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by mpeg 9y ago
Realistically, I think Bitcoin needs leadership and marketing if it is to grow as big as other currencies, because I don't see people referring to their everyday money as "satoshis". To paraphrase AMC's HCF, I believe Bi
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by mpeg 9y ago
Typically the referrals are paid pretty well, from my experience most people in a BigCo will refer anyone with a pulse as long as it's not to their direct team. I wouldn't even bother going to a conference for this, just find some
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by mpeg 9y ago
No worries! Still much better code than Parity Multisig and their fake constructors :)
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by mpeg 9y ago
Since setGoalFailed is public (because you want it to be callable by the person trying to achieve the goal, and the contract owner is the supervisor) and does no checks, seems like anyone can mark a goal as failed and the money held in the
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by mpeg 9y ago
Haven't had to as the apps I targeted weren't using it. Can't think of an obvious way without rooting the device though...
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by mpeg 9y ago
I love mitmproxy, super easy to use (and to install an interception certificate) and the scripting support makes it very useful for pentesting iOS app traffic etc where I can't easily modify the client
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by mpeg 9y ago
Bitcoin has never, even in the biggest crashes, gone down 100x in value. It has gone up 100x in a few years, though.
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by mpeg 9y ago
In fact you can just right click an element and block it with most desktop ad-blockers.
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by mpeg 9y ago
IMHO if it's for a senior engineer position, you should at least be able to explain how that would be implemented (bitwise operations) even if you wouldn't get it right in a whiteboard.
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by mpeg 9y ago
From the article, the launch product is simply a customer service chatbot (currently text, with voice coming soon) The omega product video is supposed to be the future vision and not a real product.
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by mpeg 9y ago
I guess that's what you get for being buddy-buddy with Benioff... There's a joke in there somewhere about how most telco customer service is indistinguishable from AI chatbots.
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by mpeg 9y ago
Battery status API support is pretty bad on mobile, but you could look at the rate of battery discharge which would probably be slightly different between devices etc. Similar to how time skew is used for tracking as clocks go off sync.
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by mpeg 9y ago
I've seen poorly coded ad scripts do that, they assume you're scrolling over them if you've gone past by the time they load and pull you back up the page.
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by mpeg 9y ago
As far as I understand the GDPR, email hashes wouldn't be "anonymous" data at all, they'd be considered pseudo-anonymous (and therefore still PII) I mean the problem is that this makes good-willed sites like haveibeenpwn
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by mpeg 9y ago
It's actually scary how calmly ICO founders announce theft of millions of dollars worth of coins (like with the Parity multisig bug).
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by mpeg 9y ago
The ICO coins are the spades. They're raising ridiculous amounts of money on completely unproven markets, with unproven teams. These are mostly teams that would struggle to raise a tenth of that money with a traditional VC where they&#
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by mpeg 9y ago
I think lots of people completely understand the appeal of ETH but also realise it has so many issues the market cap is completely imaginary. Decentralised anything is an awful market strategy, it works for some things where regulation gets
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by mpeg 9y ago
You can access external data from Ethereum contracts via what they call an "Oracle" which is an intermediary between a third party service and the blockchain. If the connection to the third party service is cryptographically secur
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by mpeg 9y ago
I can write secure smart contracts in Solidity or straight in EVM assembly, it's really not that hard as long as you code it defensively.
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by mpeg 9y ago
Yep, if you saw the attack done it was really easy to replicate it as all transactions are public. In fact, it's a testament to the poor technical capability of most people involved in Ethereum that the whitehat was even able to do thi
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by mpeg 9y ago
But the function people were exploiting needed to be public, I don't see how internal by default would have made any difference. The real issue here is that the class constructor called a function instead of containing all code withi
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by mpeg 9y ago
Exactly, you are deploying code to the cloud that you didn't write and trusting it with your money. So many things wrong about that, it's the cryptocurrency equivalent of installing random software packages on your critical server
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by mpeg 9y ago
It runs on a distributed cloud VM actually (Ethereum). So the rule applies: don't trust online services with your money, especially if you didn't write the code.
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by mpeg 9y ago
I wasn't really trying to compare photobucket and s3 feature wise anyway, just highlighting that the price is completely out of proportion for the cost to host and distribute those images even with a cloud provider.
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by mpeg 9y ago
Should you write tests for the tests too? What I find is that in any project of a certain complexity, the tests can end up having the wrong scope or outright bugs in them.
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by mpeg 9y ago
You could pay amazon $35 a month for 100GB storage and about 70m hits per month, or 27req/s sustained for your images... At more usual numbers of a few million hits per month, cut that by 10x or so
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by mpeg 9y ago
There's no magic to tracking cookies, unless you don't care about regulation, why not use your own tracking cookies for this?
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by mpeg 9y ago
And the EU cookie consent law doesn't apply when you're using cookies for most other purposes than tracking.
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by mpeg 9y ago
I'm waiting for the PiperCash (PiedPaper? PiperPound?) ICO to do p2p payments.
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by mpeg 9y ago
Remember Diaspora, the Facebook killer? I think at one point it had blockchain-level hype, I bet they wish they'd known about ICOs back then.

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