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Argote··on Poll: Do you encrypt your email?
If you don't change a password sent to you by email immediately, that's YOUR failing.
Argote··on Nokia announces Asha 210 with World's First Dedicated WhatsApp Button
Unlimited SMS is something that's not available in most third world countries.

Also, the functionality of WhatsApp far exceed SMS's.

Argote··on San Francisco Hangout Becomes Casualty of Tech Boom
San Francisco's high rents are more due to the fact that the city has refused to build more housing stock (particularly, high density housing).

When the supply (almost) stays the same and the demand increases, the equilibrium point for rents is bound to increase as well.

Argote··on Sony announces PS4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4
A proper gaming PC is still way more expensive than a console.
Argote··on Sony announces PS4 with 8-core x86 processor, 8GB GDDR5 memory and DualShock 4
Microsoft does dev tools remarkably well.
Argote··on On the state of Windows on the desktop
Not really, the thing is that implementations for accessing said file systems are under a GPL license. In order to integrate them to Windows, they'd have to re-implement from scratch which could lead to a ton of bugs and then they'd have to officially support all of those file systems.

Definitely not worth it from MSFTs perspective.

Argote··on Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers
While a nice idea, there's still nothing I want that can be purchased with BitCoin.
Argote··on How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty
Being on the thanks page looks great on your Résumé, which can land you a nice, high-paying job.