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by smoody 16y ago
My one issue with Dropbox is that they own the encryption key and, to the best of my knowledge (correct me if I'm wrong), they do not provide a feature to let me define my own locally stored key. If someone gets hold of their encryption key
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by smoody 16y ago
Here's where he argument falls apart... and he should understand this, and I'm surprised he doesn't -- yes, money is available from many sources. Perhaps some of you even have rich uncles or aunts who can throw cash at you. But, the reason
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by smoody 16y ago
It's going to feel A LOT more surreal in the coming days I suspect. A lot of people are going to go into serious a$$-covering mode to distance themselves from these people as quickly as possible. It's not just a matter of reputation, it's a
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by smoody 16y ago
wow...amazing coincidence -- he makes a generous donation and appears on oprah one week before "The Social Network" opens. I applaud him for his generosity, but question him on his timing. If this is about spin control, then it's sort-of ir
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by smoody 16y ago
the title should probably read "(the tweets so far)" because, as we all know, opinions and articles delivered via twitter are not always "facts."
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by smoody 16y ago
A few ideas (of course you won't be reading this, so perhaps it'll be useful to those of us remaining on the service): 1. Logout of HN and have a friend of yours change your password and not tell you what it is. This keeps you from getting
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by smoody 16y ago
really like it. i've wanted to do something like this myself for quite a while. one suggestion: your default avatars are going to alienate many non-techies ("what does that weird green and white pattern mean?"). IMHO, you'd be much better o
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by smoody 16y ago
a good place to start is putting the url in your hacker news post. :-)
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by smoody 16y ago
i had no problem with just holding down the volume switch for a second to mute it. but i guess this does have the advantage of muting/unmuting without requiring the iPad to be brought out of sleep state and unlocked. but i prefer the lock s
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by smoody 16y ago
Mongodb is an interesting choice. I haven't used Mongodb, so I might be misunderstanding a design decision made by the Mongodb developers, but isn't it possible to get into a situation with Mongodb where the writes are delayed and, as a res
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by smoody 16y ago
Thanks for the answer. Makes sense -- especially the domain stuff, hadn't thought of that one.
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by smoody 16y ago
I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question: What types of features are you implementing that can't be done with AppEngine? Thanks!
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Capistrano Scripts for node.js on EC2(dev.nuclearrooster.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
At the risk of sounding both lazy and naive, if i want to utlize replica sets, do i have to separate each mongodb instance onto a separate hardware box? put another way, if i want to deploy a durable mongodb installation, do i need three or
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by smoody 16y ago
It reminds me of that Albert Brooks movie where he goes to Vegas with his wife and she gambles away all of their life savings. He tries to convince the casinos to give him a refund because of the good publicity it would create. The casino r
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by smoody 16y ago
I can't imagine the government authorities would allow this for at least two reasons: 1. safety. What if the jet needs to be evacuated because of an emergency and you're in a window seat and there is a very portly person in the middle seat
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by smoody 16y ago
One nice side effect of a descriptive title is that it makes it much easier for those of us who use bookmarking services and things like the Hacker News bookmarlket to tag your article since we don't have to come-up with a descriptive title
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Hummingbird @ GitHub - open source node.js web traffic viz software(mnutt.github.com)
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Nodejitsu's node-http-proxy at master - GitHub(github.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
Shouldn't the headline read something more like "Senior engineer confirms he is woking on MacRuby for iOS" -- didn't seem to me that he is implying that it is an official Apple project. reply
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by smoody 16y ago
Shouldn't the headline read something more like "Senior engineer confirms he is woking on MacRuby for iOS" -- didn't seem to me that he is implying that it is an official Apple project.
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by smoody 16y ago
don't you see any irony in writing that post and then posting it to a news aggregation site? it's very much a "do as i say, not as i do" post.
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NYTimes: Craigslist Pulls ‘Censored’ Label From Sex Ads Area(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
I guessing that you'll be much happier with your apps written in Objective-C. They will be snappier, they will have instant access to new APIs as Apple releases them (as opposed to being tied to Adobe's flash engine update release cycle),
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Palm inviting devs to a node.js meet-up by the Bay(precentral.net)
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fyi: iTunes shows the iPhone app price as $3.99 for me.
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Some Newspapers, Tracking Readers Online, Shift(nytimes.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
it's not just signing-in using twitter, from a general public's perspective, it's being unclear about how the service will interact with twitter. will you service start tweeting my streaks ("50 days without sex!"), will it start inviting my
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One VC's list of the types of companies/apps they're looking to invest in...(techcrunch.com)
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by smoody 16y ago
Thanks for the response and for the PusherApp lead. I'm going to try it out myself.

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