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   by kbar13 12y ago

   having a host clock that is out of sync can be incredibly troublesome, especially if you have more than one system.
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   licensing
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   competitive CS is dead, it's CS:GO now.
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   this looks exactly the same as https://hacksummit.org/ . is this like part of the same program or from the same people or something?
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   odd that the contributor's "similar stories" are all about the same billionaire with the same headshots.
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   mistakes happen
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   1&1 is the scum of the internet.
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   Like with most things, popularity is not derived from what you expect, yet popularity exists for good reason. Git may or may not be perfect, depending on your point of view. However, it's more than sufficient to do the job, and it does
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   by kbar13 12y ago

   changelog looks pretty awesome and I'm pretty excited. Upgrade process doesn't look too fun though... Gonna have to do a side-by-side migration; no upgrade package provided.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    pretty sure the margins for the hardware is significantly higher than the margin for their OS, so it's much more valuable that Apple makes it as easy as possible for people to buy into their ecosystem.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    I don't want to be the party pooper, but without knowing too many details I can tell you that you're in for a bad time. You're essentially asking for abuse, as spammers will use your service to forward their junk, and whoever
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    cool! Not really a criticism but more of a question as I'm not a designer by any means: Why do you only use a sliver of horizontal screen space in the middle? I only mention this because it looks slightly unusual on my 27" https:
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    it's terribly ironic that a company that facilitates reimbursements doesn't reimburse for travel on behalf of the company :P
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8255807 SMS is not two factor authentication, and should never be part of an authentication system.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    s/Slack/<insert any IM service here>/g Your statement is still true.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    Based on the fact that it will save merchants the credit card processing fee. They'll most likely pocket the difference instead of passing along the savings to the consumer, especially since there's no risk that their competitors
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    how is this a good product? It's essentially making the payment workflow even more complicated for users. NFC or chip+pin is the way to go, as it's more user-friendly.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    I think the product looks like one of those shitty toy computers from shoprite.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    the register is not exactly the most reliable news source as they're sometimes troll-ish. I would wait until a more reliable source before even worrying about it.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    IP addresses are not vulnerable to ShellShock
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    https://forum.linode.com/viewtopic.php?p=64914#p64914
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    One of the biggest issues with Docker is security more than anything else. You can't really rely on container separation in a shared environment if someone somehow plans on selling Docker containers.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    that's some straw man you got there. Just because bash is vulnerable in this case doesn't mean that networkd/network-manager will never be vulnerable.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    https://i.imgur.com/VnBqkAU.png that should probably get fixed also, where is this data coming from? In addition, I'm sure better contrasting colors can be picked.
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    I asked Mikey Dickerson this question during his Q&A session with Tim O'Reilly at Velocity NYC. Paraphrased from memory: 18F can be contacted via their email form on at the bottom of their website[0]. The US Digital Service team ha
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    Ask HN: US Digital Services

    6 points by kbar13 12y ago|1 comments
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    that feel when ~5:15 and the username/password to an account with "deep access to the network" is horizon/h0r1z0n
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    google fonts alternative = https://github.com/alfredxing/brick
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    https://support.twitter.com/articles/14589-getting-started-w...
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    by kbar13 12y ago

    WONTFIX is a common enough response that many bug trackers have it in their default list of responses. WONTFIX is very much a valid response.