balls2you

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by balls2you 11y ago
No. I noticed it too. In the license he revealed his possibly real name and email id, but tried to be anonymous in the blog by using an ID looking like a Bitcoin address. Or maybe he just wants you to send him more Bitcoin for the code.
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by balls2you 11y ago
Talk to the person who says you're condescending and ask them for situations where you were. Then analyze whether you were or not. The problem with a lot of developers/scientists/"people who have been told they are smart
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by balls2you 11y ago
Great article outlining how disconnected the startup culture is from real life and empathy towards its employees and contractors. If this is the direction these startups are going, it will be no surprise that they will all shut down soon. S
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by balls2you 11y ago
Saudi Arabia criminalizes adultery which is "having an affair". Polygyny means you're legally married which is allowed in Saudi Arabia but having an adulterous relationship is criminal.
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by balls2you 11y ago
Why work for a startup then ?
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by balls2you 11y ago
So if you don't exercise your options, then why take the pay cut and work twice as hard for a startup ? The whole thing reeks of a scam against early employees.
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by balls2you 11y ago
> Having an affair actually is illegal in almost half the US, and in some states, it's even a felony. Wow! United Saudi Arabia (USA)!
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by balls2you 11y ago
sell it to another startup that is starting up and take 1% Equity
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by balls2you 11y ago
What about the fact that developers are writing more and more bloated and slow applications ?
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by balls2you 11y ago
sounds like majority of the folks on Hacker News... a javascript developer !
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by balls2you 11y ago
tell that to that Brendan Eich guy at Mozilla
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by balls2you 11y ago
Facebook cannot sells ads to inmates because they cannot purchase anything, hence the takedowns. Isn't that obvious ?
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by balls2you 11y ago
>>I think some people get so combative because their identity is wrapped up in being right. It's unfortunate, given our capacity to collaborate and build, that we still struggle with these scuffs. Unfortunately, that is very typi
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by balls2you 11y ago
There are users who are pirates and then there are corporate pirates whose businesses are built on copying and pirating popular games and making them look professional. They are the real danger to indie devs not end users in their mother&#x
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by balls2you 11y ago
You're assuming the application that wants to protect its assets and other IP will let you run it in a simulator which is not going to be the case.
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by balls2you 11y ago
This can easily be bypassed by the application itself if it checks that the DLLs or .so files loaded in memory are the approved and check-summed ones and only then progresses to doing anything. This is a non-issue. Applications that are wor
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by balls2you 11y ago
From what I understand when I read the blog, they're trying to demonstrate that you can use encryption/decryption on the GPU to create some form of DRM unique to your application. Their previous blog cites they are into researchin
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Show HN: Protecting Your Software Assets Using OpenGL(stealthy.io)
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by balls2you 11y ago
sounds like something designed without consulting the CJK users...
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by balls2you 11y ago
Paperless bathrooms exist in various parts of the world. The folks there use water to wash which is more cleaner.
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by balls2you 11y ago
And it will be called .. wait for it.. the Internet of SLOW Things !
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by balls2you 11y ago
You should feel good about it because they are able to communicate without reliable electricity or peace.
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by balls2you 11y ago
Learn Perl and increase your value instead of being a one-trick-pony !
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by balls2you 11y ago
Yes but the "Don't copy that floppy" adage is definitely an American thing. So is CFAA, which makes it easier to have prosecuted Aleynikov under CFAA instead of some other laws. It worked for Swartz.
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by balls2you 11y ago
Install VMWare Fusion or VirtualBox, give it most of your RAM and hard disk space. Now run Linux on that. That's your best bet for sticking to Linux for most of your work. You can use browser on the Mac if you want to be able to use th
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by balls2you 11y ago
"exploit" => "cyber security" => "hey look, i can do cyber and you can hire me" just a way to market oneself I guess here by using the hyperbole of "exploit". makes sense if you want to join th
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by balls2you 11y ago
National Security letters for open source code ? Or is it for just the private repositories ? Or is it to be able to "subtly add code" to existing repositories without being seen ? What would it be for ? I am stumped.
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by balls2you 11y ago
Don't join Silicon Valley. Your skills are more valued and paid for in Finance. Real hard cash not worthless options that may have value in the future. EDIT: also do not "commoditize" yourself by becoming a web developer or a
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by balls2you 12y ago
You don't think we did ? That's just silly to even think that employees who are more emotionally vested in a startup will forget to ask what their equity is. They don't tell you. That's the norm. Consider yourself lucky
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by balls2you 12y ago
no equity %. The savvy CFOs will not tell you what your percentage equity actually is. this allows the CEO/top brass to dilute the pool by issuing millions of options before the sale of the company to a buyer. Since I didnt work for a

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