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by sudonim 15y ago
My bit was a little off-topic, but you should look up extraordinary rendition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_... It almost always involves abducting someone from a country and taking them to another country.
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I disagree wholeheartedly with that statement. From my post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3464849 in another thread on this: It reads to me like a lot of agreeing with SOPA opposition: "We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risk
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Suspicious was the wrong word. It reads to me like a lot of agreeing with SOPA opposition: "We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet." But then tries to jam in: "That is why th
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by sudonim 15y ago
You guys do know Victoria Espinel right? Her position as "Copyright Czar" was created by Obama's government. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Espinel : Espinel received eleven letters of in support of the nomination fro
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by sudonim 15y ago
From the article: "Unlike traditional vocational schools, this new school will have a rigorous academic component and will prepare students for college" You're going to the school because you want to learn to code, but it's not just coding.
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Im guessing because senators don't work late, and thats when a lot of people have their lunch break. As for what we'll be doing... good question. At the very least creating a visible show of dissatisfaction with PIPA and SOPA for Senators S
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Everyone from my office will be attending this. I'm curious to see if a mob of tech nerds will be taken more seriously by the powers that be than occupy wall street people.
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Bobsled. T-Mobile's cross-carrier version of BBM/iMessage + Calling(bobsled.com)
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Netflix in the US is great for full seasons of TV shows. Sons of Anarchy, Mad Men and a bunch of others. It's also decent for classic movies and documentaries. I wouldn't expect to get the latest hollywood releases or you'll be disappointed
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by sudonim 15y ago
The author was Chief Product Officer of Color Labs. Case in point with his last gig... a great team is nothing without a product that people can understand.
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by sudonim 15y ago
Consider switching to a statically generated blog using something like Jekyll. From my experience, an unoptimized wordpress install doesn't take much traffic to take it down assuming every request is hitting mysql.
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Everytime I see one of those over limit pages, I make a note to self. This time it's don't use bluehost.com. Hosting providers should really not brand those pages.
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by sudonim 15y ago
This post is rightly empathetic towards the designers at samsung. The drastically different outcomes come down to different corporate strategies. Apple is a product focused business seeking to sell best of breed products. Samsung is a sales
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by sudonim 15y ago
Checking in on it's own has never been appealing to me. I dismissed 4sq early on as a fad and stupid. However, as a component in a life-streaming service, 4sq fits nicely. Back in the day I used brightkite to give me daily checkin / locatio
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Instapaper is not just the app. It's the supporting web service and brand too. It's not 50% of a new thing. It's 50% of instapaper for android which is nothing without instapaper.
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Not sure how these stack up, but I was immediately reminded of the Government's Apps for Entrepreneurs challenge: http://entrepreneurs.challenge.gov/ disclaimer: I'm not directly involved with the challenge but make the software that powe
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by sudonim 15y ago
I've been using DNSCrypt over the past few weeks as a beta tester. I'm pleased that it doesn't have any noticeable decrease in speed while browsing the web. It improves my security and privacy without any cost I can perceive. So why not. Co
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I only know being a product guy on small teams. To me, my role as a "product guy" is to keep the whole product and it's intricate details in my brain. I work with the CEO and the Head of Engineering to set the direction for what we're worki
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Here's a case study about the whole endeavor too: http://www.f-i.com/infographics/civilwar/
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Civil War interactive site by Fi and the History Channel(history.com)
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ChallengePost - New York, NY Product / UX Designer http://jobsco.re/uSNTuZ ChallengePost is a web platform that connects talented problem solvers with rewarding challenges. Our clients include the Federal Government (Challenge.gov), First
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by sudonim 15y ago
Site seems to be having issues. The video suggests you have software on your computer and your phone, and that handles tethering circumventing the software built in to iOS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p... A
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Does that mean you're pirating books for it rather than buying them? I buy lots of books on the kindle. However, I wanted to read "Atlas Shrugged" and there was no kindle book for sale so I found it online. I take the customer is always ri
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by sudonim 15y ago
I didn't down vote you, but I fly out of JFK too. For an international flight, I hop in a black car from manhattan 3 hours before the flight. For a domestic, I leave my apartment 2.5 hrs before the flight. Others may have downvoted because
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I doubt a modern bank run gives you a fistful of anything. It probably means converting the currency to usd and maybe having it leave the country. It's pretty common in other countries to offer us dollar bank accounts. If you don't trust th
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by sudonim 15y ago
Gabe Newell makes good points. Piracy is about price, but it's not just price. Piracy for me has been about cost / value decisions: Useful software for < $50 on the App store? Buy. Useful iPhone app for < $10? buy Useful sof
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One of the reasons I canceled my spotify subscription is that I learned I was participating in a p2p network without my knowledge. If I'm paying for it, I don't want to be a node in their network. Most users are probably clueless about that
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What would happen if we did what you're saying. Put a $1 bill in an envelope with a letter to our elected officials. Can they accept bribes by mail? Or is it only at campaign fundraisers?
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I met Peldi a couple of years ago at SXSW and was impressed by his humility. He's personally answered all of the emails I've sent him. Usually really quickly. When I first me him, I was an Omnigraffle user and had paid for Michael Angeles (
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Here are a couple of studies from 2004 and 2011 by the same group of researchers showing congress and the house of representatives outperforming the market. http://robinson.gsu.edu/news/04/senators.html http://www.bepress.com/bap/vol13/i

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