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   by vvpan 12y ago

   Here we have content marketing.
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   If remember correctly their devices were sending back GPS coordinates to a server too?
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   Ask HN: Do you use a feature phone? Why? Which one?

   1 points by vvpan 12y ago|1 comments
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   "One such incident involved targeting participants at a scientific conference in Houston. Upon returning home, some of the participants received by mail a copy of the conference proceedings, together with a slideshow including various
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   You know who probably won't be in that report - Saddam Hussein and Iraq.
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   I used to have a very early FF phone that had super-low spec, yet all of the standard FF apps ran real well. Not sure if it was the phone or nature of FF OS, but I got amazing battery life on that phone, way better than any smartphone that
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   These "startup advice" articles on Hacker News always come off as cheap marketing. Each one seems to make sense, but are so imprecise and arbitrary that they are absolutely useless in practice. Tomorrow there will be another artic
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   I agree. But you are forgetting another exploitation - of the worker, which back in the day was the norm. Perhaps still is, depends on how you look at it.
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   by vvpan 12y ago

   There's also the Stiletto stealth boat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M80_Stiletto
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I don't see why.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    The problem is that it's an unfortunate situation, whether it's governed by laws of business or not.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I feel like you haven't read the article. Your first point the author admits himself. As to the second point, I don't think he's "whining" that they exist, but that there is little else: "In 2014, franchises ar
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I started taking RMS much more seriously after Snowden.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Non-mobile version has readable font size and color. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/1/181633-the-tears-of-don...
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Hm. They should call it webscale and be done with it.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I really don't understand why RethinkDB, a seemingly superior tool, is not getting more traction. MongoDB was and still is a hack, a simple design that's prone to blow up.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    This article is like war porn.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I want to use it for the name alone
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I honestly don't see the point of doing this. The scientific bounty from going to the moon was tiny comparing to the amount of resource put into it. I think poet Gil-Scott Heron does a great job deconstructing the space-exploration eff
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I generally understand the sentiment, but your are really comparing apples and trigonometry.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Plan 9 enthusiasts must have hired a marketing firm.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Very, very cool! So you extracted images and dialog from scummvm game data and programmed the interactions? Or you are interpreting scummvm data straight out?
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Not sure if it's small enough: https://www.toggl.com/
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Well as I understand the article argues that all of this happens before the jury has any say? So you are talking of a separate problem?
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Way to abuse :first-letter.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    Also, a little known fact is that 1984 is essentially a remake of a 1924 novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin "We".
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    I grew up and went to school in Russia, but spent my last three grades in the US. Both have their pros and cons, but some cons of the US system were very apparent. 1. In Russia I remember having eight classes a day only briefly and that qui
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    My personal concern in all this is that violence stops. Whether it's Russian or NATO intervention I think it's good and will eventually diminish the number of civilian casualties. Also, a lot of the sources are not good at all.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    NPR bashing Snowden? Don't listen to it, but I'm very surprised.
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    by vvpan 12y ago

    And the point of the article, besides being marketing for Apple, is...?