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by ryanburk 12y ago
and investing (more) in the state might do a little help their case in new jersey.[1] [1] http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/people-new-jersey
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by ryanburk 12y ago
the fidelity case scared me years ago. amazed they still do that, but I can also imagine that they have a system that only allows the crazy phone mapping when validating over the phone an policy around that on how many times you can try, ph
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by ryanburk 12y ago
ugh, typo. good catch, and good explanation below re: starting a number with an A.
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by ryanburk 12y ago
it was the simplest way to map 3 letters to each number 1-9 on the keypad.[1] that way you didn't have a few numbers with 4 letters and had a consistent model. [1] my grandfather explained it this way back in the early '80s. I cou
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by ryanburk 12y ago
I then wonder if these passwords are even less secure since the backend system would have mapped {A,B,C}=1 at some point for the dialer system to work. so my password "CaB" would be the same as "cab" and "CAB"
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by ryanburk 12y ago
the brilliant proprietary lock-in is actually iMessage. once you've been using it for a while with others in the apple ecosystem, getting out is amazingly painful since your contact information is cached as iMessage capable for weeks o
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by ryanburk 12y ago
> "We expect to collect 60 cents of every dollar we bill" you have to be careful with that statement since it can be a clever way of talking about what insurance agrees to pay with the chain versus the "retail" rate t
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by ryanburk 12y ago
this is pretty much spot on. when you have strict separation of dev & "ops", you get what I would argue is bad service+stack design and wasted resources. "devops" is having developers sitting with, understanding, arc
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by ryanburk 12y ago
agreed. you could see this extending to a bunch of other offerings.
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by ryanburk 13y ago
epic.
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by ryanburk 13y ago
probably this: http://blog.coinbase.com/post/77766809700/joint-statement-re...
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by ryanburk 13y ago
mark cuban, obviously not a traditional VC. and that is a good thing.
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by ryanburk 13y ago
if you look at this ama as well as past ama's the hotmail / outlook team have done, you'll see you don't need to plant someone to ask "hey M$, why u no ship IMAP??!?!". it was the #1 question / request the
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by ryanburk 13y ago
> Tom Barclay, Robert Eberl, Jim Gray, John Nordlinger, Guru Raghavendran, Don Slutz, Greg Smith, Phil Smoot Microsoft Research and Development a number of those folks went on to build some impressively large scale services. hotmail, sky