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by tghw 15y ago
Many of his main points are vacuous at best. "Adding insult to injury, it’s an extremely simple and ugly unlock-gesture, just the sweep of a mono-color bar from right to left." Since when is a function being simple a problem? And he's compa
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by tghw 15y ago
He posted a snap of his server logs: http://lockerz.com/s/167554725 Ouch.
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by tghw 15y ago
Nobody is saying that they should standardize on Windows, just support it. The way Microsoft did the patch, using a cross-platform library that has support from another popular project, is the perfect way to address this issue.
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by tghw 15y ago
Forking the project is less than ideal. Client libraries will have to spend time making sure they comply with both versions, and development in general will slow as each project will have fewer total devs. Better to bring that other team "i
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by tghw 15y ago
You are right in that we're not BigCorps, but if anything, that makes it worse, as we don't have as many resources to spend setting up boxes we wouldn't have otherwise needed. It's not a moral and ethical calculation, it is a simple calcula
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by tghw 15y ago
First, let's not get confused here. If you keep a Windows box around for Netflix and Steam, that has nothing to do with Microsoft's "passive-aggressive apathy". It has to do with the fact that Netflix and Steam chose not to develop for Linu
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by tghw 15y ago
Think about it from the cost perspective. Not necessarily in terms of dollars, but in terms of time. There are thousands of BigCorps out there. There is only one Redis. If every BigCorp that runs mainly on a Windows stack (I'm personally co
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by tghw 15y ago
We use Redis quite a bit in one of our products, Kiln. Because Kiln is mainly a Mercurial hosting platform, we offer it as a hosted product on our servers or, for companies who would prefer to have tighter control of where their source code
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by tghw 15y ago
This is finding long term users. It's getting people into the habit of checking Amazon's prices using their phones. Generally, Amazon is competitive enough that they can beat brick and mortar prices, especially when you take sales tax into
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by tghw 15y ago
You didn't try routing it through Twilio's voice mail transcription? (Mostly kidding...)
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by tghw 15y ago
I believe $30,000 has been offered by various people, starting with Seth Godin offering $10,000 and a spotlight on his blog to anyone who's a match and goes through with the procedure.
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by tghw 15y ago
Huh? The ad is an image. It can easily be adblocked.
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by tghw 15y ago
The analogy carries: there are things you can't do or are more tedious when you're opting out. You have to whitelist things for FlashBlock and AdBlock, your preferences aren't saved in private mode, etc. Moreover, I can still get your IP ad
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by tghw 15y ago
I understand, but when you say "ruining the internet", I would prefer deceptive ads that blend in than those that make my eyes bleed, which is often the case with banner ads.
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by tghw 15y ago
I disagree. I would rather ads blend in and disappear than be flashing in my face. If I click on something that sounds interesting and it turns out to be an ad, then they did a good job with it, because clearly it's something I'm interested
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by tghw 15y ago
You probably have AdBlock on.
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by tghw 15y ago
I think I would liken that more to having your sys admin do analytics by watching the logs, but yes, the general idea is the same.
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by tghw 15y ago
You're still making a distinction between online and the physical world, which is that for websites, you do something extra to opt out, whereas in the physical world you want to give explicit permission before they track you. Note that it's
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Image Ad Blending Works Really, Really Well(kalzumeus.com)
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by tghw 15y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, how is this any different from running analytics on your websites? They are keeping track of where people go, just like most people on HN do with their own users. And to be honest, I think it's a clever hack t
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by tghw 15y ago
The comparison is between improving the product and traditional marketing. We found, over and over, that improving FogBugz (sometimes by adding new features, but not always) was much better at increasing sales. Recently, that's begun to cha
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by tghw 15y ago
Where exactly does he say that they didn't keep that stuff?
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by tghw 15y ago
Updated with the entire quote. He seems to have a decent handle on it there.
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by tghw 15y ago
I haven't listened to the podcast, but it sounds like one of the biggest nits they picked was that "Isaacson asserts that Apple did not use NeXT for the basis of OS X". Looking back through the book, I can't find that assertion, but I can f
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by tghw 15y ago
"There's no divider between the mail contents and the navigation on either side. Too much white space in many areas." Um, the white space is the divider. This really feels like they're complaining because something changed and no one like
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by tghw 15y ago
"I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwF7n8WyOoU
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by tghw 15y ago
Not quite, since it's unvested shares they're taking back. The company has promised to give those shares to the employees when they hit certain tenure milestones, but the company still owns them in the meantime. If they fire the employee, t
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by tghw 15y ago
I have to believe that Apple has the engineering talent to scale something like this up. It's a pretty straight forward problem, and it's not like they don't have enough cash to double their server farm.
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by tghw 15y ago
After a bit of digging, I learned that BitKeeper has, as a part of its EULA, a provision that disallows its users to contribute to other source control projects[1]. Larry McVoy (aka luckydude) has actually tried to enforce the EULA by conta
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by tghw 15y ago
hg has a long history of doing illegal copies of BK tech Huh? Are you claiming that Mercurial stole code from BitKeeper? Or does BitKeeper have patents on these fairly obvious concepts? I mean, a large file store on a centralized server i

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