wamatt

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by wamatt 14y ago
This does sound sort of interesting, but after thinking about it I don't get why this is cool. Can someone explain a practical use case? How is it different, in practice, from say running a Node.JS on localhost and using localtunnel?
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by wamatt 14y ago
I agree it's a tough sell, but it does looks like he will reach the funding target on Kickstarter.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Very interesting idea. Might have some merit with a lot of tweaking. But appeal to exclusivity and FOMO are often value drivers.
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by wamatt 14y ago
>There is little to gain (and much to lose) by making it sound like bob was unattractive to the company, even if he was. You appear to be stating this as a fact. Also when the headline talked about "getting fired", most would probably
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by wamatt 14y ago
That could seem like the company is unattractive to Bob (and hence could start wondering more), versus Bob is unattractive to the company.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Setting up our infrastructure to do that is technically straightforward: we need to add more servers to handle a lot of additional traffic on the front end, before people get to content. There are both implementation and ongoing operationa
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by wamatt 14y ago
Do people really care about this? That might be the core problem. That said, I really respect Dalton for going all out on it.
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by wamatt 14y ago
I recently installed SaneBox on my Gmail account. http://www.sanebox.com Helped me hugely to recover control of my mail again.
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by wamatt 14y ago
The API probably has a key that can be blocked. Not that I'm advocating this, but a potential advantage of scraping, is it can be combined with tor or proxies, etc to get around limits.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Wow, I wonder if people realize just how scary this is. Security Questions are a terrible idea.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Never understood Apple's insistence on asking for the password all the time. For such a customer focused company, it just seems so bad.
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by wamatt 14y ago
This is better than both I agree. Of course the real issue is one should not be changing corporate policy because of a few bad apples. Better, if possible, to address the undesirable behaviour first before taking more drastic measures.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Neat app. Don't think it will have mainstream success, in current form. People are lazy.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Suspect you may be confusing the state of 'being safe', with the measurement of 'being safe'. Empirical methods are not the only way to quantify something. Either world view relies on "Just trust me, I know" or "The numbers never lie" W
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by wamatt 14y ago
Interesting, it's not blurred for me either, although the other day I remember it was. I tried this in Firefox and Chrome in both normal and Private/Incognito modes.
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by wamatt 14y ago
>They head-faked a lot of developers, but I don't think that was deliberate. Yeah I'd agree with that. Can't say either if this will have major repucussions in the future. Users probably don't care about these issues and dev's will suck
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by wamatt 14y ago
Neat!
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by wamatt 14y ago
@pg - I suspect politics might prevent you from answering, but do you have a view on whether this direction of Twitter's, is smart or beneficial to them in the long run?
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by wamatt 14y ago
Very detailed analysis there. Nice!
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by wamatt 14y ago
This happened... http://www.thejayfk.com/?p=621
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by wamatt 14y ago
One of the more glaring security issues with Dropbox, is the way they are handling 3rd party integration. Giving full access to some random new startup or app is NOT cool. Sure I don't have to, but people also like to try new stuff, and t
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by wamatt 14y ago
Indeed. Sentiment analysis is a problem. I think there are some companies working. It is a real phenomenon, but just hard to access empirical quantified data at the moment. As a quick measure I use things like Google Insights, compete.com,
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by wamatt 14y ago
And now if they could combine Google Voice and Google Talk into a combined product....
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by wamatt 14y ago
Yeah. The point was more about mindshare and not just tech. "X has an image problem." where X can be any tech from an uncool company, even if it is fundamentally decent.
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by wamatt 14y ago
depends what you mean by 'arrogant'. a person could be stylistically arrogant, eg they are creating through their subcommunications (body language, overuse of first person pronounces etc) that they care about their own position greatly and
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by wamatt 14y ago
Interesting... Mozilla and Yahoo would make a good strategy, considering Google/Mozilla relationship has cooled in recent years. I like your Github/Meteor suggestion as well, albeit unlikely that either of those companies would take money o
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by wamatt 14y ago
Aparently not. Read some technical explanation on it, but can't remember the details.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Neat technique. But no IE, so not super practical.
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by wamatt 14y ago
Who says it's coming at a cost? There is a very real chance the BBC have fixed sized pipes already paid for, that are not even close to being fully utilized.
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by wamatt 14y ago
I'd recommend witopia over HMA.

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