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by bonzoesc 16y ago
> If DHH/37 Signals isn't using it, it probably isn't going to make in to Rails core. I am not saying that this is a bad thing. That jQuery made it into Rails shows that it's not just DHH's app skeleton anymore; it remains to be seen if
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
> I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee. Or not good enough to mess with the contract they have with your employer?
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Bitcoin is resistant to centralized inflation due to currency supply increases because CPU power votes on new currency entering the system. If I make a block that gives me a 100 BTC bounty instead of the current 50 BTC, no other nodes will
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Don't bother trying to get lucky on the 50BTC block bounty; join a pool that splits the winnings. Pools provide well over half the calculation capacity of the Bitcoin system, most are free to join and ones worth joining don't have any real
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
I'd call it as people who already have bitcoins trying to raise the value of the currency. The difference is that while I could use 1 BTC to buy 80¢ of US currency or a hundreds of them to buy drugs or something, I'd find it much more valua
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Those are the first uses because online gamblers and muckraking NGOs are the ones most desperate for an alternative to a government-issued currency. If the average person was unable to function with inflationary currencies, they'd find an a
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
The source of the currency is software written by humans and run on computers built and controlled my humans. The algorithm may be temporarily unflappable (as long as the cryptographic algorithms it depends on remain solid), but the impleme
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
It's possible to run a Bitcoin laundromat; you control addresses A and D, laundromat controls B and C. Send money from A to B, receive from C to D. As long as the laundromat doesn't recycle addresses and moves a lot of cheddar, it'll be dif
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
A Cirrus is quite a bit smaller than a 737; their biggest seats seven, and the smallest 737 built today seats over a hundred.
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
It's appealing to romanticize and anthropomorphize machines, but you really shouldn't. They only exist to suit the whims and needs of people, and any romance or feelings between man and machine are strictly one-way. http://www.youtube.com/
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
The coffeescript compiler is written in coffeescript (and compiled to JS), so in order to serve a .coffee file you'll need to compile it, which requires JS. The commits add a dependency to the coffee-script[1] gem, which requires the execjs
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Is Rails 3.1 going to depend on having both a ruby interpreter and a JS interpreter (presumably node?) capable of running coffeescript installed?
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Seems to work fine in Chrome on my MacBook; shame about the awful-looking serif font though.
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
In Florida, we have FPL On Call[1], a smart meter program that allows the power company to turn off your A/C, heating, water heater, or pool pump. I suspect that if my A/C got cut off in the middle of summer, I'd probably just use the pool
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
The supply is moderated by big cooperative pools that spread out the block generation workload in return for spreading out the rewards. http://deepbit.net/stats.php is a fairly large pool that wins pretty often, and a hobbyist crunching o
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Those are three mega-corporations, and not small businesses though. Most places I've worked with outsource the software, web server administration, and SSL administration all to a single client, and don't necessarily pay for a security team
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Yes, but it's better than the most common scenario now, which is you generally don't have a public key for the security team at all. Besides, if you can't trust your SSL administrators, why do you have them administrating your SSL?
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
You and me both, and I don't even live in the Bay area.
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
The tech (multicast messages) isn't patented, and there's no legal prohibition on creating clients. The only client concern is that clients use OAuth, and can be disabled by Twitter staff as necessary. A disabled client is probably legally
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Ignoring the impossibility of a publicly-held company "hating" things, if Apple "hated" iOS jailbreaking/hacking, there'd be members of the teams that develop the techniques and capabilities in court just like geohot. The iTunes cracking re
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Are you using a private fork of zshkit, or staying pretty close to mattfoster's master branch? I used to pull in mattfoster's stuff, but I got complacent and fell out of it.
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
What's more likely is that either the seat will be empty if the flight was not full, or if it was full, one more person will make it to their destination on time.
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
One of the big reasons for Time Machine is to make it harder for Mac owners to lose data, either through hard drives failing, or user error. Backing up to the same drive only protects against user error. Instead of displaying a checklist of
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Why not just use an algorithm that is less than 2,000 years old, such as AES (usable through the http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-encrypt.php API): > openssl_encrypt('asdf', 'aes-256-cfb', 'a password', false, 'initializa
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
> $dec = ($num * $prime)-floor($num * $prime/$ceil)*$ceil; This looks like a clumsy way to implement modulus multiplication. My php is (thankfully) rusty, but it looks like an affine cipher with a fixed key? If it is, a user can obtain
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Chet and Eric got jobs at Valve, where they helped design a game that has an inanimate crate as one of its most memorable characters.
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Heh, you could allow crowd-funding of karma for Ask HN posts :)
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
Is there any reason to reset the session on a CSRF failure vs. just failing the request? Seems like you could have fun DOSing people from their sessions on other sites with that default behavior.
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How to Build Content That Converts Into Users (b.lesseverything.com)
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by bonzoesc 16y ago
The usual phrasing is "X considered harmful," which is a passive sentence and doesn't actually say who considers it harmful. Originally it was used from a position of authority ; E. W. Dijkstra made about forty years of very important contr

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