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by rogerchucker 13y ago
I will definitely give this book a try. I'm in the middle of learning from the NerdRanch book (never had the time to keep up with the Stanford course). Any general thoughts from the community about the best way to balance between _any_ book
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
Difference: IE was ugly and IE experience was ugly.
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
That's not how it works. My privacy perception has nothing to do with another person's trust in me. And no I did not say I am volunteering ALL the information I am privy to - I did say that I have my boundaries. How I define those boundarie
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
I'm in India now and keep getting "No Internet connection" as well.
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
That's where you (and by some extension most computer science people) are completely off-base. You don't get to define what is private for me or what privacy means for me. It is a social construct. I have a select set of information that I
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
Yes it's called taking risk. I am aware of it - people like you seem to get offended that we actually take that risk in exchange of the convenience (free and more or less stable services).
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
I guess this is a backlash (albeit an opportunistic one for some) against Google's previously touted love for openness. I agree with the OP that unlike Larry Page, Eric Schmidt was the one who always talked openly (forgive the pun) about op
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
I prefer these services free and have no problem being tracked for more personalized ads. I don't wanna pay with my wallet - I am OK with paying with my information.
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
This is probably not gonna be a popular sentiment here but I actually like the G+ integration with all the services. The main reasons for that are my expectation of better personalization and synchronization, and a better experience with Go
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
Why does he always have to be such a pessimistic grandpa? Privacy as he knows it doesn't exist anymore because majority have made a choice to give it up in exchange of new value created by new technology. I'm unsure of what Bruce Schneier h
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Ask HN: Gain experience in production-grade infrastructure design?
1 points by rogerchucker 13y ago|0 comments
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by rogerchucker 13y ago
Curious - would a substantial familiarity with EC2 be counted as an experience similar to that with linode?
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
That's how I have been doing it until not too long ago.
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
Actually only heard of it when Mailbox was coming out - looks like they have GTD nailed because they target businesses. I'll definitely give it a try (although with the free plan and it's 10 message credit limit - hopefully I don't need to
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
[EDIT: This might be a bit off-topic to the issue raised by the author] I find the whole idea of zero inbox incredibly useless to my workflow as I don't care to treat email as GTD. The only value I get out of keeping Mailbox on my phone is
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
You are allowed to find a device useful (i.e. gain value out of it) without being productive on it. That is why e-Readers sell a lot - they are useful. We're arguing about productive use cases here and that in my mind does not include comme
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
My best use case for iPad has been the ease of showing some paper or draft to my advisor instead of printing it out or sending it over email and hoping he reads it. In general, I find iPad great for sporadic use cases that complement my lap
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
I don't think reading/learning are productive use cases. Productivity, IMHO, means you create/produce something that is tangentially different (regardless of how small it is) than what existed before an activity. In the minds of most people
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
The author talked about "productive use" - you listed gaming and browsing. In many circles those don't rank as productivity. There's a fine difference between "great"/"cool" and "being productive".
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
I wonder if H-1Bs were attracting more Europeans than Indians, would Americans hate it the same way?
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
Is it impossible to develop Chrome apps on a Chromebook? Do IDEs like ShiftEdit and Cloud9 allow that?
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
$1300? How do you say WTF in Google-ese?
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
When you tell a guy in distress to "man up" (an opinion that was obviously upvoted by many in HN) and the guy ends up committing suicide, then, fair or not, you gotta take a hike. Or else someone will start a shitstorm in your direction (in
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
okglass.com has been registered by Google already - http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=okg... [Someone posted this on Gizmodo's comments]
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
Oh look - a downvote for a shallow response to a shallow comment.
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
Few years ago, people were not comfortable being tagged on a social network but many have moved on.
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
Most devs (including myself) are butt ugly - these glasses won't make you look worse.
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
For a student who wants to explore Ruby for iOS apps instead of going through the whole Xcode-ObjC learning curve? I think not.
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
nice.. downvote anyone who complains about cost
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by rogerchucker 14y ago
holy mother of awfulness - $200?

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