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by lectrick 14y ago
I own a Chevy Volt and it gets about 20% less range in the ~32 degrees F temperatures we have around here in NYC environs right now.
872.
by lectrick 14y ago
Next time, ask for payment in Bitcoin, and avoid these outdated clumsy troublesome international payment law troubles in their entirety.
873.
by lectrick 14y ago
That's what backups (and brainwallets, etc.) are for.
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by lectrick 14y ago
It smelled incorrect from the get-go. 1) The DOJ cannot shut down a global internet currency. 2) If they DO try to, it will push its value UP, NOT down. The black market effect at work. 3) He seems to not realize that cash itself can be use
875.
by lectrick 14y ago
This is what happens when you do not converse with enough people who are peers. He'd do much better if he had to actually work instead of pontificate nonsense that has no basis in what anyone else is thinking or doing.
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by lectrick 14y ago
For what it's worth, here is the cited RFC 5322 email validator regexp except written in a form that Ruby's regexp parser understands: https://gist.github.com/4626713
877.
by lectrick 14y ago
aw, man. I just discovered this. Looks really cool.
878.
by lectrick 14y ago
Here's a list of online stores that accept Bitcoin: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/ http://bitcoincoffee.com/ http://www.bitcoinin.com/ http://www.bitcoinblaster.com/ http://www.bitmit.net/en/recent (like eBay for BTC) There's a bunc
879.
by lectrick 14y ago
Because some people want to run their own DropBox clone, and titling the post "...goes Open Source" usually (correct me if I'm wrong) implies that the ENTIRE product goes open-source, not just half of it in order to prove that its security
880.
by lectrick 14y ago
Chokes with a "Server error" on the following URL validator: \b(?:((?:https?|mailto|s?ftp): )(?:\/{1,3} |[a-z0-9%]) |w{2,3}\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9\.\-]{1,40}[.][a-z]{2,4}\/)(?: \&[a-z]{2,8}\; | [\w\(\)\.\/\:\@\#\?\=\&\-\!\~\;\'\[\]] | \%
881.
by lectrick 14y ago
Unless you are joking, I think he was characterizing Fahrenheit itself as old, not saying there was a separate, "old Fahrenheit" scale.
882.
by lectrick 14y ago
Frankly I'd rather use a system where 0 degrees is "fucking cold" and 100 degrees is "fucking hot", but neither fatally so, with 100 different steps in between.
883.
by lectrick 14y ago
Read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_State...
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by lectrick 14y ago
Read this a while back but this passage: "In 1980, 16 shipwrecked Danish fishermen were hauled to safety after an hour and a half in the frigid North Sea. They then walked across the deck of the rescue ship, stepped below for a hot drink, a
885.
by lectrick 14y ago
I think the 256 bits are a buffer against non-brute-force attacks, such as undiscovered algorithm weaknesses which may speed up by some factor, the cracking speed.
886.
by lectrick 14y ago
When I visit "business type" offices, I am constantly shocked at the amount of wasted time that goes on that I see. The examples you cited are merely the tip of the iceberg. Part of the reason I'm a programmer, I think, is because I absolut
887.
by lectrick 14y ago
The NOVA series was good, for anyone curious. http://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Lost-Sea-Search-Longitude/dp/B000...
888.
by lectrick 14y ago
Loved this. Interesting how it was an accidental discovery based on a different pursuit at the time. That is almost a trope of life itself...
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by lectrick 14y ago
It's definitely a market opportunity (see: the movie Moneyball), but I wouldn't say programmers should just go into sports unless they actually love sports (and programming). While this type of person is rare, they exist, and it's their mar
890.
by lectrick 14y ago
Did anyone else just stare at the screen for a while after reading that?
891.
by lectrick 14y ago
I dated a woman from a family like this. Her dad was in Vietnam and his squad was ambushed and he managed to find a hiding place from which he was able to witness the entire rest of his squad murdered in cold blood. 3 days later he got the
892.
by lectrick 14y ago
The funny thing is that the very first thing I did when I first fired up this iTunes version was return it to the track listing view. I did not even discover this color-matching feature until I saw it in Hacker News today!
893.
by lectrick 14y ago
Google Maps web UI for IOS still works fine. You can even make it an icon right under the new Maps.
894.
by lectrick 14y ago
The developers clearly don't have Macs.
895.
by lectrick 14y ago
Yeah, I was more talking about an API TO the iDevices, not ON the iDevices. A content management API.
896.
by lectrick 14y ago
Both suck. Use DynaDot ( http://www.dynadot.com/ ) They're also on the ICANN Accredited Registrar list.
897.
by lectrick 14y ago
Not really clear there about Mac support (other than 1 screenshot with one in it), but interesting nevertheless! Actually, Apple should buy this company and integrate this thing above the trackpad on mac laptops...
898.
by lectrick 14y ago
Like putting a rocket on a turd.
899.
by lectrick 14y ago
Not every pirated work is a lost sale. In fact I'd wager an exceedingly small number of them are. The rest are downloaded by digital packrats, the future's archivists essentially, who just like to hoard stuff that has value, even if they ne
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by lectrick 14y ago
I thought this was an amazing paper when it came out, especially considering its source. And it's still amazing.

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