evilswan

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Wapple triumph over Apple in UK trademark dispute(wapple.net)
2 points by evilswan 14y ago|0 comments
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by evilswan 14y ago
Just had a go: it's great!
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Every Super Mario Bros level condensed onto one screen each(johanpeitz.com)
10 points by evilswan 14y ago|1 comments
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by evilswan 14y ago
Good point. Meh. Assume it's also root pass for SSH on that box?
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by evilswan 14y ago
Or, change the FTP password and email that to the ISP abuse team. Spammer is locked out.
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by evilswan 14y ago
Great post, really enjoyed following the trail along with the author. The sad part is, knowing how useless a lot of ISP's abuse@ emails are, the FTP might never be taken down this way.
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by evilswan 14y ago
Hard to imagine how they arrived at the total cost of €1,400 - what about the hours of work that went into the web app and iPhone app, and all the visual design? Are they calculating their hourly rate as insignificant? Product looks good, b
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Poddle: simple video podcasting is seeking crowdfunding(indiegogo.com)
2 points by evilswan 14y ago|1 comments
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by evilswan 14y ago
So true. I have never, ever taken a job I knew how to do (fully). I blagged it, and learned it all on the job.
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by evilswan 14y ago
Just total nonsense which makes no mention of either general inflation or the price-deflation of consumer electronics. My parents saved up to buy my Spectrum when I was a kid. Now, a parent could get a laptop off eBay for $50 and install Li
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by evilswan 14y ago
I'm not seeing how. This stuff is free, and a torrent would make it easier for users and reduce server load for the site.
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Rackspace migration was because of a security fix, extra ? char in the ticket...(pastebin.com)
1 points by evilswan 14y ago|0 comments
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by evilswan 14y ago
Anyone care to leech them all and make a torrent? My corporate firewall won't allow it, or I'd be doing it now. :(
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by evilswan 14y ago
Printing ads on toilet paper could still be a tech business needing many hackers. Enrolment, ad bidding, printing, logistics, crm, etc etc
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by evilswan 14y ago
I refuse to use Facebook.
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by evilswan 14y ago
Disqus?
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Brendan Eich of Mozilla gave $1000 to support gay marriage ban(projects.latimes.com)
57 points by evilswan 14y ago|39 comments
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by evilswan 15y ago
Had a hunch this was the case, just needed someone smarter than I to confirm. How do banks ensure nobody makes a phishing version of their apps?
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by evilswan 15y ago
That is interesting, but surely the client-side cert could just be copied and used in a dummy app?
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Ask HN: How do I ensure that a real iOS client is using an API
4 points by evilswan 15y ago|6 comments
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Idea Dump 5(willgrant.org)
1 points by evilswan 15y ago|0 comments
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Order a 3D-printed snowman based on your Twitter data(frstee.com)
1 points by evilswan 15y ago|0 comments
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by evilswan 15y ago
Mike this is great, thank you. Good angle for me to think on.
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by evilswan 15y ago
Thanks Mathias, great advice.
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by evilswan 15y ago
My first HDD was on a Commodore Amiga and was a mighty 60Mb.
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by evilswan 15y ago
Maybe you could help me with an iOS API build question? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110572
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by evilswan 15y ago
Good info, thanks. MySQL it is then. :)
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by evilswan 15y ago
I had thought about MongoDB, but bit worried about its global write lock! Surely that can't be a good idea!? http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/How+does+concurrency+wor... Or does that only apply if "safe mode" is on, rather than fire-an
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by evilswan 15y ago
I/O Bound - very little other than db write/read operations. Going to hit the backend every transaction as its very stateful so minimal caching can be possible. Unknown on growth! Hope for the best, I want to take 1000 r/sec on an EC2 insta
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Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
6 points by evilswan 15y ago|15 comments

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