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by zaidf 15y ago
then spamming will become unprofitible. Then it will rapidly disappear. Unlikely. Spamming has already been less and less profitable over the years margin-wise to the point that for many spammers, it is actually not profitable. Yet, for
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by zaidf 15y ago
Second this. I lived in frisco for a year and while it's never as bad as they make it sound, it was pretty bad looking back. There were shootings at the intersection our office was located at. Car breakins were not a big deal and just accep
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by zaidf 15y ago
My hunch is that even if all banks magically cut off spammers in a hypothetical scenerio, the spam industry will figure out a way to collect payments, even if it means collecting cash. Of course this may reduce their margins. But there is o
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by zaidf 15y ago
The infographic lost its credibility in my eyes with its Digg valuation.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Reminds me of all the times when I share an idea to hear the other guy say "wow, great idea!" to which I go "wait, really? how do you know!?". I've replaced the binary means of judging my ideas with one that allows for more shades of gray.
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by zaidf 15y ago
Isn't a good password just a really obscure combination of characters?
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by zaidf 15y ago
While the naive me wants to act shocked, the other part of me gets the feeling this is business as usual and mostly just a big deal because it leaked out. I wouldn't be surprised if Google had its own anti-FB plants doing their thing. May b
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by zaidf 15y ago
I wish Google bought Skype just so I could find and search archives of my conversations in my gmail. It is incredibly hard to believe how skype survives without online chat log archiving. I find it almost essential for business-related work
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by zaidf 15y ago
So stupidly annoying. I am still appalled that google instant was good nuff to stick around. I find it still breaking my back button, distracting my thought process among other things. And like you said, I don't know why it keeps getting en
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by zaidf 15y ago
I'm confused whether to feel elated, sad or hopeful at the 10 year timeframe.
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by zaidf 15y ago
people rarely engaged with it IMO user engagement is one of twitter's biggest issues. As it stands right now, twitter is a great tool for journalist research and other niche research. That's been true for a few years now. The problem is t
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by zaidf 15y ago
I was telling my brother earlier today how I have a nagging feeling twitter will end up as the myspace of short-message sharing. From the outside, it seems like a confused org with too many changes at the top much too often. Add to that the
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by zaidf 16y ago
Not just deadline, other kinds of constraints do that too. When you're given a paper and asked to draw your mod creative piece, you can sit there for hours debating where to start. Now if you are asked to draw the your most creative flower
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by zaidf 16y ago
Really if you can write code that works, I'm not sure why you are having issues finding work. I can understand if you can't find enough to fill up your 40 hour week at the beginning but you should not have so much difficulty finding contrac
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by zaidf 16y ago
Lack of sleep can put me in a state where I care less about my ego and thus doing certain things I may typically hesitate to do. Extreme anger also has a similar effect on me. I've heard being drunk being described in a similar fashion but
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by zaidf 16y ago
Yours/google's definition of scale is very narrow, which was my point. Google only looks at scale from a software point of view. While that may work with search, there are many industries where you must scale with humans, such as door to do
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by zaidf 16y ago
What does it mean that individualized customer service does not scale? It does for paypal, amazon and pretty much any other large co dealing with payments. Perhaps one day google will wake up and realize that they in fact have products othe
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by zaidf 16y ago
I don't think it's so much about trust as alternatives and best practices. Ideally you should not trust any system when running mission critical apps and always have multiple levels of backups and monitoring including humans on call.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Agree. I'd avoid cloud for half as critical apps where I cannot CLEARLY picture where my servers are in a physical sense and how I can physically get a hold of them if shit hits the fan.
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by zaidf 16y ago
This is where you wish you had a data center address and a cabinet number where you could pop in, grab your servers and move the heck out to another DC. I wonder if this will get more companies to maintain a non-cloud, vanilla setup on some
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by zaidf 16y ago
I really dislike driveby statements like "the cloud saves money". From my use case when I ran a high traffic site, it was several times more expensive than normal dedicated servers.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Is there any iPhone app that can quietly log your gps location every minute and let you replay your life's movements at the end of the day or week?
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by zaidf 16y ago
why not stick with what you excel at? Because most companies don't believe that trying to expand into another area will significantly hurt them in areas they already excel at.
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by zaidf 16y ago
There is a general tip about not friending your Mom. While I appreciate that, in my case I mostly use facebook for keeping in touch with close and extended family spread across the world. So in my case, it's the friend that gets the ditch.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Not my comment. The picture of the naked guy with his fingers wrapped around his penis.
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by zaidf 16y ago
It's kinda the opposite for me. About 75% of my communication is with my 20-30 close extended family members. It's done a great deal in keeping us together. Despite geographic distance, we can still have common inside jokes not too much unl
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by zaidf 16y ago
Already did. If you read the post, you'd see I acknowledge the different levels of this issue. Solving this with a talk with my mom is simply a bandaid IMO. A comment I made to a friend my Mom has zero connection with should never end up in
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When Facebook got my Mom fuming with anger(o2h2.com)
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by zaidf 16y ago
One thing we know about a picture is it is ONE tiny, tiny moment :) Literally one frame out of tens of thousands. That is why you can grab a picture of almost anybody "seemingly" checking out another random person on the street ... when in
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by zaidf 16y ago
I'd think the law limits their leverage, too. I don't think twitter can threaten, directly or indirectly, to cripple tweetdeck in any way if the sale doesn't go through or if they sell to another party.

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