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by smokinn 14y ago
He also gave a good talk titled Bad Hackers Copy, Great Hackers Steal http://vimeo.com/4763707
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by smokinn 15y ago
If your API is read-only no one is going to use it. Might as well write a greasemonkey script to automate stuff instead.
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by smokinn 15y ago
Ask yourself this: would the Instagram team have been as successful had they chosen PHP? I think not. Why not? You do realize the "team", facebook, that acquired them (worth many multiples of them at the time of acquisition) is a PHP-base
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Estimating unique visitors in larger numbers(michiel.buddingh.eu)
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by smokinn 15y ago
Not to be a downer but if you want to be taken seriously for reporting your url probably shouldn't be [silly sounding domain]/blog. It doesn't lend to credibility and I'm sure I'm not the only one that given two similar titles but one has (
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by smokinn 15y ago
I don't fear Google dropping us behind where we are, I fear another IE6. IE6 back in the day was actually quite good. But because it was really good (among other other more shady things) everything else died off and it stagnated. What I fea
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by smokinn 15y ago
jleader's tortious interference is a good candidate but given the fact that many "hackers" have been strung up on very flimsy charges I'm sure Facebook lawyers could find something. "Computer hacking" laws are so bad and vague that touching
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by smokinn 15y ago
Which is why I think it would be an interesting startup. The base case alone would be enough to get many to buy your component but for a subscription (where the real money is) you need to provide continuous value. So your pitch could be tha
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by smokinn 15y ago
I guess you haven't investigated the pay scale and working conditions of wall street lately. Programmers there can make a lot more than elsewhere but at the cost of any possible social life.
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by smokinn 15y ago
This. If you're actually building a product to sell people it behooves you to put some effort into deviating from the base styles. On the other hand if you're like me and use it every so often for a one-off project that you have no plan on
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by smokinn 15y ago
He claims to be innocent. The US government claims he is not. There should be and will be a trial. None of that is what bothers anyone. What people are up in arms about is: a) Presumption of guilt. A company which may very well be defensibl
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by smokinn 15y ago
If you're going with a brand name bank you'll have to jump through many more hoops than going through a small one. There are also boards out there that scammers hang out on and share which banks currently have the easiest-to-circumvent syst
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by smokinn 15y ago
Chargebacks can still come along up to 6 months after the charge date, not just 90 days. And yes, you aren't going to see any of the money from the chargebacks but that doesn't matter. A very small percentage of people know about or bother
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by smokinn 15y ago
Not really. The way these guys operate is that they often load balance their charges over many merchant accounts. Your merchant account can get into trouble if you have too many chargebacks and have too high a percentage of chargebacks. S
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by smokinn 15y ago
Weird. You'd think they wouldn't want to waste their own time like that. They were targeting my grandfather for a while but stopped calling when I would cut them off mid-sentence. The first time I was thoroughly confused by the truly non-se
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by smokinn 15y ago
No he doesn't. Most episodes he says that he has to get out on his own. If he missed his rendez-vous search and rescue teams kick into action to go out and find him. There was one particular episode where he had to find some natives to get
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by smokinn 15y ago
Just because you don't have a massive support crew doesn't mean you're going to die. I'd recommend you check out a series called Survivorman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorman It's a guy who goes out into the wilderness to survive
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by smokinn 15y ago
I'm pretty sure he knows what it's designed for better than you given the fact he's the one who designed it. Rails was literally lifted out of Basecamp into a standalone framework that works great for CRUD-style apps. You might personally p
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by smokinn 15y ago
I always thougt companies like Uber were really positioning themselves and building the tech necessary for when this inevitably happens. Right now they need humans to drive their cars around but as soon as they can they will surely shift to
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by smokinn 15y ago
France is on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER
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by smokinn 15y ago
Hopefully more people will start realizing that this is what techcrunch has always done. I remember watching a techcrunch50. I showed some people I knew the swype demo and everyone was blown away. That's so cool! What won? Yammer. Twitter f
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by smokinn 15y ago
On the other hand bittorrent live has great distribution channels: The Pirate Bay et al. There will be many people wanting to "stream bittorrent" and it'll get at least close to critical mass. Whether it can tip over into the mainstream wil
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by smokinn 15y ago
You don't really need the plug tags. HN is generally quite receptive to self-advertising of on-topic personal startups.
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by smokinn 15y ago
I'm a hockey fan. Specifically the Montreal Canadiens. There's a guy on that team right now that makes 8MM/year and the whole team has a 55MM cap they can spend on their "employees". He's 8 days away from not having scored a single goal in
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by smokinn 15y ago
Not only did they turn the employees down, they called up their current employer to notify them: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/damning-evidence-emerges-in...
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by smokinn 15y ago
I think you're describing Pixar: http://urbanpeek.com/2011/09/20/pixar-office/ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/pixar.html
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by smokinn 15y ago
If the journal you work for is behind a paywall, why do you do it? I mean it as an honest question, I've always wanted to know why someone would work for free for an organization that works for profit. I understand why the academics submit
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by smokinn 15y ago
Why do you hesitate to say it was an Apple policy? The whole HR staff at both companies were involved. The fact that it was personally negotiated by two people at the top has no bearing on the fact that the companies were abiding by it. The
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by smokinn 15y ago
Fortunately trying to limit access to copyrighted material doesn't drive people's money to possibly terrorist organizations, but that's another issue. Well, not yet at least. But if they continue making the penalties more and more draco
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by smokinn 15y ago
It needs to be much much simpler than that. What would be nice would be gestures. Maybe tap once, make a gesture and it remembers that gesture as a bookmark to that location. Later, make a line and the same gesture and it heads to that book

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