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HelloBeautiful··on AT&T has a fiberoptic splitter copying our data to NSA
Haha, this doesn't make any sense. How can you possibly know the real cert from the one generated by NSA?
HelloBeautiful··on Things I Didn't Know About Google (also: the worst VC decision ever)
You realized? Obviously you don't need to check your realizations with the facts. If you did check a conspiracy forum or subreddit, you would've 'realized' most ppl think these protests are orginized by the zionists/CIA.
HelloBeautiful··on Stack Overflow: Printing 1 to 1000 in C
>> The real answer is "don't work there

, if you have to ask this question ;-)"

HelloBeautiful··on AT&T will cap DSL and U-Verse internet, impose overage fees
Do you really think AT&T execs care about future innovation?
HelloBeautiful··on How to Get PayPal to Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps
I don't even need to make any transfers. Log in with account A, log out, log in with account B (same browser, without clearing paypal cookies) - accounts A and B locked.
HelloBeautiful··on How to Get PayPal to Freeze Your Account in Four Easy Steps
Once the coolest startup, now a part of a greedy mega-corp, run by MBA suits. Paypal has no respect for it's customers whatsoever.
HelloBeautiful··on Firefox 4 RC now available
>> There's little Firefox could do to prevent it.

Wrong, they can just add DRM.

HelloBeautiful··on I took "abusing the HTML5 History" to the next level.
I haven't.
HelloBeautiful··on How rich kids already won the career game
>>Poor people can be capitalists.

Black ppl can be racist, and many are.

Capitalism without democratic control, combined with modern technology to silence any opposition (like the one employed by US in Iraq) can mean that smart, poor ppl cannot compete with not so smart, rich ppl.

HelloBeautiful··on How rich kids already won the career game
Maybe he is surprised that young, smart, poor ppl are capitalists.
HelloBeautiful··on Facebook bans Adsense in all applications, driving Google out of Facebook.com
Hm? Those pics (and their backup) would consume disk space and bandwidth. Obviously the huge majority of ppl prefers to see some ads instead of paying the cloud expenses.
HelloBeautiful··on If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
Calculo Bacillus ;=)
HelloBeautiful··on If iPads are “post-pc devices” why must I sync with iTunes before I can use one?
>> Apple are a greedy bunch

Compare the price of Mac desktop or laptop to a Dell/HP/Newegg PC with the same hardware and Windows. Or just check the profits Apple is reporting. They definitely have way higher margins than the other mega-corps, selling hardware/gadjets.

HelloBeautiful··on Do real developers use UML and other CASE tools?
This is a funny topic. The best developers generally solve a problem by using high level abstractions. They would usually (in my humble experience) make some drawings on a piece of paper or a white board, before writing any code. UML&Co tried to teach average developers this method, but lost focus, bloated and are hated by real developers nowadays.

BTW this is the best book on UML and software design I've read: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020169946X?ie=UTF8&tag=...

HelloBeautiful··on Forty-five times faster at programming
Speed can be taught (ask any pro athlete).

Speed is worth teaching (ask any manager).

Being able to solve small problems fast makes one capable of solving complex problems (divide and conquer).

HelloBeautiful··on Student Who Found GPS Device On His Car Due To Reddit Comment Sues The FBI
When was the last time you saw a mainstream US news agency in arms about a government agency?
HelloBeautiful··on Hardest captcha ever?
OMG! "extremely high quality quantum random numbers"

Thats an interesting product to sell.

HelloBeautiful··on Hardest captcha ever?
IMHO you don't understand Calculus good enough yourself. It's one of the most powerful tools humankind has come with. A couple of simple ideas aplicable practically everywhere.
HelloBeautiful··on Developers: why you should build for Android tablets
Because not everyone shares your opinion.
HelloBeautiful··on IPad 2 Official Specs
Right, my bad.
HelloBeautiful··on Ask HN: How does Google make money off of Android?
From what I've heard MS currently gives WP7 licenses away and offers free support in development, testing, marketing.
HelloBeautiful··on Ask HN: How does Google make money off of Android?
Sure they are. $10 - $12 per device sold, depending on volume. In return the manufacturer gets the right to use the trademarked 'Android' name, non-open source apps like Market and a very good deal on Google Ads.
HelloBeautiful··on IPad 2 Official Specs
Replaced the MVA matrix with IPS.

Same bad cameras as 4G iPod Touch - 1MP in the back, even worse in the front. Suitable for video calls only IMHO.

Too bad the models with cell connection don't support audio calls. Could've completely replaced a phone with a wired or bluetooth handsfree.

HelloBeautiful··on When Smart People are Bad Employees
What do you mean? You think it should not be mentioned ever again?
HelloBeautiful··on When Smart People are Bad Employees
Haha, I used to be an employee like that. You know those methodologies like DDD, that say: 'understand the business problem before coding'. Well when I was doing it managers would go crazy and say I should not create confusion, but start working. Once to find 6 months later that a 15 men team hasn't done anything useful ... In all cases I can remember thinking and asking at the beginning was/would have been worth the time.
HelloBeautiful··on Should I abandon VB.Net?
After ME spending the last year working with Lisp and Ocaml, why would ANYONE use .NET?
HelloBeautiful··on Should I abandon VB.Net?
What parity? There is stuff like XML literals in VB and unsafe pointers in C#.
HelloBeautiful··on Should I abandon VB.Net?
There's nothing wrong with copy-paste programming. It's perfectly OK to copy some code of a blog/SO/github/etc. And there are online businesses worth hundreds of millions built on copy/paste as the method of code reuse. You may not like it, it may be harder to maintain, but it works in the real world.
HelloBeautiful··on Ever missed an SMS on your Android? Here's why. (long-standing bug)
What is stopping you from telling some Goolge form you are from USA? Many companies offer free US numbers over VOIP, that you can use during registration.
HelloBeautiful··on Ever missed an SMS on your Android? Here's why. (long-standing bug)
Right, and Symbian is the best mobile platform because Nokia has invested the most 'development resources' in it.

Also if you add all the open source developers of things like the Linux kernel, Android has way more ppl working ot it compared to iOS.

Just the term 'developer resources' shows you know very little about software development.

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