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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Maybe it's possible that there are plenty of people out there who care about "ephemera", and yet are also capable of programming a computer or soldering things together? I think it's possible. Sure, Jobs did. On the o
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
This point cannot be overstated. I'd never have been a hacker without vast quantities of unsupervised, unfiltered internet time around age 9-12. Same here. Emphasis on "vast quantities," "unsupervised," and &quot
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
To put things into perspective, the company I worked for responded to bug reports by hiring a team of people whose role was to manually alter the database any time a customer reported a data problem. Dozens of times per day. In other word
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
I worked in the industry for a little while. At this point, some companies depend on having that daily downtime. Their whole development is based around the fact that they will have guaranteed downtime. It's built right into their so
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
A surprisingly poor move from someone who historically has been a game development hero. Before reading the article and understanding the campaign, I initially thought Notch axed it because this guy wanted to create a film about Notch. It
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
There's a difference between reading 1984 and seeing articles of how things play out in real life in your own country. There is no difference. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. I was going to make a lengthy comment detailin
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
$75k in San Fran isn't upper middle class.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
I wonder when this was written?
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
The only reason I have confidence is because two years ago Magical Tux began transferring around 440k bitcoins in order to prove ownership of those coins: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/n4a2o/so
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
This is FUD. As incredible as it seems, MtGox's problems are, in fact, technical. And it was quite a relief to realize this. Also, there is minimal danger of a bank run. MtGox makes a profit off of every transaction. Therefore they
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Interesting... This may be the first time someone's tried to use HN as a platform for phishing.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
The most newsworthy aspect of this post is that the NSA didn't compartmentalize their information. This spidering should have been impossible at the network level, even as an admin.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
This kind of helped me relate to why he's taking it down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD-nzHy2DdU I know it's a joke, but on the other hand, it's only funny because a lot of people identify with the senti
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Here's someone who recently sent 1 BTC to this ponzi scheme: https://blockchain.info/address/1Gh2tRaqaPWFbQVabVD9rPsN1nm9... https://blockchain.info/address/1BYbqzLvAN9PCC4LqNPPG2dHSyTn... I&
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Sorry... I should have used the original title. I'm still sort of in shock. I allowed myself to believe it was a good idea to store all of my bitcoin in mtgox, due to their One Time Password protection features. Once I realized somet
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Statement Regarding Bitcoin Withdrawal Delays(mtgox.com)
106 points by sillysaurus2 13y ago|53 comments
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Personally, I'm in favour of taxing Internet companies Why? EDIT: I was just curious to hear more.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Which problems do Surface tablets solve? For example, iPhone completely changed my life overnight, mostly due to its navigation features and ability to look up phone numbers. I think Surface will only be dominant if it solves a problem for
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Is the Bitcointalk poster lying, then? One of these two stories can't be true, and the poster has no reason to lie... (Not that people on the internet need one.)
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
It would still be a sweet place for the MAFIAA tugs to drop DMCA requests, or whatever those abuses are called nowadays How are DMCA requests inherently abuses?
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Infix math is only nice because you've been trained to believe it's nice.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Could this be used as a kind of elevator tech? I'd love to ride one of these down a gigantic copper tube. It'd be completely impractical, of course, but a whole lot of fun.
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
The Monte Carlo fallacy is believing that if something happens more frequently than normal during some period, then it will happen less frequently in the future. This isn't an instance of that. If the goal was to flip tails in a coin
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
The most important thing you can do is relax. Sure, life is pretty grim in the sense that you can't do whatever you want unless you're rich. On the other hand, your life as a coder is far, far higher quality than e.g. a construct
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
There's a Mathematica 10 now, already? Interesting. I'm still a happy 8 user, myself. Is there much reason to upgrade? It'd probably be good for them to pay more attention to backwards compatibility...
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Is this a universal exploit? Which distros are unaffected? If it's non-universal, why is it? E.g. if it only affects Ubuntu, then what is it about Ubuntu that allows this to work? EDIT: This seems to be the answer: https:/&#x
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
Forget garbage collection in the sense of any variant of mark-and-sweep. For an operating system latency is more important than through put, so you really want real time memory management. Is the assumption that mark and sweep is slower
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
This is pretty cool. Would it be possible to get basic text chat in there? Some people have no mic but could benefit from this anyway. Thanks for your hard work! By the way, it works fine for me in Chrome.
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It seems like the propensity to commit suicide is probably a mental disorder, and everyone has the same probability of acquiring a mental disorder, whether they're rich or poor. When flipping coins, it's rare, but not too rare, to
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by sillysaurus2 13y ago
This is a great step by Rackspace, to be clear. All I'm saying is that it's mistaken to believe that most big companies will force you to sign an agreement stating that your code written on your own free time is theirs. Actually,

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