scottmp10

8 ms·

31.
by scottmp10 14y ago
Google's 20% time was great while I was there. Not everyone takes advantage of it (which is a good thing in many cases - you shouldn't force someone to). But it won't be very beneficial at a company as internally locked down as Apple. It on
32.
by scottmp10 14y ago
There is plenty of research and sample implementations of electronic voting schemes in which the final outcome is verifiable without anyone being able to see anyone else's vote. As an example, I worked with Michael Clarkson on an implementa
33.
by scottmp10 14y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't play until the end of the game.
34.
by scottmp10 14y ago
If someone shares a link to a public Facebook post, do you consider it an attempt to get you to share stuff on Facebook? I find it odd that you assume someone sharing something on Google+ is an attempt to get you to use Google+ rather than
35.
by scottmp10 15y ago
First, I am a little surprised at the number of people that laud this UX. The only time I have encountered it was in the Facebook for Android app and I found it not to be intuitive. Even once I understood the behavior, it is not always ob
36.
by scottmp10 15y ago
It doesn't look like it would include government communications hardware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Solutions
37.
by scottmp10 15y ago
There is a link in the "About" section to the developer page: https://developers.google.com/+/
38.
by scottmp10 15y ago
I personally prefer them having the opportunity to think before answering and making sure they don't accidentally offend someone. I do agree that it would be nice to see how they handle questions on their feet but too often a slip of words
39.
by scottmp10 15y ago
I see what you are saying and I think there are short-term and long-term consequences. Certainly an injunction hurts consumers in the short-term since they have less choice. The patent-advocate would argue that in the long-term this model
40.
by scottmp10 15y ago
Unfortunately this is clearly not the case. There actions are clearly harming both competitors (Samsung, etc) and consumers (through less consumer choice in the tablet market).
41.
by scottmp10 15y ago
The Motorola acquisition has not been approved yet. And I believe they are actually prohibited from coordinating efforts until that happens.
42.
by scottmp10 15y ago
Yes, I really liked that project and I think the design is fantastic (it leverages WebKit for rendering). Both TermKit and this project will have an interesting dilemma with editing remote files though. The advantage of SSH is that you rea
43.
Google Music Interactive HTML5 Tour(music.google.com)
1 points by scottmp10 15y ago|0 comments
44.
by scottmp10 15y ago
GoogleTV blog post: http://googletv.blogspot.com/2011/10/update-on-google-tv.htm...
45.
by scottmp10 15y ago
You can double click on the ground to move to that spot, or on the side of a building to move there and look at that spot. I see that indoors you cannot do this, but hopefully they will add it.
46.
by scottmp10 15y ago
Google already provides remote wipe and other domain management with the Google Apps Device Policy app. Domain owners can require users that want to link an account to their phone to accept the device policy, which can include remote wipe
47.
by scottmp10 15y ago
Created in partnership with Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/from-desert-to-web-br...
48.
by scottmp10 15y ago
I believe it says that it is public-only data for now.
49.
by scottmp10 15y ago
This, and previous FB APIs, seem to really be lacking. For a Python API, for instance, you shouldn't be calling generic 'graph' functions and then passing strings to tell it what to do. If you want to do that, you might as well just const
50.
by scottmp10 15y ago
There is a difference between leveraging a monopoly to create a new offering in a different product area (increasing competition) and leveraging it to lock users into another of your products (decreasing competition). By locking users into
51.
by scottmp10 15y ago
Yes so there are likely some software companies that might have issues (depending on what the changes looked like) such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM (not sure if these companies would object or not, just citing companies with large portfolios)
52.
by scottmp10 15y ago
I think that it will be very difficult to have serious patent reform for the software industry without having significant effects on other industries. So while it seems like the software industry is generally behind getting rid of patents,
53.
Show HN: Simple Video Chat(chaturl.me)
1 points by scottmp10 15y ago|1 comments
54.
by scottmp10 15y ago
This seems like a really ingenious way to simplify programming for both programmers and non-programmer-but-still-technically-savvy-people. For instance, this service provides a dead simple way to get an email or text alert for anything you
55.
by scottmp10 15y ago
The problem is exclusive containment. Folders/directories are an example of hierarchical exclusive containment. The author suggests avoiding the problems associated with this by getting rid of the hierarchy. However, the author is onto som
56.
by scottmp10 15y ago
Modern unions seem to be worried more about "fair wages" (where fair is determined by the union) than preventing employee abuse. The fact of the matter is that there is choice in employment, especially if you are employable enough to be
57.
by scottmp10 15y ago
I agree here. I understand the trade offs being made but I just don't see this being useful for too many people with zero fault tolerance and the single point of failure meta data master. It probably gets some pretty good performance impr
58.
by scottmp10 16y ago
There is an advanced search link next to the Google search bar that provides the functionality you described for non-power users.
59.
by scottmp10 16y ago
The fact that Microsoft is able to take only the relevant results from Google doesn't change the fact that the results are coming from Google. The problem is that if search engines start using the technique that Microsoft is using then the
60.
by scottmp10 16y ago
My understanding is that running the experiment on some random other sites would work as well as long as Bing user's were actually clicking the honeypot links. This is probably the intended functionality of the click stream data. That doe

More ›