Animus7

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by Animus7 14y ago
If I were to blndly guess at an underlying phenomenon, it would be what I've come to call "app pollution" for lack of a better term. More and more money is being thrown at an ever increasing amount of new apps, and many of which operate on
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by Animus7 14y ago
I just realized this: Companies totally unaffiliated with Windows manage to produce browsers that have bleeding-edge feature parity all the way from XP through 8 (not to mention two other major OSes). But when the company that fucking makes
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by Animus7 14y ago
The product itself looks cool, but things like this keep catching my eye: > HI ! Looking to purchase MULTIPLE REWARDS IN ONE GO ? YES YOU CAN ! > FREE shipping in the US and EU. Add 10$ for all other countries. > EARLY BIRD SPE
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by Animus7 14y ago
Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur. But I get it. To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious points are awarded to those who beat the drums. Logic be damne
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by Animus7 14y ago
Since you asked, here are the problems I see. Most of these I've learned the hard way working on a similar problem for over 2 years, so hopefully that counts for something. 1- The main cost of third-party software is never the cost of the
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by Animus7 14y ago
Considering the billions spent on "national security". Considering all of the privacy violated in the name of airport security. Considering that it's considered okay to fly across the world to and assault someone's house in an armed chopper
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by Animus7 14y ago
This doesn't feel as much a social network as an unstructured dumping ground of noise vaguely related to "programming", in an insultingly naive sense of the term [1]. Maybe there's some grand plan here, but I don't see it. As it stands no s
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by Animus7 14y ago
Poe's law [1] at work. My bet is on parody though. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
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by Animus7 14y ago
> I rebutted with a question: do you want a commit every time you type a character in your text editor? I don't get it. I want a commit every time I say I want a commit, not upon arbitrary criteria the software decides for me. And I wan
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by Animus7 14y ago
buzzword buzzword unqualified huge number superlative google microsoft! big data! $X billion buzzword buzzword random powerpoint diagram. And on top of that, the entire article ends up being a plug for a conference. I have no idea who's upv
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by Animus7 14y ago
Actually, part of the criteria for getting a patent (at least in the states) is that the invention is non-obvious to those in the trade. So patents kind of are about doing things that are hard. And you could argue that zooming in on an HT
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by Animus7 14y ago
This argument never made sense to me. If I were designing a Ponzi scheme intending to defraud people, I wouldn't base it on a 100% transparent network of open source software using public domain crypto functions, where the wealth creation i
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by Animus7 14y ago
I'm getting the same vibe. And I'm beginning to think that allowing this kind of thing will be the downfall of Kickstarter. Yes, I will explain. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love the Kickstarter concept. But in practice, their scaling
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by Animus7 14y ago
Forget ethics; just from a business standpoint, each new piece of legislation like this makes piracy an increasingly better alternative, costing Hollywood more and more money. Pirates don't have to deal with ridiculous restrictions like not
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by Animus7 14y ago
This is such a powerful and often-(ab)used argument that it genuinely horrifies me. It seems these days just about anything the U.S. government does can be justified under a binding legal ruling of "top secret, we can't hear this in our cou
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by Animus7 14y ago
The reason this has no chance of working with open source software is the same reason DRM doesn't work. If you cripple your version of the software, the next guy to figure out how to uncripple it will release his version, and everyone moves
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by Animus7 14y ago
I think we can assume that either: a) they haven't figured out the details, b) the details are underwhelming, or c) they just don't want us to know yet. Retina-like resolution on something like this would be a powerful marketing play. I don
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by Animus7 14y ago
> The main problem is that if you own the majority of the hashing power, you can rewrite history. You can make all the bitcoin ever mined owned by you. No, this is completely wrong. If you have majority hashing power, this allows you to
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by Animus7 14y ago
On the bright side, web server performance, reliability, and maintenance are much more concrete than "amount of spam prevented", and general internet meritocracy has worked well towards ensuring G-WAN's lack of adoption.
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by Animus7 14y ago
So you're implying that if you changed the HTML colors based on mouse events, the claim of "difficult or even completely impossible for robots" would hold? Such a claim would be no less ludicrous. I'd put my money on there being hundreds of
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by Animus7 14y ago
The "Support" page reveals how they charge $200,000/year for the privilege of setting a header: > 199,999 [Swiss francs]: Use G-WAN under the brand of your choice (custom "Server: x" HTTP header). This isn't the most insane upsell I've
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by Animus7 14y ago
pg's reply as to why such threads get killed (and likely this one will as well): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103210 >Because in the guidelines we ask people who have questions or complaints about moderation to contact us dire
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by Animus7 14y ago
I see psychological parallels between this policy and Microsoft's recent attempts to crack down on class-action lawsuits.
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by Animus7 14y ago
Joe probably cares about Metro, though, which is a far more significant piece here. And let's not kid ourselves; Microsoft is catching the attention of developers mainly in order to extract money from them once they lock in to the Microsoft
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by Animus7 14y ago
> "Looking cool" is the last and least thing they've got to do to atone. Maybe to us, the 1% on HN. But most people don't know or care much about Microsoft's tarnished past. Some have already forgotten. I wholeheartedly agree with every
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by Animus7 14y ago
For some reason the driver also requires Visual C++ 2010 as well as SQL Server Native Client 11.0, and includes significant C++ boilerplate which was clearly pasted verbatim from existing C++ codebases, thus ensuring the driver is beyond mo
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by Animus7 14y ago
> Sites have no obligation to obey it and it will give users a false sense of security. Until appropriate legislation comes into play. It worked reasonably well with the Do Not Call lists.
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by Animus7 14y ago
So don't forge your headers. I don't see how this would be slippery at all.
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by Animus7 14y ago
The awesome part is how they force you to download an additional signed WGA validator exe before the site coughs up the patch, which itself is signed. If I was the attacker, I'd definitely be MITM'ing this page. Zombies in the compound inde
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by Animus7 14y ago
Indeed. I seriously think this is a sly attempt at crippling DNT and boosting ad revenues (also, remember: Microsoft owns a significant stake in Facebook, whose "Like" beacons would be adversely affected by legislation regulating DNT). As a

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