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by storborg 16y ago
Can you elaborate on this or provide some examples? As far as I've seen, the only time facebook hasn't stuck to precisely to users' privacy settings are straight-up bugs, that have been immediately fixed.
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by storborg 16y ago
Agreed. If everybody in your immediate proximity is already intimately familiar with your site, http://www.usertesting.com is great for this. (I'm not affiliated with them other than being a happy customer.)
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by storborg 16y ago
To continue along the same analogy: the entrepreneur doesn't need to know about water, they just need to know what a good beanstalk looks like. That's my problem with "I'm the magic water" software developers. I can work out how to pay them
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by storborg 16y ago
Diving with nitrox (nitrogen/oxygen) beyond 500 feet is very rarely done, and HPNS isn't really an issue because the overwhelming narcotic effect of the nitrogen would be devastating (think 20 tequila shots in a row). HPNS seems to be cause
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by storborg 16y ago
There are a lot of issues that would have to be resolved before diving with a liquid breathing solution would be practical. (Okay, it will never be practical, but maybe it could at least not kill you.) * Liquid breathing solutions have to b
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by storborg 16y ago
I think the author is kind of missing the point, having not used Foursquare himself. I think you could remove the "broadcast my position to friends" feature and it would still be useful/fun. It's still cool to become the mayor of the corner
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by storborg 16y ago
I'm a staunch atheist, but when I read this article, my first reaction was that apple overstepped their bounds here. Then I read the text of the Manhattan Declaration. Sure enough, there is decidedly very anti-gay marriage and anti-choice l
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FTC proposes plan to stop web tracking(digitaltrends.com)
4 points by storborg 16y ago|0 comments
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by storborg 16y ago
Sure, I totally agree. But going the other way is much less practical/pleasant. hg-git is one of the things Github has going for it.
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by storborg 16y ago
Github wants to price discriminate between serious users who can afford to pay more, and casual users. Projects with a high development budget (e.g. complex software projects) don't necessarily use more disk space than someone's personal we
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by storborg 16y ago
It's more a matter of git vs. mercurial than Github vs. Bitbucket.
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by storborg 16y ago
Isn't that true of any non-SSL website now?
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by storborg 16y ago
HN does a great job of extolling the virtues of working at a startup, so I won't bother going into that. However, I graduated 3.5 years ago, and I sometimes regret not starting my 'career' at a large corporation for a few reasons: 1. I thin
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by storborg 16y ago
60% of businesses could immediately switch to Google Docs from MS Office, but they haven't.
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by storborg 16y ago
Virtually every consumer-facing web startup needs new users. Getting them isn't a core value-add, or at least, it shouldn't be.
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by storborg 16y ago
The latency difference between an HTTP req for a 2.3K script and a 500 byte script is pretty trivial. And if you're concatenating with other js assets on your site, the incremental increase in size after minification/gzipping will probably
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by storborg 16y ago
The local application would ensure that only .p2p DNS requests would get handled by this system. Presumably this would be open source, so you can verify yourself that it's not going to intercept your bankofamerica.com requests. Also, I thi
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by storborg 16y ago
The ideas are obvious because people want them. Lots of people want a Craigslist alternative that doesn't have the shittiest search interface this side of 2004. Lots of people want a dating site with a 'market' that doesn't heavily heavily
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by storborg 16y ago
Politics aside, this seems like a lazy technical implementation on Diaspora's side. They could have a "Male/Female/Other (please specify)" dropdown--allowing total customization, while still offering the ability for 99% of their user base t
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by storborg 16y ago
"Development clients are inherently unstable. If a dev client blows up on a client's machine and deletes all of his or her data - or releases it into the wild - the customer bears the full liability for having taken a chance on a dev client
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by storborg 16y ago
I think he got downvoted for calling the GitHub team "rookies". Sure, they may not have tons of experience running 5-nines systems, but they've clearly built a great product that a lot of people love and respect.
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by storborg 16y ago
Those are some pretty big assumptions. But, even if only 64 bits were used, that's still enough space for every human on earth to have 2.75 billion IPv6 addresses.
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by storborg 16y ago
Actually, I think this sort of infrastructure software may be the one area where it's more important to have good pricing than good support, precisely because the usage scales so large. For example, take credit card processors: if a $50mil/
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by storborg 16y ago
I was hoping to be inspired, but I don't actually see any new or useful information on this site. All of these entries just come across as whiny complaints about things that are very obvious and in the company's best interest. Example: "Dis
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by storborg 16y ago
What do you suppose people might do with this sort of data if they weren't in a legitimate position to monetize it (e.g. through an ad network)? This code will sit there probing your cache over and over, it seems to just check a huge list o
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Grep through memcached(github.com)
3 points by storborg 16y ago|2 comments
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by storborg 16y ago
Publishing this is self-defeating, though... now you won't be able to play hangman against any nerds without them guessing "jazz".
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by storborg 16y ago
In addition to the reduced air density at altitude (as others have mentioned), body position, weight, and clothing also have a lot to do with terminal velocity. A light person wearing baggy clothes in a belly-down position might fall at onl
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by storborg 16y ago
In this case, the tool that he built (RouteFS) is actually a really clever abstraction above two other popular libraries (Routes and FUSE). I agree it would be neat if he talked more about RouteFS itself, but it is a neat idea, and only abo
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by storborg 16y ago
I've never put my email into a signup form faster.

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