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by mason55 9y ago
For those wondering what a submarine is: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by mason55 9y ago
> "most computers running X run just four programs: xterm, xload, xclock, and a window manager" : the intervening 20 years have added a web browser. Almost all software run by the user is in either the xterm or the browser. D
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by mason55 9y ago
The TREZOR people have posted on Reddit that this article is describing a known issue which was fixed in the last firmware update yesterday.
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by mason55 9y ago
Same thing for me. When I get refills I see whichever psych happens to be free that day and they always comment on how weird it is that my insurance requires the brand name. I always tell them that I assume the insurance company has cut a
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by mason55 9y ago
Super important even if you're doing client based work (whether pure custom development or customizations on top of a platform). Your customers will each have their own individual pet features that they care about but if you don't
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by mason55 9y ago
I make it a habit to never leave without my phone so that I don't forget it anywhere. Even when I get up from my desk to get water 10 feet away.
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by mason55 9y ago
This article[0] says the US has 3.6 million software devs. 3% of that is 108,000. The stuff you listed is like .1% of developers. [0] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2483690/it-careers/indi...
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by mason55 9y ago
I think it would be much more difficult to prosecute someone for working on a generic storefront application that COULD be used as a darknet market vs. someone who was directly building a darknet market. There's obviously gradient, bec
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by mason55 9y ago
Sign up for Blendle. It's exactly what they do and all the big publishers are on board.
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by mason55 9y ago
> and drop more requirements on you that they didn't think of up front I think one of the important qualities of an architect is to anticipate what these requirements are going to be and define solutions to them ahead of time. I h
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by mason55 9y ago
sama wrote a good article about this a few months ago[0]. The key quote as it applies here: "The second most important thing to understand is that raising too much money or raising money at too high a valuation can severely limit your
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by mason55 9y ago
> only 63% think a solo workplace meeting is appropriate Do these people not do one-on-ones?
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by mason55 9y ago
Why would you live in a city when there's plenty of suburban sprawl? There are lots of reasons of efficiency to build up even if you can build out.
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by mason55 9y ago
Also known as the Two Generals Problem
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by mason55 9y ago
Yes, Matt Yglesias once said Amazon is "a charitable organization being run by elements of the investment community for the benefit of consumers"
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by mason55 9y ago
Walmart bought jet.com
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by mason55 9y ago
Security and ease of deployment. If your "blog" is just a bunch of auto-generated HTML pages then there is no database to worry about or WordPress install to keep up to date. You won't get hacked because you installed a plu
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by mason55 9y ago
I'm curious about this as well. I was evaluating Athena a few months ago and was surprised that there was no good way to get my data into Parquet or ORC format without spinning up an EMR cluster and loading into a Hive table of the de
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by mason55 9y ago
When you talk about Date objects, do you mean datetime? Because a Date with no time compenent has tons and tons of real world uses that a unix time stamp would be inappropriate for.
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by mason55 9y ago
Are you suggesting another city? The problem is that if your support network is in LA then moving somewhere else might not be feasible (or might not save you any money if you now have to pay for care).
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by mason55 9y ago
Article says > This is also why address reuse in Bitcoin is encouraged as to sign a transaction you need to reveal your public key. If you don't reuse an address after sending a transaction from the address, you don't need wor
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by mason55 9y ago
Because Authy is SMS-based it's subject to phone number hijacking. If someone manages to convince your mobile carrier to enable your number on their SIM then you just lost all your 2FA protection. There are also ways to hack the SMS
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by mason55 9y ago
Very similar to Ben Horowitz's "Lead Bullets" story: http://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/
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by mason55 9y ago
It turns out that I might have the concept correct but been slightly incorrect. Instead of being used as the basis for micropayments they will be sold to advertisers who will then use the tokens to buy ads on the platform. Same concept, w
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by mason55 9y ago
Oh, you are probably right and I'm probably wrong
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by mason55 9y ago
The idea is that the Brave platform will allow users to send micropayments to content publishers. The micropayments will be in the form of "Brave Coins" which are like Bitcoins but specific to the Brave platform. The reason for
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by mason55 9y ago
The automated cashiers are only going to get better and cheaper. I think if that's your argument against raising the minimum wage then you're only delaying the inevitable. Now, if the argument was "don't raise the minim
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by mason55 9y ago
The reason for that is there are all kinds of rules about what you can name your drug. Can't sound like anything else. Can't suggest any effects it doesn't have. Etc. Made up words are pretty much the only safe bet. Fro
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by mason55 9y ago
> why the heck are we talking about JCP on HN There was actually a lot of talk about JC Penny on HN when Ron Johnson took over
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by mason55 9y ago
Code as Craft was one of the best engineering blogs ever at a time when the concept was pretty rare.

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