walkon

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by walkon 14y ago
The few apps I've granted access to my Dropbox always get (or take) full access to all my files, which is disconcerting. Is it possible for apps to be granted access to only the certain directories or limited areas of my Dropbox?
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by walkon 14y ago
To me it sounds like you are using the same illogical mix of correlation and causation assuming that Thiel's success must be solely attributed to luck instead good methodologies, hard work, etc. It is wrong to assume his methodologies must
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by walkon 14y ago
> The company is repeating the one still working play they have [raising prices], circling the wagons around the enterprise market, effectively raising the barriers to exiting. Raising prices lowers the barrier to exit because the cos
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by walkon 14y ago
A nanosecond is 1 billionth of a second. A millisecond is 1 thousandth of a second. 1/1000000000 vs. 1/1000 Six orders of magnitude. Edit: your point may hold true as I'm not sure SSD access or seek times are in the 10ns range.
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by walkon 14y ago
They should qualify their statement to indicate this resolution only applies when it is hooked up to a significantly better display. I don't think the anticipated typical use case for a Chromebook is to hook it up to better displays as som
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by walkon 14y ago
They are misleading by specifically mentioning 1080p video playback performance when the display has only 768 vertical pixels.
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by walkon 14y ago
> The fact that a single person is allowed to own an international crossing is laughable. I know they probably can't take it away from him, but that it happened in the first place is a joke. I hope that this never happens again. Why lau
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by walkon 14y ago
With 1,000 years, feel free to think bigger: teleportation!
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by walkon 14y ago
OSX does not lead the market.
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by walkon 14y ago
You don't find it interesting that one of the largest DNS service providers has had a major outage rendering browsing many websites virtually impossible for several business hours? Not every site I am interested in using is maintained by r
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by walkon 14y ago
Do you have a link to info on such beds?
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by walkon 14y ago
Two orders of magnitude (which isn't all that "many") would make that 2,400 people working on the Visual Studio shell. Although its likely there are many more than pictured, I can't imagine it being thousands.
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by walkon 14y ago
Possibly just the VS team without any .NET and language teams.
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by walkon 14y ago
Twapping?
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by walkon 14y ago
> I'll be there 'apping' Let's hope this doesn't become a verb. Tweeting is bad enough, but "apping"?
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by walkon 14y ago
I agree. The chosen name of app.net is simultaneously generic and borderline misleading (I too thought it might be some framework or app development tool). This alone is enough to make me a bit skeptical of app.net's leadership. They mig
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by walkon 14y ago
> Strangers, even unvetted ones, almost never pose a danger to children. The vast majority of harm done to children is done by friends and family. Having more strangers around makes your kids safer, if anything. I hear this a lot and my
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by walkon 14y ago
I'm sure the end goal for FullContact is ROI. Or at least, it should be if they want to stay in business. They are making the bet that true, off-grid vacation each year will help their employees be more productive, efficient, loyal, etc,
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by walkon 14y ago
I don't believe my mother and I should be allowed to marry, no matter how good the sex is.
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by walkon 14y ago
> For the most part it's a company whose core business model is "leverage unfathomably vast marketing resources to coerce large numbers of people into making the least healthful dietary choice available to them at any given moment". The
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by walkon 14y ago
All this pre-retina? I find pre-retina text display blurry to the point of distraction after long periods of reading. Also, how do you hold your iPad? I like the newest and cheapest Kindle's size and weight for holding it an almost any p
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by walkon 15y ago
RESTful SOAP? To read anything you have to POST the SOAP envelope.
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by walkon 15y ago
I believe the author of this has refined/updated some of this thoughts since that first post.
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by walkon 15y ago
Your comment seems rather irrelevant to the article. Please read it for context.
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by walkon 15y ago
I'm not sure about always having a likely option selected by default in a select list. The user may gloss/skim over it without verifying the default value is their desired value. And, with a valid value selected, no validation warning or
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by walkon 15y ago
> People say like to say the constitution allows anonymous speech but it doesn't by any stretch Source?
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by walkon 15y ago
Employees are payroll taxed, that is different and regardless of the company's income, net or otherwise.
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by walkon 15y ago
How are they not being taxed twice? A company (which has owners) pays income tax on their profits, so the company and therefore, owners, have less capital remaining. Then, if the owners want to cash out anything from the post-income-taxed
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by walkon 15y ago
Do they have to go through this same process when looking at certain logging data, such as, web server GET requests? Those would show file names.
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by walkon 15y ago
> It tells us that they looked at customer data Have you ever supported a product that has external users? Eventually have to see their data in some way, shape, or form. Whether it be a username, email address, ip address, user-agent

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