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by moot 11y ago
+1 for SizeUp.
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by moot 11y ago
Maciej is easily one of my favorite writers. And speakers! I recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c
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by moot 11y ago
I just returned home from hauling most of my clothing to the local Goodwill. On a related note, I look forward to seeing more people wearing startup/conference t-shirts around NYC, since they comprised the lion's share of my wardr
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by moot 12y ago
mootxico
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by moot 12y ago
FYI, station agents will merge/combine MetroCards for you, so you can recover small balances from old/unexpired ones.
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by moot 12y ago
Now you can download memes from 4chan marginally faster!! (I'm really glad they did this, because at 4chan's patented "SOON™" dev pace, it'll take us another decade to add native IPv6 support.)
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by moot 12y ago
Sounds like a good plan to me!
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by moot 12y ago
Our investors have been incredibly supportive -- especially these past few [rough] months. The biggest concern I have is not so much the price it would fetch (which is probably not much given recent events), but rather finding a suitable st
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by moot 12y ago
I found myself in the same exact position with Canvas/DrawQuest earlier this year. Everyone (including myself) was laid off a few months ago, but we'd hoped to keep the app running with the remaining revenue/cash-on-hand and
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by moot 12y ago
> Would it be possible, however, to take donations (cryptocurrencies?) that can be used specifically for the bounties? I appreciate the kind gesture, but I really hate accepting donations, and to that end we haven't accepted any in
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by moot 12y ago
> I think it would be a very good idea for moot to bite the bullet and pay for a moderately thorough security audit of 4chan's code. Where/who would you suggest? I'm certainly open to the idea.
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by moot 12y ago
> Looks like a good opportunity for an open source tool that scans a git repository for interesting/private information. These already exist in droves, which is exactly how our Amazon credentials were found. http://www.it
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by moot 12y ago
> they were still committed by a dev as experienced as moot I'm not a terribly good programmer, and have been very hands-off with 4chan's code for quite some time. I still direct development and am responsible for the servers&#
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by moot 12y ago
Good point -- frankly I'd suggest doing both (clean repo and revoke/replace the secrets). The developer in question simply overlooked the issue, and since we were busy spinning down the company, nobody else caught it.
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by moot 12y ago
Venture capital for a separate business/entity != money for 4chan and/or myself personally. It's incredible how so many 4channers confuse the two and have a fundamental misunderstanding of VC...
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by moot 12y ago
> 4chan has had a lot of beautiful code submitted by volunteers every year. It's a shame to keep it all locked up. All of our codebase (the core application and related tools) has been closed-source from day one. Not sure what you&#
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by moot 12y ago
The goal was to create a framework through which people could safely test and report exploits. In addition, 4chan isn't in a financial position to dole out large bounties.
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by moot 12y ago
That may in fact be the harbinger of the Apocalypse.
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by moot 12y ago
We actually implemented Facebook Connect for April Fool's back in 2010. It was a real app and posted your 4chan post(s) to your Facebook wall. EDIT: Here's a screenshot -- http://i.imgur.com/p0peJp6.png The best p
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by moot 12y ago
HELL HAS FROZEN OVER
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by moot 12y ago
Per meowface's comment, this code is ~4 years old. It's in a much better place now, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. The vulnerability wasn't in the main application. I'll write more about it on my p
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by moot 12y ago
Eh, Stripe has way larger/more high profile customers than us, but yes we've been very happy with them.
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by moot 12y ago
We've been using Adzerk on 4chan for the past year and it's been a Godsend. We'd previously been using our own in-house rotation that had minimal reporting because every third-party we'd used in the past either a) fell o
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by moot 12y ago
I know this feeling. One-man bands are especially prone to "Valve time." On 4chan, "soon" basically means "anywhere between an hour from now and never."
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by moot 12y ago
Thanks Dan!
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by moot 12y ago
HN mods should probably update the submission URL to this one: http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan And you need to disable HTTPS Everywhere for blog.4chan.org since Tumblr doesn't sup
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by moot 12y ago
Not instead of, but in addition to: http://blog.4chan.org/post/81891220996/reintroducing-the-4ch...
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by moot 12y ago
We already send the proper MIME type: Content-Type: video/webm
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by moot 12y ago
We don't have the resources to support transcoding, and since so much of our userbase is on browsers that support it I don't think we would regardless.
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by moot 12y ago
Tumblr doesn't support HTTPS, unfortunately. HTTPS Everywhere will need to update the 4chan config to account for it.

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