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by folz 11y ago
Unfortunately they did. It's buried in the Sanctioning Agreement, but by accepting MLH sanctioning (which is done via a legally binding contract) you allow MLH authority over who attends the event. They don't advertise this fact v
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by folz 11y ago
That could be interesting, but as a collegiate organizer I'm worried that a lot of students wouldn't have the means to participate. $100 is roughly double what's in my bank account right now :)
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by folz 11y ago
Author here. This was written for Hackathon Hackers, a group of people who go to collegiate hackathons, to (1) critique what I perceive to be our community's focus on measuring success by $$$ and size instead of individual impact, and
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by folz 11y ago
I flagged this because clicking on the link appears to immediately log you out with no other confirmation.
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Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3(docs.aws.amazon.com)
189 points by folz 11y ago|75 comments
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The 500-mile email (2002)(web.mit.edu)
915 points by folz 12y ago|139 comments
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by folz 12y ago
emirozer (the author), you're marked as [dead], which means that your comments are hidden by default and nobody can reply to you. Try emailing hn@ycombinator.com and see if a moderator can sort that out.
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by folz 12y ago
http://strawpoll.me/ - create simple straw polls that anyone can answer at a unique link. Every game streamer I watch uses it daily. Dead simple to use and a memorable name.
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by folz 12y ago
People I know at Apple are hourly.
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by folz 12y ago
Saved you a click (from the top comment the last time this was posted): The three points from the article: > [1] Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting. > [2] High School students are sitting passively and listening during ap
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by folz 12y ago
Maybe (although I think the class names I used are going to be constant), but it should be easy to update the CSS if that happens.
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by folz 12y ago
Oh yeah, it's really bad code. The idea was only going to be topical for a few hours after Facebook launched sticker comments, so I went for working MVP over code purity. The grunt file in particular was automatically created by the ye
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by folz 12y ago
True, but that cuts the potential user base from {people using either Chrome or Firefox} to {those people, but they also have to have a niche addon already installed}. Also I wasn't sure if I'd need fancy javascript logic or not t
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by folz 12y ago
Eh - it was my first time making either a Firefox or Chrome addon, so I just used the existing scaffolding for both. `cfx init` and `yo chrome-extension` might have been overkill but it helped me crank out two extensions in no time flat.
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by folz 12y ago
By popular demand, Unsticker Me is open-source at https://github.com/folz/unsticker.me with a link there on the homepage!
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by folz 12y ago
More than happy to open-source it, just give me a minute!
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Unsticker Me – Get rid of Facebook stickers in comments(unsticker.me)
70 points by folz 12y ago|33 comments
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by folz 12y ago
I work at Pinterest on Growth, so I use our AB framework every day. Most of our experiments have nothing to do with each other – two of our current experiments are "add a button promoting group boards, compare to control" and &quo
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Scalable A/B Experiments at Pinterest(engineering.pinterest.com)
59 points by folz 12y ago|15 comments
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by folz 12y ago
Comment from Paul Irish, who is marked [dead]: Protip with this feature: It can resolve where you originally bound your event listeners, regardless of if you used jQuery or whatever. So, either set up a breakpoint or establish an Event List
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by folz 13y ago
I'm pretty blown away at how easy the build-a-twitter demo was. Awesome work!
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by folz 14y ago
Your private API key, not your private SSH key.
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by folz 14y ago
Hi, I'm the first person quoted on the testimonials page. I've gotten a few emails related Bridge and my job, and I'd like to clarify: The email that quote came from was personal, and not at all related to my employment at Facebook (specifi
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by folz 15y ago
The author does a lot of fence-sitting for very little conclusion. For instance: Your focus should be on responsibly tracking your cashflow versus [A]ll I really only care about is one thing: my bank balance Responsibly t
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by folz 15y ago
Fair point. I edited the original post to be less accusatory. It was just disappointing to end up visiting a web developer's personal site when the title seemed to promise cool PSD hackery.
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by folz 15y ago
The title is unclear. It makes it sound like you can upload a .psd file and get HTML/CSS back, which would be really cool. Instead, it's just someone trying to advertise his web design services.
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by folz 15y ago
That's still a legal gray area. The short answer is maybe, but the EFF will probably take your case if you get in legal trouble. > Can EFF promise that I won't get in trouble for running a Tor relay? > No. All new technologies creat
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Tor project needs volunteers to help Iranian users access the internet(lists.torproject.org)
298 points by folz 15y ago|48 comments
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As Iran Cracks Down Online, Tor Tests Undetectable Encrypted Connections(forbes.com)
10 points by folz 15y ago|0 comments
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Circumventing the No-Fly list in thirty seconds(blog.rodneyfolz.com)
289 points by folz 15y ago|154 comments

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