.it , and a few others.
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by reso 15y ago
Interesting that there have been so many payments start-ups in the last few years. Maybe these guys are the ones who will finally get it right.
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by reso 15y ago
I hear this was written by some FB Engineers last night. Pretty hilarious.
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by reso 15y ago
I think Facebook's biggest failure is that they've never educated people on how to use Facebook well, and honestly, they have likely inadvertently encouraged bad practices with their emphasis on growth. For example, why do you have friends
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by reso 15y ago
The argument is friends' contact info belongs to your friends, not to you. Its a social grey area that has been created by the internet, the correct protocols have yet to be defined.
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by reso 15y ago
Uhoh. This will not be good for my productivity...
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by reso 15y ago
Agreed. TC commenters do not reflect reality.
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by reso 15y ago
Facebook has huge promise, but I think it is still too young to tell if it has legs on the order of a century. On the other hand, Google has already shown its ability to hop platforms again and again (Search to E-mail, Web to Mobile, Softwa
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by reso 15y ago
No. People said the same about Google and Facebook collection phone-numbers for security purposes, but the truth is, extra authentication methods like these are crucial to recovering accounts in the event of attacks. In any case, security t
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by reso 15y ago
Interesting concept, but I doubt it will take off. The present version would be easily breakable by image-processing and some scripting. They could obfuscate the image, but then you're in the same war-of-attrition you see with text-based ca
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by reso 15y ago
The Cat/Dog captcha was broken because dogs are very likely to be photographed on grass while cats are not. An attack that simply calculated the amount of green in the image broke the captcha to a very high accuracy.
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by reso 15y ago
Agreed. I'm surprised they're all moving to MV when there's a Google office just down King street. I hope they don't forget their Waterloo roots when they're all rich in Silicon Valley.
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by reso 15y ago
"I plan to remain hard-headed about this until I am convinced that abandoning the rote sorts of exercises done in, say, a linear algebra class (which can also be done on a calculator) does not hinder our ability to form intuition about how
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by reso 15y ago
When they started pushing Unix on us in 2nd year CS, I hated VIM with a burning passion. After a little while of using it though, I can say my typing efficiency is far, far, higher than it was before, and I can "flow" better since I don't h
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by reso 15y ago
I agree the distributed group-think is a huge problem on the internet. However, if you do some analysis, I think you'll find that twitter-fueled public lynchings are an order of magnitude less frequent than twitter-fueled viral awesomeness.
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by reso 15y ago
Firesheep is solved by enabling HTTPS on Facebook. This was released several months ago: https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130
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by reso 15y ago
Bullshit conspiracy theories. How can something that is opt-in be an erosion of privacy? By default it is not enabled. Just don't use it and you're fine.
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by reso 15y ago
Interns keep kicking ass at Facebook.
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by reso 15y ago
Came here to post this. I'm really sad to see this kind of practice going on in Google now. Moreover, the fact that they cooperated with an article about it is slightly disturbing. How are all the other people involved with the deal going t
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by reso 15y ago
I feel like those of us blessed to work in very positive environments forget that many people do not, and when those people hear that "the team always eats together" immediately assume it is a management enforced policy, and not a spontaneo
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by reso 15y ago
Well, I think the article is predicated on having a job one enjoys in a positive work environment with sympathetic and interesting coworkers. It doesn't seem to apply to you.
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by reso 15y ago
This is exactly it. Facebook is 2000 people serving 600 million. They all work 10-12 hour days and still can't keep up with all the work thrown their way. Its not that they don't care, they are just swamped.
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by reso 15y ago
Sensationalism. There are many explanations for this more likely than dropbox was intentionally deceiving its users, and the Cory Doctorow knows that. Privacy is an engineering problem as much or more than a policy problem, and Dropbox, sti
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by reso 15y ago
We speak of Real-GDP, but the day when China overtakes the US in RGDP/capita is still a very long way off. Still, probably a good time to start learning the ol' Mandarin.
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by reso 15y ago
Love that algorithm. Wikipedia has a good visualization for those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_algorithm#Linear_gene...
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by reso 16y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/22/google-co-founders-plan-sel... "Larry and Sergey currently hold approximately 57.7 million shares of Class B common stock, which represents approximately 18% of Google’s outstanding capital stock and appro
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by reso 16y ago
While it certainly is a good cause, tying Jack Dorsey into the article (and the headline) was a stretch at best.

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