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by shazow 15y ago
I'd love to see your variation tested too but the data-driven "above average" feels much less accusatory and supportive than subjective labeling of "poor student" and "valued contributor". Makes me wonder if poor students are less valued? A
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by shazow 15y ago
Also this part: I live in Ogaki. Ogaki is in Japan. If Ogaki were in Kansas, I would live in Kansas.
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by shazow 15y ago
Oh, I totally would have fell for that! I got the scenario that janzer posted, and I opted for $5 since I wasn't too excited about any of the games and just wanted to support the cause. I felt a little cheap because the cheapest example was
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by shazow 15y ago
I have a tendency of not monetizing weekend projects. Perhaps I should? http://colorblendy.com/ I did during a SHDH meetup with @limedaring, then couple months later during another weekend I released v2 with colorpickers on the Google Chr
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by shazow 15y ago
My original source was pirated music at 128kbits. Since then, I bought it and have the 320kbit version which immediately sounded incredibly better. Occasionally I'll hear it on 128kibts or 192kbits on Pandora and such, and the difference is
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by shazow 15y ago
Using decent in-ear headphones (I like the Etymotic HF2), listening to Justice, I can definitely without a doubt tell the difference between 128 kbit and +256 kbit. Or more specifically, 128 kbit and lower for specific music makes me feel n
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by shazow 15y ago
That's great, but I'm still slowly moving my projects over to Github. 1. I get much more engagement from random developers on Github. On Github, random people will fork and add features, do code reviews and leave comments. All of these thin
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by shazow 15y ago
Does nobody care about personality and team fit? You can be great on paper and by reputation, but turns out Zed and I don't jive. Edit: Interviewing can reveal these things, for both the applicant and the hiring company.
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by shazow 15y ago
I don't care about a slimy persona or raunchy brands. Have you never used a registrar where making a DNS change doesn't require 11 clicks and each one takes 3~10 seconds to load? Not to mention how everything is plastered with upsells that
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by shazow 15y ago
It depends on how much effort it would take to rewrite any of said components. In my personal experience, for reasonably isolated and small components, 80% of time spent creating a component of code is spent on making decisions. By the end
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by shazow 15y ago
Everyone has families, so that's a pretty big "other than". I live in a different country than my family, so I call them on Skype video 2-4 times a week.
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by shazow 15y ago
Does FaceTime have any kind of momentum behind it right now that Google, Facebook, or Skype/Microsoft would care? Especially since Apple decided to replace Facebook Auth with Twitter Auth for native iOS integration, I think we can disqualif
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by shazow 15y ago
On the upside, it is an improvement for the use-the-same-password-on-many-services users, assuming the hash is not trivial to reverse like md5. At this point, I'm less worried about somebody getting access to some random startup I signed up
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by shazow 15y ago
What limedaring said, plus not archiving is known to reduce loading and searching speed of GMail.
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by shazow 15y ago
The multiple-inbox + starring trick is really key. Every morning I'll dive into my emails starting with the oldest and archive+next using the ] shortcut while starring any emails I have to act on later. Once I've gone through all my Inbox e
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by shazow 15y ago
How do you distinguish between currency and a medium of exchange? From the sound of it, you defined currency as "a stable medium of exchange" which by definition prevents any unstable currency from being a currency. Is there a definitive re
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by shazow 15y ago
Thanks! I agree, there are a few issues with SGP I would fix: It fails badly on Change Password forms, it uses ~10-iteration MD5 hashes which are easily-reversible today, and the default character set for the generated passwords is not grea
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by shazow 15y ago
Like many who got bitten by Gawker, Sony, Mt.Gox and whoever else, I researched better alternatives. I found these options for password management utilities: - 1Password - KeePass - LastPass - PasswordGorilla - pwgen
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by shazow 15y ago
Here's the corresponding bit for Mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633421 I definitely experienced the same in Chromium. Once upon a time, I also experienced similar timing weirdness on inactive tabs with .gif animatio
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by shazow 15y ago
I can just see the "not" getting removed at some point in history and hijinks ensue.
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by shazow 15y ago
Reminds me of the article from earlier this week "Hacking the system: How to land meetings with anyone you want". [1] Similar idea but much more polite by not outright saying "I'm going to keep emailing you until you tell me to stop." Keepi
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by shazow 15y ago
Are you saying that banks which provide the same security and insurance for Bitcoin are not possible? Why not?
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Dwolla exceeds $1M per week, attributes success to Google Wallet(techcrunch.com)
13 points by shazow 15y ago|3 comments
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by shazow 15y ago
I suppose if I had tens of thousands of dollars or more in Linden Dollars, my Second Life password would be the first of my worries. What about your passwords to your real-life bank accounts? Or logins to confidential company data? Or email
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by shazow 15y ago
If there's a malicious keylogger on your computer, your Bitcoin wallet is probably the last of your worries.
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by shazow 15y ago
Here's some ways to fix this and why it won't be a problem: - Add encryption of the wallet and a password to the Bitcoin client and daemon. This is already being worked on and there is working prototype. It should be in the mainstream clien
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by shazow 15y ago
This is perfectly analogous to websites checking for specific browser versions. So many websites exist where you'll browse with Chrome or Firefox and you'll get a big red "Looks like you're using an old version of Internet Explorer, please
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by shazow 15y ago
There have been numerous threads on the forum with titles like "MT GOX RIPPED ME OFF!!11" but every time the problem was dealt with quickly and pleasantly by MagicTux. He's very well respected in the Bitcoin community and I'm sure the MtGox
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by shazow 15y ago
I imagine anonymous users, who are such by choice, are less likely to pay for things purely because it breaks their anonymity.
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by shazow 15y ago
I wonder the same. I like to imagine the current population being transposed to an alternate Earth where humans never existed. I guess the first most important step is for everyone to start documenting everything they know of science, creat

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