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by sunchild 15y ago
Like "negligent" bad?
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by sunchild 15y ago
I wish everyone could use complex, unique, strong passwords all the time, but some use cases just don't support it. For example, I have to type my Apple ID into my iPhone/iPad what seems like every 5 minutes in iOS. Without access to 1pas
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by sunchild 15y ago
Setting aside the release of this information, why was anyone able to get ahold of it? That's where the responsibility (and breach of public trust) starts.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I've been using this app for a few hours now, and I have no idea how people can complain about it. It's freakin' amazing! I love it. Thank you!
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by sunchild 15y ago
Fair points, indeed! I can clarify: 1. Floating inspectors drive me bananas unless they can be pinned in the app "wrapper". 2. A new window for every document makes me crazy, because I like to use tools like Witch for doc-level tab switc
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by sunchild 15y ago
Perhaps because it's easier to develop something like this for OS X?
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by sunchild 15y ago
FWIW, I disagree that windows should freely proliferate. I prefer apps that stay in a single window. Also, you should let some of that angst go, because it's clear that Apple is anticipating an iOS experience on the desktop for a long time
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by sunchild 15y ago
I had the opposite reaction. I thought it was poorly-researched, esp. in that it parroted MtGox's explanation for the compromise. I don't think the BBC should be so quick to accept that story, given this information: http://news.ycombina
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by sunchild 15y ago
"Using Jquery to do ajax requests and updating part of a web page is emulating state over http." Only if you use it that way. Also, Sproutcore/Cappuccino are not add-ons to Rails. They're stand-alone client-side frameworks.
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by sunchild 15y ago
You couldn't pay me to use an IDE. I always end up liking a simple shell and text editor better.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Close enough? https://github.com/mislav/git-deploy
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by sunchild 15y ago
"Ruby on Rails adding Jquery, Coffeescript, SASS, and SCSS" Eh? None of those things that you listed is for emulating state over HTTP. In any case, Rails is supposed to be a "tall" stack – it's supposed to be a highly opinionated framewor
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by sunchild 15y ago
Also, you're talking about counterparties cooperating because they do many transactions together at the institutional level. That's different from the exchange itself voiding the transaction.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I doubt you'll find much legal precedent (or published rules on the exchanges) supporting your theory, except in the case where a broker makes unauthorized trades on a seller's behalf. Feel free to prove me wrong...
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by sunchild 15y ago
How about holding the companies who were supposed to secure the data fully accountable?
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by sunchild 15y ago
They were one of the first companies to admit that the RSA SecurID exploit compromised them over the past months, too. Link to story: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/052611-lockheed-martin...
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by sunchild 15y ago
Deleted by lawyers? Dropbox is doing a bang-up job of squandering their amazing reputation lately.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I agree, but without a credible exchange of any kind, you're left with party-to-party bartering, and no real means for pegging prices. Just like every other currency/commodity.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Ha! Must be a browser thing; I actually measured it with xScope.
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by sunchild 15y ago
That's different: the bank would take a loss to pay you back, even if it couldn't recover the funds from the thief. MtGox isn't proposing to take any losses, as far as I've heard.
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by sunchild 15y ago
I have to wonder about a UI tool whose website adds 60px of blank space to the right.
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by sunchild 15y ago
So, would you say the same if I placed a standing buy order two weeks ago, and it was automatically executed? How is a buyer supposed to know if the seller is making a bona fide offer, esp. where the buyer may place its buy order in advance
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by sunchild 15y ago
Every rollback has a detrimental effect on confidence in the exchange.
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by sunchild 15y ago
Why? There is a perfectly legitimate argument for letting him keep the funds. They were put up for sale, and he bought them. It was MtGox's systems that executed the trade. If the sell order was invalid, it was MtGox's fault, or the sel
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by sunchild 15y ago
Sounds to me like the admins at MtGox are, at the very least, amateurish, and shouldn't be trusted with millions of dollars in escrowed funds.
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by sunchild 15y ago
But if MtGox's technical failure effectively took USD$120M of bitcoins offline, then MtGox has reduced the supply of BTC for some period of time, no? I understand that exchanges are secondary markets, but they seem to be contrary to the ph
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by sunchild 15y ago
I think the replacement solution needs four key components: 1) Stronger logical security 2) A triggering mechanism for halting suspicious trading 3) Clear rules for halting and rolling back market activity 4) Some measure of coverage for tr
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by sunchild 15y ago
Agreed. It seems the real fallout of this incident is the fact that the rollback can never recover BTC taken out of the exchange accounts and put into anonymous local "wallets". I wonder who will cover those losses?
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by sunchild 15y ago
People talk a lot of trash about frameworks like Rails, but I can spin up a shell application with bcrypt authentication via devise, roles-based authorization via cancan or declarative authorization, built-in CSRF protection, and better-tha
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by sunchild 15y ago
Just to be clear, I'm not taking a position, only asking a question: how does the exchange layer affect the fundamental goals of bitcoin, esp. the notion that no centralized authority controls monetary policy?

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