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by rryan 13y ago
Sorry for the mocking tone -- I edited my original comment. It's easy to forget people are in very different environments and that affects our perspective. If you're still thinking of gchat as a desktop AOL Instant Messenger repla
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by rryan 13y ago
Killing the competition? There is lots of healthy competition in the messaging/chat space: Facebook Chat, WhatsApp, iMessage, SnapChat, Instagram, Skype, etc. If anything gChat is a struggling platform that didn't make the transit
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by rryan 13y ago
Yes! This is the only part of Stripe's API that I raised an eyebrow at. I think it's a little irresponsible to send all the data via web-hook without providing a way to verify it came from Stripe. At the very least they should onl
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by rryan 13y ago
I know I was browsing ads. I said "Google Shopping ads were actually pretty useful". I also didn't say that was the only source I looked at. It just happened to have all of my go-to gear companies in a handy ranked list. Amaz
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by rryan 13y ago
It's not surprising that commercial queries produce ads. "what are telescopes", "astronomy", "skywatching", "how to use a telescope", "telescope construction", and "telescope histo
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by rryan 13y ago
Hm, looks nice! The coloring of the columns doesn't seem to be meaningful in any way I can come up with. I think it would make more sense if things were grouped into categories (e.g. databases, web frameworks, frontend languages, backe
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by rryan 13y ago
It's not a walled garden if you can leave and take your data with you.
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by rryan 13y ago
> PRISM collaborators You mean companies that comply with US law? So your advice is to work outside of the US?
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by rryan 13y ago
A DMCA takedown request isn't talking about a URL -- it's talking about content. Google is likely saving themselves lifetimes of human effort (and the associated salaries) that would have to go into manual screening. I imagine con
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by rryan 13y ago
> So how do they do it if they don't have access to Google's servers? So there's this protocol called SMTP...
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by rryan 13y ago
...said the person with the username "onemorepassword".
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by rryan 13y ago
Not everything can (or should) be proved of the drop of a hat in a discussion list If you say something that doesn't make sense, you're saying that one shouldn't have to back that up? It's like asking me to prove why using an
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by rryan 13y ago
Or Google is just trying to solve a real problem (that few people think about until it's too late) for its users. GMail is miniscule compared to YouTube. You really think Google is having so much trouble storing a bunch of text that they ca
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by rryan 14y ago
I suspect this benchmark is actually just testing the difference between STOMP and AMQP. RabbitMQ with STOMP is in the same regime as ActiveMQ / Apollo while RabbitMQ with AMQP is always 3x-5x faster than itself and others with STOMP. QPI
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by rryan 14y ago
I know using a phone is so 20th century but Google Play actually has a dedicated call center for providing support. When I ordered a Nexus 7 back in July I was wondering when it would arrive so I called. Within 2 minutes of waiting I was ta
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by rryan 14y ago
On the contrary, structured microdata is used quite often by companies like Google and Facebook to understand your site better. Here are a few examples: Rich snippets on Google allow you to customize your snippets in search: http://support
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by rryan 14y ago
Also, Schema.org recently added a 'logo' property to the Organization type: http://schema.org/Organization This is useful because it's an easy way for you to declare what your logo is to spiders looking at your site. Google/Facebook/Fours
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by rryan 14y ago
I've poked around at Graph a little bit and it looks nice but I have a few nagging questions bothering me: fnk's use their argument names to define how to connect edges of the graph together. This means that fnk's are not modular -- they ar
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by rryan 14y ago
Along these same lines, for LaTeX fans there is http://detexify.kirelabs.org/
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by rryan 14y ago
I disagree. A user requesting http://example.com is that user requesting everything that the webmaster of example.com wanted example.com to include. This includes ads. The webmaster has decided that the content hosted on http://example.c
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by rryan 14y ago
ZFS auto-heals on read so the files you touch regularly are fine. You do need to scrub regularly to prevent bit-rot across all your files. I go with once-a-week as well.
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by rryan 14y ago
Apparently all devices currently using Google Sync will continue to work. The suggested route for new devices is IMAP/CalDAV/CardDAV. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/winter-cleaning.html
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by rryan 14y ago
> Again. Google Street View cars are NOT going around continuously updating data. I think you might be a little bit dated in your understanding. Google any random city on maps.google.com. Look at the fine print at the bottom: "Map data
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Google Knowledge Graph now in es, fr, de, pt, ja, ru, and it.(insidesearch.blogspot.com)
2 points by rryan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rryan 14y ago
This gives companies an easy way to distribute their corporate apps internally where they would previously have to sideload them on employee phones. How is this related to your claims?
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by rryan 14y ago
More info: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3569688/why-nexus-4-does-...
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Inside Android's next wave: Building the Nexus 4, Nexus 10, and Android 4.2(theverge.com)
4 points by rryan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rryan 14y ago
Here's a video by the verge which provides a lot more detail, hands on demonstrations, and interviews with the Android team. http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/29/3570034/inside-android-bu... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embe
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MapR sets 54s terasort record with 1003 instances on Google Compute Engine(mapr.com)
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by rryan 14y ago
One of the best parts about my Nexus 7 is that it fits perfectly in my back pocket (and even front-jeans pockets but that's much less comfortable). Having a tablet on my person (i.e. not having to reach inside a backpack to get it out) has

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