hoopism

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by hoopism 11y ago
I write crap on my hands. If it's real important I email myself a reminder. It doesn't looks cool at parties and coffee shops... but my laundry gets done and I usually remember my wife's birthday. I wish I could placebo mysel
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by hoopism 11y ago
Customer service is a joke. I posted this on HN about a year ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005200 They turned me from being an advocate for their service to never wanting to use their service again. I travel
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by hoopism 11y ago
"Despite the discrepancies, a fix shouldn't involve major changes. "It could be something very small," said Carder, who's the interim director of West Virginia University's Center for Alternative Fuels.... &qu
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by hoopism 11y ago
Cool... To be clear I didn't mean to imply that would happen. I was more interested in the psychology of it. And I thought the data would be fun to look at. But thanks!
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by hoopism 11y ago
I think we're making too big of an issue of this. The trial has already taken place and the boy was found to not float... so it turns out he must be guilty. God forbid that an officer drops his walkie talkie and discovers that IT TOO
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by hoopism 11y ago
This breaks my heart. This kid should be running tutorials after school to show other kids how to work with electronics, not interrogated by police and bullied by his teachers. This is so disappointing.
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by hoopism 11y ago
I'd like to see stats of first time URLs pre and post greenification. I suspect we may see more green links on front page than prior... just a hunch.
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by hoopism 11y ago
People who didn't already lose a ton of money doing it before... rimshot
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by hoopism 11y ago
Very cool DIY project. Without details of price or advantage over existing tech I don't see it as a fundable/kickstartable effort... but good luck.
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by hoopism 11y ago
Fair enough. Both of those interpretations are a very different message from "Look at the nice thing we did for you"... which was my point.
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by hoopism 11y ago
In the previous thread on the announcement I expressed some concerns ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165919 ). An employee responded: "I see this is turning into a conspiracy theory ) Fortunately, there's
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by hoopism 11y ago
"Fortunately, there's a little thing called competition that prevents raising rates at will without facing the consequences, and JetBrains is no exception: we're no monopoly." Should add this to the press release. Would
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by hoopism 11y ago
You're right. Probably not fair response. But I reject the idea that getting more of something I don't want makes this any more palatable.
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by hoopism 11y ago
I think you are being a little naive about this. I am sure (much like the cable company does with "introductory" rates) that JetBrains was careful to set an initial price point that makes this a competitive offer. The problem (as
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by hoopism 11y ago
This is a very good explanation of why this is bad for consumers.
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by hoopism 11y ago
"I can switch to the $149/yr 'everything included` plan and get a couple tools I don't already have" I bet you think cable TV is a bargain too considering the literally thousands of channels you receive... I'd
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by hoopism 11y ago
I am struggling to see how this benefits the consumer. I read that whole release wondering if they actually believed that this was some sort of reaction to consumer demand or if they just think people are incredibly ignorant. No thanks. Sur
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by hoopism 11y ago
Guess the sessions I looked at just were not quite what I expected to see... perhaps that's the interesting part?
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by hoopism 11y ago
I know what a honeypot is. And I know what a cast is. Can you provide more on what I am actually viewing though? Not clear.
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by hoopism 11y ago
That's fair. Perhaps I am more alarmed by the assertion of the author that they had given 100+ days notice... it came off like they talking about the patch and not the original issue.
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by hoopism 11y ago
Is this timeline correct? April 2015 - Original stagefright exposed July 31st - Author noticed patch was not sufficient but could not test (did not notify google) August 6th - Patch released August 7th - Author notified google that patch wa
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by hoopism 11y ago
I enjoyed this as well... Struggling to find applications off the top of my head but it's a nice implementation. Some use cases on the site would be a nice addition.
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by hoopism 11y ago
This is super awesome. About 5 years ago I built my own SSHable/Camera cat treat dispenser. We'd dump food on my cats head from work and laugh... it wasn't nearly as kind to the cat as this is.
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by hoopism 11y ago
Can we generalize this a bit in light of all the recent car hacks? "Experts Reveal Connected Devices Are Vulnerable to Hacking"
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by hoopism 11y ago
Admittedly I have no idea whether that is true via the app... but if so, then yes... it's a bigger issue.
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by hoopism 11y ago
I am a volt owner and have the app mentioned in the article... It appears that the hacker can gain access to whatever the phone app is capable of... which is not THAT much really. You can absolutely start and stop the car but you need the
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by hoopism 11y ago
I want this one on my office wall http://totallyabsurd.com/dadsaddle.htm
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by hoopism 11y ago
By saying this you are basically saying there was no reasonable alternative method of exposing this. I am unwilling to say that. This argument that somehow the ends justify the means when there was a clearly more safe means has to stop. I
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by hoopism 11y ago
Actually home invasion is an "exploit" of the home security (i.e. locked doors / windows). Just because they do it from behind a screen doesn't make it a less culpable crime. Computers don't insulate you from ethic
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by hoopism 11y ago
You seem to be confused. Because a dangerous threat exists does not give a researcher license to endanger the public to prove it. This is especially the case when a safer alternative to demonstrate this exploit easily exists. Robbers could

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