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by rooster8 12y ago
> The answers to my secret questions on my accounts are all fake, so not even a friend could know them. Side note, this is good advice for anyone. Many sites use the same questions, and they're often stored in plaintext in the datab
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by rooster8 13y ago
What an interesting thought experiment. Thanks for sharing.
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by rooster8 13y ago
I suppose it's because some of the people whom I'm closest to are the same ones who had the unlucky breaks. I honestly wonder how much I can attribute to myself. I've always been interested in learning, math, logic, understan
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by rooster8 13y ago
You're correct that it's not a true statement, but that fact alone is of little comfort when trying to overcome the guilt.
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by rooster8 13y ago
I'm all for attributing success to hard work, but it's hard to deny that a large part is also having the right kinds of smarts. Perhaps you lump that in with "luck," but if so, that makes luck into an incredible catch-al
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SpiderOak: Get Unlimited Storage in Honor of World Backup Day(spideroak.com)
7 points by rooster8 13y ago|2 comments
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by rooster8 13y ago
Check out Genymotion.
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by rooster8 13y ago
Perhaps it won't be as marvelous to you when you consider that some of these freethinkers have spent years open-mindedly trying to integrate these systems into their lives. Years listening to testimonials, trying to find something to g
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by rooster8 13y ago
Nice presentation. Any idea when it will be ready?
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by rooster8 13y ago
Cool problems I never would have anticipated! Thanks for sharing!
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by rooster8 13y ago
I'd love to hear you highlight a few of the unexpected challenges.
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by rooster8 13y ago
If you're seeing video playback without audio, it's likely a ChromeCast codec issue. Your best shot at getting that to work well is to transcode your file to have a different audio stream codec using something like Handbrake.
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Panopticon(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rooster8 13y ago|0 comments
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by rooster8 13y ago
I've never seen a more compelling reason to become a vegetarian.
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New Chromecast apps for the holidays(chrome.blogspot.com)
77 points by rooster8 13y ago|47 comments
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by rooster8 13y ago
Lots of good discussion on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5635461
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by rooster8 13y ago
What a great idea.
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by rooster8 13y ago
Any Mac OS X users here using Horcrux? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/horcrux/id557880555 It's written by a HN guy. I've had it on my wish list for a while, but I haven't pulled the trigger ye
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by rooster8 13y ago
From this language, it might not be released yet: https://twitter.com/TrevMcKendrick/status/400348753670197248 This is the first I'm hearing about it, and I'm looking forward to it too. Trevor's blo
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by rooster8 13y ago
This has been my experience. I 8x'd by downloads by using this site. They've got excellent analytic tools for determining which keywords are important in your market. EDIT: Responding to grandparent, I only get a review every few
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Apple's Game Console will Change the Living Room(kylerichter.com)
1 points by rooster8 13y ago|1 comments
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by rooster8 13y ago
Thanks for sharing this.
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by rooster8 13y ago
Happy Scale ( http://happyscale.com ) - A moving-average weight tracking app for iOS It's cool because it changes your relationship with the scale. Your weight fluctuates up and down naturally during a diet, and seeing a high
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by rooster8 13y ago
> And I don't understand why anyone would consider the iPad 2. The 30 pin connector comment was in reference to this.
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by rooster8 13y ago
There may be hundreds of stories about various companies, but they aren't like this one. It seemed to be about generosity, and only tangentially about Chick-Fil-A, but I couldn't help (1) imagining myself being generous in my loca
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by rooster8 13y ago
I should clarify that I would expect this outsider to be compensated fairly for the maintenance work, but ideally I'm handing over the keys to the castle while the family still maintains ownership, control and excess revenue beyond mai
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Ask HN: What would happen to your project if you unexpectedly died?
5 points by rooster8 13y ago|3 comments
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by rooster8 13y ago
Anyone recognize this phenomenon by name or have a link?
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by rooster8 13y ago
One reason it would be a poor decision for the NSA to recommend Intel backdoor the RNG: Intel would be in a position to sell/leak the backdoor secret to other governments. The NSA would have no way of blocking it from being used to att
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A Look at Reducing Noise in Photographs Using Median Blending(petapixel.com)
2 points by rooster8 13y ago|0 comments

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