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Ask HN: Best VoIP service to replace cell carrier?
1 points by vonklaus 10y ago|3 comments
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by vonklaus 10y ago
> I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack, I bet within a decade we will all happily buy autonomous cars without a steering wheel. This is because in a decade, battery life, softwar
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by vonklaus 10y ago
The article makes virtually no logical case for its own claim. The example that Larry Page should buy twitter because it is great, is immeadiately under cut by the follow up reason. Larry Page is Jewish and Twitter is an extremely vitriolic
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I think you missed the point I was making: diversity of ecosystems is important. Microsoft provides diversity to many of the ecosystems above. Having 2-3 competitors is much better than a single one, and Microsoft has shown that they need t
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment in the article because of an important point you mentioned: > Think about where we'd be today if Microsoft actually succeeded in what it set out to do As DHH points out; and to a similar vein if we swap Go
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by vonklaus 10y ago
This is what I was saying, and: > it's a very expensive way to not solve a problem. is a great way to put this. Google often seems to be technology in search of a problem or users.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I don't think the "internet's biggest flaw" is that it allows for free, unmoderated speech. > What’s even more interesting is that Wikipedia seems to exert a moderating influence on its contributors. This is a great c
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I can't be sure, but it seems like they are just going to release a big Wacom tablet and add real-time collaboration for the price of a 2013 SMART car. That isn't a fair comparison, as it is unlikely corporations will be comparin
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by vonklaus 10y ago
It looks like they want to just eat bower. Tbh, if webpack or browserify can eat a tooling & dev stack, and yarn can eat bower and do package management, it would be a nice workflow. I wouldn't want 1 tool to rule them all, but a s
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I look at Tesla as the exception to a lot of rules. I agree with you here-- launching hardware which not only is a value add to users but also Tesla data teams, is so far ahead that this seemed like a dumb comment. That said, if some compan
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by vonklaus 10y ago
It is a semi-noob illusion that satire and irony-- which underscore & catalyse discussion about relevant and important issues; should be reserved for Reddit. Often, satire is used when it may be difficult to confront an issue directly&#
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Not sure what the disagreement is, seems logical. The attack knocked out service and presumably attackers recorded the failure threshold and mitigation attempt. Then recalibrated again to confirm/get more data and pushed another high v
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Curious as well. I didnt see any in the status here nor the original.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
> why wouldn’t the first response be action on the part of ISP and backbone providers? Schneier points out that these have the shape of probing attacks and are executed across multifaceted services at the micro & macro level. I feel
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I honestly think non-technical Joe the Plumber hypothetical U.S. citizen would be against this given that Time Warner is villified & consistently ranked one of the worst companies in customer service annually. However, neither I (nor Jo
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I expect google will experience outages >15 minutes for core services in the comung months. This is based on significant uptick in ddos sophistication, this has been referenced by Schneier-- although not in ref to Goog. If changes like t
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I am not trying to start a flame war, just curious why the 2 jokes about Russian hackers being the origin of breaches are being heavily downvoted. I would assume people think they aren't clever or funny, but hopefully not because they
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Really? Guy got a standard spearfishing email and we assume it was the intelligence dept of a powerful nation state. Edit: ...and they used public bitly links. That is standard Russian Hacker tradecraft right there.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Don't understand the downvotes. Thought this was widely acknowledged.
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I think the main issue is that google doesn't accept certain senders anymore. As a generic thread about running a mailserver/mail service pops up here often. That means users are shoveled into about one of 4 "acceptable"
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I would consider hiring a designer to redo your website and launch via kickstarter. You will likely be able to get significant traction there and since you have a working device and have put in the time already, it is quite likely backers w
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by vonklaus 10y ago
based on that statement and others my read is basically: We know a lot of important people and they gave us information you don't have, to which we have made business decisions that affect you that we didn't communicate. Did we te
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by vonklaus 10y ago
FINALLY. I have been waiting for this. Once they lock down all of the hardware ports they should take a hard look at the keyboard. Do users even need to be able to enter in text input or control their own computers? The evolution of the mac
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I like linux, maybe not as hardcore as many users here, but your point is really lost on me. I run a modified version of mathias dotfiles so provisioning is usually simply ./bootstrap.sh. I like the os x desktop better than linux, and
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by vonklaus 10y ago
right, I was driving home the point that, even though github didn't build git, they didn't simply copy it. > git never brought social interaction (issues, pull requests) into coding. GitHub created a lot of innovation in their
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by vonklaus 10y ago
I use gitlab because it is free and embodies ethics inline with my own. There has been a conversation that has appeared to be largely one-sided-- developers asking for more features, control, consideration ect; and it github largely seemed
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by vonklaus 10y ago
> extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This doesn't seem extraordinary. I commented the OP should provide more, and I was skeptical, but it doesn't seem extraordinary. In fact, given OPs post and the parent(and
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Well, to some extent the OP is an edge case-- not every "little guy" gets his grievance any visibilty. However, twitter, reddit, HN, 4chan, and a blogs of all types make it possible to appeal to the public. 20 years ago the same t
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by vonklaus 10y ago
Unless you work at FB or have other info, I would definitely doubt that. Assuming this claim is legit, FB has not done a lot to instill any degree of confidence(for me) that they are a user-centric organization willing to compromise & w
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by vonklaus 10y ago
This happened to someone using stripe; a similar case where the account was suspended and the user was upset about the inability to capture revenue. I trust stripe a lot more than FB, that said, PC showed up in the thread as well as numerou

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