joshmn

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   by joshmn 10y ago

   Just an incredibly kind PSA to everyone while we're on the subject of processing payments: Plaid's account verification does not in any significant or meaningful way prevent fraudulent transactions. Neither does Stripe. In fact, S
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   I'm intrigued. Email address in profile.
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   This was such a joy to read. Also, slightly more factual: http://kotaku.com/5796019/when-halo-was-on-the-mac-and-was-a... I actually devoted way too much time playing (what was dubbed) "Halo PC" and spent a l
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   Curiosity is one hell of a disease. Source: As a child, I wondered a lot about electricity. Growing up in Minnesota, during winter I would drag my feet on the carpet to build up a static charge so I could zap my mom. This wasn't enough
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   And an autohotkey script. Can't forget the autohotkey script.
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   Publicly-funded research too, please...
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   I spent a weekend building a certificate dashboard right into Calendar.app. The front-end may not be React and the back-end definitely isn't written in Go, but it works really well. I didn't even need to install Redis or another
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   In 2016 I've found that this strategy — "hey, I found a really bad security thing, and a pattern of really bad security things" or "hey, I did something 100x better than what you're doing and people know it, here&#x
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   by joshmn 10y ago

   OVH is likely to launch a dedicated instance for Postgres in the near future. It's currently in the beta stage of RunAbove. https://www.runabove.com/PaaSDBPGSQL.xml No affiliation, just a happy customer of OVH's h
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    Yet, in the US, if you're wearing a mask, the majority will think you're a terrorist. What a world we live in.
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    Not too long ago Ticketmaster had a minimum length of _4_.
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    I bet the failure rates on these things are incredibly high!
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    > For devs, it is just too much noise to have any reasonable conversation: maybe because writing emails ensures that writer/sender thinks more about what to write in email. Or because we try to check email only twice a day (so that
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    > I've gone further, faster, than most of them. I'd like to believe there's a trend where CS grads think that because they got their degree, they're done learning. I have a handful of friends — with their CS degree —
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    It also doesn't look good when you fail this hard without a credited scientist on your board. And the one who was took his life, and reportedly told his wife "nothing's working."
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    But wait, this one allows you to make your own emojis that you can only use within its app!
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    You know what's fast? Learning Ruby. You know what's also fast? Rails development! I've tried Golang and played around with Node. They're fast, sure. The respective frameworks just don't compare. Ruby (and Rails) sc
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    And osx... `gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3` `\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --ruby=2.2.2` ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It literally doesn't get
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    Just suits, no highly-qualified scientists. I'm sensing this is a precursor to some litigation or investigation.
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    I don't follow the PHP crowd but this is... I don't know. An ego play for this individual? I'm trying to figure out what he has to gain other than a pat on the back.
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    by joshmn 10y ago

    "Save more [because we need another Chrome panda and we value it more than we value your job.]" Seriously that's one dev's salary.
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    Me too. "CEO of GitLab checking in" ... @syste?
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    Sort by "hottest"! Just read the reviews and pay attention to ratings. Read a lot of reviews them. Triple-check sizing. If you don't know, then send a message to the shop and ask. They're really friendly and great. It mi
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    I've gotten about half my wardrobe from AliExpress, and I look like a million bucks. The stigma is for the uneducated. Cheap knockoffs will be cheap. But if you know how to spend and where to spend it in China — regardless of industry
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    Yeah, so, what were investors thinking? Like, I see it like this: She presents Theranos as LeBron James. If I want to win a championship as a player, I'd have a higher probability of getting one if LeBron is on my team. So I join him.[
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    Only "official" per MW, but, > a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences. Would she be able to test out of all her BA requirements from Stanford with what she's lea
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    She really likes chemicals!
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    The fact a board of politicians shows "complete confidence" of EH as a founder, scientist and administrator means one thing. And that one thing isn't good, unless you're on that board. I feel bad for anyone that got rope
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    > So she was 19 years old when she founded the company? What was the product back then? What the product is now. I don't know her personally, but from what I've gathered she's always had a very well-to-do network via her F
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    by joshmn 11y ago

    I'm a rubyist. I really think that we (rubyists) go for style points way too much. Side-effect of metaprogramming, and a younger-ish audience? Maybe.