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by smewpy 13y ago
Great response from StrongLoop, it was ridiculous over-react from Joyent to publicly pull out the pitchforks.
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by smewpy 13y ago
To me, real story is, all 96 tablets less than $50 in China.
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by smewpy 13y ago
When I was 28 years old, found I had high blood pressure. Over next 7 years I took BP meds but also lost weight and worked out. Doctors ran tests but never found a root cause - it was just high for no assignable reason and I was told to tak
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by smewpy 13y ago
If there is one thing I've managed to become sure of in my time on earth, it is that existing financial systems are explicitly designed by the status quo to be abused by the status quo.
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by smewpy 13y ago
From burritocop (linkdead): Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python http://inventwithpython.com/hacking/ I haven't yet read the book but I've heard good things about it. It looks like it's a beginning program
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by smewpy 13y ago
How about looking into paying this man for his honest bug finding work? The response from FB on this is disgusting. "We are unfortunately not able to pay you for this vulnerability because your actions violated our Terms of
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by smewpy 13y ago
Yet another datapoint that marijuana vaporizers are a great bet for a hardware startup.
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by smewpy 13y ago
Sorry to hear this. Jumping bail and escaping the country, is a valid option, in my mind.
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by smewpy 13y ago
This is senior high school analytics and stating failure as a certainty with this simple model is over-reaching, not to mention, Mark Shuttleworth's money.
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by smewpy 13y ago
This is really helpful, thanks.
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by smewpy 13y ago
That style has merit. Whomever submitted that code, which obviously resulted in creating extra work to waste Linus' time, that person has many choices, such as leaving and never contributing again, or improving their code before next
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by smewpy 13y ago
Wow, this is really pretty cool. I'm surprised not more discussion on it. Thanks for sharing.
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by smewpy 13y ago
Hi HN, thanks for taking time to look at my project!
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Berry Blocks - your rack in your colors (Kickstarter)(kickstarter.com)
2 points by smewpy 13y ago|1 comments
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Introducing Berry Blocks(kickstarter.com)
2 points by smewpy 13y ago|0 comments
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by smewpy 13y ago
From gitsum, who is linkdead: "I mined about 13000 bitcoins in 2010 when it was possible to mine with a single quad core CPU. It was worth about $100 when I stopped mining in August 2010, and I was ecstatic that I had earned a nice steak di
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by smewpy 13y ago
Doesn't everyone realize by now that these android tv boxes are a dime a dozen here in China now? What the heck makes this a legitimate kickstarter? They have their PCBA in a tester, like they've actually designed the PCBA (NOT), and love
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by smewpy 14y ago
Shame that this is the biggest news to come out of PyCon.
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by smewpy 14y ago
Google Glass banned in McDonalds.
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by smewpy 14y ago
As an American that lives and works in China, I can certainly vouch that it is a real trick to even download the regular version of Skype, and best I can tell it is impossible without VPN connection. Microsoft belongs to the man, in China.
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MAKE it in China: How to Spot a Good Factory(blog.makezine.com)
1 points by smewpy 14y ago|0 comments
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What it's like to surf HN from China(wiki.asianops.com)
2 points by smewpy 14y ago|0 comments
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Verizon bragging about spying on customers(citeworld.com)
1 points by smewpy 14y ago|0 comments