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Trojans are now using their victim's GPU to mine bitcoins(news.softpedia.com)
1 points by dstein 15y ago|0 comments
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by dstein 15y ago
Who cares what validators say. You should use UTF. We're long past the point where web browsers don't support it.
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by dstein 15y ago
It's surreal when I think back to between 2001 and 2005 I honestly thought the iPaq running Windows Mobile was going to be the future of computing. Microsoft and HP looked poised to dominate forever. ... and then nothing happened. Both HP
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by dstein 15y ago
I meant I see Microsoft's Windows Phone platform ending up in the same place the WebOS platform is in. Certainly Microsoft may stay in business selling refreshed versions of Office and Exchange. But I don't see how that will translate int
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by dstein 15y ago
So between Apple's ritzy kickass mobile PCs and the boatloads of sub-$100 chinese Androids that will flood the market soon, is there any room for a third platform? I really don't see anything stopping RIM and Microsoft from ending up at th
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by dstein 15y ago
I'm kind of sadistically hoping Anonymous comes through on their promise and starts some kind of Facebook apocalypse like that.
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by dstein 15y ago
Who needs innovation anymore when you can just copy your competition feature-for-feature, subsidize with ad revenue, give it away for free, and acquire patent protection?
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by dstein 15y ago
Once Apple's vertical model started working, everyone was jealous.
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by dstein 15y ago
The Microsoft Kinect is by far the most genuinely futuristic piece of technology I've used this year. It's something that didn't even exist last year at this time, and has clearly pushed technology, in general, into entirely new territory.
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Honda unveils powered unicycle concept "Personal Mobility Prototype"(youtube.com)
2 points by dstein 15y ago|0 comments
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by dstein 15y ago
Also, Apple stands to gain even more dominance at the expense of carriers should next-gen wifi (802.22) ever take hold and make GSM data plans obsolete.
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by dstein 15y ago
I don't get why the developing world needs to be the first market. They could sell to the camping and boating market first, make millions, and expand worldwide later.
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by dstein 15y ago
I bought myself a whiteboard. And on it I write down all the tasks (large and small) and milestones to completing my project. The board obviously goes through revisions as the project grows and morphs. But it does something really import
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by dstein 15y ago
They have another version that is silent, dreamplug.
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by dstein 15y ago
You can use one of these as a router: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.asp... It has 2 ethernet jacks, wifi, and draws 5W.
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by dstein 15y ago
Does siege support benchmarking gzipped HTTP responses? This is something ab doesn't seem to do and it's starting to annoy me.
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by dstein 15y ago
When any company says they want to hire someone who thinks they'rea rock star it actually gauarantees they won't be able to hire the real thing.
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by dstein 15y ago
A Future Shop representative told me only 5 HP WebOS tablets were sold in all Future Shop stores in Ontario.
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by dstein 15y ago
Indeed. Dropbox has validated the market and there probably is room for competitors because there are a lot of use-cases and power-user specific features that Dropbox doesn't cover and might not even want to.
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by dstein 15y ago
That's a very succinct way of putting it. Google is smelling more like Microsoft every day.
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by dstein 15y ago
If it's publically accessible and not password or rate-limited then it's fair game for hackers to goof around with. Just don't base your startup on a (any) Google API.
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by dstein 15y ago
When a revenue stream has been found.
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by dstein 15y ago
pg covered this nicely: http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html
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by dstein 15y ago
You don't have to work 80-90 hr/week. But if you don't, then you probably aren't an entrepreneur.
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by dstein 15y ago
They should start by trying to design a Starwisp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwisp
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by dstein 15y ago
Yeah and just as easily you can put a try/catch around your code and do the same ajax logging.
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by dstein 15y ago
You can do this pretty easily without a third-party by just using window.onerror, and then doing an ajax request to log it.
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by dstein 15y ago
NoSQL obeys the second law of thermodynamics. Expect MORE fragmentation in the future, not less.
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by dstein 15y ago
I guess imitating famous JavaScript programmers is a new pastime of HN users.
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by dstein 15y ago
I thought it was silly how everyone was going apeshit the last time this happened. Even here on HN people were falling over themselves proclaiming the end of the cloud. But you know what, I kind of like seeing outages like this because it

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