I think the real story here is that he chose the 35% royalty rate over the 70% rate “because you can opt out of Kindle Lending.” I understand that some people view disabling that feature as less of an anti-customer move…
1080p video with sound only recently improved from "FM radio" quality - what a strange combination.
I was surprised he didn't mention two-way contacts integration. I met a new person yesterday on G+ first, then in person; later that day he emailed me a doc and I was surprised to find that his name/email had not been…
This might be very related, actually - Dropbox just sent out an email announcing downtime for a move to a different data center.
Wow. I was prepared to denounce this as a fake, mouthpiece for LulzSec made to look like a hacking challenge (for the lulz), etc. A facebook page like this[1] is so laughably over the top.. But perhaps not:…
As usual, allow the smallest subset of functionality which still permits legitimate uses. In these cases they're relying on .htaccess files being allowed specific overrides - FileInfo and Options being the most powerful…
Twitter's API does not only service native (smartphone) apps. xAuth is always abysmal security; OAuth provides in some cases some increased security.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542370
Surprisingly good link. While we're discussing Heroku, does anyone have any deep[er] insights into the differences between Zookeeper and Doozer?
I was not at all suggesting the story was false; rather that Poulsen was further "interpreting" the story based on a prior "interpretation" by the New Statesman. [honest edit: I suppose this is a weak sentence. I really…
Interesting that this is essentially all stemming from yet again a communication failure from AWS. Once they have a post-mortem and can explain the multi-AZ issue, we may have a better idea of whether multi-region…
You know, I really don't understand the rage around this case, or more specifically that it's supposedly all coming from people who otherwise love Dropbox. So let's examine what you're (potentially) doing by forcing…
Dropbox has bandwidth limits on /Public URLs, particularly low for free accounts. This wholly circumvents that, and I suspect that's the real reason Arash asked for a takedown, not so much the loose association with…
The piece is specifically positioned as a retort to a somewhat sensationalist O'Reilly piece, and in that context it's perhaps decent. But this headline alone on HN is at least as sensationalist - redefining "your phone…
$6.50, not 30-40: http://us.blizzard.com/store/search.xml?q=authenticator - this omits the free apps for most smartphones. As far as peer support, honestly, there's almost no peer support. There is a strong first-line…
It's only retreading old ground if the resolution is public knowledge. As mentioned elsewhere in this topic, RIM has never given any info as to what the final result of all that pressure was - I do think it's legitimate…
There's an existing day-old post about this still on the front page, albeit with a less descriptive title: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434057
Tangential, but a commenter brings up the empty map in Georgia. A quick search turns up this would-be explanation from over two years ago: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-is-georgia-on-g... I'd be very…
What? How does this.. what? You seem to contradict yourself: you admit he is spreading knowledge of the governments' misbehavior (and that this is a laudable thing) and then.. question mark? Upon 5th reread: are you…
I guess I mostly disagree with the "very likely to annoy somebody who prefers Windows" statement. I love Windows as a desktop OS, and am typing this on it right now. Nonetheless, my love for it is really irrelevant when…
You're kind of robbing that phrase of its context by omitting the 'deploy to linux' part. I have nothing against windows devs developing on windows - in fact, I can't offhand recall having met anyone developing desktop…
I don't know that I agree: you're essentially advocating dishonesty, in my opinion. If he legitimately feels that a Unix shop by nature will espouse certain qualities, why should he hold back? They solicited his…
I can't believe the person who wrote this is legitimately knowledgeable about this industry or the relevant tech. Phonetically misspelling "Bayesian" as "Beysian", while hardly a deal-breaker or even worth notice from…
S3 explicitly does no deduplication at all, last I heard. This is somewhat corroborated by the pricing for cloud player - it would be a lot lower per GB if they did.
My first reaction was "oh man, this is going to make Sublime Text even more ridiculously awesome." After hearing myself think that, I finally bought a license.
