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by fractalcat 14y ago
This is one of the least-usable sites I've ever seen.
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by fractalcat 14y ago
Heroin also improves depression within minutes. Ketamine is even more dangerous, and may cause severe cognitive difficulties with long-term use like other NMDA antagonists like ethanol and the benzodiazapenes (which, it should be noted, act
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Seems like the only evidence they have is application permissions and an unspecified 'admission' from Facebook (who?), while according to zdnet, Facebook denies ever accessing user text messages: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-yout
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Confessions From a Teenage Founder(josephglanville.posterous.com)
1 points by fractalcat 15y ago|0 comments
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Point taken - I can't see myself using such a service personally, but my startup's not at a stage where my twenty minutes is worth that much. :) You're right about the parties involved - I also forgot to mention our location/jurisdiction. T
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by fractalcat 15y ago
I have done so, am doing so and will do so again. At the end of the day, I'm a coder. If I can avoid dealing with investors and still make a good product, I will. It's hard, but at the end of the day that feeling of 'we built this from not
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by fractalcat 15y ago
I hope you're not thinking of charging for privacy policies though. I have an deep aversion to paying for something I can write in twenty minutes.
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Yes. Just yes. I recently wrote a privacy policy for my new startup; I think it complies with all but two of those guidelines (lightbox and standardised). Any feedback would be appreciated: https://theescortcompanion.com/privacy/
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by fractalcat 15y ago
I use dnsimple ( http://dnsimple.com ). It's not one of the cheaper ones (US$3/month for DNS hosting up to ten domains, US$14/registration), but it has a nice UI, JSON REST API and support that doesn't suck.
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by fractalcat 15y ago
No. Definitely not. However, I would pay money for a no-DRM HD video file released under some kind of CCesque license that gave me the legal freedom to, say, watch it with a friend. (I know this will never happen).
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by fractalcat 15y ago
So it is. Must remember not to read news at 0500. -_-
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by fractalcat 15y ago
The NYT only found out about this now? O.o Steve Pavlina ( http://www.stevepavlina.com/ ) has some good stuff on training willpower (willpower is like D-Day, a huge violent bloody assault which was used to establish fortifications on the gr
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Ah, gotcha. Thanks.
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Ask HN: how does HN's pagination work?
3 points by fractalcat 15y ago|2 comments
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by fractalcat 15y ago
On hacking while stoned: http://hack.org/mc/texts/inspiration.txt Also, I'm not going to name names, but I know several non-famous (but very accomplished) hackers who swear by it.
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Security isn't just about lack of buffer overflows. It's in the way users interact with the system, and the way they're encouraged to interact. In most Linux distributions, the user is encouraged (by the design of the system) to, in almost
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by fractalcat 15y ago
To everyone who's saying his university entry at sixteen is implausible: actually, it's fairly common. I started uni at sixteen (B of Technology, RMIT). So did my best friend (BCS, UTS). My partner started at fourteen (BCS, U of Canterbury)
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Title is misleading. I routinely 'dodge' this - all it takes is disabling caching. If you understand how caching works, it's trivial to conclude that it's possible to use etags for tracking. It's the same with the CSS-based browser history
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by fractalcat 15y ago
I make just over 50% of that (about US35k, full-stack web developer with one year of professional experience and no degree).
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by fractalcat 15y ago
(cross-posted from the blog's comments - didn't realise they're hidden by default) Just a few comments (from a developer/entrepreneur's perspective): > I hate asking around for help. We all do. Asking is hard. But if you're aiming to be
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by fractalcat 15y ago
I think there's a potential precedent in the reversing of the original PC BIOS - it was deemed that what was effectively a reimplementation of a closed protocol was permissible. And, IIRC, there are still mixed results regarding the extent
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Does XY Combinator take 6% equity in the relationship? Does this include part-ownership of any potential offspring?
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by fractalcat 15y ago
Question: why do you use the phrase 'exclusive private beta'? Are you going to be evaluating and rejecting the majority of prospectve testers? If not, 'exclusive' is just meaningless marketspeak.
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Mental Illness and Startups(blog.tesser.org)
166 points by fractalcat 15y ago|54 comments
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by fractalcat 15y ago
I found myself in a startup last year with web applications to write and no idea how to write them; a colleague pointed me to GCU. I didn't find it very useful at the time, but in retrospect this was simply because I don't have the attentio
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Merge sort vs quicksort rap battle(youtube.com)
2 points by fractalcat 15y ago|0 comments
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This is how real programmers code(dl.dropbox.com)
7 points by fractalcat 15y ago|0 comments