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by bprater 18y ago
Why even have windows? (Especially at 5 inches thick.) A video camera and some monitors might do the trick.
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by bprater 18y ago
Hey, what about Adobe AIR?! You get two toolkits for free -- standard HTML and you also get Flash/Flex. (BTW, if you want to hack apps that look like true client-side app in HTML, check out the ExtJS kit. Amazing stuff. Well thought-out JS.
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by bprater 18y ago
I do this pretty often when listening to books on tape, I thin it's a natural to do this when listening to long-form video.
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by bprater 18y ago
I've still yet to understand why people care so much about validation. We can barely get browsers to render things the same way, but we flip out because some folks don't close their tags. I've never figured it out.
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by bprater 18y ago
This does bring up a good tech question -- how do you prevent people from doing a rapid password attack? Anyone have an article or some ideas on how this could be done? Is limiting attempts the simplest way? Even if you do limits, aren't th
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by bprater 18y ago
Again, it brings up the case of why passwords are bad at this level. Maybe staffers should have used a secondary password to get administrative rights. Or maybe they should have been using an entirely different account.
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by bprater 18y ago
Sure was a heck of a guess to end up with a staffer.
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by bprater 18y ago
I think the large bounties are going to be very tempting to affiliates. Getting a check for $1,000 out of the blue will make anybody's day. Great model. In fact, surprised someone hasn't tried this yet. This may work especially well for tec
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by bprater 18y ago
Are our UK friends going digital next year too?
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by bprater 18y ago
Interesting model! Would like more details on the site, though.
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by bprater 18y ago
Just out of curiosity, why does this get modded so high? A tech company takes investor money, great! But is it truly hackerous?
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by bprater 18y ago
Just because you are in your mid-30s and have a family doesn't mean you can't be thrifty. That's a lifestyle choice. Nobody has forced anyone to buy a $750,000 house in the valley and drive 3 SUVs. If your family understood your dreams and
553.
by bprater 18y ago
What I can't fathom is whether this person realized that there were any legal ramifications to doing a data wipe? Did he think they'd just ignore the fact that he just killed their business?
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, why not just offer one free private project at GitHub? No real programmer is going to have just one project. If this were the case, I'm not so cheap as to create multiple accounts for multiple projects to bypass having to pay, so I'
555.
by bprater 18y ago
Wow, the guy doesn't have horns! He's actually really entertaining to listen to. I like his real-world examples of problems. Steak will never be the same.
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by bprater 18y ago
AuthSMTP was mentioned at Y!Hack a few weeks ago and I'm using it now in a webapp with great success.
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by bprater 18y ago
I don't think they've done anything bad. But, as the article mentions, EngineYard hasn't let go of the after-burner trigger since it's launched. If nothing else, it's a great way to see how an underdog can quickly push ahead of a entrenched
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by bprater 18y ago
One of the commentors at Kotte's mentions that you could sell boiled water as "de-sprited water", good for all menner of medical procedures. Unfortunately, another commentor recognized that firewood would be difficult to access, and cow poo
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed, a bit too much chest-pounding for a technology nobody has vetted or even has a demo too. When you "download" a video to your "virtual desktop", it still has to move bits from the video's source along ole' Internet 1.
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by bprater 18y ago
Agreed. It should be obvious from Twitter by now that folks like building services. It would take a few days of engineering to create "temporary" logins these services could use.
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by bprater 18y ago
For those of us that idle on IRC from time-to-time, this is one of those situations that puts a silly smile on our face and makes our day.
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by bprater 18y ago
One of those completely random discoveries that almost never happened in this instance of the universe. Sorta like vulcanized rubber. Or waffle cones.
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by bprater 18y ago
If you've never experienced the Milky Way on a truly dark (ie: new moon) night, I highly recommend taking a camping trip. It's amazing, and the longer you lie there and wait, the more of it you'll see. It will put into perspective just how
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by bprater 18y ago
Go for it. And work like you have 3-4 months of savings. Getting comfortable is a very bad thing.
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by bprater 18y ago
One word: "Freaking Awesome!"
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by bprater 18y ago
Don't have the patience?! That's the fun part -- slowly working through the problems! Fighting the gods until you are victorious! You should give it a whirl again, you might be surprised.
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by bprater 18y ago
I think Iceland is a great study of what may occur here. For those of us that are young and in the US or Europe, you and I have never endured a great failing of the system. Our brains can't contemplate "it" happening. But the reality is --
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by bprater 18y ago
One day, energy is going to be nearly free. Then none of this will matter.
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by bprater 18y ago
The only time I've seen Lua used is programming Warcraft mods. What else is Lua used for today?
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by bprater 18y ago
In 1849, some guy discovered gold in California... When the word "lottery" is mentioned in the article, I thought it was a pretty accurate description of what is happening. There are 10,000+ apps in AppStore and only 10 that can occupy the

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