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by sunchild 15y ago
Do you have a link to your keynote speech? The one where you committed your publicly-traded company to this strategy?
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by sunchild 15y ago
Presumably, Periodic was referring to Rails' emphatically opinionated framework, which (under the right circumstances) can shine a light on at least one approach to SoC that may, in turn, lead to a deeper understanding of the underlying pri
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by sunchild 15y ago
Cool, thanks for hanging in there with me. I found this very informative.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Some thoughts on this: A. Spending on customer acquisition is building real barriers to entry. I tend to agree with DHH that the barriers to entry will never be high enough in the daily deal area. Also, as Groupon seeks to stay ahead of d
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by sunchild 15y ago
OK. I think I understand now. I still don't think it's fair to call it defective design (and I'm not really certain that you ever did call JD's password privacy defective, BTW). More like a design that is unsafe in the hands of the typic
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by sunchild 15y ago
I keep seeing this question: "Where should I go out to eat tonight?" I live in NYC. I can find the answer to that question in 1000 places, online and offline. I can't see how a daily discount email service helps to answer that question.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Or just dilettantism, which is perfectly OK and healthy, esp. for a youngish person.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm trying to understand this. Again, I'm no expert. I can see why the data integrity issues may allow external factors to compromise the security of my buckets and/or local device. That's me in a Pinto, at the mercy of the bad driver beh
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by sunchild 15y ago
OK, well, I guess I don't see how that's fairly described as a "flaw" in JungleDisk. I can understand why a responsible developer should assume their users are simple-minded, mouth-breathers who can't be trusted to choose a proper password
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by sunchild 15y ago
OK, I freely admit that I'm not an expert in this area, so I'll rescind my "silly" comment. But, "drastically weaker" than what? If the password is strong, JD doesn't make it weak. JD just doesn't make it as strong as it should/could? Is
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by sunchild 15y ago
Setting aside the data integrity issues: I think the author's point about privacy is valid, and a little silly. If I understand correctly (the article is very confusingly worded in some places), he is saying that weak passwords are weak.
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by sunchild 15y ago
OK, that was a little glib. MacDefender is a pretty clever exploit, I guess.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Another way to put this: everyone, including born suckers, migrate from Windows to Mac in droves.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Seems to be akin to religious debates. The brain (and more importantly, the mind) is one of those areas where modern science has too little traction to speak in absolutes. Anecdotally, I had a breakthrough with mood control when I eradicat
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by sunchild 15y ago
Hmm. Not interested in getting into a debate about whether depression is an illness or whatever, so I'll just say "OK".
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by sunchild 15y ago
Don't be embarrassed. Many "rich" people have similar problems. It's just that, in their case, the cash flow figures are larger by orders of magnitude. Desperation can be a tremendous motivator, and a great way to set priorities. Think o
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by sunchild 15y ago
You're confused about what the "work" is here. Tyson paid to have a tattoo put onto his face. He owns that tattoo (i.e., the ink and, of course, the skin). Paying to have that tattoo placed on him does not mean he owns the design. You m
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by sunchild 15y ago
Tyson definitely owns an instance of the tattoo. He doesn't own the design, unless the artist signed a contract transferring ownership of the design to Tyson.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm really liking Fantastical now, after a few days.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I'm getting old, because Hollywood has let me down so many times that I no longer have even a hint of hope for this movie. It will take Los Angeles execs about fifteen minutes to start pushing Jaden Smith, likable characters, a happy endin
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by sunchild 15y ago
Dead on. I went back and re-read the article, and yes – we are in agreement. It's about doing whatever it takes to keep the relationship with your customers on an even keel. I couldn't agree more that SLAs are generally bad for customers
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by sunchild 15y ago
I deal with SLAs in my job all the time. After over a decade negotiating uptime SLAs, I'm firmly convinced that the best protection against downtime is a huge, vocal userbase, and the best remedy for downtime is an unqualified termination
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by sunchild 15y ago
None really. I'm in the same boat.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I don't like iCal at all. It's too clumsy in almost every respect. The Lion update looks like a step in the wrong direction, too. The only promising feature is the natural language parsing, which IMO is an essential feature of a calendar
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by sunchild 15y ago
I can't argue with that! I meant that they typically know when staff is being let go/outsourced/etc. before their team does.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Re: your knock on Cucumber – isn't Cucumber explicitly designed to enable human readability so that non-programmers can collaborate on features in quasi-colloquial English? Can you expand on what you dislike about it? I'm not trolling; I'm
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by sunchild 15y ago
HN comments are usually so earnest, that I turn my sarcasm meter off here. It goes back on as soon as I leave. ;)
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by sunchild 15y ago
Skype on Xbox? 3D conferencing? Setting aside the horrendous culture on Xbox Live, does anybody want "3D conferencing"? Most people don't even use Skype for video conferencing today.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Enterprise IT is being slowly but surely replaced by online services. The desktop OS ecosystem lock-in that Microsoft enjoyed for so long is definitely on its way out. It will take a long time, since every big company painted itself into
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by sunchild 15y ago
Wait a minute – this story broke on a blog, and then got picked up by the Daily Beast, and then by Arrington. I guess you could give Arrington credit for spreading this story to his audience, but he doesn't deserve credit for calling Faceb

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