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by palish 15y ago
Did you watch the video? This is inspiring to me on many levels. This probably earned him a salaried job at essentially any place he wants to work. Or at the very least an internship. I hope he considers skipping college. There's no reas
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by palish 15y ago
Sorry. It's definitely not my place to "enlighten" you. I don't want to be that kind of person. I just am compelled to speak up for what I believe to be right. I didn't mean to sound like I was attacking your opinion, so in retrospect, I
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by palish 15y ago
At my last job, they got me an SSD. About a month later, I started coding a new feature for their product. It was a few hours' worth of work, and they were using CVS, and didn't really have a good branching model, so I didn't do any work-
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by palish 15y ago
I too had the exact same experience: scrolled up halfway through to see whether Arrington wrote this, and was surprised to see it was MG.
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by palish 15y ago
As someone who has been here long, I can say for certain that HN would only benefit from politeness similar to F_J_H.
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by palish 15y ago
That... is an awesome idea. If you blog about it and submit it, I'll upvote it.
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by palish 15y ago
hmm... j = i++ + ++i; .... To me, it seems like that would be evaluated by operator precedence... ++ has a higher precedence than + So let i=1. The expression then becomes: j = i++ + ++i; j = {1}++ + ++{1}; j = 1 + 2; OR, j = 1 + 3
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by palish 15y ago
I mean, honestly, have you thought this through at all? Have you paid attention to anything in the last 20 years? Nope. You're correct. When I'm presented with a problem, I tend to point out the first solution that comes to mind. If the
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by palish 15y ago
Surely they could red-flag the term "LulzSec"? Yes, I'm advocating some well-thought-out censorship in this case. Anonymity + audience = lulzsec. If we remove the audience, we remove LulzSec.
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by palish 15y ago
Issues such as?
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by palish 15y ago
Their twitter account needs to be suspended. It's being used to distribute the proceeds of criminal activity.
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by palish 15y ago
HN already is a mobile-optimized version (except possibly the up/down arrows). No need to waste your time. EDIT: Well, the community has spoken.
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by palish 15y ago
These kids seriously need to be punched in the face. "For the lulz," as it were. Or perhaps "for great justice" would be more fitting. Is there any way we can help these 62,000 people? I'm reading through the password list now, and many
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by palish 15y ago
So you made... Like, $3,000? Awesome.
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by palish 15y ago
"No bandwidth cap" doesn't actually work, though. The average user (and even the average programmer) wants to use the internet for 1) entertainment, and 2) information. Those tasks don't require sustained, maximum bandwidth usage. The only
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by palish 15y ago
Which miner did you buy? And how much did you pay for her?
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by palish 15y ago
Heh. How many BTC do you have?
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by palish 15y ago
I sold my 5 BTC at $30/coin, and walked with $149.96 after fees. It certainly felt like a bubble, and I'm glad I got out when I did, even if it was only for spare change in the scheme of things.
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by palish 15y ago
That's an interesting and objective viewpoint, and I understand completely where you're coming from. Personally, my sole objection is that they knowingly violated the law for personal gain. Is that excusable? Pragmatically, yes, but only b
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by palish 15y ago
What AirBNB did was directly illegal and immoral. It was illegal because it violated the CAN-SPAM act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003#The_mechan... .... CAN-SPAM defines a "commercial electronic mail message" as "any e
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by palish 15y ago
Er... I didn't mean to make it sound like I was making fun of you. I wasn't, sorry. I'm truly serious: emphasis on "do whatever it takes to succeed" results in people doing illegal and immoral things to succeed, such as what Airbnb did.
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by palish 15y ago
"Being a successful entrepreneur means doing anything and everything it takes to get to success." I think the world would be a healthier place if we didn't place so much ... emphasis ... on the idea of "do whatever it takes to succeed".
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by palish 15y ago
I've sold 2 BTC so far. MtGox says I have $59.58. It's surprisingly painless. I'm waiting about an hour to see how the market moves, before selling my other 3. I'll let you know how much I have in the bank at the end of all this. EDIT: I'
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Tell HN: Bitcoin currently trading for $30 USD
5 points by palish 15y ago|4 comments
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by palish 15y ago
This is nuts. I received 5 Bitcoins about a month ago, and didn't really think twice about it. I just checked, and if the current trade price holds, then I now have $146.50. That's a phone bill payment, for just being lucky. Pretty sweet
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by palish 15y ago
Ah, yes, you're correct. Also, "(and if one were to go that way, nuclear weapons would suddenly be on the table)." --- Do we have any practical defense against nukes? I guess the answer is no. I was just reading The War Nerd (link posted f
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by palish 15y ago
How would you defend a carrier from missiles? For example, this one carrier took years to build. Could it not be sunk simply by swarming it with ICBMs? How many of those missiles do we have? How quickly could we produce them? How would
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by palish 15y ago
True enough. I suppose the reason this book is so good is because it focuses on 100 distinct events which the author believes completely transformed the course of history --- and explains the reasons why they believe this to be true. Histo
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by palish 15y ago
The "XOR linked list" comes to mind.
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by palish 15y ago
"All attempts to write about history is pushing someone's agenda." On the other hand, if anyone is looking to read history written from a dispassionate, objective point of view, I heartily recommend "100 Decisive Battles from Ancient Time

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