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by steve8918 14y ago
Not that it will avoid errors on the part of the implementor, but if you do a thorough reading of the classic "Applied Cryptography" by Schneier, he pretty much covers all these problems. He covers all the issues such as ECB vs CBC, IVs, H
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by steve8918 14y ago
The only reason why this isn't a good idea is because the author doesn't appear to quite understand the entire tax implications. This makes me think he hasn't done his due diligence. The author doesn't seem to realize that he will need to
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by steve8918 14y ago
I just came back from a 9 month break. After being in the Valley since the dot-com boom, and going through the bust, and other personal issues, I was pretty burnt out, suffering from stress-related health issues, and after a couple of healt
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Why David Petraeus’s Gmail account is a national security issue(washingtonpost.com)
87 points by steve8918 14y ago|58 comments
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is why you need a dedicated and experienced sales person. Selling to a small company is one thing, but selling to a larger customer is an entirely different skill set. And then selling to enterprise is even more different. The sales
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by steve8918 14y ago
There are so many things wrong with this post, I would strongly advise you to delete this. Besides the libel, it doesn't really paint you in a good light either, especially if you're going to be looking for a job. I would suggest keeping
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by steve8918 14y ago
Coinbase is neither Mint nor Paypal. We have no idea if they will survive 6 months, and we can't trust they don't store credentials on their servers, even though they say they do. Have they been security audited? Or do we just take a one
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by steve8918 14y ago
I find it absolutely incredible that they are asking for online banking username, password and PIN number to "instantly verify" an account. I'm not saying this company is a scam, but if I wanted to create an elaborate phishing scam, this is
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by steve8918 14y ago
They need to sell around 1.5 or 2 iPad minis for every iPad they are replacing. They've already sold 100M iPads. They sold 14M ipads this last quarter, can the market support 22M to 28M iPad minis? I doubt it, but my guess is that a lot
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by steve8918 14y ago
I think that releasing Surface RT first will confuse a lot of customers. Many people are saying incorrectly that Surface will run Windows apps, but my understanding is that Surface RT won't, but a subsequent version will. If this is true,
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by steve8918 14y ago
This is great and really helpful advice, and why I still believe HN has the best signal to noise ratio of any site out there.
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by steve8918 14y ago
What did the question mean by "8 digit decimal number"? Did that mean anything from 0.0000001 to 99999999?
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by steve8918 14y ago
This post turned out to be much more interesting than I initially thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be another post-mortem on why a particular startup failed, but this was in fact much more interesting. The idea that th
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by steve8918 14y ago
30 free levels is still too much. You need to drop it to about 10 levels, and then start charging. Level 10 is where you get a lot of people eager to keep playing, and the rate of abandonment doesn't drop, so to me, this is the best place
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by steve8918 14y ago
From what I've seen, wepay.com is pretty easy to use and has more functionality.
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by steve8918 14y ago
Actually I can't eat aspartame because it severely upsets my stomach, so I need to avoid it completely. Even things like chewing gum with aspartame cause my stomach to get really upset. I think the best solution is simply not eat as much
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by steve8918 14y ago
I 100% agree. Actually I have done almost exactly that, switched to tea, or ice tea. I'm not completely off the sugary drinks, but I'll drink things like Honest Tea with a lot less sugar than Coke, or just plain Tea. The thing I'm actuall
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by steve8918 14y ago
I have deep grooves in my teeth right above my gums on both sides of my mouth from drinking 3-6 cokes a day for 10+ years. For some reason, I have a habit of swishing the drinks on the bottom of my mouth and I think this is the reason why
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by steve8918 14y ago
I think another term that is appropriate is "Survivorship bias". That is, you always hear about the success stories, but you never hear about the failures, so you think that the chance of success is higher than it really is. http://en.wik
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by steve8918 14y ago
Personally I would spend all this excess emotional energy and put it into either your startup, or a relationship with a significant other. Or exercise. Sure, there are plenty of stories about people who were desperate and became successes.
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by steve8918 14y ago
I don't think an app based on likely illegal use of copyrights/trademarks is something that is sustainable. My guess is that people may be able to transfer money into accounts, but if this app get shutdown, customers may lose some or all of
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by steve8918 14y ago
Based on US GAAP, whenever there is an "indication of impairment", ZNGA is required to present a model to the auditors justifying any goodwill and some intangible assets attributed to things like OMGPOP. If Draw Something suffers a user dr
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by steve8918 14y ago
I guess you didn't go through their financials. You do realize they can cut expenses like R&D, SGA, etc, and probably not affect their revenues immediately. To me, they are like YHOO, where they have a bunch of people using the produc
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by steve8918 14y ago
You cannot depreciate a write down. If you have an impaired asset, like OMGPOP, you have to write it down to whatever the new value is. Depreciation doesn't enter into the picture.
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by steve8918 14y ago
The same thing happened to me, but in the US. I think it was one of my credit card companies calling me, and they started asking me to identify myself. I refused, and I asked them for a number I could call in to. They gave me a number, I
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by steve8918 14y ago
You have up to 60 days to dispute anything taken out of your bank account via ACH. If I were you, I would pursue that route.
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by steve8918 14y ago
A company that generates $300M per quarter has a "real" business, despite your disdain for their business model. ZNGA isn't like a business that spends $100 in ads to make $80 in ad clicks. They are making real games that millions of peo
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by steve8918 14y ago
You don't perceive value the business? They still generate $300M in revenues per quarter. That sounds more like an emotional valuation rather than an objective valuation.
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Pressure grows for crackdown on high-frequency trading(business.financialpost.com)
2 points by steve8918 14y ago|0 comments
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by steve8918 14y ago
And if you're a programmer, sometimes you fix the big bug that a huge sale depends on, and sometimes you create a feature that your customers love. And, I take it you've never ever been in sales. What many companies do is put everyone's nam

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