I think the real story here is that he chose the 35% royalty rate over the 70% rate “because you can opt out of Kindle Lending.” I understand that some people view disabling that feature as less of an anti-customer move…
1080p video with sound only recently improved from "FM radio" quality - what a strange combination.
I was surprised he didn't mention two-way contacts integration. I met a new person yesterday on G+ first, then in person; later that day he emailed me a doc and I was surprised to find that his name/email had not been…
This might be very related, actually - Dropbox just sent out an email announcing downtime for a move to a different data center.
Wow. I was prepared to denounce this as a fake, mouthpiece for LulzSec made to look like a hacking challenge (for the lulz), etc. A facebook page like this[1] is so laughably over the top.. But perhaps not:…
As usual, allow the smallest subset of functionality which still permits legitimate uses. In these cases they're relying on .htaccess files being allowed specific overrides - FileInfo and Options being the most powerful…
Twitter's API does not only service native (smartphone) apps. xAuth is always abysmal security; OAuth provides in some cases some increased security.
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542370
Surprisingly good link. While we're discussing Heroku, does anyone have any deep[er] insights into the differences between Zookeeper and Doozer?
I was not at all suggesting the story was false; rather that Poulsen was further "interpreting" the story based on a prior "interpretation" by the New Statesman. [honest edit: I suppose this is a weak sentence. I really…
Interesting that this is essentially all stemming from yet again a communication failure from AWS. Once they have a post-mortem and can explain the multi-AZ issue, we may have a better idea of whether multi-region…
You know, I really don't understand the rage around this case, or more specifically that it's supposedly all coming from people who otherwise love Dropbox. So let's examine what you're (potentially) doing by forcing…
Dropbox has bandwidth limits on /Public URLs, particularly low for free accounts. This wholly circumvents that, and I suspect that's the real reason Arash asked for a takedown, not so much the loose association with…
The piece is specifically positioned as a retort to a somewhat sensationalist O'Reilly piece, and in that context it's perhaps decent. But this headline alone on HN is at least as sensationalist - redefining "your phone…
$6.50, not 30-40: http://us.blizzard.com/store/search.xml?q=authenticator - this omits the free apps for most smartphones. As far as peer support, honestly, there's almost no peer support. There is a strong first-line…
It's only retreading old ground if the resolution is public knowledge. As mentioned elsewhere in this topic, RIM has never given any info as to what the final result of all that pressure was - I do think it's legitimate…
There's an existing day-old post about this still on the front page, albeit with a less descriptive title: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2434057
Tangential, but a commenter brings up the empty map in Georgia. A quick search turns up this would-be explanation from over two years ago: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-is-georgia-on-g... I'd be very…
What? How does this.. what? You seem to contradict yourself: you admit he is spreading knowledge of the governments' misbehavior (and that this is a laudable thing) and then.. question mark? Upon 5th reread: are you…
I guess I mostly disagree with the "very likely to annoy somebody who prefers Windows" statement. I love Windows as a desktop OS, and am typing this on it right now. Nonetheless, my love for it is really irrelevant when…
You're kind of robbing that phrase of its context by omitting the 'deploy to linux' part. I have nothing against windows devs developing on windows - in fact, I can't offhand recall having met anyone developing desktop…
I don't know that I agree: you're essentially advocating dishonesty, in my opinion. If he legitimately feels that a Unix shop by nature will espouse certain qualities, why should he hold back? They solicited his…
I can't believe the person who wrote this is legitimately knowledgeable about this industry or the relevant tech. Phonetically misspelling "Bayesian" as "Beysian", while hardly a deal-breaker or even worth notice from…
S3 explicitly does no deduplication at all, last I heard. This is somewhat corroborated by the pricing for cloud player - it would be a lot lower per GB if they did.
My first reaction was "oh man, this is going to make Sublime Text even more ridiculously awesome." After hearing myself think that, I finally bought a license.