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by jere 13y ago
Not mentioned in this post is that during that hack where hashed passwords were released, Mt. Gox was using md5. What jokers.
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by jere 13y ago
For people who don't even know what 2-factor authentication is, I'm sure it does. >Calls to action, you know, the little text on your button of “sign up” or “start doing whatever now,” prominent graphical elements and important
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by jere 13y ago
I was 6th place. I'll have to do a write up soon...
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"Steal Real Money" contest results(thecastledoctrine.net)
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Broncos' Nate Irving Eschews Partying for 'Pokemon'(online.wsj.com)
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by jere 13y ago
I love that talk. I've had some friends complain that he takes too long to get to the point, but I would argue the comparison to TV is pretty important. I wouldn't skip it.
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by jere 13y ago
Well, yea. This is exactly what you do in a few levels of microcorruption. You can always say "dont do X and you'll be fine." But that's kind of like saying "don't point a gun at someone" and the gun will
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by jere 13y ago
If you don't write C very often (I don't) and you want to see these things in action: https://microcorruption.com I had no clue printf was problematic.
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by jere 13y ago
The worst part is one of the main definitions of saga is "long story of heroic achievement, esp. a medieval prose narrative in Old Norse or Old Icelandic." Banner Saga is pretty much the perfect fit.
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by jere 13y ago
I think Penny Arcade sums up best how ridiculous this whole issue is: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2014/01/24
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by jere 13y ago
>Explore and share stories from friends and the world around you. Stories...? Or memes and ads?
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by jere 13y ago
I had a recruiter send me an email exactly 5 months ago today claiming "I've placed ten folks with AOL in the past year, and Patch is the most profitable and exciting division especially for the engineers." First time I'
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by jere 13y ago
Yea, how Twitter works is it eats up 24 characters on a URL. No thanks. I figured the headlines were interesting enough on their own 99% of the time.
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by jere 13y ago
Nope. If it was curated it wouldn't be much of a bot. That's how most bots are, the owners just retweet the really good ones. One idea would be to focus on certain keywords, but you'd miss a lot of interesting stuff. I don&#x
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by jere 13y ago
They're from the New York Times. The focus appears to be in order NY, America, Whoever America Is Currently Fighting, Europe, and the rest of the world. Plenty of amusing missed predictions (e.g. VESUVIUS MORE ACTIVE.: Mr Burlingham Sa
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by jere 13y ago
Well, you can find the articles by googling the headlines. These are all from the New York Times and you should find the first result is a link to a pdf article there.
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by jere 13y ago
I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14
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by jere 13y ago
1.3 million followers, eh? Aaannd my headlines-from-1914 bot has 11 followers. tl;dr I suppose.
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by jere 13y ago
The parent is obviously a "social scientist whose specialty is to attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or
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by jere 13y ago
>This is not a problem that can be solved by computers. Ultimately, there is only one way to be sure what a particular bit of DNA does – you have to alter it in real, living cells to see what happens. Ah, the old "comment out this l
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by jere 13y ago
Looks like I may win $100 if I don't screw up in the next 2 hours.
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by jere 13y ago
If Krugman can use that kind of language in an article, I can use this kind: Old
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by jere 13y ago
>For his part, Hurwitz himself resigned from a job at one point. He turned down a counteroffer from his boss. Six months later, he quit his new job. He got his old job back, in part because of his decision to turn down the counteroffer.
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by jere 13y ago
It's called neoteny. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny So we've already been doing this for thousands of years. >Some common neotenous physical traits in domesticated animals (mainly dogs, pigs, ferrets
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by jere 13y ago
Yea, I was going to post that. The extra settings are great and a demo like this really needs to start with an example photo. Direct link: http://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitch/ If you like this sort of thing, check ou
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by jere 13y ago
Yup. I'm reading Learn Python The Hard Way and it's the same. I'm actually glad it's set up that way. I assume the paid version is more streamlined. I can't get too upset that I have to hit an extra button to acce
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by jere 13y ago
Yup. The whole point is a build up to a "day of protest", but no mention what this is. I assume all the avatar and banner changing is leading to February 11, the day in which we change our avatars and banners.
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by jere 13y ago
>The difference is that you don't need to know what the person's email address is. And that prevents what exactly... people sending you email ? I don't get it.
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by jere 13y ago
>The gun is nothing special. Its controls are unsophisticated; it is not even particularly accurate. But this simplicity is a reason for its success. Compared with other assault rifles, the AK-47 has generous clearance between its moving
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by jere 13y ago
>Of course most people who code, if they make any money at all, make a modest living. The median software developer in the US makes $85,000/year. I guess you could call this modest, but I wouldn't. It's 50% more than media

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