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by rickmb 15y ago
It's called humor. It may not be appropriate on HN, but neither is bitching about it every time the source is you-know-who. Also, there are no innocuous statements in press releases. And certainly not in this one.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Interesting that the words "Microsoft" or "Explorer" don't even appear on the whole page. Whatever your opinion on either, ignoring their existence completely is not going help "move the web forward".
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by rickmb 15y ago
The author seems to consistently confuse architecture, languages and frameworks. None of his arguments have anything to do with Rails, Ruby, PHP or whatever else he mentions, except partly Javascript. This seems to be a recurring pattern wi
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by rickmb 15y ago
Apologies for the late response. I wrote "explicitly". What I mean by that is that privacy laws already very likely make it illegal, but those laws don't mention "new" technology, so it's kind of open to interpretation until it's tested in
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by rickmb 15y ago
Yep, but that's exactly what you need to stay sane when faced with people who a) don't want to adopt a solution that I know to work, but b) are incapable or unwilling to make the effort to make their own "preferred" solution work. I've come
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by rickmb 15y ago
Don't confuse the public services (including internal IT used for public services) with the IT governments use to secure their power.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Only for values of "everybody" that don't include Europe.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Good [insert profession here] can recognize good [insert profession here] by just having a real conversation with them, with a focus on listening. Sure, there are outliers in the form of pathological liars and psychopaths, but these tend to
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by rickmb 15y ago
On the other hand, Zynga is actually addressing these issue. If they integrate that self-reflection into their company culture, they may end up being a better place to work than so many start-ups that only have a "cool" company culture beca
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by rickmb 15y ago
There are two things wrong with this article. First, it doesn't even mention that without an adblocker your being tracked all over the place by advertisers. (A practice that is btw clearly illegal in many countries, even if they haven't exp
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by rickmb 15y ago
Revolutions (and maybe more importantly: the threat of revolt) have brought us quite far from the days of absolute rulers that could do whatever they liked to the population. In other words: things will end up different because revoluti
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by rickmb 15y ago
BoF follows a long tradition of our local digital civil rights movement itself being formed by a closed and not particularly transparent "elite". This stems from the failure of the first movement (DB.NL) in the 90's which was killed by infi
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by rickmb 15y ago
And this is how the next major war will start... Seriously, this pretty much sounds like a test run to see if the media will still take the bait without asking questions.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Amen. Given the current scarcity, any decent developer can easily find a job further north.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Buying DRM-ed content is a contradiction in terms. Period. It should be made illegal for sellers to pretend this constitutes the purchase of the content itself. Call it a lease, call it a service, but stop scamming consumers.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Groups is also offered as part of Google Apps, where it's actually useful (as internal mailinglists with web-based archive) since it's a closed environment.
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by rickmb 15y ago
I think you're wrong here. There's some major political instability in many parts of Western Europe, with people abandoning mainstream parties in favor of new parties that aren't associated with the political establishment. Some to the left
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by rickmb 15y ago
I was going to agree with you before I actually clicked the link. Any place where this is NSFW has some serious issues. Sure, I know such places exists, but you cannot expect submitters to constantly be aware of such outliers any time the
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by rickmb 15y ago
This is an EU parliament resolution, and the EU parliament has very little real power. That doesn't make it politically meaningless, but it in no way compels the European Commission or the joint EU governments to actually do anything about
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by rickmb 15y ago
This isn't "calming them down". This is throwing gasoline onto the fire. Google should understand that in countries where privacy is considered an fundamental right, the default answer when it comes to gathering this kind of information is
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by rickmb 15y ago
It's an invasion of the privacy of the owners of said access point because they neither asked not intended for their SSID and location to be put into Google's database . It's as simple as that. In most Western countries, a citizens right
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by rickmb 15y ago
Business at the expense of civil rights has been quite controversial in many democratic nations. Shocking, really.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Here's a little update: the majority of Dutch parliament rejects Google's proposal. http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js... Right or wrong, this tends to happen if you try to arrogantly dictate instead of negotiate
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by rickmb 15y ago
Oh, I agree it's way down the list. But this attitude is exactly what I mean: nobody misunderstood anything . Really. Just because people have different values and priorities doesn't mean that they are too stupid to understand the issues.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Noticing something as you walk by and a corporate giant collecting, collating and using that information for something the owner never intended it for are two wildly different things. Context is everything. The phonebook was a well known
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by rickmb 15y ago
No. Google is not going above and beyond normal privacy protections outside the US . Just because you can collect the data, doesn't mean you are allowed to. In countries with other definitions of privacy it can be considered a reasonable e
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by rickmb 15y ago
Oh god, here we go again. Why doesn't Google (or a large portion of HN for that matter) ever learn? Privacy has a different meaning outside the US, and in many places, especially Europe, is strongly protected. Just because the information i
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by rickmb 15y ago
Does anybody else feel somewhat uncomfortable to live in a world where people who a) know how to spell and b) actually want a search engine to search what they are looking for are considered "edge cases/power users"? I've always laughed at
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by rickmb 15y ago
The author should take his own advice more seriously. He links to his companies job postings, which consist of a long list of mostly boilerplate required qualifications, and little to nothing about what the company may have to offer prospec
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by rickmb 15y ago
To me this just sounds like "somebody else should make me my shiny toys so I can be an 'artist'". Take some responsibility. If you "artists" hadn't all ran after the shiny toys Adobe offered but taken those "pedantic" standards people serio

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