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danw3 | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft to Deliver Microsoft Cloud from Datacenters in Africa

Is it just me or is one year a pretty low bar to set for granting a problem the title of "long gone"?

danw3 | 9 years ago | on: Why are your friends more popular than you? (2013)

According to the linked article the survey was limited to heterosexual individuals.

danw3 | 9 years ago | on: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

What issues have you had with project fi? I switched to it about 6 months ago and I haven't had any problems at all.

danw3 | 10 years ago | on: Bank of America Cut Off Finance Sites from Its Data

> Banks said they are within their rights to block or slow customers' access to their own financial data.

I find this mindset incredibly disturbing

danw3 | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO?

Can you elaborate on Square's gold-plated credentials? Most of the news / comments I've read about square post their IPO disclosure have been negative (or at least skeptical) - largely to do with the increasing loss rate and the state of the payments market.

danw3 | 10 years ago | on: Microsoft Buys German To-Do List Startup 6Wunderkinder

Looks an awful lot like spam to me.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: Marissa Mayer Has Completed Step One

And in what direction do you steer them?

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: To Revive Wallet, Google Tries to Wrangle Unruly Partners

Just as a side note if you have already clicked the link the google trick does not work.

Or at least that was the case for me.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: Authentication Cheat Sheet

There was a decent article (I think it was on HN) a while ago that argued against this type of generic error message. The basic idea is that you can very easily discover whether the email is valid or not by attempting to create an account with that email (in most cases). It's trivially easy to either verify that the email you are trying to use is valid, or even build a database of valid email addresses to crack by attempting to create accounts. So why bother with generic error messages at all. It is not really buying you anything on the security end and it seems like it is sacrificing some usability.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: The 12” MacBook Air: Back to Basics?

Which is the reason you buy an Apple product in the first place.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: A Teenager’s View on Social Media

"its dead to us (as a means of expressing ourselves)" is how I read that particular quote, and it certainly resonates with me as a twenty something male. I'm sure it's even more true for younger people. It's necessary because of how ubiquitous it is but I'm not sure that (in the context of social media) is necessarily good news for Facebook.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

I've just started using duckduckgo.com. Don't have any complaints so far.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: Chris Hughes Purges The New Republic

I am far too compulsive about reading ASOIAF theories to let this go - What are Renly Truthers (and how does it relate to the above)?

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: Chris Hughes Purges The New Republic

That tweet irritates me. It doesn't make any sense. What King killed people at the red wedding? The only king there was the one getting stabbed. And none of the murdering at the Red Wedding required or featured any substantial display of 'balls'. It was actually quite a cowardly act. You would think an editor at a prestigious (I'm assuming from the article - I've never read TNR) magazine would either be aware of what actually happened in the fictional event he is referencing or be above shoehorning in pop culture references for their own sake.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: POODLE and the fundamental market failure of browser security

I think the real benefit of that sort of solution would be to put the blame squarely upon the shoulders of the outdated sites in question without the browser vendors worrying about losing customers (A win/win?). It's an opportunity to inform users about the major security flaws on sites like Citibank and put some pressure on them to take this sort of security flaw seriously.

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: The Horror of a 'Secure Golden Key'

Can you elaborate further? Specifically - what is an illegal number and why is it commonly associated with a 'Secure Golden Key'?

danw3 | 11 years ago | on: Reddit

>You're asking other people to do your work for you.

Yes, I am.

>You are the one who's supposed to contribute your up/downvote.

But that's the problem. My upvote / downvote doesn't matter. If I'm in r/funny it doesn't matter how often I downvote unfunny things - the sub will still be inundated with garbage posts - subjectivity of humor aside. I don't mean "That joke didn't make me laugh", I mean there is nothing within the content of the post that indicates it's even an attempt at humor. The only thing left for me to do in the face of such a situation is to leave and go somewhere else. The only way for my vote (on posts themselves) to mean anything is moderator action.

I'm not (and I don't think anyone else is) arguing that every sub should have strict rules and moderation. But strict moderation is a necessary tool for many of the subreddits that I enjoy to exist. A lack of moderation would turn r/askHistorians into a swamp of ignorant hearsay, answers based solely on what one dude read on Wikipedia, and general misinformation in no time at all. The only vote that I have that matters on reddit is the vote for which subreddits I subscribe to, not the posts within those subreddits.