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by rrdharan 10y ago
It is possible. I ported my T-Mobile number into GV in 2013 when I switched to Android and Hangouts first added GV/SMS integration, so that I could send SMS from the desktop. Then I ported my number back out to T-Mobile again in 2015 w
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by rrdharan 10y ago
If you have enough disposable income to pay for Twitter aren't you very likely also the most valuable target for advertisers?
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by rrdharan 10y ago
They do tremendous amounts of validation. I believe random generation of input data is part of that. Here's an old heavily cited paper from Intel on the topic; I'm sure their state of the art has advanced considerably in the inter
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by rrdharan 10y ago
[Disclaimer: I work at Google.] I see no conclusive evidence in the parent comment that proves it's Google. I would've actually guessed Apple. My understanding is that Google actually has a reasonable process for this, and that pe
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by rrdharan 10y ago
In those cases the Air refers to wirelessness rather than weight.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Surprised that no one has pointed out this is nearly exactly the experience you get with a tablet + keyboard - and in fact the viewable screen/real estate probably lines up quite well with what a desktop gave you in 2002. That having b
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by rrdharan 10y ago
But Parse was opensourced, before it was turned off.. And opensourcing doesn't help with offloading operational complexity anyway. So I fail to see how these are connected.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
He was/is a major investor in Genius: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6752952/eminem-partne...
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by rrdharan 10y ago
A lot of folks would consider personal security a basic right, but someone still has to pay for the police. Some folks believe that healthcare should be a basic right, and people definitely have to pay for that.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Should have a (2016) on it? > The Democrats may find they need to give up a little of their wonkiness if they want resounding victories. It’s not in their long-term interest to be too much what Pat Buchanan once referred to as “the party
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by rrdharan 10y ago
What advantage does using WKWebView provide for an app over SFSafariViewController? Is it just the ability to change the color and icons to match the rest of the app's style? Or are apps generally switching over to SFSafariViewControll
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Shows how carefully I was reading it. Thanks for the correction.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Interesting article. As someone he would have likely considered a "beast of semi-human nature" myself, I'm admittedly biased against Lovecraft. At any rate I found it interesting that the New Yorker didn't squeeze in a t
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by rrdharan 10y ago
The Ubuntu names are chronologically in alphabetical order.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
In fairness to the author there is this text in the conclusion: > Hindsight, of course, is 20/20. While I’ve spent most of this post talking about Trello’s missed opportunity, we shouldn’t forget that building a SaaS business that’s
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by rrdharan 10y ago
You might still care about security properties/exploits in Visual Studio given that a lot of use cases involve running it as Administrator: https://tomssl.com/2015/03/31/always-run-visual-studio-as-ad...
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by rrdharan 10y ago
I love that thing - I use it with nginx to secure access to stuff running on my home machine that I want to expose publicly (e.g. the Transmission Web UI).
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by rrdharan 10y ago
It's an Electron app, so it's basically running an entire second copy of Chrom{e|ium}. UPDATE: Err, or first copy, if you don't use Chrome as your primary browser.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
You mean Debian Stable, though perhaps that was intentional? If so, well done.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
I don't think anyone considers vmklinux independent, and indeed vmklinux is itself open-sourced (in a kludgey but compliant way): https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=ESX... The debate ha
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Moreover (and more directly related to the actual article) it is true that the GPLv3 provides more clarity on what constitutes a derivative work: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/edge/0
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by rrdharan 10y ago
https://communities.vmware.com/message/726899#726899 It's a little too long to copy/paste here, but read Zach Amsden's reply.
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by rrdharan 10y ago
> alleviate fears that VMWare might have that complying would leave them vulnerable I don't think this is the case. VMware (and their lawyers) have studied the GPL and genuinely do not believe they are not complying with its require
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by rrdharan 10y ago
I'm very biased, since I worked at VMware for nine years. Nonetheless I disagree with you. I think it's worth actually pursuing this and settling the VMware situation clearly. Uncertainty is rarely a good thing for anyone in thes
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by rrdharan 10y ago
I work at Google, though not on anything remotely related to cars/transportation, nonetheless I'm clearly not unbiased here. At any rate this part of Ben Thompson's post annoyed me for a different reason - he conflates and eq
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by rrdharan 10y ago
[Apologize for the back-to-back EconTalk plugs, but I really enjoy the show!] This EconTalk episode on Narconomics goes into a great deal of detail regarding exactly how structurally broken the supply-side attacks are; I found it quite fasc
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Haven't read the book yet but Sam Quinones was on EconTalk recently and it was pretty enlightening: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/01/sam_quinones_on.htm...
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by rrdharan 10y ago
Several folks have analyzed this in depth. The economics of self-driving cars are definitely far from clear: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/10/20/2142450/do-the-econom... http://www.nakedcap
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by rrdharan 10y ago
I think there can still be a moral component, if you know that they are enacting and perpetrating a vicious cycle that will lead to the depletion of public transit: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis
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by rrdharan 10y ago
It's kind of funny to consider how long this debate has been going on and the self-driving cars excuse as merely the latest iteration of it: http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/must-read-there-is-a-... To

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