sethist

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by sethist 14y ago
I also wonder what percentage of the "hoarded currency" is actually currency that has been destroyed and if it will have any long term consequences. For example, in the early days of Bitcoin I mined a few blocks with an old laptop. The co
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by sethist 14y ago
Another way to attack a similar set of problems is through the new bundling and minification settings in .Net 4.5[1]. It doesn't address everything, for example you need to know and account for the dependencies yourself. However, my early
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by sethist 14y ago
Anyone who would say that hasn't been paying attention. Not only had innovation on Reader slowed to a halt, but Google was also working on and prioritizing products that competed with it (G+). There is a reason why Feedly was able to move
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by sethist 14y ago
It is a lot easier for people to protest by not doing anything than actually putting effort into it. Switching from Gmail to some other provider involves a lot of friction. Not using a newly released product (assuming this will be one) is
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by sethist 14y ago
This is an oversimplification and the type of thinking that gets IT labeled as nothing more than a business cost center. IT shouldn't just be limited to preventing downtime and making sure things continue to work. It should also be focuse
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by sethist 14y ago
Forgive me, I hadn't heard of the company before this article. The name suggests and the article flatly states that the developer is "sold to the highest bidder." If there is really nothing binding about the bids and the highest bidder do
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by sethist 14y ago
A job seems like the last thing I would want to leave up to be "sold to the highest bidder." From an employee's perspective there are so many other factors outside of compensation that are relevant to whether I would want to work somewhere
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by sethist 14y ago
Which is one of the reason those degrees are viewed as less valuable than a similar degree from a more prestigious institution which is assumed to have higher (teaching/admission/grading) standards. That is still the biggest obstacle for n
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by sethist 14y ago
The problem is that people expect more from Google. People understand the conference is popular and so should Google. If anyone could handle this type of load, you would think they would be near the top of the list. However, every year p
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by sethist 14y ago
But how many live chickens hop continents? Or are there other ways for the disease to renter the chicken population from a non-chicken source?
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by sethist 14y ago
Until the value of Bitcoin is more stable and technology illiterate people start to use it, there is no way that something like this can replace PayPal.
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by sethist 14y ago
What further exasperates the issue is the free hardware is often be kept by an individual while the ticket price is paid by their employer.
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by sethist 14y ago
Are those limits established yet? There isn't any place on the page that would indicate any limits or even the existence of paid tiers. This stuff should be visible before requiring a user to signup.
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by sethist 14y ago
So what is the catch on this? I am guessing there are legality issues and/or they extremely limit your library. No company can afford to offer what they claim to be offering without some serious cash behind them.
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by sethist 14y ago
It is interesting that this wouldn't be assumed considering the reverse is so obviously true. The world is designed for people with the median amount of human senses. If you lose one completely or have a sense that isn't as perceptive as
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by sethist 14y ago
If the failure can be attributed to the credit card, the Xeround account, and the authors email client, then it isn't really a single point of failure. If one (or even two) of those failed, the others should have been able to identify the
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by sethist 14y ago
It seems like their sample population is too small to be fully confident in their conclusions. For example, why does the average salary for Java, Ruby, and Python specialists peak 3-5 years into their career and then decline? Why do early
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You can now buy stuff with a hashtag thanks to American Express(theverge.com)
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by sethist 14y ago
The same way the system allows you to type in 0213 without blurting out a big error the moment you type 02. Just don't validate the input while the user is still inputting it. Secondly, remember this is for credit card expirations and not
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by sethist 14y ago
There are three ways to interpret it. It is either 11/3, 1/13, or an error. Since 11/3 isn't a valid date, I think it is safe to rule that out as an incorrect interpretation. Either of the other two interpretations seem acceptable to me.
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by sethist 14y ago
I was referring to the live demo at http://stripe.github.com/jquery.payment/example/ . Either way, I wouldn't consider the library interpreting 113 as 11/3 as a "working".
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by sethist 14y ago
Fair enough, I haven't dug into the code yet. I was basing my comment on the live demo which prevents it.
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by sethist 14y ago
This looks nice, but I ran into an immediate usability issue. The Card Expiry requires a leading 0 for January. It seems like bad UI to prevent a user from enter 1/13 or 1/2013 in those fields.
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by sethist 14y ago
Furthermore, even if that statement is true does it mean we should blame the prosecution? The analogy I have been using is getting fired or going through a breakup. Those type of events are sometimes catalysts for suicide, but I don't thi
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by sethist 14y ago
The irony in this article is pretty thick. In his original article, Jeff not so subtly admitted that he considered suicide and therefore likely battled depression as well. Yet Reed says Jeff has "a reckless lack of knowledge about how dep
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by sethist 14y ago
The problem with that graph is that almost no one invests that way. People just don't dump their entire life savings into the market, wait x number of years, and then withdraw it all at once. Dollar cost averaging and changes in investmen
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by sethist 14y ago
I just don't understand how it is productive to spend the amount of money necessarily to dig this stuff out of the ground only to stick it in some bank vault to go untouched for decades. Now people are arguing whose bank vault we will use
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by sethist 14y ago
No it isn't. If anything it shows that he didn't want to endure his potential punishment. If he didn't understand the potential punishment there would be no need to commit suicide.
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by sethist 14y ago
In those cases isn't it due to the fact that the defendant is unable to mentally process their crime, trial, or potential punishment?
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by sethist 14y ago
Regarding your second point, are you suggesting the legal system should go easy on criminals who may be suicidal? I just think it is foolish to start blaming every entity that could have contributed to his mental state. Hypothetically spea

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