bdc

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by bdc 13y ago
No, at some point between $0 and $400,000,000[1], negligence is no longer an acceptable excuse. [1] The current market value of the claimed 700k BTC loss in USD.
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by bdc 13y ago
Listed under "Assets": "New brand and services ready to be launched." Just what the community needs most - new Gox-quality services, hidden behind brand obfuscation. Ready to go!
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by bdc 13y ago
I love the way this API is presented on the page. It's awesome. It exposes itself in such an obvious way that it leaves no question about its capabilities and usage. Makes me want to jump right in.
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by bdc 13y ago
> "[The U.S. patent system] is not obliged to register change in ownership." That I hadn't known; the implication being, if you intend to leverage a patent with lawful permission from its licensor, it's still possib
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by bdc 13y ago
BBRY Market cap today: $4.3 bn Cash: "about $2.6 bn in cash" Patents: "estimate [...] between $1 bn and $3 bn" That leaves not a whole lot of value in the company's other assets after the cash and patent
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by bdc 13y ago
It's easy to dump on PMA, but what it was built for, it did (and mostly, does) excellently. When I used PMA for the first time I was a very young programmer, and it really amazed me that such a tool could exist. Oddly enough, this was
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by bdc 13y ago
This article reads like a general argument against government subsidies in general - replace "STEM education" with "corn" or "new energy" and the argument is still valid. Given that it was published on nature.com, best known as the publishe
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by bdc 13y ago
Among my recent favorites: "Hello NULL," -- from Leap Motion "I wanted to follow up after meeting you" -- from "Developer Relations Team" (not a person!? did I meet the entire team?) at SendGrid
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by bdc 13y ago
I received 15 emails in 10 days when I signed up for Full Contact. Yeah, I wanted to check out your product, so I signed up and tested it out. No, I don't need to be reminded that you exist every sixteen hours. I had, separately, been discu
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by bdc 14y ago
I gotta be honest, I can't figure out how to use this. I imported my Google Reader data (or so I am led to believe), but all I see is a generic feed full of (admittedly interesting, but not what I want) generic news stories. I see a way of
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by bdc 14y ago
In Windows, 'X' "makes no sense", while in OS X, 'X' is "clear." Okay, got it :).
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by bdc 14y ago
To play devil's advocate, let's consider that it might actually be important to push new icons into the public icon lexicon. Right now I'm typing this comment in a browser window that has three icons at the top right: a little line like thi
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by bdc 14y ago
Caution -- "Request access to the prototype" yielded an immediate email: "Thank you for signing up for a New York Times newsletter!"
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by bdc 14y ago
On the subject of minification, I see a lot of lines that look like this[1]: fireToken : 1 === f.tradeTokens.data.fireToken ? !0 : !1, Why might that be a desired output from a minifier? Why not simply fireToken : 1 === f.tradeTo
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by bdc 14y ago
+1ed for "How To Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami"
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by bdc 14y ago
What are you using to determine whether *.io domains are "free" vs "taken"? It seems to be incorrect. http://www.usernique.com/io/x -- "free" http://www.nic.io/cgi-bin/whois?query=x.io -- The domain is unavailable for use.
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by bdc 14y ago
AOL Keywords ;)
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by bdc 14y ago
Actually, the captcha predicate is a GET request that looks like this: http://en.lichess.org/captcha/78pkfjgz?solution=e5+e4 which returns 1 or 0. So the brute force captcha solution is to go through 8^4 (~4k) get requests, which you coul
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by bdc 14y ago
To paraphrase: the question 'What is your mother's maiden name?' is intrinsically insecure as a security measure; instead of answering it directly, make up some unguessable string that has nothing to do with the question. Sound advice, but.
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by bdc 14y ago
> Most of us won't pay $1 for a great game, but will pay $99 in IAPs Here's the difference: by the time you're even considering an in-app-purchase, you already know you love the app. Would you rather support a product that has g
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by bdc 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5343512
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by bdc 14y ago
Aside from inertia, what is keeping DST in place right now? I could imagine some bizarre lobbying incentive, like it provides some marginal and trivial benefit to the corn industry somehow, although I am not aware of one.
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by bdc 14y ago
> "If it were found on Mars, people would call it Martian DNA. But this is DNA from Earth" Yes... yes indeed.
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by bdc 14y ago
On the plus side, the bizarre site ux is because he's trying to do something novel, and not due to negligence, like the source of most of the internet's bad ux.
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by bdc 14y ago
$39 for 100 minutes - that comes out to 39 cents a minute. Even the cheapest you can buy minutes ($22 for 1000, or 2.2 cents/minute) is more expensive than comparable web-based services. Is there anything that this actually does better than
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by bdc 14y ago
A chapter from Henry Ford's playbook
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by bdc 14y ago
Why can't computers have names that sound like computers. Thought this was gonna be about SpaceX or something.
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by bdc 14y ago
An interesting derivative of "I, Pencil": http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
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by bdc 14y ago
> I like to fiddle with the cursor while I'm thinking. That's a good point - I do that too. Also, if I've switched my attention somewhere else, then back to vim, I find myself doing "hlhlhl" to get my attention back to the cursor immedi
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by bdc 14y ago
It is actually possible that you violate their tos by doing so - it could be construed as falsely implying some representation of the company. A stretch to any sane person, though any typical terms document contains miles and miles of cya.

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