michaelhart (u/michaelhart)

michaelhart commented on Skype IP Lookup skype-ip-finder.tk/... · Posted by u/lobovkin

daeken · 14 years ago

In the case of email, the easiest way to get a user's IP is to have them load an external image.

michaelhart · 14 years ago

Not true if you use a secure/intelligent email client, like Gmail. It will prompt you with a yellow bar above the email before loading any images.

It also implies that they'll open the email, which most average people won't do unless they know the sender or are otherwise expecting an email.

michaelhart commented on Dear Google: please let me ban sites from results · Posted by u/nervechannel

michaelhart · 15 years ago

Google Domain Blocker: (userscript/greasemonkey), for those interested.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156

You can also sync them for Firefox across multiple machines using Dropbox, as the preferences are stored in your profile (IIRC, in a javascript file).

michaelhart commented on Sergey Brin when he was not Google's Sergey Brin infolab.stanford.edu/~ser... · Posted by u/zixan

michaelhart · 15 years ago

You guys never did male beauty pageants for charity? We have them like twice a year here, and they're quite successful and overall a lot of fun (granted, I never dress up... just laugh at my friends a lot).

And if he's actually a cross-dresser, props. He's probably the richest cross-dresser in the world.

michaelhart commented on Ask HN: Why is there so little innovation in education? · Posted by u/ggordan

michaelhart · 15 years ago

I'm working on a project now that will aggregate self-motivated learning online. Watch a lecture on YouTube? (Many universities post them). Get credit for it. Start a discussion with others who also watched it. Ask and answer questions. Find like-minded people and learn with each other, set your own challenges and goals.

That's only half of it, but the core idea is this: We learn online already. Pave the cowpaths. Give people credit for what they already do.

I'm also looking for a co-founder. Anyone interested in this project (suggestions, more info, etc.), I'd love to chat: http://scr.im/michaelhart

michaelhart commented on Google fires employee who leaked memo on raises huffingtonpost.com/2010/1... · Posted by u/variety

hartror · 15 years ago

When is ensuring employee confidentiality not good general business practice?

michaelhart · 15 years ago

Large companies have often used internal memos on purpose for leaking information. On some level, they want the information to be leaked (companies with thousands of staff makes it nearly impossible for it not to be).

michaelhart commented on Sir Ken Robinson: Why Should You Care About Creativity? mixergy.com/sir-ken-robin... · Posted by u/gatsby

derefr · 15 years ago

It's not under-valued, it's non-valued. As in, it's impossible to attach a value to someone's creativity, because, as far as anyone has been able to determine, it's not quantifiable. You can't hire with "creative" as a criteria unless you can create some sort of test that will accept creative people and reject non-creative people. Since there is no such test, we don't bother to look for it when hiring, and thus don't build businesses that depend on their employees to be creative, because they haven't been filtered as such.

michaelhart · 15 years ago

The ultimate test? Work with them.

michaelhart commented on Twitter Goes JSON-Only With One API blog.programmableweb.com/... · Posted by u/sinzone

RyanMcGreal · 15 years ago

Their uses overlap in that they both broadly serve as a language for defining structured data being transfered between two different systems. For most use cases in this space, JSON is a) expressive enough and b) far easier to render, read and parse.

michaelhart · 15 years ago

Very well put. Especially B.

michaelhart commented on Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday techcrunch.com/2010/11/11... · Posted by u/obilgic

TomasSedovic · 15 years ago

I think he means it the other way: e-mail addresses ending with facebook.com could signal "this is a genuine person, not a spammer".

michaelhart · 15 years ago

Yet you're getting bombarded with spam. Not to mention, Facebook accounts are very easy to create. So I don't see that either.

michaelhart commented on Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday techcrunch.com/2010/11/11... · Posted by u/obilgic

davidedicillo · 15 years ago

> The interface'll have the be unbelievably amazing and innovative for this to even make a dent in people's minds

I guarantee you that they are going to become the default address between people 16 and under. My brother is 16 and doesn't have an email address, but he does have a facebook account.

michaelhart · 15 years ago

I doubt it. Most schools block Facebook, whereas most do not block Gmail (many rely on Gmail themselves). Using a Facebook email is just asking for accessibility problems.

michaelhart commented on Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday techcrunch.com/2010/11/11... · Posted by u/obilgic

gojomo · 15 years ago

If @facebook.com email addresses have a stronger link to real, non-spammy, non-mass-produced identities than other domains, they could become preferred at many other sites -- a broader version of Facebook Connect.

michaelhart · 15 years ago

Wrong -- your FB email address will likely have the same prefix as your vanity URL. Guess that that means? Spam bots know your email address already.

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