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901.
by seldo 17y ago
> "Qualified Developers are thoroughly vetted by Google ... and meet rigorous qualification standards." Followed three lines later by... > "Google does not make any representation, endorsement or warranty regarding the services of t
902.
by seldo 17y ago
I don't think he was :-) (I was going to say "you must be new here", but clearly you are not)
903.
by seldo 17y ago
As of 11.06pm, it's back for me.
904.
by seldo 17y ago
Yeah, I have no idea how to tell my friends what's going on or find out if they've heard anything without twitter. I've taken to randomly IMing people.
905.
by seldo 17y ago
To be fair, it's not clear how hard it is to hack twitter. The site falls over all the time all by itself. Granted, they briefly managed to serve some content as twitter, so it does look like a genuine hack rather than merely a DDoS or some
906.
by seldo 17y ago
Yeah, if I found my boxes had been so totally owned that they could serve arbitrary content I'd take everything down to protect customers, at least in the very short term. Poor Twitter ops; I'm sure they're having a great evening.
907.
Twitter down; hacked by "Iranian cyber army"?(techcrunch.com)
130 points by seldo 17y ago|89 comments
908.
by seldo 17y ago
The problem is that the only thing TARP is good at motivating banks to do is get the hell out of TARP so they can get back to taking outrageous risks, now even safer in the knowledge that if it all goes south the US taxpayer will bail them
909.
by seldo 17y ago
The accusation much more frequently levelled is that they extort business to pay to have negative reviews hidden: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/yelp-and-the-business-... It's not lying -- the good reviews that remain come from rea
910.
by seldo 17y ago
Google's don't-be-evil policy bit the dust as soon as they bought DoubleClick, as far as I'm concerned. Their new policy can be accurately summed up as "be less evil than Microsoft", which has understandably given them a lot of headroom to
911.
by seldo 17y ago
The description didn't mention taking any screen obstructions into account, so I don't think you're correct; more likely it's the effect of overlapping screen-widths and heights. I think the answer is mobile browsers and netbooks. The bumps
912.
by seldo 17y ago
Of, of course. He even mentions this in the article. The "sticking" problem when you drag your finger off the bottom of the screen doesn't happen when you add the app to your home screen and launch it that way (because there's no safari men
913.
by seldo 17y ago
Shitty computers for the third world is better than no computers. In the same way, we don't stop digging wells for tiny villages just because we can't supply them with hot and cold running water in every house.
914.
by seldo 17y ago
I've just tried this out and it is indeed deeply cool, although the scrolling even on my 3GS is not quite native-like. I would love to know how they're managing fixed-position toolbars; has anyone reverse-engineered that bit yet?
915.
by seldo 17y ago
There's surely somebody profiting unfairly from other people's hard work here, but it's Eolas.
916.
by seldo 17y ago
I have to say that SOAP didn't even seem like a good idea at the time.
917.
by seldo 17y ago
There a good dozen or so companies all doing the same thing; how many more do you need before you call it a "space"?
918.
by seldo 17y ago
They might join something like http://301works.org , which aims to archive short URLs even after the company goes away. Although I'm not sure why people are so terrified of short links breaking; long URLs are constantly disappearing.
919.
Facebook jumps into the short URL space with fb.me(insidefacebook.com)
20 points by seldo 17y ago|15 comments
920.
by seldo 17y ago
Kill the instance itself. It recommends you back up your results frequently to, say, Amazon SimpleDB :-)
921.
by seldo 17y ago
Genius. This maximizes their hardware investment and allows a whole new class of applications which need large amounts of cheap computing power but are not fussy about when the work gets done. GENIUS. Revolutionary beyond my capacity to vis
922.
by seldo 17y ago
Until we know what their margins are, saying that $140m/year in revenue is unexceptional seems a hard statement to justify. With just 60 employees at, say, $100k/yr each, their staffing overheads are $6m. That leaves a lot of headroom for h
923.
by seldo 17y ago
Ask the uncomfortable questions This is by far the most important thing I've learned in my big company life. If you are in a meeting of 10 people and somebody appears to be saying something insane or stupid, the reason nobody is saying an
924.
by seldo 17y ago
Ditto. Bidi in application UI is so rare as to be nonexistent.
925.
by seldo 17y ago
CNN are great at cross-linking and surfacing content, and the latest update is furthering that goal. Amazon...? Not so sure. They succeed despite their fugly, confusing UI rather than because of it.
926.
by seldo 17y ago
It's not like this is a problem specific to Google. Credit cards, for instance, are very convenient but also easily traced if you are up to no good. Nobody thinks the credit card companies should protect your anonymity -- if you're buying s
927.
by seldo 17y ago
So Mister X's implication, in context, is that American Airlines' website is so deviously and incredibly terrible not because they're incompetent, but because they would rather you didn't use it. Having been a customer of AA before vowing i
928.
by seldo 17y ago
Yeah, this guy is apparently not reading the same blogosphere as I am.
929.
by seldo 17y ago
I can't help but remember all the fuss a few days back from the UEA scientists applying corrections to their own climate change data. These guys spent years coming up with complex modifications to the raw data in order to match the frame-dr
930.
by seldo 17y ago
It's certainly very altruistic, but not entirely, since he has saved himself a whole lot in taxes and guaranteed himself an income for life.

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