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by watty 15y ago
Why is this on HN? I'd bet that < 10% of the population were offended by that photo. If it were a picture of Fabio with his shirt off (gasp) there would be < 2% offended. Yes, there are men who say "check that ass out" and there
602.
by watty 15y ago
The real question is why is this guy so sensitive? There are sexist people in every industry of both sexes.
603.
by watty 15y ago
If you really think they don't care about market share and money or being the top dog, you're wrong and they've fooled you. That's their number one concern, they're a business.
604.
by watty 15y ago
Lets see if YC changes this title too...
605.
by watty 15y ago
So anything remotely related to YC companies that shed good light are immediately frontpaged but something potentially dangerous that is bad PR gets title changed?
606.
by watty 15y ago
No, it's bullshit. YC shouldn't censor the articles, especially one as potentially dangerous as this. AirBnB has everything to do with the title and blog and they deserve any bad PR they receive. Very disappointing.
607.
by watty 15y ago
Seems like excessive transfers. I achieved a "real time" counter by having requests return a start value and a rate of change per second. The GUI would then update every second with the estimated values. My AJAX requests would happen muc
608.
by watty 15y ago
I guess that's my point. My study is off of Reddit (and common sense) while their study which has unexpected results isn't being published.
609.
by watty 15y ago
I'm sorry but this "study" doesn't exist because it isn't true. The best purchasers and moviegoers may also be pirates, but overall the movie and music industry would be making more money if it weren't for rampant pirating. I read a thread
610.
by watty 15y ago
I figured Google would try to use their ad-powered business strategy to lower the profit margin to near-zero or negative rather than competing against netbooks. Didn't PS3 sell hardware for much lower than cost to manufacture? These things
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by watty 15y ago
I too struggle with the price of Chromebooks. I do love my CR48 but expected price to be around $200 considering the OS is very limited.
612.
by watty 15y ago
They should be "application specific", maybe even with options to choose which parts of Google Services it can access. I don't want my Digsby generated password to be able to access my email via IMAP. It's unlikely to be leaked in plain-t
613.
by watty 15y ago
I partially agree with the author, this does seem like a big deal. I was ecstatic with this feature because I felt like the odds of my email being compromised was near zero but not so much any more. I have 10+ application specific password
614.
by watty 15y ago
So do they need more staff or were they buying out the competitor who did "circles" before they did?
615.
by watty 15y ago
Intent is the obvious differentiator. Intentionally abusing a system with the intent of taking it down and causing damage should be illegal.
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by watty 15y ago
Their lives aren't going to be ruined, especially if they're a minor. However, they took part in shutting down a business temporarily and need to be punished.
617.
by watty 15y ago
You're missing the small contractors with 20+ repos, any of which may need to be opened and edited at any given time. Why should they pay $100/month when they really only need 2-3 active repositories and consume a fraction of the filespace
618.
by watty 15y ago
It's not uncommon for small businesses and contractors to have 30+ repositories, each of which are very small. It doesn't mean they have more money than god, they're being screwed by the pricing model. We switched to a different host that
619.
by watty 15y ago
Many of you are missing the point. It's not as much about the actual cost but about the model of charging per repo rather than data usage (or both options). This model is not cost effective for small businesses and contractors who have ma
620.
by watty 15y ago
I'm not an Apple hater but I'm certainly a patent hater. What's your feeling of the patent heavily discussed earlier: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec... It patents using regex on a mobile device to parse text
621.
by watty 15y ago
Once again I read the patent and it's safe to say that any mobile device (input/output) with a CPU ("action processor") that uses regex to parse text and automatically turn it into actionable links is infringing this patent.
622.
by watty 15y ago
All that lawyer jargon means is that it's running on a device with input, output, and "processing unit" (CPU) with a program that can scan text and automate the linking to different actions. While he may not infringe this patent exactly, i
623.
by watty 15y ago
I read the patent and it seems that using regex to automate links on a mobile device is exactly what they patented. Can you elaborate why this is not so? Patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
624.
by watty 15y ago
I'm sure they'll continue to tweak the new look for "power users" but they didn't actually "break" it if power users can switch to the normal theme. Breaking it would be forcing the update.
625.
by watty 15y ago
Wow, definitely keeping as my new theme. I had to disable the "Right-sided chat" lab feature but works great other than that.
626.
by watty 15y ago
Worked for me earlier and works for me now. Either it was down temporarily or you've got something else going on.
627.
by watty 15y ago
I'm guessing they wanted animation AND didn't want to exclude a huge percentage of viewers
628.
by watty 15y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or these are genuine concerns. Black is not my favorite design color but I think it works well for Google and contrasts well in this case. The black bar at the top is like working at night time, Googl
629.
by watty 15y ago
I tried a handful of random SWF files from my dropbox and none of them worked. Several were due to AS 3.0, which isn't supported but even simplest animation said "The #initclip pragma is not supported.".
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by watty 15y ago
Reminds me of the gaming industry where the "hardcore" PC gamers continue to get shafted by exclusive releases to consoles and gimmicky motion controls.

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