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by mscarborough 12y ago
Or, why write books when you can just dick around and pretend to be an 'author'?
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by mscarborough 12y ago
It was a 'clever' snarky post equating 'not seeing programming' on HN vs 'not seeing "call your mother"' on HN, which we can reasonably expect to not see. In the rush to be clever, we got a really sna
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by mscarborough 12y ago
Just another day of moving fast and being disruptive. Oh, and being dishonest to your customers.
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by mscarborough 12y ago
Marissa Mayer is getting a little weird in the quest to show she has brought some value to Yahoo. She runs a company that cares about you and want the "best user experience", so long as it doesn't hurt the bottom line at all.
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by mscarborough 12y ago
You stopped being vegan because you wanted to. Not exactly crushing social pressures. Been vegetarian or vegan for 17 years, it is pretty easy to go have a meal with friends and be polite.
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by mscarborough 12y ago
When you're as totally awesome and uncaring about your customers as Facebook, you can toss out words like "consumer grade" to describe people affected by your fuck-ups.
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by mscarborough 12y ago
Your passwords are routinely longer than 72 bytes, and this is an inconvenience?
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by mscarborough 12y ago
> Marissa Mayer is probably already a lost cause Yep, pretty much. She's coasted so far on buying companies, closing offices, and Alibaba value, but it's gonna get a bit harder soon. > How, in good conscience, can they suppo
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by mscarborough 12y ago
Ugh. A bunch of wealthy people talking about what they are "going to do", but never doing anything tangible outside their narrow self-interest? All you have to do is give politicians more money and go home to pat yourself on the b
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Mt. Gox set to liquidate as court denies rehabilitation(reuters.com)
3 points by mscarborough 13y ago|0 comments
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by mscarborough 13y ago
> Can we really not programmatically understand tax code Isn't that what TurboTax does? I don't know about a bunch of different versions, but the online version works just fine for me, and is pretty snappy. Sure, they upsell yo
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Not fully capable, they say 30-40% chance of success, but that it in any case, it will provide good data for future work.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Do you know what libraries can't be ported without a lot of effort? I haven't heard that in a long time.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
We work in healthcare software, and IE7/IE8 support is mandatory, otherwise we'd be ignoring potential customers and losing current ones. Sure, they have iPads now, but healthcare IT moves really slow and we have to support that p
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by mscarborough 13y ago
It's all the same thing in my mind. Build a business with the idea of selling out to some big corp, or to sell to as many customers as you can. Either way, you're going to be beholden to someone else. I don't begrudge these f
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Because it's kinda the point?
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Because like most things politicians and presidents do, it doesn't mean anything. "Contracts suspended except when they're not" is not exactly a brave, bold stance.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
This is obnoxious. Dude did not need to be put in solitary, but he also didn't need to stay 15 feet from an accident scene that involved police and EMTs, how is he helping anything? He hurt his elbow recently so he had to stay involved
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by mscarborough 13y ago
At some point Obama might have to take an actual stand on something, and then follow up on it. Him being a politician doesn't absolve him of his uselessness. Last example: ooh Putin, you're going to face costs for these shenanigan
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Is being graceful the same as being against other people having loving relationships that are different than the majority? Because Obama was against it? I really do not understand this perspective.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
I did not know this was a thing. Wow. I don't care about how he donated his money to support Proposition 8, privately or publically, but monetarily and personally supporting discrimination is wrong.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Great blog! No content, no menu, but Disqus comments. This dude is the perfect person to be evaluating growth/scale of companies as a Stark Raving VC, but who for all his money can't hire an intern to make a static blog work. If i
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Can we stop with this "bill gates is watching your searches" nonsense? I know you're fascinating, but Brin and Gates may be concerned about many things not related your internet activity. Corporations in data monitoring proje
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by mscarborough 13y ago
This is the interview I was referring to: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/dread-pirate-robe... A lot of talk for something that just started, and had a massive fail one week after publication.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
This is also the guy that just talked a bunch of trash about the last Dread Pirate Roberts, and how he was so much better about security. Jinxed yourself, bro. Granted this was supposedly in the Bitcoin protocol itself, but for real, there&
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Dread Pirate Roberts 2.0: An interview with Silk Road’s new boss(arstechnica.com)
5 points by mscarborough 13y ago|0 comments
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New U.S. charge for man accused in underground online drugs market(news.yahoo.com)
1 points by mscarborough 13y ago|0 comments
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Just one example -- Amazon will sign a Business Associate's Agreement for HIPAA compliance. That doesn't absolve you of your application security responsibilities, but it does give you piece of mind on the PAAS EC2/S3 side of
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by mscarborough 13y ago
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, we haven't conquered heart disease. It's not scare tactics, it's fact.
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by mscarborough 13y ago
I'd never seen or heard about it before. I think it has been overshadowed in pop culture history by the 1984 ad the year before.

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