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by ripperdoc 13y ago
I think the key point brought up here is that there is greater convenience in external accessories once there is more than one computing device to use them with - and I'd say that's a much more common scenario than it used to be.
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by ripperdoc 13y ago
I have a similar situation with multiple countries and friends and family back home. Facebook is a good tool for that. Sure, the toolset itself is only ok (crashy app, opaque list-management, messy UI). But more than half of the value of Fa
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by ripperdoc 13y ago
It seems to be focusing on reconnecting with old acquaintances. I think that will be hard - that is all about the network effect, to make sure that the people you know are already on the network - e.g. the case of Facebook. Coming as a new
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by ripperdoc 13y ago
An application health dashboard should be standard practice in large software, especially software that supports plugin and interpreting code. I am sure I am not alone to feel that software get sluggish with time, or that certain updates ca
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Try Boxcryptor, probably even less hassle to set up?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Very well written. However, I believe he takes the conclusion one step too far. As he says, the issue is complex. The problem can be _both_ sexism and narcissism. The issues can co-exist. Clearly, a lot of women have to deal with a plenty o
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
This is a nice idea, and I love IFTTT, but it doesn't substitute Google Reader for most people. First, as pointed out, it is setup on a per RSS-feed basis. But still, take 50 or 100 feeds and you'll very quickly have a problem over too much
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Glassbox engine has been shown as a challenging and CPU-sucking way of solving the simulation. I'd love for it to actually work, but is it really so difficult/resource intensive to solve the problem? In old SimCities one could click a house
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
This is indeed interesting, but I'd say far beyond the needs. 10Gbps wireless transfer already exists (e.g. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/27/ntt-docomo-confirms-succe... ), and that is beyond what flash based memory can do. In any case,
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Possible future? June 2014: Google Glass released to the public. Dec 2014: First face recognition app released. May 2015: App to detect "dateability" with strangers reaches #1 on the appstores. Nov 2015: Trend among girls to apply make-up t
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
And if you click back to his website, you'll find that it seems to have been solely built using WordArt, which is quite an impressive feat!
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Fun and completely irrelevant fact: "Xinu" is the name of the God of Pain in a popular Swedish role-playing game (pen and paper). See here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js...
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
So this implies that it would be delivered over Google CDN, e.g. from a network close to requesting location?
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
This is all a very nice philosophical discussion. People argue that libraries do pay rightholders - whatever amount, it seems to be less than $1, and that's nice. BUT, why can't we just agree then that we pay a couple of dollars straight to
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Why is this topic so complicated? A Google news snippet very rarely would suffice for a user, if they are interested they would click through, if they are not, they would not visiting the newspaper anyway. Google are not showing ads in Goog
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
That statement doesn't make sense. If they didn't contatenate, the string would be even longer and less useful as hashtag, or it would be concatenated again, as most hashtags in English are concatenated words...
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
But that is what CDNs do. A content provider, such as Apple, will pay both for their upstream carrier access, AND for the CDN access. And the CDN will effectively pay each network on the way to the destination, by renting their lines and ho
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
That is true, but they all represent somehow the older version of connected software, as a pure extension of the device rather than a service on it's own. iCloud works great for a device as an invisible backup, but you can't use it to share
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I can sympathize and I feel less content with Apple than I used to. I love their hardware - anyway I always find myself buying a new device rather than upgrading. Apple does great stuff but as other's I'm really worried that they won't fix
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Here you can read the draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.2770, Requirements for Deep Packet Inspection in Next Generation Networks: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:hZQFa54QIRsJ:...
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Wait a minute. ITU is composed of the national regulators and interested companies. ITU cannot regulate, they can simply recommend that each regulator goes home (in US case, FCC), and proposes some regulatory change, which has to pass norma
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I see it as an existential test. If you ping localhost, and it doesn't answer, is anything at all real anymore? ARE we living in a DREAM?? IISS ITt 4LL MANOFACTURED TROoTH????
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
This is what HN is about - expertise, pointing out an area of improvement, and offer of help. Kudos.
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Note that a kind of sender-pays is already used in practice as all big content providers pay for CDN on a per GB basis, and the CDN company in turn pays for bandwidth.
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
There's a lot of misconceptions on DPI going on here. Without taking position, let me just share a few facts (I work with this...). - DPI is used in most networks in the world, and is mainly used for throttling P2P or for traffic analysis.
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
In every social network or social area online I follow, I see people saying these things regularly, along the lines of: "I can't take it here anymore". While I understand and respect it, I think it comes from what importance you put on thes
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
That's true about "customerS" but not for "a customer". There will always be a percentage of customers that expect more than the norm (for good or not so good reasons). The company cannot treat everyone's opinion the same, as they'd then ne
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Well, one would of course hedge bets and reach farther by going for multiple platforms. But the whole point was that the Daily (and most iPad magazines) mostly go for a "PDF with bells and whistles" approach, and it is exactly that which ma
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
Operators in all countries are worried about reduced profits due to expensive data traffic, and all operators have paid large amount of money to governments for their licenses. So yes, they did build the roads.
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by ripperdoc 14y ago
I believe it has been widely recognized that Zynga, GREE, etc earn most of their revenues from "whales". And I think it's an ok practice. But in order to get the money from the whales, it often seems that the rest of the players (the 99%, i

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