JWhiteaker

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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
I'm not saying they shouldn't show the dollar value, I just expect them to at least show the bitcoin price next to it with a name like BitcoinStore.
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
It's called BitcoinStore, but the prices are only shown in USD. I expect it will show the conversion on the checkout page, but at first glance the concept feels like just a marketing gimmick.
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
Is this just for face detection or for face recognition as well? Face detection is a pretty much solved problem IMO and running OpenCV locally is a simple enough solution. What I will miss about face.com is the face recognition. It was sta
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
That's not a bad idea. A student visa in general would at least delay the problem.
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
If your goal is to make money, then sure, selling should be your goal. If your goal is to make something that might change the world some day, then maybe it shouldn't be. Hyperbole aside, if you really believe in what you're working on and
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
I'm aware of the startup visa act ( http://startupvisa.com/ ), but that is not going to be available by the time we would need it (assuming it even passes).
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Ready to found a startup, but my co-founder is on a temporary visa
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
I experienced this first-hand as I just signed a place a little over a month ago. Compared to what was listed the apartment we ended up with was several hundred dollars cheaper, and we competed with at least 10 other applicants for the pla
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
For being Apple's secret weapon, Samsung sure has a lot more of them. I wonder why Samsung's number of design patents issued peaked in 2008.
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
This is the logical move for padmapper. I wonder if the press they've been getting will be enough to seed their user base to make it self-sustaining. It would be ironic if Craigslist just helped create a viable competitor, though this is u
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
Having overly restrictive password rules like this, combined with requiring a new password every x months, just leads to more users writing down the passwords on notes stuck to their monitor.
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
Magnetic stripes are the most hilarious thing ever, but still work almost everywhere on the globe. I am amazed that magnetic stripes are still the norm for credit cards in the US. Europe has managed to move all but completely to chip-bas
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by JWhiteaker 14y ago
As for the fallout, Polls was down throughout this episode. Because it spread virally by posting people's votes to their newsfeed, the three or four days of down time halted all growth. Traffic dropped to nothing and never recovered. This