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by korzun 13y ago
Suggesting to focus on a different market is a discouragement now? You are on HN last time I checked.
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by korzun 13y ago
It's not a discouragement, so don't take it as such. I founded similar service before Imgur was born and was trying to compete with them way before you did. Word of advice, stop allowing NSFW. You do not want to go down that path,
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by korzun 13y ago
The bandwidth now is cheap, when I launched Image Socket I was on two dedicated machines at FDC that served closed to a thousand requests per second. The revenue on advertisements would be 10x (from what I recall) of what I spend on the har
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by korzun 13y ago
The difference is that you were too late in the game. When image hosting started blowing up alternatives to Imgur were horrible, horrible ad farms with low quality images that took several seconds to load. Comparing to what Imgur brings to
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by korzun 13y ago
I build image hosting service which was 'great' for it's time (2006) called Image Socket ( http://www.imagesocket.com ). It became extremely successful in just a few days due to support from another (popular at the
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by korzun 13y ago
You either did something questionable or broke the rules. Also in reality, you have no chance trying to compete with Imgur on their own home turf especially that late in the game.
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by korzun 13y ago
Gotcha, that's for clarifying it. With receipts this makes way more sense :)
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by korzun 13y ago
Your friend should stop smoking so much weed.
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by korzun 13y ago
I'm aware of processing fees, to avoid it you can simply cut a check or do a bank transfer from your personal account when donating. But I'm also pretty sure a non-profit can write off processing fees so it's not really an is
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by korzun 13y ago
On their page it states that it comes out as post tax deduction. They are not a non-profit institution.
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by korzun 13y ago
Even if they do not take a cut, they will still get a fat check from every tax deductible donation you will make thought them. I rather donate my self, keep the tax deduction and donate that again instead of giving it away to a third party.
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by korzun 13y ago
Why would I funnel donation money via a third party who will then get a tax write off? Seriously?
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by korzun 13y ago
Agreed, I just wanted to point out how silly that line is given the projects their company build. "Let's build a new search engine, easy stuff! We build a to-do application just the other day!'
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by korzun 13y ago
"We can build the technology, that is the easy part. Turning a product into a sustainable business is the challenge." Technology is 'easy' if your portfolio ( http://www.coshx.com/projects ) consists of a
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by korzun 13y ago
They leaked accounts that are legit, who cares about the source when Coinbase confirmed that this instance with some random unknown list 'only' impacted 1000+ users. Sure, but they could also not care if there are duplicates. You
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by korzun 13y ago
How do you know it was an attempt of misleading and not a simple parsing or sorting/fitlering issue in bash or whatever he used to get emails? Maybe the file was written to via different threads using cross linked dictionary? Do you kn
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by korzun 13y ago
In regards to rate limiting, it would be a much smaller number prior to block. If it's IP based at let's say 10 over X attacker would have to lease 100 IP's. In any case, rate limiting is the quickest mitigation prior to actu
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by korzun 13y ago
Isn't this how it's always been in US? We all know that Facebook does not work with government. Right?
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by korzun 13y ago
So why are you blowing this off and now all of a sudden writing rate limiting? The only reason he got 1000+ emails is because you guys messed up. Not even going into the whole idea of you releasing that end point with name leakage without s
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by korzun 13y ago
Because then it will be bad PR. Now they can play it off so people who don't know any better won't move to another service.
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by korzun 13y ago
So you are writing this off because 'only' 1153 emails were leaked? Then you are comparing security of virtual bank to something you did to Facebook back in the day. The thing is that, if anything the guy who was doing this just d
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by korzun 13y ago
Do the same attack against those vendors and report back.
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by korzun 13y ago
Do you smell it? They believe it's not a risk to their users (never minds those users who are now targeted via e-mail leak because they have BitCoins). "You’ll also find many leading payment services allow user enumeration" T
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by korzun 13y ago
To author, the constructor is not a function it's a method. I agree with useless comments but don't agree with blank 'constructor' method doc blocks that just say constructor as a filler. Since most of the methods will h
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by korzun 13y ago
I see your point, but keep in mind that Coinbase deals with money. I don't think many banks (if any) will let you do a password reset based on your email address, they would use your credit card/account number as identifier of som
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by korzun 13y ago
Actually it's a big deal, if your local bank allowed to do mass look-ups like that you would be receiving phisihing attempts that pretend to be that facility for the rest of your life. And right now, an email is part of your security a
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by korzun 13y ago
At this point I would not trust Coinbase, their engineering department shows that they have very little clue when it comes to building a secure infrastructure. Not only they are not rate limiting and leaking names, their implementations ar
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by korzun 13y ago
Even if they do not 'know' what you are storing, posting that will pretty much label your company as a 'kiddie cesspool' by anybody who values their data. I'm not in need of their service, but they will never have m
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by korzun 13y ago
They earned more because they obviously knew how to get ahead. Not because of their 'American' name.
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by korzun 13y ago
This is hilarious because he was the lead developer at Tumblr. I saw Tumblrs 'original' code base and it's a giant cluster fuck that is full of horrible design decisions. They are still in tons of technical debt because of i

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