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721.
by robk 13y ago
Chip and pin pushes more burden onto the consumer. I am well protected now with mag stripe - why would I want to place more of a burden on myself to keep a PIN safe when the law currently protects me for unauthorized charges?
722.
by robk 13y ago
AAVE is the answer you're looking for. I presume this is a separate field of linguistic study where one researcher wouldn't necessarily have domain knowledge. http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#Classical_Southern
723.
by robk 13y ago
That seems somewhat scary if they've compromised domain registrars and are intercepting login data from client sites that way.
724.
by robk 13y ago
Picasa seems unnaturally safe in this model. It's also stopped iterating generally and Google's acquired a totally separate mobile app for photos (Snapseed). And Google really doesn't make any material amount of money off Picasa either.
725.
by robk 13y ago
Excellent. Fraudsters deserve jail time. Cookie stuffing is clearly fraudulent.
726.
WhatsApp to add push-to-talk(9to5mac.com)
1 points by robk 13y ago|0 comments
727.
by robk 13y ago
This is nice for larger funds to do, with fatter management fees. Smaller funds, not so much so. There's not really a structure to take it out of the fund commitment, so this comes out of management fee. Smaller funds don't have this luxu
728.
by robk 14y ago
That seems unnecessarily pre-emptive, especially since you are protected as a card user and don't know your card was compromised.
729.
by robk 14y ago
Venture debt can also be really bad too. It's not always cheaper equity-wise if there's a heavy warrant issue attached.
730.
Foursquare raises $41m round(mobile.businessweek.com)
1 points by robk 14y ago|0 comments
731.
by robk 14y ago
"The last 24 hours have been some of the ugliest on the internet." Uh, no. There are far far uglier things that happen on the internet. every. single. day.
732.
by robk 14y ago
VC fundraising is very similar to startup fundraising at least. Lots and lots of rejection, continuous pitching and substitute "traction" for "track record".
733.
by robk 14y ago
Really surprising to see as Jeff was widely viewed as a star within the company.
734.
Jeff Huber steps down as SVP Maps/Commerce at Google(techcrunch.com)
2 points by robk 14y ago|1 comments
735.
The Android Paradox: Hackers and Casuals (acoustik.quora.com)
1 points by robk 14y ago|1 comments
736.
by robk 14y ago
Exactly this. Seems like a shell game at this point with not much hope in their near-term future. Goods is a low-rent version of Woot and is going to be very hard for them to stay competitive in since most goods don't have nearly the margin
737.
by robk 14y ago
Just checked my spam folder and sure enough 5 spam emails to my unique dropbox address.
738.
by robk 14y ago
Works really nicely I've found.
739.
Location autocomplete for Google Calendar(labs.mitro.co)
3 points by robk 14y ago|1 comments
740.
by robk 14y ago
Said the guy posting about taking several weeks off to go to China on a "tech tour". That seems like a massive boondoggle.
741.
by robk 14y ago
I find it very hard to be sympathetic with such a scummy company as Monster. They chose to play ball with better negotiators than themselves and got burned in the process.
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Beats by Dre: How Monster Lost the World(gizmodo.com)
12 points by robk 14y ago|2 comments
743.
by robk 14y ago
Please don't base your judgments of real life policing on Hollywood productions.
744.
by robk 14y ago
When will you have a SIP or XMPP option to route calls over data?
745.
Box targets 2014 IPO(bloomberg.com)
1 points by robk 14y ago|0 comments
746.
by robk 14y ago
This is very surprising given the statistical machine learning approach of Google Translate. Surely this adds in too much noise to be trustworthy.
747.
by robk 14y ago
In the US it is often used with a positive connotation.
748.
by robk 14y ago
Uh, in Central London I count at least 6 operated by the council or Met or Transport for London (unclear actual ownership of the outdoor ones but they're mounted on public poles and accessible by Met for criminal investigations). This is a
749.
by robk 14y ago
This is really bothersome that they're trying to monitor activity on these sites. Paypal has absolutely no place doing that.
750.
by robk 14y ago
Campanja is another rapidly growing startup in Stockholm.

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