AgentConundrum

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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
While I'll admit that I was a bit embarrassed when I read your comment, I didn't think you intended to make me look foolish - nor do I really think I did look foolish, just uninformed. My reply was merely a "mea culpa", and the note about
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I know my DropBox password, and I know my KeePass password. I honestly thought that was enough, under the assumption that a) if my DropBox account was inaccessible, those files would still be on my hard drive, and b) if my laptop were lost
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Interesting. I somehow missed that, and I never got an email from them telling me about it. (I just checked.) I'd delete my comment now, if I were still able to.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> I've been a Dropbox user for years [...] but never visit the site. I created a Dropbox account (which I do use) a couple years ago, and last week I visited the site for the first time in almost as long as I've had the account. A wor
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I found another one from a year ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/reportthespammers/comments/jaut1/thi...
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I think it's worse than just "they didn't ask". They don't even care if a moderator vouches for you. A week or so ago, it was pointed out to me that ircmaxell was also banned from reddit - I think it was a shadowban as well, since his usern
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Yes, but that's not what the phrase originally meant. Its usage has changed over the years to the point where things like your source consider the new version to be accurate. However, there are many - including myself for a time - who still
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Why would you click on something called "Inception Explained" if you haven't seen the movie? Also, what's the problem with someone using an Amazon affiliate link to help pay for their site / earn some income from the work they put into the
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
My point was that not everyone - not even everyone on HN - has a CS degree. I don't have one, but I still found the OP interesting. His comment made me feel like maybe he thought I should feel bad for not knowing the information already.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
You can't get a full list of them on mailinator.com, since it makes it easy for a misguided website administrator to just ban the whole list. Instead, the site will randomly show one of the alternate domains on every page load. At one point
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
As with most posts, this submission is useful to the rest of us who don't have the same background as you.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
There are two different forms of broken - something that doesn't conform to a published spec, and something that doesn't work on something with significant market share. The person you're replying to is referring to the latter. It's a collo
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Also, when that help screen appears, everything else on the page darkens out except the CAPTCHA (presumably because it's done in flash). It probably leaves some users confused about what the dancing text has to do with the help page, and
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I tend to view support/contact options as suggestions rather than rules. If there is no option for your problem, you choose either the closest one or the most general one. The worst case scenario is that you're ignored, so the only cost to
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
That's my fault; I could have been clearer. I often play devil's advocate, and the risk of that is that you can be misinterpreted as supporting a position when you didn't intend to.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
While you may have had a point you were trying to make, that point was buried in one paragraph of a seven paragraph post, sandwiched between a "rant" about a personal experience and a call to action directed at a specific company. I can und
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I know AirBnB is a YC-funded company, so I understood why OP posted it here. I didn't flag the post for that reason, and my comment was just trying to explain the reaction. This post in general reminds me of a lot of a criticism of many Ask
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I think the biggest problem he (and probably other readers) has with your post is this line: > I would really appreciate if someone @AirBnB would help to intervene the existing ineffective process. No need to return the money - just re
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
> I've batted around the idea of setting up oldfacebook.com I wouldn't recommend using that domain name.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
You do need a certain amount of karma to post a poll though. It's quite low, IIRC. I think it was only 100 or 200.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I once had an issue with a ticket purchasing website which accepted my "name+SERVICE" email address when I signed up, but it refused it when I tried to sign in later, or possibly just when I was trying to use the "forgot password" functiona
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Nope. Someone posted a link above[1] to what I assume is a 23andme FAQ response, stating that they have a Certificate of Confidentiality from the (US) government. According to this NIH page on said certificates[2], it sounds like even if th
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
This isn't a new idea. Even this site has been around for years. There's also Mailinator[1], among others. [1] http://www.mailinator.com/
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I've never touched Ruby, so I could be misunderstanding, but I think his code is correct. In each loop, he initializes the output variable to an empty string. If the current integer is not a multiple, he replaces the empty string with the i
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Can we change the headline to mention that this article was written in 2007? I'm quite sure both PHP and RoR have come a long way in a little over five years.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
A couple minor nitpicks, in the interest of improving the site: - On smaller screens/windows, the "plugin examples" slides overlap the text at the top, particularly the subheadline/description. Obscuring this text prevents visitors from imm
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I think somewhere between 10 and 12 is the sweet spot right now. Also, just to be clear, 08 is a little more than "less than half". The work factors are exponential. Half of 19 would be 18.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Why not? You'd rather have inferior security than wait a minute and a half[1] to access your accounts? Shame on you, Thomas! I thought you were a professional! [1] Based on a remarkably unscientific test I just ran on an Ubuntu 12.04 VM on
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
I get that, but I thought that CAN-SPAM required one-click unsubscribes.
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by AgentConundrum 14y ago
Isn't that illegal?

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