BoyWizard

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by BoyWizard 13y ago
>>It's funny that two out of the three things you said are additional expenses that the house enables. Those same two things may also be valuable to the owner, regardless of expense. Expand my basement so I have room to continue wor
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by BoyWizard 13y ago
The Google Mirror API allows you to build web-based services, called Glassware, that interact with Google Glass. It provides this functionality over a cloud-based API and does not require running code on Glass. This API is focused o
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by BoyWizard 13y ago
One of the people I worked with used the expression 'We're not saving babies here!' when people were stressing to get stuff done. Until one day someone in the meeting burst into tears and ran out. Turns out they previously had a miscarriage
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NPR Podcast: The Hidden Digital Wealth In Your Pocket(npr.org)
2 points by BoyWizard 14y ago|0 comments
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
A single person cashing out can cause a 'small' drop of 15%? Imagine the chaos if the USD crashed 15%. That's recession territory.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
It's still a fact, the context affects the meaning of the statement.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
my comment has nothing at all to do with my job Correct, but your comment has everything to do with your attitude.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
They have a comment in the script // Intended use is to display browser notifications for critical and time sensitive alerts. I imagine you can rack up a fair amount of usage before checking emails, only to find you went over your ca
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
But it's still very easy to grep through your codebase and find them, unlike some other issues which can be very context sensitive and far harder to find quickly.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
No, he went to jail because after that, he wrote a script, scraped through all the URLs and collected private information, then bragged in IRC about stuff he could do with it.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
To further verify our sample data, we developed a small binary that could be uploaded to insecure devices. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395009 http://internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org/paper.html
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Nexus 4 in stock on Australian Google Play store
2 points by BoyWizard 14y ago|2 comments
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
This service is amazing. I've been using the pilot for about 6 months and it's the best thing they've done. Get an email or SMS about a package and a code, rock up, punch your name and the code, the locker pops open and you get your package
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
Just build it! Don't worry about all the other distractions. You might works on it for a week then find the reason why nobody else has done it.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
You'll find that adding the resistor changes the ID the card sends to the drivers, and that there is other differences in the hardware (so it doesn't change the 'model' of the card). It just so happens that it enables 3 monitors in Linux (t
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
Uploading and running executable code on other people's devices without their permission is absolutely illegal, regardless if it's exposed or not. I would be pissed if someone did this on any of my devices.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
Based on the Github page, I would imagine Redis as a cache, MongoDB to store the 'non-relational data' (quoted from the GH page - I'm guessing the actual articles and such) and Postgres for the other application stuff - accounts, preference
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
Looks good, but the demo is broken if you access it over HTTPS in Chrome [blocked] The page at https://leselys.herokuapp.com/ ran insecure content from http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
It's not that instant real-money transactions are happening, but if I owe you $5 USD, I can say "I'll pay you 0.1142BTC" and the value to you is the same (as others have said, as long as the exchange rate doesn't fluctuate too much)
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
The thing is, it doesn't matter. As far as I know, nobody prices anything in Bitcoins, they price things in USD/AUD/<insert currency> and then convert that amount to Bitcoins for the transaction . You might end up paying 1.00 BTC,
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
If I have a problem with an online purchase that I can't sort out with the merchant, my bank is more than happy to compensate me for it. Not possible with Bitcoin.
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
Two things: 1. That video of the BGP routes disappearing is awesome, and 2. A 40 minute outage sounds bad, but consider the following timeline (based on the writeup): > T+0: route change made, propagates > T+10: Response team online
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by BoyWizard 14y ago
> Almost no flight attendants walked by that seat during the whole 15+ hours of the flight, but I got up multiple times to look for an attendant > The couple beside me ordered wine, and drank for most of the flight > I won’t ev