robtoo

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   by robtoo 15y ago

   Not exactly. FF4 thinks your page is iso-8859-1 rather than utf-8 (your personal homepage too, in fact.) I would guess IE9 has a similar issue. You could also fix it with —
2. 62.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   http://imgur.com/tuuxl
3. 63.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   "WTF", "badass", "retardedly", and "no-bullshit" aren't exactly light and un-intimidating.
4. 64.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   – You might want to fix those encoding issues in IE9 & FF4. –
5. 65.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   Someone else did this rough math in one of the (seemingly numerous) AirBnB threads we've had recently... 2 millions nights (claimed) @ $50 per night (est.) with 10% cut (est.) = $10m revenue
6. 66.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   I'm liking that Model A as a pocket-size emulation box for early games machines (specifically the SNES and ZX Spectrum).
7. 67.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   I'd just assume that they needed to create an account to comment and picked the first username that came to mind. Quite logically, this was a couple of words from the reply that they had already formulated in their mind.
8. 68.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   This works well to make sure that your new password isn't similar to your old password. Unfortunately, it can't be extended to make sure that the new password isn't similar to the password from two generations back.
9. 69.▲
   by robtoo 15y ago

   See the great "No Signal" montage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIZVcRccCx0
10. 70.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    When setting a password, you compare the new password to the old hashes, which were calculated the last time the password was changed. So user feedback should be speedy enough. Only once the password is deemed acceptable does the system n
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    Lots of security standards require passwords to have at least one digit. Lots of security standards require passwords to be changed every so often. The end result? A user starts with the password "Seekrit1" when they join the company, then
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    From a comment on an earlier post by Brian Chesky: We've created a marketplace built on trust, transparency and authenticity within our community, and we hold the safety of our community members as our highest priority. I'm really not sur
13. 73.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    What more do you want them to do? Well, for starters: company officers shouldn't be using weasel words to try and take credit for things they haven't actually done.
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    Google have strong statistics/reporting products in other areas and I can't see it being long until they add this into the mix for Page Speed (if they haven't already.)
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    This does look awfully like CloudFlare. Some more competition in that space should be good for everyone because it seems like an idea whose time has come. I hope this will prove to be a good quick-and-dirty way to add SPDY support to existi
16. 76.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    AirBnB is one rape case away from disaster.
17. 77.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    If effective protective measures can only be taken after the sale has been made / contract signed / whatever, then the marketplace really isn't providing "trust, transparency, and authenticity". In fact, it is actively working to prevent
18. 78.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    Immigration would also have been able to demand the password for his bitcoin wallet...
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    We've created a marketplace built on trust, transparency and authenticity Not if this quote from the linked article is true, you haven't... airbnb.com tightly controls the communication between host and traveler, disallowing the exchange
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    When Anonymous can gain control of HB Gary and FBI/CIA assets Indeed: "When..." But AFAICR, Anonymous didn't gain control of either FBI or CIA assets. Hacking a self-described FBI "affiliate" and DDOSing cia.gov are hardly the same thin
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    Matt Cutts did look into it. But he very specifically didn't say that he had "decided [Thomas Monopoly] can't have his account back". This is presumably because that decision isn't even Matt's to make. (He is the head of the webspam team at
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    I really don't think the regular layperson is going to be confused into thinking we can tap into it as needed when NASA describe it as the "Most Distant Reservoir of Water" right there in the headline, the first sentence of the article de
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    direct mp3 link: http://audio.thisamericanlife.org/jomamashouse/ismymamashous...
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    A slect few have been been given access to its Beta and are coming up with statements like "strangely addictive", at least according to the startups itself. No description of what Amen actually do, but they themselves think they're pretty
25. 85.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    So people can sign up with dummy accounts, make terrible bets against their main account, and collect the 1000 ParadiseCoins on their main account?
26. 86.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    If you are in the landing page business, then yes. Otherwise no.
27. 87.▲
    by robtoo 15y ago

    More *nix systems have a /bin/echo than /bin/printf or /usr/bin/printf
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    by robtoo 15y ago

    First google hit for "pbhj" is an seomoz profile for a web person person in the UK, which superficially matches the fact that pbhjpbhj has an account on hacker news and their previous comment here had talked about living in the UK. The seom
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    by robtoo 15y ago

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    by robtoo 15y ago

    FWIW, a couple of minutes googling found 3 seemingly-valid phone numbers for you.