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by sssparkkk 15y ago
Still rolling out apparently, I'm not getting the redesigned facebook.
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
I got all excited when I saw 'Huddle' had been replaced by 'messenger'; thinking this would mean google talk and huddles had been integrated. I mean, wouldn't it be great to have an alternative to the closed stuff like whatsapp/kik/etc? Goo
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
About posting techy stuff: what do you when you don't want to bother your non-tech friends with posts like that, but you _do_ want all the people (that you don't know) following you to be able to read these posts? Have you manually put ever
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
Am I the only one who is a bit disappointed with the slow speed of development of G+? When it launched a lot of users were quick to point out some of the larger issues they were having, and as of yet not much has been done to fix them. Have
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
As Tom Anderson also argued a while ago: it's not a facebook-competitor in its current form yet, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that G+ is proving to be a nice blend between twitter and a blogging platform. When large content-crea
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
I thought the article was a little low on content; found this one somewhat better written and more informative: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/37877/?a=f Will probably be visiting Kenya shortly, so I'm definitely going to
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
His reply gives me the shivers, partly because I'm afraid I won't be able (if I were ever to be locked out) to generate enough attention to warrant a response by Vic himself. But mostly because of the incredibly reassuring way he chose to w
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I think their ad is fantastic. I hope they become successful in the US!
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
Of course it's a concern, it's a problem circles were supposed to resolve. I for one am still barely sharing anything, because I don't want to bother people with posts that I know will not be interesting to them. And yes, tagging would be n
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
So, how are these hackers sharing their technical insights on G+ without bothering their real-life friends and family? That's right, they aren't. Unless you manually add all your followers to a 'followers' circle and share to that (and subs
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
As has already been mentioned in the comments on the post earlier today, emailing a direct login link or merely a password reset link actually do have different security implications: when an attacker gains access to the account by resettin
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
> I'm not saying that there aren't low-security services where this convenience is good. It's more that the author hasn't taken into account that there is greater security in the forgot password system. Exactly. And I think it's somewha
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by sssparkkk 15y ago
It's articles like this that make me realize how fortunate we are to be having Spotify in Europe. Streaming my music from the cloud for quite some time now, I actually wondered for a second whether the blogpost was a few years old!
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Is it analyzing your level of frustration, the shaking in your hand, the defeated angle of the device? Hm, that thought should have crossed my mind as well when first using Color. Guess I'm even less clever than the reviewer. Anyway, vers
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Wow, first run of the app actually managed to make my phone reboot! Haven't seen anything like that before. Furthermore, I had no idea what I was doing or getting myself into when snapping a photo of myself and 'posting' it (after which the
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Could you elaborate on why you say OkCupid was very good at SEO? Is it mainly because of their blogposts, or were they doing other things right as well?
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Dammit, I allowed myself to work through the list as it seemed to only take a minute. It took me a little longer to notice the list just kept on growing as I progressed.
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
I used to think there was a lot of truth in "a good product will sell itself". However, I've come to realize this very much depends on the specific industry you're in. Take online dating for example. Why do (most of) these guys spend insane
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Well, in our case we would normally just come up with a name ourselves. But because 50 dollars is worth a shot we're giving him some business. And something tells me there might just be more people in the same situation as we are. But I gue
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Apparently you missed the part where he quoted PG saying: "Take a luxury and make it into a commodity" It's because he's charging a commodity price that I decided to give it a go and pony up. I would never ever pay the going rate for a 'p
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
I'm often amazed by how quickly things get messed up if a single message is dropped from a conversation. People really expect communication channels like these to never fail.
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
No. Don't silently reject SMS messages when I have megabytes of storage available. Let me know I'm missing something.
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Wow, that's really bad as well. However, that particular bug appears to be rather difficult to reproduce, so I can understand why they haven't been able to address it yet.
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Similar situation here, I recently freed up several mb's as well; but nonetheless started to receive the low space notification again a few days later (not having installed anything in the meantime). The fact that this subsequently results
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
tl;dr version: having the 'low space' warning on your Android phone results in the rejection of SMS messages. Even when there's actually e.g. >10mb of storage available. The bug has been present since 2009 and appears not to have been f
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Ever missed an SMS on your Android? Here's why. (long-standing bug)(code.google.com)
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
I really enjoyed reading this post, as I think Adam makes some excellent points. Whevener stuff like this gets to the frontpage of hackernews I get really excited, and make sure I carefully read each and every comment it gets. The reason fo
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
Maybe google is trying to get facebook to open up now, so it'll be in time for everyone to be able to use it to migrate to Google Me.
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
I don't sort my contacts into groups, and I really doubt whether 'a fair amount of' other people actually do. Distinguishing between for example work and personal contacts seems pretty hard, I'd say even for google.
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by sssparkkk 16y ago
I also read on TC: "WP7′s networking APIs currently lacks direct sockets support. If developers want to network their apps, they’ve gotta go through the HTTP protocol." So, with the voice of the dude from WP7's commercial: "Really?"

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