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by rickmb 14y ago
I hope you can think of better examples. I hadn't seen the post you mentioned, but the whole thing was so dripping in arrogance and a complete disdain for Wikipedia and its international users and contributors it is begging to get panned. B
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by rickmb 14y ago
I still remember when Wired was relevant. You know, back in the 90s, before they declared the web dead for the first time.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Is it somewhat realistic to assume enterprise IT is increasingly becoming irrelevant when it comes to the desktop? I mean, how insane is it when people have to work with technology on their job they've ditched 5-10 years ago at home for bei
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by rickmb 14y ago
Personally, I consider Android devices a bit more than just slightly inferior, so I compensate for my continuing Apple-addiction by making sure all my data is in portable formats and either stored or backed up outside the Apple ecosystem. I
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by rickmb 14y ago
Although I agree it's annoying and negative marketing, it's also being completely overblown here. This stuff is just a minor marketing gimmick. Paying with credit card is in itself rare in most of the world outside the US, where debit cards
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by rickmb 14y ago
> Why does that matter? It matters because the economic argument is the only marginally justifiable motivation for the heavy handed enforcement of copyright over civil rights. And I'm being very generous in using the word "justifiable".
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by rickmb 14y ago
Discussing technology without politics is sticking your head in the sand. Technology has a political impact, and technological choices are politically influenced. Half the topics on HN would be very different if you took away the political
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by rickmb 14y ago
One thing that worries me about iCloud is that it puts a lot of data and services behind one single password. Said password is therefor used a lot, with a lot of chances for interception. But most of all, it's used for trivial matters in wh
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by rickmb 14y ago
There seems to be an odd notion that B2B must be about accounting and such. Most B2B stuff I've been involved with the past few years has all been "social". Because, like soylent green, companies mostly consist of people ...
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by rickmb 14y ago
I had hoped that Apple had finally got it's power cable plug shit together with the L-shaped Magsafe. Before that, my wife and I have managed to kill every type Apple has produced over the past decade, but the L-shaped Magsafe has survived.
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by rickmb 14y ago
Interesting. I've never had this problem with several types of Macbook and Magsafe, and I've never heard of anyone having that problem. As I'm typing this, I'm trying to dislodge the L-shaped plug from my 13" Macbook, and it's truly impossi
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by rickmb 14y ago
Sorry, it's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction caused by the number of American sites that treat non-US visitors like it's a nuisance they even dare to visit, as if an English language .com site is an "Americans-only" sign. (This is especially i
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by rickmb 14y ago
"we were targeting English-speaking countries only, so I don't know why we were getting hits from India and Egypt and stuff" Seriously? Seriously? I mean... no, never mind. "Confused" doesn't even begin to describe it. Given that the US
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by rickmb 14y ago
Both times I tried PhpStorm I encountered showstopping bugs that were pretty damn obvious. This was not some free beta, but a product I'm supposed to fork over a license fee for, and hope the issues get solved within a year. That way of doi
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by rickmb 14y ago
Not supported in FF, not supported in IE and two competing specs. I'd say, no, it's not time to integrate web notifications. Especially if you want a consistent user experience across browsers. Nice informative writeup on the current stat
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by rickmb 14y ago
This bit made me stop reading immediately: "The task is way too large to get an understanding of for most programmers. It has to be sent back to an architect.." I checked the date to see if it wasn't written in 1982 before I closed the ta
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by rickmb 14y ago
In my experience, all these formal 20% things are just too artificial, and usually just marketing. The only important thing (but also the most challenging) is to ensure that there is enough slack in the schedule. If you can manage that, wel
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by rickmb 14y ago
In the US, "state" has a different meaning from most countries, and "federal" is rather unpopular in certain circles. Hence the term "homeland". In most times and places, the institution would be called "State Security". Which is a commonly
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by rickmb 14y ago
Even people who operate on a much smaller scale need consistent, fast performance. For them, the whole effort and cost of setting up RAID across multiple EBS instances, measuring and dropping the slowest performance constantly is completely
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by rickmb 14y ago
It falls into the "shit that will bite you in the ass one day" category. It's about engineering quality, and it goes all the way down to the stuff we don't see. Given Digg's history, it's a bit of a red flag. However, it all depends on how
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by rickmb 14y ago
They also state that they neither proactively reported the content (they encouraged NBC to do so), nor did they remove it on behalf of NBC (they claim independent action based on their policy). In other words, they deny having done what the
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by rickmb 14y ago
Twitter's explanation includes the word "apologize", but never states cleary what exactly they are apologizing for. Encouraging NBC to file a complaint? A complaint they still claim is justified? You can't apologize and say you did the righ
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by rickmb 14y ago
We haven't instantly forgotten how Microsoft handles Skydrive, have we?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4265086 I think I'll pass on putting my email through their systems. Although I have to admit this looks way better than GMail. I
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by rickmb 14y ago
Which is extremely disturbing because it is not a private email address. It's a corporate business address, which makes it as socially acceptable as "send all your complaints to NBC c/o Gary Zenkel", and not against Twitter's policy.
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by rickmb 14y ago
One could analyze peaceful political movements based on their stated original goals, ignore all results that only partially meet those goals, and conclude that the vast majority are hardly more effective than terrorism. Not to mention the f
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by rickmb 14y ago
Oh, the content is relevant. Just not the newspaper. Or in other words, the package deal in which I have to pay for content that is 90% irrelevant to me , distributed (even online) in a way I consider quite inconvenient. Which is exactly w
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by rickmb 14y ago
"our economy is teetering because people can’t hack the math needed to understand how big a loan they can afford" That is not so much caused by a lack of math as it is a surplus of delusional optimism. No amount of math will ever beat tha
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by rickmb 14y ago
Given the nature of the games, you may want to consider renaming to areyounorthamerican.com...
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by rickmb 14y ago
Something is off about this story. A brief glance in the iBookstore shows tons of books on Amazon and Amazon products, including books on how to sell your work via Amazon. We're talking entire books who's sole purpose is to promote or suppo
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by rickmb 14y ago
Just a thought: Megaupload is a Hong Kong corporation. There's no way the White House didn't have a diplomatic chat with the Chinese before demolishing a Hong Kong business, is there?

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