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Excel's Fraction Bug(blog.sheetjs.com)
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Other cases of internet hypocrisy: After pushing for anti-piracy legislation, French President Sarkozy caught pirating music: http://torrentfreak.com/french-presidents-residence-busted-f... RIAA and Homeland Security Caught
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Gangbang Interviews and Bikini Shots: Silicon Valley’s Brogrammer Problem (2012)(motherjones.com)
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> You are in a high interest sector with SO MANY LEGIT STRATEGIES TO ATTRACT HIGH VALUE LINKS NATURALLY... Why are you wasting time with spammy strategies that haven't worked in several years? When you know your competition is playi
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> Treehouse CEO Ryan Carson declares “A computer science degree is a rip off…I know because I have one.” Perhaps his CS degree was from a college which didn’t have a very good program or maybe his focus has been web development where you
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most interesting part: > I found nothing sketchy in my reversing, your phones most likely aren't being backdoored by Chinese.
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To an extent, projects that lean more on github tend to receive more github stars. I don't know when numpy switched over to github, but their website still uses SF to distribute the official binaries. On the other hand, many projects
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The restaurants in question are automating the parts of their business not directly related to their core competencies. They have their specialty dishes, and those are still made by hand.
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There is one case where I really do appreciate manipulating copy-paste: selecting multiple cells in a table. Excel ends up populating the plaintext as well as the HTML paste buffers. The plaintext buffer holds TSV output and the HTML buffe
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Relevant infographic on Blackstone (largest owner of rental homes) which summarizes some of the key aspects of the investments: http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2013-12-20/blackstones...
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tptacek has the most karma on HN (even moreso than pg): https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (for reference, pg has 149712 karma at the time of writing; tptacek has 165020 and the next person has 88887) His opinion is resp
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In cryptography, the expectation is that the person presenting the algorithm should substantiate their claims, preferably with a proof. Saying that something is secure because it hasn't been broken yet does not settle well with people
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Simpler explanation: I am selling fire-proof safes. These are designed to protect your documents and valuables from thieves and from fire and other events. The normal way people set up tests is to put some documents and valuables in a box
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> “Business-critical compliance system?” Mongo. Some speculate that Coinbase's problems may stem from their use of MongoDB (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428382 ). I wouldn't be surprised to hear t
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Was Bootstrap actually born from Twitter internal code or did Twitter engineers build it in their spare time?
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(pointing to the statement that HN is not a support forum) + (commenting that PG should have killed the thread) = (PG is likely to kill all threads that may seem like support requests) Given that many defenders of coinbase, including PG, ar
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Like Coinbase staff, you are making the same mistake in interpreting the situation. The outrage primarily stems from the utter lack of communication, and the recent volatility merely exposed the poor customer support. The underlying problem
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The same class of problems (questions regarding account balance, money taken out but BTC missing, support went dark) happened earlier this year and there was another front page conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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>He got the bitcoins at today's price + $50 That part only happened after many people criticized the original response: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930109 ) > Edit: your bitcoin credit has now been proc
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There is zero ambiguity in the PG quote > Strictly speaking I should have killed the post entirely And this was 9 months ago. We are left to assume that the policy was enforced (after all, if the post were killed, it wouldn't show
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What's apparent is the fact that you are incapable of analysis. If you bothered to read the other thread, you'll see parallels to the current situation: - transaction delays on the order of 1 week - Coinbase is blaming technology
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For posterity's sake, here are the sequence of events. Coinbase: 1) stopped replying to support emails even though there was a clear issue 2) only addressed the issue when the victim decided to submit his issue to HN (and only after it
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So this counts as a dispute with Coinbase, and the terms for that are pretty clear: > 5.3 Disputes with Coinbase. If you think we have made an error, write to us at 14525 SW Millikan Way #26680 Beaverton OR, 97005, or email us at support
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As highlighted in the thread and in PG's reply, the default response to criticism of Coinbase is to nuke the conversation. As PG wrote: > Strictly speaking I should have killed the post entirely Now, it's possible that other co
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There was a similar discussion with a very interesting comment regarding their use of mongodb: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428382 PG's reply in the thread is very telling: https://news.ycombinator.
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> breach of contract What breach of contract? Coinbase didn't agree to deliver by a specified date. I will emphasize the key phrase: > Coinbase makes no representations or warranties regarding the amount of time needed to compl
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> As a result, the investor is taking a material loss solely due to Bitcoin's failure to deliver. They are very careful not to use the word "invest" or "investment" or even remotely suggest that BTC is an investm
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BTC exchanges aren't regulated in the same way as stock exchanges. Coinbase isn't a BD AFAICT, so they don't have the same type of fiduciary responsibilities. They also aren't registered as a bank or as a NY private ba
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From their terms of service: > Coinbase does not guarantee the value of bitcoin. You acknowledge that the price or value of bitcoin can change rapidly, decrease, and potentially even fall to zero. You acknowledge that holding bitcoin is
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> learning from my mistakes. what was your rationale for investing in the first place? Was it following some person on the internet? Or was it because you believed in the bitcoin craze? Or was it because you believed that Chinese dema

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