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How I Plan to Connect 1M Women in Technology(cosmopolitan.com)
2 points by jboggan 12y ago|0 comments
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by jboggan 12y ago
This is a welcome article to read this week. I'm in the process of winding down my abortive startup and fielding a lot of questions from confused friends who think I'm just months away from giving them a ride on my yacht. The re
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by jboggan 12y ago
Though not a technology that everyone uses everyday, the pace of progress in something like engine design (and in particular, motorcycles) is undeniable and at this point nigh-frightening. A machine that would have beaten $1M+ factory prot
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by jboggan 12y ago
Capitalism is not synonymous with competition, in fact Thiel has made a point of expressing his monopolistic philosophy [0]. 0 - http://online.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-fo...
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by jboggan 12y ago
I've been taken aback in the Bitcoin world just how many programmers do not understand double-entry accounting and don't implement anything near it in their systems when they do any transaction that is not recorded on the blockcha
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by jboggan 12y ago
Well, we do a lot of work outside of what our commits show, but that sort of thing would be useful to at least form an estimate. But if you are in the position of the employee claiming that you worked say 50 hours a week for two years, it
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by jboggan 12y ago
California law makes it a lot harder to exempt programmers via this route - roughly speaking if you're a salaried programmer in CA making less than $85k a year you are actually NOT exempt from overtime. I know of a lot of startups tha
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by jboggan 12y ago
What about their assertion in May that they are processing over $1M in payments a day?
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by jboggan 12y ago
I imagine the recoil would have been ungovernable in the original blowback configuration and the reciprocating mass would have been relatively huge.
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by jboggan 12y ago
The really long tutorials are for options contracts which we are not offering to general users until there's some more regulatory clarity in the US. I am trying to adapt them to the forwards right now. If you unclick "Zero Cost&q
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by jboggan 12y ago
The SEC agrees that they are not stock or securities! [1] Bitcoin payment processing (or ATMs, or foreign remittances) is going to be a big business but many of the current operators are charging only 1-3% as a transaction fee. It's n
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by jboggan 12y ago
Our previous versions were solicited to friends and family, people who were going to sign up anyway and who knew roughly that we were trying to build a platform for Bitcoin derivatives. I suppose I've been way too focused on getting t
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by jboggan 12y ago
The contracts are 60-minute forwards; you are agreeing to buy/sell Bitcoin at the current price (determined by the CoinDesk BPI) but 60 minutes from now. At that time the Bitcoin is transferred from the seller to the buyer, and the st
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Show HN: Bitfuture – Lock in the Bitcoin exchange rate(bitfuture.com)
16 points by jboggan 12y ago|12 comments
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by jboggan 12y ago
This trickles down to the grad students and their relationship with their advisors. The deal we were given was: "publish three papers and you get your PhD". This creates some really perverse incentives on both sides.
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by jboggan 12y ago
https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/route-53 This works pretty well and sets up quickly; it uses AWS Route 53 to provide 301 redirects automatically.
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by jboggan 12y ago
I introduced this to my friends and it proved very popular at first and then . . . very controversial. If you've played with 9-10 players several times you know how insanely difficult it is for the Resistance to actually win. But one
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by jboggan 12y ago
When I was at my last gig we had a very active board game community and Diplomacy was eventually brought out. We played twice while I was there and it sowed an unbelievable amount of enmity and discord. It was incredibly fun. The first ti
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by jboggan 12y ago
On the flip side of it, if you actually live in Santa Monica everything is extremely walkable. I quit my previous company in March to start my own and have only used 8 gallons of gas since then.
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by jboggan 12y ago
Was that the Silicon Beach mixer at Areal? My girlfriend (in entertainment law) somehow ended up there and I didn't (because I was probably at home coding). I haven't seen this announced anywhere, but there's some building p
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Fashiontech Design(makezine.com)
1 points by jboggan 12y ago|0 comments
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by jboggan 12y ago
This may sound silly but seeing this makes me feel more empathetic and connected to people outside of my culture. These people are extremely separated from me by distance and language but seeing these simple little emotions play out across
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Computer or Fridge?(computerorfridge.com)
3 points by jboggan 12y ago|0 comments
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by jboggan 12y ago
Having previously worked in the ATM industry I can say that this is a very serious problem. Physical security is a big deal with ATMs and I haven't seen a single Bitcoin ATM yet that is physically secure. They all utilize flimsy enclo
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by jboggan 12y ago
After Dark was great (I remember oogling it in Babbage's) but firing up my Dad's high-powered 486 and watching my Star Wars screensaver really made me feel high-tech. Especially when the Jawas started walking onscreen and stealin
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by jboggan 13y ago
Coincidentally also on the front page right now - realtime hex editing with NES hardware: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7700990
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NES Dual Port RAM Interface(batslyadams.com)
249 points by jboggan 13y ago|23 comments
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by jboggan 13y ago
I had never heard this particular Kool Keith rap before but as soon as I read the lyrics I could hear his very distinctive delivery pattern. I listened to the track on YouTube and was not surprised it was just as I have imagined. How dist
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by jboggan 13y ago
Exactly. Building a blimp for something analogous to Earth atmospheric conditions wouldn't be terribly challenging from an engineering perspective. Getting the fuel into Venus orbit in a packaged form would be highly desirable though
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by jboggan 13y ago
Not really. If you want to terraform Venus you should bioengineer a flying equivalent of kelp with buoyant gas bladders and let that do the work.

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