ogreyonder

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by ogreyonder 12y ago
And when they give you their feedback, listen. They may only tell you once.
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by ogreyonder 12y ago
Already done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6660089 http://i.imgur.com/mmPAztu.png I didn't get much interest so I didn't bother building it :)
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by ogreyonder 12y ago
Yes; for people participating in an employee stock purchase program, it is called a Disqualifying Disposition. It puts you in the short-term capital gains bracket (with about 15% higher tax). However, it's still a VERY good idea to do
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by ogreyonder 12y ago
Agreed. His argument is essentially that you can't meet deadlines with Scrum, because you must always be in a 'shippable' state at the end of each sprint. I'd argue that if you can't meet deadlines with scrum, there
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
I wouldn't... I would live like a miser for 2-3 years and retire to do whatever I wanted. Maybe 4 if I felt like travelling the world for a decade. :)
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
On the contrary: in a world filled with a cacophony of malicious and intentionally misleading statements, the silence caused by the criminalization of lies seems welcome.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
And Ebay was the first mover in the online auction space. I'm sure we can cherrypick counterexamples all day, but in general the first mover enjoys an advantage those that come after do not.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Agreed. Just apply the usual headline rule: If the title is a question, the answer is "No."
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
5+ days for Fidelity
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
MtGox should absolutely have known about this issue. Everyone building anything related to BTC should know not to make assumptions about the protocol, and to treat every input as hostile. You'd think they'd have at least one guy d
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Is there any interest in a Chrome plugin that would passively report anonymized download speed for things like YouTube or Amazon? I can imagine that kind of info would be useful.
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Patent trolls watch out – Apple and Google join forces to make you think twice(pfhub.com)
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Yeah, I was confused about this too. They hook up your github then...don't even use it?
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
In regard to working on side projects: > Just ask. The worst they can say is "No." And that's where I have to ask: what do you do when they say no? I followed this advice a year back or so and it essentially put the brakes
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Yes, the idea you espouse. Yours, given that you promoted it. Or do you want to revise your statement?
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
+1 to parent post. It looks awesome, the fade-in is kinda distracting. It also re-fades the main area when you switch between categories. To the coders: Nice job on using multiple URLs to allow pages to be viewed without JS enabled. Having
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Thanks! This looks really cool, I'll check it out.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
A hybrid system sounds reasonable, but I'm more interested in how they think that Dagger is ASIC-proof. I can't tell without a real description of the algorithm, but what is presented doesn't seem hard to parallelize.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
I'm interested in seeing a real explanation of the Dagger algorithm. In brief: the only source I can find (that page) just contains a few sloppy lines of pseudocode. Where is real description and proof of its properties? https:/&
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
http://wiki.ethereum.org/index.php/Dagger#Algorithm_specific... : You sound knowledgeable, so perhaps you could clean up their algorithm for me? There are a number of problems with their description that make it hard fo
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
For a throwaway, you are remarkable.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
This is excellent. You're on to something, why not write more?
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Normally I'd downvote the doge on HN, but this is particularly apt. The article abuses the word "derp" to sound hip, makes weak shots at people and ideas left and right (without ever arriving at an argument), and generally ra
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Well, which is better: the illusion of privacy (which you can do nothing to further secure), or the known fact that you have no privacy in an environment where you can take steps to protect yourself? Your bank offers the illusion of privacy
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
I looked that logo up thinking it probably came from some sort of 70's science fiction book about a dystopian future. Nope, National Reconnaissance Office. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_Launches I mean,
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Yup. I've gotten 1 parking ticket in my life: I parked fully within a clearly marked, paid parking spot in downtown Austin. A stop sign nailed to a wooden stand showed up while I was at dinner along with a $100 ticket for parking to cl
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Or a technology already exists :) "UC Berkeley scientists have developed a system to capture visual activity in human brains and reconstruct it as digital video clips..." http://gizmodo.com/5843117/scientists-
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
While I appreciate the effort that went into writing this thought experiment, that's not what I'm interested in. I would like a historical example demonstrating the problem of the gold standard. The world worked this way for centu
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
After trying several times to write this reply without sounding snarky, because I am actually being sincere: can you link me to reading on historical problems directly caused by the gold standard? Or maybe some search terms? I've hear
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
> if you can't do the time, don't do the crime. That is entirely the point. He may well have been willing to do "the time". But "the time" is wildly disproportionate to "the crime". This is bad fo

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