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Has there been a model of consumer behavior related to personal computing where security played a major part? Yes - anti-virus software on Windows. That's not an entirely healthy e…

Sadly this type of response seems to be common amongst those that do get it. "Whatever. Most people don't care anyway." If you look at the reaction of those 99% to Apple planting a…

> Technology can help create newer, more engaging distractions. Watching how people react to the Occulus, "OMG it's sooo real!" I can't help thinking how badly screwed we are as a …

As smart creatives I dont think we're the target audience but rather decision makers at established businesses who are seeing their markets getting disrupted.

... but if Apple Pay ( https://www.apple.com/apple-pay/ ) turns into a big success, it could have the potential to unbalance the relationship Apple has with it's customers.

Yes. And put together in even less time than JavaScript 1.0

Waaaaiit a second! This "async thing" is not a fad created by node.js but rather the effective conclusion of the C10K problem - http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html - that we could scale…

How do you know that the app published on the App Store is the same one you have the source code for? Can't I can just give you some source code then release something else entirel…

The real pain point with E-mail is we're all drowning in it.

His lack of commentary speaks loudly. gs.com > gmail.com > nsa.gov > irs.gov who will love to see those accounts

IMO the silently majority is tired of a panopticon of "look it me now" social services who's main use case is massaging users egos. Google should start over, Android-first (instead…

Sounds like a similar POV as those that believe security by obscurity is adequate.

But isn't it the case that anything we're capable of measuring here, given the relatively short available sample of data we'd be able to obtain (decades), would be inside any margi…

As we move from the Industrial Age to the Information Age, it becomes more about managing our energy as individuals, not how many hours we're putting on the clock Tony Schwarz's "L…

> I just don't understand how it even gets developed in the first place, if they don't have a small team to continue working on it post-release. From talking to PMs at Google, they…

How does this differ to popapp ( https://popapp.in ) which I've been using for over a year now ?

2.8.9? That sounds way too mature. What pre-alpha data store does HN recommend replacing redis with?

> Dropbox needs people with international experience to help it at once deal with foreign governments that have blocked its use — China, for example — and as it works to spread a p…

What about traffic from Google? For any existng online platform that's already established itself on the web, you're probably seeing 50%+ of your traffic coming from Google and a b…

Ummm... so what does gay marriage have to do with browsing the web? FAIL

The number of addictive occupations we've invented for ourselves seems to grow exponentially at the moment; beyond drugs and physical addiction we have Facebook, games from WoW to …

I get the impression from looking at local "big data" events that the enterprise software crowd has tuned into big data. I fear that now that SOAP and enterprise buses have gone th…

It probably began as a friendly gentlemen a agreement. "Don't steal my engineers. I won't steal yours. Helps keeps costs down. It's all in the shareholders interests right?"

It will probably feel like this http://vimeo.com/m/8569187

So we return to tables ...