Pahalial

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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 than I do, but to ha
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by Pahalial 15y ago
More likely it was in the midst of the mass-deletion later referred to - deleting 6 years' worth of email could certainly make gmail sluggish.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
Stating that this "seems like something Apple would consider" is a far cry from what this blog post does: take one data point's worth of design value from an existing design for one user, extrapolate that to be one of the lead drivers of sa
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by Pahalial 15y ago
This seems useful, yet awfully much like another step on the slow path to legitimizing 'poor taste'. That's a bit harsh, so let me qualify it. I actually rather agree with the division inherent in this and think it will resound with people,
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by Pahalial 15y ago
This is an 'enterprise-friendly' feature - the appearance of thorough security ("all our data is stored with AES-256 encryption") with only a nominal increase in actual security. Just think: there will be AWS accounts using this while their
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by Pahalial 15y ago
The story kind of smells. He harps on pitching it as an alternative to their flash-based player, but what was stopping him from using the same streams he's repackaged in iTunes (or music player of choice)? All in all, I don't really approve
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by Pahalial 15y ago
1080p video with sound only recently improved from "FM radio" quality - what a strange combination.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 added to my contact li
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by Pahalial 15y ago
This might be very related, actually - Dropbox just sent out an email announcing downtime for a move to a different data center.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 ones. 'AllowOverride
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by Pahalial 15y ago
Twitter's API does not only service native (smartphone) apps. xAuth is always abysmal security; OAuth provides in some cases some increased security.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2542370
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by Pahalial 15y ago
Surprisingly good link. While we're discussing Heroku, does anyone have any deep[er] insights into the differences between Zookeeper and Doozer?
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 did not mean to impl
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by Pahalial 15y ago
Well, yes, that makes sense for a membership association like the Screen Actors Guild. Unfortunately, if Facebook wants to retain its real-name-only cachet, it simply can't afford to have too many stories like this pop up. This story is par
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by Pahalial 15y ago
Several people have already pointed out the tenuous situation between Kevin Poulsen and Wikileaks, so I won't retread old ground; that said, Poulsen is really just summarizing a piece from someone else in the new statesman: http://www.news
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by Pahalial 15y ago
But you can control the risk of exposure to keyloggers. You have zero control over risks to LastPass's infrastructure - which, as this blog post mentions, is a much juicier target than your passwords on their own.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
All shortcomings of AV aside, as a Canadian who just watched a majority get in thanks to a combined 6,021 votes in some dozen marginal ridings, let me just say that I'm jealous of this referendum and I wish you the best.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 spread is sufficient redun
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 this issue and so on: (1
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 piracy.
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 is tracking your mov
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by Pahalial 15y ago
$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 of FAQs and automate
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 to ask essentially w
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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
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by Pahalial 15y ago
I had much the same reaction, but no, this is very odd. Red Hat has no aversion to contributing to Free Software and possibly forking it to create a supported branch. Why would they push through with Ceylon rather than do this with Scala? I
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 curious to see an updat
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 actually accusing him of
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by Pahalial 15y ago
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 I'm developing for U

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