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by damon_c 12y ago
That is so beautifully subtle... just casually sitting there like nothing out of the ordinary.
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by damon_c 13y ago
When I was a kid, it was much easier to get illegal drugs than alcohol. I assumed this was because one of them was only available to those over 21.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I found a decent, almost but not quite exact match for your question here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4433216/password-encrypti...
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by damon_c 13y ago
This would be really nice. E ink with LTE and tethering would totally make me happy.
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by damon_c 13y ago
It's hard to believe that even with all of our slavish mantra repetition about not trusting user submitted data... the freaking web server trusts user submitted data. We're all going to have to start reading more source code...
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by damon_c 13y ago
So productive... never posts on Hacker News... Hmmm...
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by damon_c 13y ago
That whole "begging for an invite" thing was, in my world, the reason we couldn't use Wave. When you have a project with 10 people, and 3 of them can't get on Wave... it's game over. Back to email/IM/wha
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by damon_c 13y ago
Just checking... did you read that article? It says the car's "new car smell" caused the driver to suddenly fall asleep and kill a cyclist. Not sure if the car was actually at fault there...
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by damon_c 13y ago
Wow. That's more than 20 floppies!
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by damon_c 13y ago
This must be an incredible benefit to companies like Imgur or Dropbox where a significant portion of their costs must be S3 storage.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I spent 14 years giving 100% at 2 different companies where in both cases, we started with about 5-10 people and I was an important part of building them up to 100 or more people. Over time, I watched the passion and integrity of the founde
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by damon_c 13y ago
I was going to say the same thing. At GDC last week, the general feeling was that Sony's tech was more than competitive and seemingly much closer to an actual consumer product than anything from Oculus. Fear makes people do unexpected
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by damon_c 13y ago
Wordpress doesn't work with Postgres out of the box, so that's a big chunk of the internet right there that is using MySQL.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Thanks for this! I use some of the various json fields that exist already but have been feeling like it is about time to start using the built in Postgres JSON support instead of just TextFields.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Especially compared with the prior situation which was that as a freelancer, if you were lucky you could get individual coverage for around $500+... assuming no pre-existing conditions.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Whether or not Han Solo unknowingly uses the force is an unanswered question.
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by damon_c 13y ago
we don't mention him...
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by damon_c 13y ago
Whenever I get that plaintext password "vibe" on a site, I like to make my password something somewhat degrading go the site; like "thisSiteSux!", but slightly more vulgar. It's not my fault if they see it. Once af
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by damon_c 13y ago
I recently heard that The Beatles paid a 95% income tax. That seems pretty crazy to us today, but maybe back then they would wonder how we could have the < 40% taxes we have now and properly maintain the roads and bridges and various soc
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by damon_c 13y ago
I hope when automated delivery is a reality, those of us who live on high floors of apartment buildings can affix some machine identifiable sticker to the outside of our chosen delivery window. When that happens, I will know I'm living
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by damon_c 13y ago
You must have figured out how they score the different numbers. 96 is like 780 points, 192 gets 3500, 384 gets around 6200 points, 768 gets 22000 or so... Did you find an obvious pattern? I was curious about this but too busy enjoying th
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by damon_c 13y ago
He still had a 4.3 so they haven't gotten too soft!
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by damon_c 13y ago
This also only really works on IE9 and maybe IE8 or better, but honstly IE6 and IE7 users users can seriously go fuck themselves with a dirty brick. I may add a function to detect these two bad browser so people can start forcing them to u
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by damon_c 13y ago
Pretty cool! What if winning the game granted your side a couple of seconds head start? I wonder if there would be little impromptu election committees formed on each side to nominate a representative for that side; "Step aside, I got
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by damon_c 13y ago
I had this problem. Pixelmator and Acorn for Mac are not perfect replacements but after awhile you figure out what they do well and you start to not miss Adobe products. also iDraw... all of them together are trivial in cost compared to any
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by damon_c 13y ago
Neverwinter is the first I've seen since WoW where you log on and there are tons of things going on and lots of people running around. It's free to play.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Although, now that you mention it, "entrepreneur" kind of sounds French.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Maybe it depends on specifics. Mint must have some heuristics that attempt to discern whether or not a transaction is a symmetric internal transfer and they work for some and not for others. It's not an easy problem, given the zillio
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by damon_c 13y ago
Ha, yes... and support for not counting money transferred from savings to checking as income would be nice too.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I don't have an article to cite at this moment but one positive outcome of past cab fare hikes is that total subway ridership increased. Higher ridership spreads the cost and reduces the rate subway fare increases. Overall, keeping ca

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