EponymousCoward

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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Totally shocked that a community full of Aspies is having a hard time mustering sympathy for this girl and instead have to pedantically inform the Internet that that's not really programming and what's the big deal anyway I did this when I
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
There've been unhexeditable game consoles since the 70s. Doesn't seem to have impacted people's desire to hack thus far.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
throw new BathwaterException(new Baby()) ?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Answer your "What is your shoe size?" security question...
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Drag them? How do I do that on my iPad? #mobilefail
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Did you read the article?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Heh. Want to place any bets they built the whole thing audio included and just before launch brought in the lawyers who quickly said WTF? To which the product team said ORLY?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Would you prefer SaaS, or web service? Will that soothe you?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Here's another scenario: idiotic developers ask for a boatload of permissions "just in case" and don't realize how sketchy it looks.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Point 1 just isn't right. I have 2FA on my gmail and am reading it with the default mail client just fine. "yr doing it wrong."
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
He addresses scale but only scaling up. What he neglects to realize is that AdWords et al are elastic, if I want to get 10x impressions over the weekend I can do that. With cold calling, not so much...
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Charles Symoni (sp, I know) used to float the Intentional Programming team around on his yacht for weeks at a time. I think it was mainly to increase productivity though.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
One of the more useful things I've seen on HN. However it seems to only really apply to B2B. There is a bit of a hand wave about B2C at the end. Would love to see more thoughts about its applicability there.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
"well do data mining" is the new "well have ads" for unmonetizable businesses. Then again the data mining is probably just for ads anyway, so maybe it's just more of the same...
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
No Google doesn't read your email. In fact their spam detection just works by flipping the worlds luckiest coin at every incoming email.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Woman, boy.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
"Feeling tired? Drink this Koolaid." - Jim Jones
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
How do you get around the 10GB/domain limit? What do you do when your fleet gets big enough that you start getting throttled? What's the query latency? How do you delete old log data?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Paid search results? Would it really be incongruent with what DDG is doing?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Which do you suppose is bigger, 30% of Zynga's FB credits, or 100% of their FB ad spend?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Good. Suck it. This company is pure slime. I pity their acquirees. And it's totally worth my karma hit to just get this off my chest.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Nice accomplishment but I have to say that the idea of the product is off-putting. Still I guess it's up to people if they want to advertise this way. I'm not convinced that this approach will always yield a higher viral coefficient than no
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
10-20% (pathetic really)
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
This guy is seriously misunderstanding the long tail. First of all the long tail is an opportunity, not something that "dies" (his words). It's an opportunity for authors because what authors have today is the opportunity to self publish an
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
"A single AWS instance is not reliable, and isn't designed to be particularly reliable." Source? An AWS instance is simply an OS running on a virtualf (xen?) machine. On the largest instances you may in fact be the only virtual machine on t
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Wonder how long that took to discover. MTTBSOD?
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
There is nothing more ironic than the jingoist segment of the population who are also ravenous Walmart shoppers. It seems like such a no brainer for a political movement/party to run on a platform of restoring Americas manufacturing base. I
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Not just a way to run a business, but a way to live life. Might not work for everyone, just as the opposite of whatever this strategy is may not work for everyone.
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
Great, another "Java analogy" post! No real analysis, no quantification or evidence of anything. Just assertions and implications. You could at least bother to apply your analogy to other languages. There aren't many that wouldn't meet the
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by EponymousCoward 15y ago
When does he appear on DWTS?

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