Meekro

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by Meekro 11y ago
They set a project delivery date and you just have to hit it. Do you find that this really works out, in practice? Joel has argued[1] that the only schedule worth anything is the one set by the developers themselves. Management can set re
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by Meekro 11y ago
They have: https://gocurb.com They've been doing it for a while -- this app used to be Taxi Magic. It's slower to respond than Uber, and more expensive.
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by Meekro 11y ago
Only if they told the browser plugin to "store my master password." That shouldn't surprise anyone -- if the master password is stored somewhere that the plugin can read it without any additional decryption keys, so can an at
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by Meekro 11y ago
You're not an idiot -- the things you described are very real. I've heard about tons of scams and quite a few dead-end ventures. The 21inc thing sounds pretty bizarre to me as well, but there is more going on in the bitcoin world
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by Meekro 11y ago
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: &quo
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by Meekro 11y ago
> Most of the time there is no trial because the person they took the money from doesn't go back to claim it. Why? Because it was illegal money. "Georgia brought in $2.76 million in forfeitures; more than half the items taken w
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by Meekro 11y ago
I get why you're concerned, but I wouldn't dismiss them so quickly until we've heard all the details. They seem like a talented team, and I assume they've anticipated the possibility of social engineering. Here's a
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by Meekro 11y ago
Elasticsearch has its flaws, but are there really any alternatives that do what it does? In my case, I need to do fulltext search across millions of documents -- nearly a TB of text in all, and still growing. Many database engines can do ba
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by Meekro 11y ago
PHP's == has a lot of oddball effects. They were put in so that things would behave the way a novice expects them to (3 == '3') but would confuse more experienced programmers, or those coming from other languages. Unless you&
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by Meekro 12y ago
Thank you for the insights! Could you elaborate more on the challenges of convincing regulators to allow you to partner with bitcoin exchanges? Clearly it's not prohibited, if SVB is able to do it with Coinbase, but what exactly are th
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by Meekro 12y ago
Hi Brian! I've read your API docs, and all this is pretty intriguing. As I understand it, you're offering this service so other people can write consumer apps for banking, and companies can integrate the API into their internal sy
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by Meekro 12y ago
"Sure, we could do it better and faster with machines, but it is better for society to provide employment to those who would otherwise be unemployed." They could have employed even more people if they gave them spoons instead of
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by Meekro 12y ago
I don't think it's a misconception that workers get paid what they are worth. In a capitalist system, something is only "worth" as much as someone is willing to pay for it. Few people question this notion when we're
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by Meekro 12y ago
Could you explain all this again, or link me to an explanation that goes over all this from start to finish? Because I'm still scratching my head. You say that a company that pays me what the market says I'm worth, is "exploi
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by Meekro 12y ago
I know what you mean! I've been a supporter of gay marriage for my whole life. But when the Brendan Eich thing happened, I was stunned. The "good" side of this fight was acting more evil than the "evil" side. What t
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by Meekro 12y ago
I assume many drug users transitioned from patronizing violent street dealers, to non-violent silk road dealers. In the long run, the violent street dealers would lose their customer base and go out of business. Seems like a good thing to m
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by Meekro 12y ago
This isn't a new concept, but it's definitely a good idea. I started public school in Texas around 1992, and they required me to have all the standard vaccinations as a condition of enrollment. Looks like they're still doing
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by Meekro 12y ago
The question to ask is, if Uber disappeared off the face of the earth one day, would these drivers be better off, or worse off? I claim they'd be worse off -- if there was a better job available, they'd already be doing that inste
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by Meekro 12y ago
I think you're overstating how much private mail servers are penalized. I've run several on colocated machines, and delivering emails to the major providers has never been a problem. You have to make sure that your colo gives you
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by Meekro 12y ago
They do: http://blog.bitpay.com/2013/12/11/bitpay-exceeds-100-000-000...
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by Meekro 12y ago
I agree! And if you read the comments on the TechCrunch article, many of them agree about the article being badly written. I get that it's sarcasm, but what was the TechCrunch writer's message supposed to be? That nobody needed th
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by Meekro 12y ago
For some of the negative comments, the data actively contradicts their conclusion. Many here seem to think that only an idiot would "invest in a 21 year old with a half-baked business plan." The people posting that have probably m
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by Meekro 12y ago
Cool story, great read! I'm surprised how negative some of the comments here on HN were. They're probably just envious about how they're not getting that sweet, sweet investor money!
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by Meekro 12y ago
The internet is still very young, and I'd like to think that we will learn to do better. Most systems are already much more resilient than they were 10 years ago. Things like Ubuntu's auto-updates are making the average web server
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by Meekro 12y ago
It was harsh, doubly so because nobody at the time knew what the money laundering rules for bitcoin were supposed to be. They were trying to bring down Silk Road, and this guy was accused of buying/selling bitcoins for a major Silk Roa
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by Meekro 12y ago
It has some. Back in 2011 or so when mtgox/bitinstant were big, none of them really knew what they were supposed to do. Nobody even knew if bitcoin was enough like "money" to qualify under money transmitter laws. The state an
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by Meekro 12y ago
Letting violent assholes do what they want usually results in less total harm than fighting back does. To take an extreme example, capitulating to Germany would have resulted in less loss of life than World War 2 did. But is that the kind o
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by Meekro 12y ago
That simply isn't true. BitPay, just one bitcoin payment processor, is processing for over a million dollars worth of merchandise per day [1]. That's real people buying real stuff. I suppose you could argue that several million do
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by Meekro 12y ago
Sad to see how much IRC has declined recently. I spent much of my youth on DALnet, and that's what forced me to learn about computers. There was lots of hacking, exploits, social engineering, you name it. Combine that with how IRC stan
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by Meekro 12y ago
Sure there's a tradeoff, but for most people it's really rare to use software that isn't being actively maintained. So let the maintainers update their dependencies when there's a security flaw, the auto-update will pull

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