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by kpanghmc 12y ago
FYI Google recently reversed it's decision on real names: http://www.zdnet.com/google-reverses-real-names-policy-70000...
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by kpanghmc 12y ago
That's correct. Note that I never said it was the FCC's job to prevent protectionism in other countries. I was simply answering deciplex's question of how net neutrality could harm the American economy if it were only enforce
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by kpanghmc 12y ago
While that scenario is certainly better for American consumers, it's not better for Netflix. Both companies will have to innovate and compete in America, but Braziliflix will essentially get the Brazilian market for free.
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by kpanghmc 12y ago
It affects American businesses and therefore affects the American economy. For instance, let's say Brazil's telcos started throttling their citizens' access to Netflix, but not to Braziliflix, a hypothetical Brazilian version
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by kpanghmc 13y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google. For what it's worth, I felt the same way when I first dogfooded the new multi-column layout. I couldn't figure out how to read my stream. While reading a post, I kept getting distracted thinking about where I
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by kpanghmc 13y ago
Learning the following keyboard shortcuts for formatting bullet lists made the transition to the new compose UI much less painful for me: ctrl + shift + 8 to create a new bullet list ctrl + ] to indent right ctrl + [ to indent left
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by kpanghmc 13y ago
The title is a bit sensationalist. None of the famous animal ones were destroyed, just some of the straight line ones. It's ridiculous that a company felt that they could just quarry over part of a UNESCO world heritage site, but the title
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by kpanghmc 13y ago
No, people should not, and do not, have the right to do whatever the heck they want with their property, especially when what they're doing puts other people's lives in danger. That's why we have laws against things like drinking and drivin
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China Finally OKs Google's Acquisition of Motorola Mobility(techcrunch.com)
1 points by kpanghmc 14y ago|0 comments
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by kpanghmc 14y ago
Very cool. Although now it's going to be even more difficult to tell whether someone is talking to you, their Bluetooth headset, or their augmented reality glasses. I'm hoping they build in Google Translate into these things. They could be
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Richard Stallman to launch his own fashion line(techlaze.com)
15 points by kpanghmc 14y ago|0 comments
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
My non-programmer friends and family are always bewildered when I tell them that I hope my daughter doesn't grow up to be a programmer. The reason why is because I'm afraid her life would be like the OP's. There is indeed a subtle sexism in
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
You clearly have not experienced discrimination before. It's not just the act of being discriminated against, it's the memories that it invokes and the reminder of how little has changed.
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
It's not just that women reading this flyer wouldn't be interested in showing up, it's that they are instantly reminded of how the programming world perceives them and their place in the industry. It reminds them of the sexism they've endur
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
Sad, but inevitable. I owned a copy growing up and it was an invaluable source of information. I remember flipping through the volumes and marveling at how much information I had at my fingertips. For whatever reason my computer has never g
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Rubber Duck Problem Solving(codinghorror.com)
71 points by kpanghmc 15y ago|10 comments
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
What's to prevent Egor from setting up a new account and using it to exploit the vulnerability he's found?
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
From the Wikipedia article on Dryococelus australis [1] "The ultimate goal is to produce a large population for re-introduction to Lord Howe Island if the project to eradicate the invasive rats is successful." I wonder what the 347 resident
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Apple's Q1 2012: $46.3B In Revenue, 37M iPhones And 15.4M iPads Sold(techcrunch.com)
5 points by kpanghmc 15y ago|0 comments
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Huboard: A kanban board built on top of GitHub Issues(lostechies.com)
6 points by kpanghmc 15y ago|0 comments
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
"But we have the technology, Google has the technology, we have the brainpower in this country, we certainly can figure it out." Even if this were true, just because Google has the capability to do this doesn't mean every company does. If i
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
That would solve the problem of people accidentally buying fake Chanel products. Is that really what Chanel is concerned about here? When I first read this article, I assumed that Chanel was trying to cut down on the number of people who de
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
The safe withdrawal rate -- that is, the rate at which you can withdraw from retirement accounts without too much risk of running out of money eventually -- is generally considered to be around 4%. With $900,000 saved up, that means the OP
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
Does anyone know what they mean by this? "we will remove iGoogle's social features on January 15, 2012. iGoogle itself, and non-social iGoogle applications, will stay as they are." Are they referring to Google Chat or are they referring to
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
Maybe the neutrinos that appeared 3 hours before the event are from another event altogether (one that occurred even further away, whose light particles haven't even reached us yet)?
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
While I agree with the sentiment in this thread that developers aren't going to be flocking over from GitHub anytime soon, at the very least this should help keep GitHub motivated (not that they've given us any reason for concern thus far).
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
I never said that there wasn't a problem. I'm simply saying that the solutions we've come up with so far have not yielded a net gain. If anything, the site owners that I know who have incorporated OpenID / Facebook Connect / etc. into their
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
BrowserID only fixes those issues if it ends up as the only game in town. Otherwise, it's simply going to be tacked onto the end of a daunting list of other OpenID / BrowserID providers that users will have to choose from.
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
Am I the only one who kind of wishes we never went down this "let's fix authentication!" rabbit hole? It feels like we've just replaced one problem with another. Now, instead of simply having to remember what username/password combination I
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by kpanghmc 15y ago
It seems like Google would be a potential buyer. They've made it no secret that they're interested in getting into the social network game. Purchasing MySpace would be a nice way to bootstrap their service with users.

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