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by xSwag 14y ago
Just guessed the domain name, since they won't be using .com or .net anymore: http://me.ga/ redirects to that page, I hope that is the domain that they use since its pretty short.
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Why do we lock our computers?(security.stackexchange.com)
3 points by xSwag 14y ago|0 comments
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by xSwag 14y ago
Did you not do your a-levels? Why not try an access course? Surely this is not the position you would like to be in? For university, the only subject you really need for CompSci/IT courses is Mathematics (+further maths for oxbridge/imperia
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by xSwag 14y ago
3.2M now, never seen it so high.
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by xSwag 14y ago
Yeah, now that I think about it, this is probably the best way to go about doing this since I did spend a fair amount of my time building the website.
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Ask HN: What do you do with your unsuccessful ventures?
5 points by xSwag 14y ago|4 comments
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by xSwag 14y ago
If you don't mind, I would be very much interested in what the profit margin was on these sales. In addition, what was the procedure of contacting and collaborating with the manufacturers?
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by xSwag 14y ago
Similar story here, although I'm happy I got had this unpleasant experience with my first big website and learnt not to use them ever again. This was my first website, over 2 years it had around 80M impressions and then suddenly, one day, e
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by xSwag 14y ago
Anybody know how much? Congrats!
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by xSwag 14y ago
Nothing new, a worm similar to this called LilyJade got a few million installs (using crossrider - a cross-browser extension thing) by spamming users facebook effectively bypassing csrf because they can read the webpage and spreading itself
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Ask HN: How many of you have sold your startup?
9 points by xSwag 14y ago|5 comments
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by xSwag 14y ago
setu.ps
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by xSwag 14y ago
Joeycfan, buddy, you've been hellbanned for almost 1,000 days ever since your comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000770 Logout and refresh the page, you will not see your comment here
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by xSwag 14y ago
Quick translation from Gizmodo[1]: "We have hacked you because your lack of support of Syrian government and militant groups backed by that government. Al Jazeera has been spreading lies. We're compelled to do so on behalf of the Syrian peo
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by xSwag 14y ago
I checked the source, it just contains an image embed, no exploit kits. Nothing to worry about!
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by xSwag 14y ago
Did they "pwn" the servers or change the DNS?
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by xSwag 14y ago
I'm tempted to get some tickets because I've always wondered what RMS talks are like, I'd imagine that they'd be rather critical but I wonder how the audience generally reacts to his somewhat controversial views
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by xSwag 14y ago
I don't think that HTTP headers are enough and feel that setting csrf tokens is the best approach to this. My reasoning behind this is that there are a lot of privacy plugins[1] that people use that interfere with the headers and using refe
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by xSwag 14y ago
I would be very much interested in this. Infact, I wouldn't even mind paying a fee as long as your tutorials are more interesting then what I would read in a high level book
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by xSwag 14y ago
Essentially a million dollar company in two years, impressive!
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Warn HN: µTorrent unsafe, crafted URL allows remote execution(lock.cmpxchg8b.com)
2 points by xSwag 14y ago|0 comments
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by xSwag 14y ago
Mandatory signup is enabled because the website is aimed towards the not so well known lets players as it helps them get noticed, the concept of the website is the users follow games as opposed to one person playing one video game. Users ne
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by xSwag 14y ago
While OPs statement might apply to single player video games where there is just one generic campaign. I feel the need to mention that this is not the case with all games, specially sandbox games such as Minecraft and multiplayer games such
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by xSwag 14y ago
The kudos thing looks similar to the one used in the svbtle network
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Ask HN: Where to find designers for low-budget startup?
4 points by xSwag 14y ago|6 comments
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by xSwag 14y ago
Except, this time, there is no Reddit to fall back to.
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by xSwag 14y ago
It seems that people enjoy making a quick buck
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by xSwag 14y ago
Damnit I remember when they were less than $1 and thinking to myself "this will never take off". If I had invested $100, I could have sold today for $1K.
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by xSwag 14y ago
There are a lot of people offering 1000 Facebook page likes for just $5 on websites like Fiverr. I've seen profiles that have had no status updates but has 5k pages liked. There is a LOT of social media spam on Facebook
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by xSwag 14y ago
Oh god that is very embarrassing. How does someone so incompetent get to such a high position?

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