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Expensify Now Supports Bitcoin(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|0 comments
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
More evidence that overnight success takes at least a couple of years :) a hearty congratulations to Mr. D'Aloisio.
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Programming the Parallax Propeller with PropGCC(zacharyvoase.com)
5 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|1 comments
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
It says that they analysed 12 countries. Is it possible that they selected these countries specifically, and rejected others that may have refuted their hypothesis? I'm trying to say this with as little judgement as possible. I just know th
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
Something I've been pointing out about OAuth for ever is that it's a method for delegating authorization to agents who wish to act on behalf of the user. When it is the actual user him/herself who is acting, there's nothing wrong (and a l
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
Thanks a lot! It's feedback like this that keeps me releasing this stuff for free :P In terms of size: I think QR codes go up to 1024 bytes; anything larger and perhaps the Google Chart Image API would return an error, so you'd be quicklook
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
For me, it was more about sticking the whole process in an OS X Service available by right-click than actually generating a QR code. Of course you could also write one that sends a text message (via Twilio perhaps), or beams something ove
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
What do you mean?
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
QR codes on billboards and in marketing are kind of rubbish, but in terms of moving a URL or a phone number from your PC to your phone quickly, they're actually pretty useful.
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
EU competition law is a completely different beast from US antitrust law, and whilst I disagree with both forms, the EU definitely suffers from more of a Tall Poppy Syndrome: if you're a market leader with a disproportionate share of the ma
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Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written(zacharyvoase.com)
255 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|113 comments
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Compilers Are Way Smarter Than I Thought(zacharyvoase.com)
5 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|3 comments
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
Most cables that adapt signals from one format to another are 'active' (that is, contain a microcontroller). c.f.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_cable
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Wacom working on a new mobile tablet.(facebook.com)
1 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|0 comments
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Big-O: About the London Big-O Meetup(zacharyvoase.com)
3 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|0 comments
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London Big-O Meetup #2: CfP(meetup.com)
1 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|0 comments
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Improving Email, Realistically(zacharyvoase.com)
6 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|1 comments
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
The article questioned the honour and motivations of men who stand up for women's rights, calling them: ‘dickless wonders’, posers, ‘bland, craven hacks’, ‘docile, cringing cowards’, ‘buffoons’, ‘spineless’, ‘ostentatiously beta’, either ‘w
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
I'm not saying 'burn the heretic'. I'm saying let's put up a sign at the entrance to the playground saying “play nicely or leave”.
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
Mr. Yiannopoulos himself is homosexual, which means I don't think he gets to make comments like that. (EDIT: I'm saying this as a gay guy; I would never call into question the honour or motivations of a man who stood up for women's rights)
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
Did you read his article? Here's another direct quote: I’m afraid it’s time to be honest about what’s really going on when a tech blogger – or even, for shame, a proper newspaper journalist – makes these impassioned pleas
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
I'm not a religious person, but I'd direct you to Proverbs 13:20. You are the company you keep. And I'm saying that if we want our community to be open, welcoming and civil, we need to foster those qualities and reject those who do not valu
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Activism(zacharyvoase.com)
26 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|24 comments
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
Here's my stance on the whole thing: Natural disasters which are so far outside the realm of prediction as to become 'black swan' events are, of course, horrible, and everyone benefits from pooling resources to combat these situations (al
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
The points I got from this were: 1) People enjoy living in flood plains; 2) People who live in flood plains can't afford flood insurance; 3) Therefore, it's everyone else's job to compensate them for the cost of flood damage. Finally, this
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The Web Is Becoming Smalltalk(zacharyvoase.com)
111 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|109 comments
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
The article talks about when to refactor: when you are making the code more closely resemble the product specification. I'm disappointed that the key point of my entire article, which is the difference between accidental sameness and essent
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
My exact point was that the refactoring was ill-advised—but in my experience as a contractor (which means I've seen a lot of horrid things done in code) it happens a lot.
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by zacharyvoase 14y ago
That still seems complicated to me. You're still passing around an object representing a collection of arguments/options, and there are functions whose outputs vary based on this object's state—it's not immediately inferable from the call t
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In Defense of Copy and Paste(zacharyvoase.com)
100 points by zacharyvoase 14y ago|58 comments

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