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by rwolf 15y ago
You may have meant to talk about humans in general, but the context here is Microsoft. Your claim that Microsoft has very rarely acted against the interests of users on purpose is in need of supporting evidence, as the general sentiment on
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by rwolf 15y ago
Citation needed.
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by rwolf 15y ago
I see talk of controls for hiding and sharing items on the timeline, and for turning the timeline on and off, but not for only making it available to your friends. The barrier to entry to browse a user's past appears to be: a Facebook accou
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by rwolf 15y ago
The nitty-gritty details of corporate politics at Microsoft is of interest to me. Given the recent barrage of positive tech articles about the upcoming Windows 8, I enjoyed a look from the inside at what looked from outside like a remarkabl
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by rwolf 15y ago
Whose database? Are you a service for syncing photos between third-party photos services (in which case it's thier acls that matter), or another attempt to become a centralized photo service (in which case why talk about openness?). Nice AP
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by rwolf 15y ago
It's in a similar vein to the recent Skype integration.
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by rwolf 15y ago
What are the access controls? Trivially guessable urls make the usual "security through... hey look a pony!" more unsuitable than usual.
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by rwolf 15y ago
This is missing all of the Google+ news that is shared through Google+, or the output of all of their Twitter accounts. Thanks for collecting all of the RSS feeds, though!
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by rwolf 15y ago
I saw all of those extra spaces around "then" in the article and assumed the worst. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
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by rwolf 15y ago
and Javascript uses promises and "then ()". What is "then ()"? Have they created their own wacky fork of Javascript? Javascript already handles asynchronous programming (feel free to argue that is doesn't do it "right" or even "we
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by rwolf 15y ago
My new mission: downvote every comment I find that whines about getting downvotes. How to automate this...
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by rwolf 15y ago
Interesting! Thanks for pointing out screen-size media selectors. Given how on top of CSS quirksmode usually is, I wonder if there is some problem with using screen-size media selectors on mobile devices.
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by rwolf 15y ago
"Just debug the machine-generated code instead" is not really an answer.
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by rwolf 15y ago
I wonder. Specifically, would you be able to "scrub" every number in the "equation" 1 beans / 1 buckets = 1 beans per bucket?
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by rwolf 15y ago
Ha ha! This is the second time in as many hours I've thought: "I am such a dope..."
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by rwolf 15y ago
I nodded along to this article and even sent it to some friends. One of them pointed out that the tide comes twice a day, meaning that these hypothetical sailors would be risking capsizing to avoid a 12-hour delay. I call shenanigans.
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by rwolf 15y ago
I like the sound of this, but I'm stuck on: "Are we OK with serving noscript desktop users what is essentially the mobile version of our site, small images and all?"
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by rwolf 15y ago
You would still need an app that could translates the MMS back into a page and open it in a browser on your end.
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by rwolf 15y ago
He's sending back html+js+css+images, not a static image. It is not the same thing; it is a better thing.
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by rwolf 15y ago
"My extension sends MD5(url), which makes it nearly impossible for me to track someones browsing behavior." You're kidding, right? In order to tell if there is a HN thread about the page, you also MD5(url) all HN threads. If you find a matc
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by rwolf 15y ago
I tried to read the article, but it appears to not parse or cuts off partway. I call shenanigans; flagged.
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by rwolf 15y ago
First off, thanks for writing Design for Hackers. What distracted me when I was reading this post is that many parts of the page appear to be improperly aligned: http://i.imgur.com/77bVj.png
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by rwolf 15y ago
Since every thread on HN about google+ has a top comment about how google+ should have this (self-tagging, able to follow user+topic in addition to being able to follow user), I'm glad someone has written something like it. playing with sub
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by rwolf 15y ago
Mention at the top that this is "according to PrivCo" without citing any other sources. Long quote attributed to... some guy at this same PrivCo. Stay classy, marketers.
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by rwolf 15y ago
Ah, I was mostly a "putter in the corner by myself" kind of minecrafter, so I never tried multiplayer. I agree that that is a problem, yikes!
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by rwolf 15y ago
Click link to Bushido in TC story -> click "Sign up" -> click "Learn more" -> back at contentless splash page. I can take Jason Kincaid's word for it and sign up, or Bushido can actually tell me something, anything, about what i
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by rwolf 15y ago
When the authentication server went down my second week of trying out Minecraft, my copy kept working (with a dialog on startup letting me know that auth had failed). I agree that it is embarrassing for a company demoing at a conference to
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by rwolf 15y ago
But are they also giving back the OnLive coupons?
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by rwolf 15y ago
It did not backfire. It should not be given up.
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by rwolf 15y ago
I was watching an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation last night, and was surprised to see one of the characters carrying around a tablet computer. I can believe that finding visually-pleasing ratios of screen/margin, height/depth is

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