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by yaix 15y ago
The CSS3 development is at a point where we should be careful not to repeat the eye-huring things we did to Flash. All these "amazing" examples of what CSS3 can do are... well, amazing, considerings the limitations of CSS2. But also dangero
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by yaix 15y ago
Thanks, exactly what I wanted to say. Tech people often forget that for many global scale projects, the actual /technical/ problems to solve are only about 5% of the overall project. The political problems (political meaning conflicting int
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Cool, almost as good as <blink>. And by that I mean, interesting stuff on a playground, but please don't use it in a real UX.
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>> Many of the discussions of the future at CERN and the LHC era end with the question - Yes, but how will we ever keep track of such a large project? That is interesting. The LHC basically triggered the WWW. Good argument for your
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by yaix 15y ago
To backup my "cloud" data, I need to click through vendor specific data download pages every time and then download gigabytes of data every time. A backup of my local data is semi-automatic by running a shell script that rsync's everything
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by yaix 15y ago
Same here, would like to use Docs more and use Picasa more, but I don't want to risk losing gmail access.
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by yaix 15y ago
"Who can see posts this app makes for you on your Facebook timeline: Friends" Why would the app need to do that? Only for an invitation?
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by yaix 15y ago
What we need is a Creative Commons for TOS boilerplate, to just copy and paste. Especially, since most of that lawyer blah is superfluous. Things like "do not harass other people". Really! We already have /laws/ for that, you don't need to
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by yaix 15y ago
Or the junior partner of a gov't coalition that actually gets things done. How's Spain more predictable? I am sure they could use some Pirates too.
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I didn't notice anything being on Java now (coming from western Sumatra only a few days ago). Btw, how is this Hackernews?
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by yaix 15y ago
Same as Fb or Twitter, collect user data and eventually have some great monatization idea. If nobody has a good idea, you can always put AdMob or something on it "this bump was sponsored by ..." something. The idea is good, the best way so
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by yaix 15y ago
I really wish I was in Europe now to participate more in this. If you ever wanted to get info politics (even only a little bit), now is the perfect time. Next elections into the Bundestag and four years later into the gov't. And in ten year
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by yaix 15y ago
Nope. I will vote for them, because in some important areas of politics they have the better offer. And because say don't try to say things in a "politically correct" way, but just say it. No professional spokes persons, media professionals
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Read this and you'll stop being pessimistic :) http://falkvinge.net/2012/04/09/we-are-winning-how-pirate-pa... It's only 5 years since the Pirate Parties started (first in Sweden), and it looks pretty good (in Germany they have now double
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by yaix 15y ago
What they say publicly may not sound rational, but its pretty rare that somebody just ends up in the driving seat by chance.
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"Panic" is probably too strong a word. It was the perfect timing for Fb to knock down a potential rival. And what better time than right after the funding round? Making them 100% on their invested capital in just a week.
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Most of them. Power may be corrupting some of those who manage to get to the top, and some of those who get a majority of votes may not be the brightest, but most 1st world gov'ts are pretty honest. Not only because we have free media that
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Will not happen. It would just make more people in Iran to become active in the oposition.
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Don't complain about it, simply don't use it. The language seems to be good enough for some of the largest sites out there to use it as their primary langauge.
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Firearms kill people by accident. Often. Hacking tools don't kill people. And they rarely hack into a system by accident.
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by yaix 15y ago
If your ipad has become too small, i guess you'll have to buy a newer model. Now /that/ makes a lot of sense to apple.
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by yaix 15y ago
Most new technologies were. Photography, film cameras, home video, etc. Porn was always a great help in getting it to the main stream (years ago a read a good article about the history of porn in technology, but can't find it now). Now I'm
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But how do they make money? They give all the naked girls and guys away for free (and the users probably can achieve the purpose of their visit by means of that free content alone).
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To me, overly styled ads just look like there will be some sort of marketing lie after clicking it, so why bother.
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Why does Instagram need access to my phone's address book? Will it steal that data too, or ask me before copying anything to their servers? Just want to know before install. I don't want to share photos with /everybody/ in my address book.
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No reason. The human instinct to follow the crowd.
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If you ever send /any/ client input (or any variable) un-escaped to your DB, I really hope you get your tables deleted as reminder (of course you have a backup, so it will only be a reminder not a disaster). After 15 years of web developmen
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For most people, that is exactly what they need. And /that/ is the sad part.
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Future spacecraft GPS could use pulsars(bbc.co.uk)
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How is /that/ suddenly "creepy"? I find it creepy that people upload their complete lifes onto Facebook and agree to be stalked 24/7 by Foursquare et al, even actively "checking in" (never understood what for) to publicly broadcast every mo

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