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OGC··on Android saves wifi passwords in plaintext to the cloud
> Because your idea of what is going on is frankly ridiculous.

Really?

> It's easy to see the user-experience story for this.

It's even easier to see how handy millions of wifi passwords might come in handy if you already have the information about the wifi networks you got from war-driving (street view).

You now have access to millions of (private) networks all over the world which you previously had not.

OGC··on Show HN: Memnio – remember anything faster
Less text, more showing. I read your landing page twice and can't recall anything except "something, something flashcards". Sign up is "hidden" somewhere up right.

Assume i'm an idiot, the sign up form needs work, clicking the placeholder and _then_ typing is one action too much.

Style your form in a universally accepted fashion, not what out think looks good (i'm talking out of my ass here, but that's what i noticed at first glance)

Edit: Why is there a sign-in link on the sign in page, whut

OGC··on I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume
"The studies were not in software engineering"

Worthless comment then, carry on.

OGC··on Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
It has been put into production: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=940wGYCeQ68
OGC··on Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
Bose was ahead of his time as they sold overpriced products before Apple did. Why this is worth celebrating is questionable.
OGC··on Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google
Email marketing... you mean spam?
OGC··on Microsoft reorganizes
Why the hell are people arguing about a tautology? That statement is so incredibly vague, it could mean anything.
OGC··on The Architecture Twitter Uses to Deal with 150M Active Users
Because he/she hasn't read the article.
OGC··on The web you know is dying
Another gem from his twitter:

"@_jpope How likely is it that I will brick my Macbook Pro while trying to install Arch Linux?"

...

OGC··on The web you know is dying
"A year ago, I nearly vanished from the public web because I had an intuitive feeling the centralized web was a backdoor to the government."

Yeah, I bet that's why he did that.

Another attention-whore riding the NSA-scandal wave.

Edit: Okay, this guy is a troll. Or insane. He uses the verb "deploying" like it's a.. i don't know, lifestyle or something. His node code is a really, really basic website with some routes, views and markdown code. And he wants 37$ for his ebook which will teach you how to do that on your own! Whoa.

Don't feed the trolls.

OGC··on 'Quake III Arena' Bots Reportedly Stop Fighting After 4-Year Match
Good god is that stupid. This originated on _4chan_ and has been thorougly debunked, because Quake 3 bots don't work like that. Fucking ridiculous.
OGC··on Germany Minister of Justice demands immediate response to US spying on Germany
As a German, tell me when there's a statement saying "We are doing this, this and that" instead of "we demand".
OGC··on Things I Do With My Raspberry Pi
considering you can get a fail-over for another 30$, why not?

the pi is a just a tiny computer, the usual rules and best practices apply.

ffs, if you want, you can run a mail server on your _phone_ which has more raw computing power than a pi and similar power consumption.

OGC··on How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowing What We Were Doing
1. start project 2. sell equity 3. ??? 4. profit

Did i get that right?

OGC··on How Rap Genius Raised $1.8M in Seed Funding Without Knowing What We Were Doing
I thought it was extremely clear that they are selling their image instead of just saying:

"So, we've got this wiki-ish kind page but when you click on a link you get this modal popup thing where stuff is explained to you instead of visiting a new page."

They know they are selling their name and image and they do it full-force.

OGC··on Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo
Jerking it, Firefox edition. Nobody cares about the details as 99% of the users will look at this logo in a 16x16 or 32x32 px version.

Is it a fox hugging a globe? Is the fox red/orange? Yes? Is it somewhat detailed? Okay. _Good enough_.

OGC··on 21 Months In: How to Manage a Remote Team
In an office nobody pops in every 8 seconds and takes a picture of you.

All this talk about trust is essentially useless if you're under surveillance all the time.

OGC··on Bitbucket passes one million users
You should think about that in case your house burns down.
OGC··on Why Twitter’s Bootstrap is Important
HTML standardizes HTML.
OGC··on Why outsourcing abroad is a bad idea
> Guidance: you’re not just dealing with a code mercenary. > Companies (like us) will help guide and mould your product nto being the best it can be.

Oh nice, another ad.

OGC··on 'Likes' are a Flawed Currency
That's still gameable by spreading out the likes or votes over multiple accounts
OGC··on 'Likes' are a Flawed Currency
It also costs you information about yourself that you give up to say, facebook. While its value is probably tiny and arguably hard to convert into real currency it still cost you something. Very little, but something.
OGC··on Dear WordPress
That isn't even the 80-20 rule..
OGC··on It Is Not Flat Design. It's Just Proper Design
Stopped reading after:

*That's an important asterisk! More on this in a moment.

Quality content. Or "good content" like the author calls it.

OGC··on Yahoo Board to Meet Sunday to Consider $1.1B, All-Cash Deal for Tumblr
Nothing

> Tumblr is a media company at the core.

Tumblr is a glorified blog hoster.

OGC··on Finding Anyone’s Email Address
This counts as a hack now?
OGC··on This Is What One Half Second of High Speed Trading Looks Like
There sure is a fundamental difference between trading on a millisecond horizon or a minute or hour horizon. Otherwise it wouldn't happen:

One trader can act faster than another, and a millisecond(s) can be shaved of with the right location of your server (co-located near the exchange).

OGC··on Setting up Sublime Text 2
way to miss the point. op needs it to run _in a terminal_.
OGC··on Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo
There already was another comment pointing out that one could kill the process from another tty.
OGC··on Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo
I'd bet money OP didn't even try or doesnt know how to do that.
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