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by lectrick 13y ago
Tastes (yes, including sexual) are in part culturally-shaped as well as from experience. For example, I'd bet that a far greater percentage of people of either sex enjoy giving oral 10 years after they started having sex than the first
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by lectrick 13y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. While a "walled garden" approach is less than ideal, it is clearly somewhat more effective from a security standpoint. Perhaps not your "NSA backdoor" variety of security though...
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by lectrick 13y ago
Ugh. This is terrible. Use Anonymous or Anonymous Pro. http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
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by lectrick 13y ago
I've moved like 5 times in the last 10 years. I only buy ebooks now. I use Spotify. I've sold my CD's to a used record store. I've stopped collecting mp3's. Not having a bunch of physical cruft (and not having to ma
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by lectrick 13y ago
Sadly, a startup (thredup.com) that I worked for did too and I decided not to join them, mostly because I had reached a point in my life where uprooting to the opposite coast was unfortunately no longer an option (and I had already spent 4
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by lectrick 13y ago
My first thought was "oh, this could be used for art" (I recall Trent Reznor used to route music through broken speakers to get a certain effect)
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by lectrick 13y ago
Backend. Because I can run automated tests on it. Frontend work is notoriously hard to test.
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by lectrick 13y ago
It's a revolutionary OS hampered by licensing. Open source the goddamn thing to save its ideas at this point before they are lost to nerd-history and let's see what happens.
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by lectrick 13y ago
That's odd. I wrote an RSVP reader in the exact same timeframe in RealBASIC, for a Cornell Psych class (I got an A). I am still annoyed that things like the Kindle don't have that mode.
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by lectrick 13y ago
I dated a cute girl from Andover, MA for a while. Andover is a little upscale town just north of Boston, kind of a well-off suburb. She hated that I wore a tiny bit of gold jewelry (gold cross from my grandmother) because "that's
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by lectrick 13y ago
This is a great service and I am uncomfortable with the seemingly universal expectation that everyone should be OK with facebook/twitter/google/linkedin style "corporate" auths.
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by lectrick 13y ago
Boston's a poor example. It's possibly the most socially-conservative place on earth I've ever lived in other than a Muslim country.
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by lectrick 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine There's more ways to harness solar energy than photovoltaics.
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by lectrick 13y ago
At absolutely no point in our dev team's existence did we find a huge need to have more than the model files and/or schema.rb as a schema reference. If you can't infer what you need to from there, then maybe web dev's no
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by lectrick 13y ago
Man, time flies...
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by lectrick 13y ago
They're a startup. I guarantee you there's probably no more than 10 guys there. I've worked at startups and here's the deal- Support is very uneven and capital- (and time-) intensive, when you're new. You haven&#x27
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by lectrick 13y ago
Welcome to Rails circa 5 years ago! :)
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by lectrick 13y ago
From https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_Bitcoin_a_Ponzi_scheme.3F : Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme? In a Ponzi Scheme, the founders persuade investors that they’ll profit. Bitcoin does not make such a guarantee. There is no
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by lectrick 13y ago
Macs are nice computers and QR codes are an efficient way for a device with a camera to read a bunch of textual information quickly. But haters gonna hate.
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by lectrick 13y ago
> I happen to disagree with the theory. That's great. You disagree with it... without any counterarguments. What's the sand smell like that your head is buried in? :) > How much of the value of ... webvan Webvan? Dude... Web
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by lectrick 13y ago
The difference between tech people and banking people are that tech people are trying to build an actual new idea and only secondarily are interested in making money (which often happens as a pleasant side effect).
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by lectrick 13y ago
Why would you spend that much money to crash the network... only to lose the entire amount of your money? Also, knowledge about short-sells would help to stabilize the currency's value, NOT crash it. Just like it has for all other asse
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by lectrick 13y ago
[Bitcoin is not a ponzi scheme.]( https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ#Is_Bitcoin_a_Ponzi_scheme.3F ) If Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, then startup investment (which requires you to be an "accredited investor" aka have
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by lectrick 13y ago
So basically, every currency ever invented was a Ponzi scheme? When the government of a country prints money for itself, is it engaging in Ponzi? Gold mining (which is quite analogous to Bitcoin mining) is also a ponzi scheme, then?
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by lectrick 13y ago
According to some very sound economic currency theory, you're 100% wrong. http://bitcoinsurvey.wordpress.com/ tl;dr About half the current value of a bitcoin is speculation. The rest is fundamentally supported by its
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by lectrick 13y ago
I hit it exactly during the outage. I was flabbergasted. :O
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by lectrick 13y ago
What about requiring a 2 factor auth from the likes of Google Auth or Authy https://www.authy.com/ ?
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by lectrick 13y ago
Just wanted to say, nice work and thanks for keeping focus on security (there can never be enough...) Maybe allow the option of 2 factor auth (google auth, Authy etc.) which would be entered in on any balance-affecting transaction? (The onl
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by lectrick 13y ago
Site is 500'ing. Oopsy! In any event, this app won't get past the severely disparate interest in casual sex between the sexes. Unless men just accept that women interested in casual sex might have FAR more conquests than they do.
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by lectrick 13y ago
The fact that something so simple needs to be explained as "a thing" or "a trick", many years after HTML5 even came out, feels like a disgusting frontend failure.

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