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by neotek 13y ago
"Sophisticated" is a specific finance term[1]; "unsophisticated" isn't a pejorative in this case, it doesn't imply anything other than a lack of experience in securities trading. [1] http://www.inves
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by neotek 13y ago
Her profile picture is a woman coyly putting something vaguely phallic in her mouth. If it was posted to reddit the slobbering masses would be tripping over themselves to tip their fedoras in her general direction, so imagine what it would
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by neotek 13y ago
Fantastic idea, and very well executed for a three day side-project. As others have pointed out you have a lot of challenges ahead to turn this into a business, but you should be applauded for doing something and not just talking about it
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by neotek 13y ago
Just to be clear, I posted this link to HN, but I didn't write the blog post. Nothing to do with me at all other than the fact I found it interesting. I can understand why you might not have found it interesting, but I did, and that&#x
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by neotek 13y ago
My bank made me choose three icons out of a list of 50 that I have to re-pick every time I log on to internet banking. I have no fucking idea which icons I picked, or why, or what significance the bank imagines that an icon of a frog could
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To the person who stole my phone last night(joethepeacock.blogspot.com.au)
19 points by neotek 13y ago|20 comments
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by neotek 13y ago
If anyone in Adelaide, South Australia wants to check out the rift, I have a dev kit I'm willing to lend out.
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by neotek 13y ago
The graph shows all the attempted spammer registrations I caught over the last month, the count of '1' for today is because the clock had just ticked over when I generated the image.
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by neotek 13y ago
CAPTCHA is broken and, at least in my experience, does more to harm legitimate users than inconvenience bot makers. You can farm out CAPTCHA solving to China for less than $1 per thousand solved.
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by neotek 13y ago
I've been using this technique with great success for a while now, and still catch hundreds of fake registrations a day[1]. The few accounts that slip through are fairly easy to detect algorithmically, and it seems that they're mo
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by neotek 13y ago
Unless your site is very heavily trafficked, bot coders aren't going to modify their scripts just to deal with you.
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by neotek 13y ago
I was with you up until the screenshot - that's a completely disingenuous way to present some pretty vital information. It's a textbook example of a dark pattern[1]. [1] http://darkpatterns.org/
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by neotek 13y ago
Seems like a bit of a non-issue, I'd rather know right away that someone I'm trying to contact isn't available. The snarkiness is a little misplaced too.
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by neotek 13y ago
This is awesome and well deserved. When we were looking at what collaboration tools to use at Kicktone, Lechat (as Kato was then known) was the one I was most skeptical about - after all, why wouldn't we just use IRC? Today, it's
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by neotek 13y ago
I had much the same feeling about silly mobile apps with ridiculous filters prior to actually using Instagram, but the truth is that (when used appropriately) those filters do actually improve the aesthetic quality of phone photography. It&
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by neotek 13y ago
>Prove to me they didn't search his home without serving him a warrant and then we'll talk about the accuracy of this story. Can't really prove a negative - what would the evidence look like? The reasonable question to ask
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by neotek 13y ago
English isn't his first language.
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by neotek 13y ago
When I middle-click on a link, I expect it to open in a new tab. When browsing lists of things I tend to scroll through the list and open a bunch of tabs, then peruse them at my leisure later on, and I can't do that on your site.
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Digital Due Process Coalition(digitaldueprocess.org)
2 points by neotek 13y ago|0 comments
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It's pointless giving start-ups money if they don't know what to do with it(smh.com.au)
3 points by neotek 13y ago|0 comments
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by neotek 13y ago
The argument is that the police should never be involved in a high-speed chase because it threatens the safety of the general public and often ends in tragedy like this.
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by neotek 14y ago
If you use Chrome, try the Cache extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cache/bnmfcdcicaga...
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by neotek 14y ago
>The Air can be bricked by a mere drop of liquid in the wrong spot (this actually happened to me. One drop. I'm not kidding.) I'd like to know more about this.
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by neotek 14y ago
Literally thousands of things.
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by neotek 14y ago
I'm in a techstars-affiliated accelerator in Adelaide (Australia) and part of our perks include $60k in Azure credits, which is an absolute godsend for cash-poor startups like ours. There's no way we could afford to do what we're doing on A
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by neotek 14y ago
Because you don't limit access to the courts based on how much money someone has. That's insane.
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by neotek 14y ago
(yet)
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by neotek 14y ago
>But acupuncture and yoga are not the same as pixie dust, dung pills or what have you. Okay, so why don't they show any efficacy above pixie dust in double-blinded studies?
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by neotek 14y ago
And pixie dust and sugar pills and wishes.
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by neotek 14y ago
If you're feeling this way please just TELL somebody. If you're ready to kill yourself, what more do you have to lose by just letting someone know?

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