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by askmike 10y ago
Not related, but they have licensed the name (also have been around for very long).
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by askmike 10y ago
In a way this gives a new meaning to the term "live music". Especially since this is an existing style of music: anywhere from Bowie[1] to more niche bands like Public Service Broadcasting[2] and Lemon Jelly[3]. [1] David Bowie -
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by askmike 10y ago
I was under the impression HN start out as a more scoped / directed version of Reddit.
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by askmike 10y ago
Very different actually, the stock markets are highly regulated. If you get caught dealing with penny stocks or insider trading you go to jail. One of the reasons the SEC didn't approve this ETF was because of the lack of regulation on
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by askmike 10y ago
> The SEC decision does none of that. That's because Bitcoin isn't directly tied to any economy. But just as Brexit had a real world impact on the pound, the SEC decision had a real world impact on bitcoin: It is directly tied
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by askmike 10y ago
While technically nothing changed, the SEC approving an ETF directly tied to bitcoin would have changed how Bitcoin is perceived by a lot of people. > Nothing about the currency actually changed. You can say this about about everything:
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by askmike 10y ago
> Especially if media queries come into play Or even more simply: if your CSS is supposed to work on all pages of a website.
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by askmike 10y ago
I think it's very interesting/strange/scary to see what started out as a Cypherpunk dream come true is now being experimented with / used by the industry it was meant to replace. While I think Bitcoin (et al.) is extreme
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by askmike 10y ago
> not without strong AI. You might be right if Google wants to answer all questions ever, but they can just limit this feature to situations where they do know what the answer is (you already see this when you type in math, conversions b
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by askmike 10y ago
Because prepending that doesn't solve the problem Google wants to solve: once Google figures out that you typed in a question, they want to give you the answer to your question. Not tell you what other people think the answer is. (I ag
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by askmike 10y ago
I think that even if someone can't memorize the exact characters, they'll memorize the task of having to type over the characters. Better would be to never ask for confirmation except in the worst of worst cases.
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by askmike 10y ago
This might be a bit outdated now (in a time when backbone was still cool), but you might find the story from QZ interesting: https://vip.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/building-qz-com-full-tr... They were working o
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by askmike 10y ago
> Attachments are literally always unnecessary. Why? Are you dropping support to search through them?
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by askmike 10y ago
A huge number of emails plus attachments are large in size. It is that controversial because it is hard to make it perform on a mobile device over a crappy 3g connection.
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by askmike 10y ago
> its not so far fetched to think of having a 20GB inbox stored+indexed on the phone Yes it is. Besides just syncing the data there are a huge number of other performance hits. > of course you don't need to store the attachments
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by askmike 10y ago
When it comes to passive surveillance (cameras, dragnet internet tapping) probably not that far behind. But when it comes to more invasive measures like internet censorship [1], or requiring suspects to give over encryption keys (else poten
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by askmike 10y ago
I guess that gets rid of all other email as well..
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by askmike 10y ago
I do think this is mainly aimed at developers used to more basic SaaS/PaaS services (like Heroku, which was mentioned a few times). Coming from that angle it really doesn't matter that S3 is not technically FTP, since it's mo
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by askmike 10y ago
Now you can do copy and paste. I guess usability wise similar to offer precompiled packages of open source software (you can also build from source yourself, this is just a lot easier).
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by askmike 10y ago
I would like to take you on that bet. I also wonder if you have ever been to anywhere in Europe.
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by askmike 10y ago
> a US Citizenship. I am very envious of folks who have it. Not everyone wants to move to/stay in the US, the world has a lot of beauty. ---- I for one am very happy to live in Europe. But Europe is a very diverse continent so it&#x
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by askmike 10y ago
> I think that the main problem with iframes (and frames in general) is that it's impossible for the user to check in an easy way where they originates from. Exactly, just like all other resources (assets, media). > If the URL ba
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by askmike 10y ago
I haven't seen any examples (just code snippets), but I wouldn't call all unsanitized queries SQL injection vulnerabilities: $sql = "SELECT * FROM inventory_item WHERE product_category_id='$pcid'"; The
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by askmike 10y ago
thanks for the answer, I can only imagine what that feels like :)
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by askmike 10y ago
When did you realize kickstarter was getting huge?
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by askmike 10y ago
Location: Galway, Ireland Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: JavaScript (full stack), NodeJS, HTML5, vue, react, dataviz (d3), bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, (cloud) devops. Résumé/CV: https://mikevanrossum.nl&#x2
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by askmike 10y ago
> I'm still getting email :) While obviously this is not about preventing you from "getting email", you might not have received everything. You should consider the service compromised.
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by askmike 10y ago
What about this from the US Overseas Security Advisory Council (HN is US focussed, why don't we use US based/english sources?): https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=174... > Police resp
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by askmike 10y ago
I've lived in the Netherlands for over 20 years in 5 different cities (in a small town like Geldermalsen as well as Amsterdam) and I have never experienced anything like that.. In all the places I've lived I (and everyone around m
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by askmike 10y ago
I guess you can increment the password length by one each time. Though you have to keep track of the last used length.

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