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by Mahn 10y ago
I assume he suggested Bitcoin because it's still a good way to handle money anonymously. If the person that breached the server wants to remain anonymous but get paid, that's pretty much the only way to go.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Aha, so that's why it made it to the front page. Had it had PHP in the title from the beginning HN would have ignored it completely (sadly).
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> Shows you just how much pent up demand there was for Nintendo to release games on mobile. Does it? My impression is that there's a lot more people playing Pokemon Go than there are Pokemon fans. The IP no doubt helped, but I don&#
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by Mahn 10y ago
I read this acquisition as trying to take over as much of internet traffic "market share" as possible. Verizon is well into the online advertising game with AOL, so the larger piece of the pie they own the more control they have,
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I mean, she hasn't done any miracles, but it's not like any of us would have done any better in her position. I wouldn't call her a terrible CEO, just someone that took over a company that was very difficult to turn around to
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by Mahn 10y ago
Right on the nail. To me personally, the moves Reddit has been doing the past couple years read as if they don't know exactly what Reddit should be or what they want it to be. I imagine it's not easy, Reddit is massive and somehow
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by Mahn 10y ago
I upvoted because I'm just now hearing about the whole GoChat story, and because I find amusing how quickly Pokemon Go related apps can blow up right now, but yeah, it is evident that this was primarily a self-promotional post otherwis
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by Mahn 10y ago
> make it possible to run WhatsApp on only 50 engineers Frankly, I'm sure Erlang is great, but with 50 full time skilled engineers I'm pretty sure you could run WhatsApp on almost anything.
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by Mahn 10y ago
SP4 user here too, Windows Hello failed exactly once for me: when I was setting it up. Ever since then it's worked flawlessly. It's so insanely good it's almost hard to believe Microsoft built it. When Android first came up w
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by Mahn 10y ago
I was going to suggest the same. The "prepare-to-shutdown" brain mode could well be that more blood is flowing to the stomach (and thus less to the brain) after a heavy meal.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Could it be that there is some selection bias in this study? I don't mean to say the conclusions are wrong per se, but I would think that people working very few hours (unemployed?) or too many hours (factory workers?) are typically le
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by Mahn 10y ago
Personally I find that services like Mailgun, Mandrill or SES work well enough for this purpose and are not particularly expensive if your volume per month isn't huge. On Mailgun for example you can send up to 10k emails per month for
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by Mahn 10y ago
Right now technically the virtual representation of real life locations belongs to the developer, so I don't think what you describe would hold in court at all. But it's a conversation that we may need to have depending on how mas
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by Mahn 10y ago
That's a bit pessimist, isn't it? It's a little bit like saying that living is not worth it because you'll die anyway. I think what we do is not about an indefinite future impact or goal, but about the how it impacts us
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by Mahn 10y ago
Note the last paragraph that suggests that this isn't just the 80s scandal, but something that is on-going today as well: > An internal German government memo was recently leaked to Der Spiegel. According to this, the monitoring of
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by Mahn 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007674
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> Article suggestions in Google Now? Crap Not my experience at all, in my case the suggestions have become so good that I find myself checking what articles Google has for me multiple times a day. It's easily the thing I check the m
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by Mahn 10y ago
Well of course. The only thing the browser incognito mode guarantees is that no local data will stay around (cookies, cache, history, etc), but beyond that there's nothing stopping Google or any other online service from collecting and
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by Mahn 10y ago
Realistically, I don't think you can have a minimalist, clean and focused code base with thousands of engineers pounding away at the keyboard. You ought to make some trade offs with that many employees.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Sounds interesting but definitely needs some tour, demo, screenshots, or something to get a basic idea of what to expect beforehand.
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by Mahn 10y ago
There's only so much you can do with 16-bit-ish styled RPG graphics.
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by Mahn 10y ago
Surprisingly responsive for a web based editor, really well done. I guess it's time to give VS Code a try!
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Funny, but to be fair this doesn't apply to Ethereum only, the vast majority of discussions here on HN would look like this to a person not interested in programming or tech. And that's fine, nothing wrong with having a hobby and
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by Mahn 10y ago
Because newcomers would then copy-paste the script without really understanding what's going on, and that lack of understanding will come back to bite when something breaks. Teach a man how to fish rather than giving him the fish and a
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by Mahn 10y ago
> I'd be delighted if both IE and Edge went away forever. To be fair Edge is a pretty solid browser these days, I don't think you can put them on the same league. I've been using it for some time now and other than a sligh
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by Mahn 10y ago
It's kind of a pity that three years have passed since it arguably went mainstream (among the tech literate at least) and the most prevalent use case is still by and large speculation. Making money is cool and all but the technology ha
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by Mahn 10y ago
I think conferences and conventions are the kind of thing that you can get some utility out of once your business is somewhat established and running, but not so much when you have a new startup that you need to take off the ground. Since Y
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> In the thesis itself, several powerful methods to defend against typo squatting attacks are discussed. Therefore they are not included in this blog post. http://incolumitas.com/data/thesis.pdf section 5 "Prac
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This looks like something that could do well comercially today, you guys should pick it back up.
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There's an old saying, "the world runs on shitty code". I always think of that when I see headlines like these.

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