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by davis_m 11y ago
I'm not entirely clear on the difference between the regular Echo and the Echo Dot. It appears you have to have an original Echo in order to purchase a Dot. Is this simply an extension that proxies all of the requests back to the ori
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by davis_m 11y ago
Everyone already sees a different front page, depending on which subreddits they are subscribed to. People generally mean making it to the front page of the default list of subreddits or the front page of /r/all.
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by davis_m 11y ago
They certainly seem to love their Social Security.
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by davis_m 11y ago
Reading it back, my comment was harsher than I intended, especially with the reference to Amazon, but most of my aversion to working at a place like Google is just the shear size as well as where most of the offices are located. I grew up i
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by davis_m 11y ago
"NTP isn't accurate enough so we use a hardware clock assist that uses GPS and atomic clocks" - Google I think it is crazy that something as simple as keeping time can have such a complicated solution at that sort of scale. E
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by davis_m 11y ago
I don't think it is an issue of shipping, but an issue of any one person having a need for most of the companies that come through YC.
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by davis_m 11y ago
> Even in less temperate locales I wonder if we really need to define our environment to within single degree Fahrenheit. I am not so controlling, but I do want to take back the rooftops from those horrible HVAC units. I understand that
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by davis_m 11y ago
It isn't just the people on minimum wage that would get a raise. Anyone making between the current minimum wage and the new minimum wage would receive a pay bump. I don't have the numbers, but I would guess that there are more pe
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by davis_m 11y ago
I'm not seeing prices anywhere. Are the prices available yet?
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by davis_m 11y ago
One of the biggest differences for us was the option for a self hosted solution with HipChat. Both companies are fairly open about accessing user communications without any sort of permission or audit trail. Being able to self host it ens
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by davis_m 11y ago
If the authentication database is being breached, presumably the 2FA shared secret is going to be in the same database. Constructing the 2FA code would be trivial. After all, the server needs a way to check that a given 2FA code is correc
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by davis_m 11y ago
Not necessarily. Many of the higher end and business models come without spyware of any kind, not just this particular piece of software.
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by davis_m 11y ago
Why would you not name it Goul?
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by davis_m 12y ago
A proper KDF is more important if you are trying to break a specific user's password. It will simply take too long to try any reasonable number of attempts. However, in the event that you have a large database leak individual salts b
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by davis_m 12y ago
AQ vs KK is no different than A10 or AJ vs KK. Even middling Aces like A7 or A8 aren't much worse off because of the lost straight possibilities due to two K's being taken. I haven't looked at the numbers but I would bet tha
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by davis_m 12y ago
72 offsuit is the worst hand against a table of opponents because it is the lowest hand that has no straight or flush opportunities (using both hole cards) 23 offsuit is the worst hand against a single opponent because the likelihood of nee
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by davis_m 12y ago
Fraudulent tax refunds are a huge issues that the IRS has not kept up with. The IRS itself estimates it paid $5.2 billion to identity theives[1]. Protecting taxpayers without creating too much of a hurdle to tax paying is a very hard probl
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by davis_m 12y ago
The criticisms of the Uber driver in the article seems to reflect that of the traditional taxi driver when Uber came onto the scene.
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by davis_m 12y ago
Is it just me, or do a number of these comments seem... manufactured? Almost all of the positive comments come from accounts with < 10 karma. Just from reading the comments, I was expecting a nice looking app. However, when I actually
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by davis_m 12y ago
You really think Reuters should ignore the fact that their comment sections are essentially worthless just to create busy work for maybe one person?
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by davis_m 12y ago
"worth"
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by davis_m 12y ago
Is there any benefit to using the Datastore, as opposed to CloudSQL?
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by davis_m 12y ago
Will they allow a PO box?
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by davis_m 12y ago
Would it be enough to simply only allow connections from Cloudflare IP addresses?
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by davis_m 12y ago
By building something bigger, are you referring to larger BGP routing tables?
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by davis_m 12y ago
I have been unsuccessful in finding a demo of the new default theme. Is that available anywhere?
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by davis_m 12y ago
Direct link to the filing if you are interested: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001288776140...
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by davis_m 12y ago
Spotlight seems an awful lot like Alfred now. http://www.alfredapp.com/
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by davis_m 12y ago
My computer seems to be unable to contact the airgif servers. :(
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by davis_m 12y ago
This would effectively break email verification, which would be pretty bad.

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