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by zainny 13y ago
Is this a joke? So the examples that she gives as to why KA is terrible are: (1) He used a pie chart where perhaps a bar or column chart would have been more suitable. (2) She's "pretty sure" he got the explanation of confide
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by zainny 13y ago
I can personally relate to the part about no going back to just being a worker bee once you've tasted blood. For me I did my "startup" at a pretty early age (I didn't call it a startup then - it was just me building soft
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by zainny 13y ago
Strong disagree for me. I have no such issues with making "ear" selections and I find the overall responsiveness of the device to be incredible with the latest 4.3 release.
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by zainny 13y ago
According to discussions I've been reading about this [1], it seems that more than _half_ of the applications on BB App World come from just four developers: a staggering 67,500 apps. [1] http://forums.crackberry.com/ne
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One App Developer Responsible for 47,000 Apps in BlackBerry World?(berryreview.com)
41 points by zainny 13y ago|24 comments
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by zainny 13y ago
I wonder - if you took in aggregate the time people spent complaining about Cryptocat could a more secure alternative have already been built? :-) Anyway, I really enjoyed this article. Informative, interesting, and free of snark.
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by zainny 13y ago
But why would anyone even bother trying to fix the situation? Any attempt to will just result in the entire crypto community community calling you "worthless" and "unqualified". This is the entire problem. Funnily enough
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by zainny 13y ago
I think I do understand what you're saying Dan, but do you really believe that cryptographic software isn't something you can gradually improve on? How do you explain the fact that the majority/all of the crypto libraries we
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by zainny 13y ago
I absolutely do hear what you are saying, and I understand your point. I think where we disagree is in our assessment of the developers. You think that they are incompetent and unqualified for the task. Whereas I think they are likely quali
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by zainny 13y ago
Do you really think these developers of this are actively trying to sell snake oil? You know what it looks more like to me? A couple of people are earnestly trying to build a secure communication product. They're not perfect, so they&#
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by zainny 13y ago
Like I said, the developers seem to be earnestly trying to improve their product based on the feedback they are getting. What more can you ask of them? " You there. Stop. You shouldn't be building this because we the superior inte
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by zainny 13y ago
That's a silly argument. There is a great deal of software out there in the world that operates in incredibly important roles. The software running your car, your electricity grid, your bank, your nearest nuclear power plant. Does ever
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by zainny 13y ago
You're making statements like that in a very matter of fact way. Can you please give references? It seems to me like the developers have been earnestly trying to build and improve on Cryptocat and shore up any weaknesses only to be con
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by zainny 13y ago
What is it with people in the crypto community always coming across as complete and utter jerks? Question for those in this space: is it possible for you to give constructive criticism for a project without calling people "incompetent&
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by zainny 13y ago
Are you even responding to the article? Because it seems like you've completely missed the point. This is a discussion of the trend we increasingly see of big companies abandoning interoperability in favor of their own locked down prot
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by zainny 13y ago
I gave Yoleo a shot as well. Biggest issue is no mobile app :-(
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by zainny 13y ago
Other people have in fact been pointing out this very fact/approach as well, you just chose to ignore them. Coming in at the last moment and saying "Finally!" is just dense and completely transparent.
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by zainny 13y ago
As someone who has done game development (no longer though), I can tell you absolutely nobody is going to do AI or Physics through Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. Absolutely nobody. Never was, and never will. It doesn't make sen
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by zainny 13y ago
I think you're bang on. It really is just as simple as them wanting to do everything digitally ala Steam and then they walked through every possible scenario in which a person can cheat/game the system and built their checks, rest
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by zainny 13y ago
To be fair, it's not as if MS is hitting home runs with their Windows Phone devices. What the OP is doing is just discussing reality, here and now.
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by zainny 13y ago
I did actually try Azure about a year ago - I built a few WP7 apps (just to see what the platform was all about) and used Azure as the back-end for one. While I didn't have a bad experience, I also didn't find anything particularl
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by zainny 13y ago
Interestingly enough there is a point at which I thought Microsoft was really going to hit some home runs not all that long ago. Since then though the trifecta of Windows Phone 8, Windows 8, and Xbox One has turned me away from their entire
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by zainny 13y ago
Agreed. I see this as being a catalyst for the creation of greater competition to the US internet incumbents. There will likely not be an immediate impact for Google et al. but there will be much longer term consequences I think.
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by zainny 13y ago
As an Australian, that's what I found most interesting as well about all the commentary going on. From the perspective of the NSA it seems my data is fair game under any and all circumstances. Well fuck that. Google, Amazon, et al. - I
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by zainny 13y ago
Some context, taken from the other story currently on the front page [1]: "We know what happened in the case of QWest before 9/11. They contacted the CEO/Chairman asking to wiretap all the customers. After he consulted with
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by zainny 13y ago
One month.
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by zainny 13y ago
"You aren't going to be able to protest or stuff, but ... there aren't huge issues to protest." If history has taught us anything, it's that statements like this _do_ inevitably come back to bite you very, very hard.
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by zainny 13y ago
This is so so true in my experience as well. I think I've got a really rich portfolio of software I've built (and shipped) yet whenever I've interviewed anywhere it is barely a talking point (even if I try to steer conversation in that dire
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by zainny 13y ago
Is this a confirmed fact? So far I think we've only heard from Microsoft regarding this.
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by zainny 14y ago
Locked. I honestly don't know why anyone would bother contributing to Stack Overflow at this point. It seems to basically be the hosting ground for answers to hard factual questions answered in most documentation/materials elsewhere, and a

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