mankash666

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by mankash666 8y ago
What's this bull-shittery supposed to evoke? Sympathy for your lack of understand of copyright law, or your bull-shit entitlement to CBS' content, or just how disconnected you are from content economics? Ever run a content busines
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by mankash666 8y ago
Yes indeed. There era of entitlement is upon us - "unless CBS gives away all their free content without tracking and monetizing me, I'll illegally pirate their content - because in 2018 I'm entitled to CBS content without fri
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by mankash666 8y ago
Please - go file a GDPR complaint
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by mankash666 8y ago
Another user CBS won't miss, I guess
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by mankash666 8y ago
Here's the thing: most users don't really care. The evidence is in the author's own disapproval of the slack app - about it just being a wrapper around a website disguised as an app. Guess what, slack desktop has a LOT of tra
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by mankash666 8y ago
Curious why the oldest application of the blockchain - money - isn't in your list. Actually, I find it mysterious that Revolut and PayPal are more popular when Bitcoin and ethereum are freely accessible
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by mankash666 8y ago
What?! Zuck dropped a cool $21B on the app - I believe he's entitled to expect a return on investment without being bullied, using a public business model everyone knew about. Facebook isn't a non profit, and zuck is actually acco
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by mankash666 8y ago
None. None come with $0/annum, spam filtering, deep search, state of the art 2FA, large amounts of storage, large collection of plugins, cross OS native clients, ....
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by mankash666 8y ago
I'm assuming here that the changes are GDPR compliant (given the large army of lawyers working for Google). If they are, all this brouhaha is from the technophile echo chamber of opinions. The average joe gives a rat's ass for thi
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by mankash666 8y ago
Can ProPuboica/MarkUp investigate how Apple never comes under the scanner of anti trust regulators either in the US or EU, while Google, Microsoft get fingered for far less. For instance, Android, which is open source, has been fined b
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by mankash666 8y ago
The only technicality protecting Apple from massive anti trust regulations with regards to the store is that the iPhone actually isn't a monopoly in cell phone unit shipments. However, many economists have noted that app revenues (not
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by mankash666 8y ago
Cavium is actively competing with Intel, offering ARM for the server space. You can rent cavium CPUs from http://Packet.Net for a lot cheaper than Intel Qualcomm's server unit demise has more to do with management than tech
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by mankash666 8y ago
Yes yes - bullying peer reviewed work from being published is totally not censorship.
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by mankash666 8y ago
It'd be nice if Apple's iOS JavaScript core reached parity with W3C features supported on other platforms and browsers. Notable emissions are RTC data channel, WebGl2, WebAudio, iffy PWA support ... All that speed won't allow
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by mankash666 8y ago
Apple, as always, is so full of shit when it comes to privacy. "Don't buy Android phones if you don't want big brother type surveillance from Google, buy Apple for China-esque social scoring surveillance. Oh, and we have no u
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by mankash666 8y ago
Trial by social media apparently overrules the opinion of the actual justice system. The courts acquitted the author of the essay, but the editor paid the price for publishing it. Not only has the messenger been shot, the credibility of an
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by mankash666 8y ago
The big question is "what impact does it have on the bottom line"? If the react native app is sufficient for it's intended audience, then learning dart/flutter, or 2 native platforms is academic at best, as it's unl
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by mankash666 8y ago
A few demo pages would help visualize the end result, before signing up.
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by mankash666 8y ago
Depends - it's defined as "offering nothing challenging". Creating content for others to read online has become as essential as being able to write with pen on paper. So in a sense, a CMS that isn't challenging for the a
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by mankash666 8y ago
Someone please explain this: Revenues in 2017: ~$21M, loss: $7.5M But, market cap: $27B Why?
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by mankash666 8y ago
We need to stop treating Facebook or any digital infrastructure as culpable when it's users are the ones responsible. As far as Facebook's concerned, it's an advertiser picking a demographic. I bet they don't know what t
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by mankash666 8y ago
What happens after Rice? Is everyone graduating equal, or do we need to apply the "privileged children" label to some? What is your recommendation to companies that go to Rice for hiring? Hire the best - whatever their objective
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by mankash666 8y ago
Ah, so you routinely do not hire the best candidate for a job at your company? Mind you, "Best" doesn't necessarily mean code-ninja, just the overall best-fit (behavioral, experience, academic, ...) - you know what we all c
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by mankash666 8y ago
Financial aid very much looks and quacks like scholarship, with a different label attached.
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by mankash666 8y ago
No - this isn't equal opportunity, it's equal outcome. The outcome mandated is college admission. True equal opportunity would grant aid on a merit system. Unless your argument is that familial wealth impacts merit, which I'd
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by mankash666 8y ago
Why is financial aid tied to family income? Why isn't it granted in order of merit? Under the current system, if the most meritorious student's family makes over $130K, he/she is saddled with debt, regardless of how good he&#
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by mankash666 8y ago
Indeed they can. "Is the iPhone XS the world's greatest phone of the year, or all time?" "No science involved, but Apple engineers and I agree that the iPhone XS camera is the best" I bet fanboys print out DXOMark a
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by mankash666 8y ago
Why should we consider this fawning opinion piece by a world renowned Apple fanboy, a review? iPhone cameras haven't been the best on smartphones for years now, let alone among all camera devices.
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by mankash666 8y ago
No problem with that - it's a legitimate marketing channel, which in this day and age of digital proliferation, cannot be ignored. No one forced anyone else to read it, but people are obviously searching in a similar fashion and these
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by mankash666 8y ago
This is why I don't trust CNet's reviews of Apple's products. They'll convince the customer that "you're holding it wrong" for bones from Apple!

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