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by bnr 13y ago
They did not roll their own crypto, it's using AES with Diffie-Hellman key generation. [0] You can now argue whether that's still "from scratch". (Is building something on top of TCP "from scratch"?) [0] http:
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by bnr 13y ago
http://howtobuybitcoins.info/
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by bnr 13y ago
Note that there's a difference between SSH fingerprints and (self-signed) SSL certificates. Multiple servers can easily share a certificate.
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by bnr 13y ago
> for the sake of argument > This is absurd apologism. I agree that what happens to Mailpile is A Bad Thing, but the reasoning as to why it makes financial (not moral) sense for PayPal to withhold the money is solid. There are other w
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by bnr 13y ago
Well, that user also posted over 60 links in the last year, while never receiving a single upvote or comment. I'm not sure why a flesh-and-blood user would still be posting after that.
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by bnr 13y ago
There are some valid use cases for this. "Read All Contacts" is often required to optionally invite your friends. "List running Apps" for crash-reports.
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by bnr 13y ago
PayPal takes 2,9 to 3,9% plus a base transaction fee[0], so their share of the pie would be at least $928000. [0] https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees
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by bnr 13y ago
The German Pirate Party worked with this concept, calling it "Liquid Democracy"[0] and using the software LiquidFeedback[1]. AFAIK they abandoned it when discussions grew too large. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by bnr 13y ago
Depends on whether you consider redistribution under a different license a part of "whatever you want".
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by bnr 13y ago
It's open source, allright. Free Software is the term you are looking for.
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by bnr 14y ago
How much more can you trust a profile pic and a real-ish name than "someguy443"?
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by bnr 14y ago
It briefly crossed the 200€ mark yesterday. Maybe a lot of people wanted to cash out at that point. As soon as the price was dropping, more people decided it was a good time to sell.
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by bnr 14y ago
Looks like they use a point when the campaign is in EUR and a comma when it is in USD or GBP. With the exception of Ireland, that pretty much matches the map from the wiki article. But I think they should rather honor the user's locale in a
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by bnr 14y ago
A very early version of the SDK is available to the 200 Hacker Special backers, who had to sign an NDA.
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by bnr 14y ago
Please point me to where I can buy non-public data about potential backpack purchasers (or any person for that matter) from Apple/Google/Microsoft. Until then, your statements are nothing more than FUD.
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by bnr 14y ago
I don't know, how long would it take a US factory worker to buy one? How long would it take for a Apple employee in Cupertino?
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by bnr 14y ago
What differences between the Desire and S3 were causing you problems? Screen size/resolution? API versions? I have developed and tested apps that run just fine on both of these devices. No different builds, not even different layouts. You'r
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by bnr 14y ago
What's the use case for storing a time with timezone instead of just storing the UTC value?
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by bnr 14y ago
Keeping their code within their own firewall is a big deal for many companies.
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by bnr 14y ago
You could create a login-token signed with your bitcoin private key. Wallet software would have to implement that, though.
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by bnr 14y ago
> I'd love to have a little more control over this. Perhaps adding: > lang="fr" No, please, don't! Leave the users in control, developers will just screw this up with country=language=locale logic.
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by bnr 14y ago
Cyanogen, the initial author, was hired by Samsung some time ago. But CM is still a volunteer project, the developers don't get monetary compensation for their work, so there's nothing to buy out.
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by bnr 14y ago
Quora?
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by bnr 14y ago
The Language Specification looks pretty extensive[1]. And TypeScript is just the language, so there's no API to document besides what your browser exposes in JS. [1] http://www.typescriptlang.org/Content/TypeScript%20Language%...
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by bnr 14y ago
Maybe they haven't found that one hardware configuration yet.
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by bnr 14y ago
Great to see Shuttleworth taking it easy... > grep --universe might be a better shortcut ;) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bu...
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by bnr 14y ago
Barely anything on reddit is original content, I don't think the users should complain about reposts on other sites. If it keeps certain demographics away, it might even be a good thing for reddit's content/comment quality.
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by bnr 14y ago
> creating closed forks (fine with the gpl IMHO) That's not fine. At the very least, you have to provide the source code for your (entire) product if a customer demands it.
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by bnr 14y ago
Look at the "download MP3" link's URL, the audio captcha comes from google.com/recaptcha. I agree that the button itself should be easier to discover for blind people, like an image link with a title tag.
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by bnr 14y ago
I'm sure all the assets, including the code, were part of the acquisition.

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