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by surferbayarea 10y ago
more like the internet will finally be fixed. There is no reason gmail cannot encrypt my email and remove pii data, except that it will eat into advertising revenues. Its easy for companies like Google to take a stand on an easy thing like
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
Also to all the people here who are ok with selling their privacy to facebook, google - how do you now feel that a Trump-led government will have 100% access to all your data! It is time that we fix the internet from the menace of the adver
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by surferbayarea 10y ago
The advertising market needs to be made similar to the stock exchange. Current situation is similar to the NYSE asking for a 85% commission on every stock transaction. The middlemen need to be removed...An advertiser should have direct acce
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
How is that any different to the neighbor seeing you park your car in that street and not seeing the actual killer. Is there a difference in whether this evidence got collected by a person or a camera? What you do with this(and all other co
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
This data should ideally be protected and owned by the individuals themselves - not the government, not the ad companies, not Google, not Facebook. As an individual who owns my data, I should have a right to decide who/when/how a
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
Compare these scenarios: 1 a cop is passing by your house and sees you commit a murder. 2 government finds out from your phone's GPS data + public camera face recognition that you committed a murder 3 you admit to a murder on phone wi
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
People don't care. It is funny that smart people don't care about tech and ad companies violating their privacy by collecting data and profiting from it. But they have an issue with the government doing it to protect them. Perhaps
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
It's uncannily similar to this! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sbi.SBFree...
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
scary... "remote: Unexpected system error after push was received. remote: These changes may not be reflected on github.com! remote: Your unique error code: 7527a6e1bbc9fe126d51c97feac7b4e3 remote: Unexpected system error after push wa
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
Ideally the ad exchange should be an independent and open system like the stock exchange. A user's private information should be carefully federated and controlled access given to various advertisers. This exchange should not be contro
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
And interesting thing is how people are all up in arms about the NSA tapping private information, but are completely oblivious to advertising companies doing the same. At least the NSA's objective is to fight terrorism, companies like
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
Black Friday is a baby in comparison - just $1.35b
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
Strange how no-one here seems to have actually read the article. Do people have thoughts on how they handle technical debt and manage code quality? This was a well thought out way of structurally improving code quality in a code base that s
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by surferbayarea 11y ago
The internet was built on open peer-to-peer protocols. Email was designed to be p2p, not client-server like gmail is. In the near future, the fundamental structure of the internet as we know it today will change. All of a user's data,
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by surferbayarea 12y ago
Travis Kalanick is the Frank Underwood of the startup world
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Google's conflict of interest with Uber
8 points by surferbayarea 12y ago|4 comments
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Are Tech Companies’ “Hallowemails” an Effective Marketing Strategy?(blog.thinkapps.com)
2 points by surferbayarea 12y ago|0 comments
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SlideRule: A Searchable Catalog of Online Courses(mysliderule.com)
72 points by surferbayarea 12y ago|6 comments
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Popular apps reimagined for apple watch(blog.thinkapps.com)
4 points by surferbayarea 12y ago|0 comments
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by surferbayarea 12y ago
Great article on the skills to look for in a technical co-founder. Dispels the myth that you need a rockstar machine learning expert from Stanford/Google to build your consumer app idea.
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Silicon valley meets Industrial America(techcrunch.com)
2 points by surferbayarea 12y ago|0 comments
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by surferbayarea 13y ago
dtrace would catch the leak in 10 minutes!
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Do you know of an alternative to gmail for business?
9 points by surferbayarea 13y ago|7 comments
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by surferbayarea 13y ago
canada has serious issues. I wanted to go for a conference there + meet a few startups. Turns out you need 2 months to get a tourist/business visa!
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by surferbayarea 13y ago
We had another issue, where the catch-all address started bouncing. Apparently they have changed the way they handle email routing. So if you upgrade to the 'new google apps', you better be very careful about your email routing ru
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by surferbayarea 13y ago
We are the Borg. Your differing viewpoint will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
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by surferbayarea 13y ago
Lets look at the issue more deeply. Consider the other end of the spectrum: Say the govt collects no data, no surveillence at airports, no wiretaps, no monitoring of any online channels. Are we ok having our 'privacy' at the cost of securit
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by surferbayarea 13y ago
will be exciting to see how soon these servers become compromised and massive amounts of private information leaked. I would give it a year tops!
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
yes, because it also does other computation. Poiint was to illustrate that zlib can be used in a concurrent computing setting with high performance. The blog writer had claimed that zlib doesn't work in a multithreaded setting.
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by surferbayarea 14y ago
Have you even used zlib in c++? The largest ecommerce site out there uses zlib in a multitreaded c++ application(24 cores, 100s of threads, 1000s requests/sec/server) and it works just fine! Bet you erlang can't come within a tenth of the p

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