tsetse-fly

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by tsetse-fly 12y ago
Your hyperbole is akin to Malcolm Gladwell's style. See how this works?
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by tsetse-fly 13y ago
What's wrong with "ls -l (which cmd)"?
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by tsetse-fly 13y ago
You shouldn't have any issues changing your default shell via chsh. SHELL is, by default, set to /bin/sh by cron—you can also define this yourself. http://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/html_
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by tsetse-fly 15y ago
programming is hard, let's go shopping!
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by tsetse-fly 16y ago
Yes, there are plenty of companies out there that very much depend on a network effect and aren't Y Combinator-funded: Digg, Facebook, Quora or Stack Overflow, to name a few.
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by tsetse-fly 16y ago
Yes, I rather dislike the tone of their post. If anything, these sorts of childish insults makes me want to avoid using Posterous.
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by tsetse-fly 16y ago
You must be terrified by copy/paste.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Swiping is not obsolete. I don't know why you're trying to compare a virtual retailer like Amazon to shops that have an actual physical presence. The way they process payments is entirely different. Not everyone has a smartphone. Why would
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Chip and PIN is a standard. They wouldn't have to reverse engineer it or implement from scratch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Is it not obvious? Why don't retail stores type in your credit card information instead of swiping it? Chip and PIN doesn't seem to exist in the US so I'd imagine they're not targeting it immediately. I don't see why they couldn't expand th
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Perhaps you should look past the author to the content. There are some interesting ideas in there and it seems to have spawned some good discussion.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Sorry, you're right. I don't think that paragraph and the proceeding one was there when I originally read the post. Seems it's been edited since it was submitted.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Coder's block is a good way to describe it. I've had phone interviews where I've been asked to solve a logic puzzle with pen/paper while explaining my approach. Solving a problem you've never thought about while being put on the spot turns
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
That's the second time you've posted that link on HN. Do you have something against Aaron?
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
No, he said that he would ask for a code sample or demo. There doesn't seem to be any programming involved during the interview.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
What sort of programming problems are you giving them? Did these candidates have experience with other projects and were they able to fluidly explain their involvement with them? It must be pretty rare to find a person who can describe a co
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
In the case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b_Networks,_Ltd . HN does it wrong. There are exceptions either way, I wouldn't say that one is more correct.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Why would it be technically difficult for Apple to remove apps from your phone? Implementing a backdoor in your own software is fairly trivial.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
No need to sensationalize, he's still around: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sah Codepad is meant for simple snippets. I don't see anything wrong with the versions that he's currently providing.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
http://antoniocangiano.com/2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Any insults that Ted Dziuba receives are well-deserved. He's written dozens of trollish articles on how useless other startups are or how he hopes they'll fail. It seems fair to me that people are insulting his failure to produce a successf
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Can anyone that hasn't enabled tethering confirm that their visual voicemail hasn't been working? There were a slew of people on the MacRumors forums that were tethering and didn't realize that their visual voicemail had been broken for day
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
Most of what you're saying also applies to the other carriers in the US. Verizon has a history of crippling its phones. Sprint has horrible customer service. T-Mobile has very little coverage. There are no good carriers.
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
news.arc is open source. Go see for yourself: http://arclanguage.org/install
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by tsetse-fly 17y ago
The new version of Arc was released 31 days ago. http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9700
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by tsetse-fly 18y ago
Why are you submitting summaries from Slashdot? The title is sensationalist and articles on these ToS issues have already been posted here.
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by tsetse-fly 18y ago
I referred to skimmers to point out that the types of cards that came before and after this scheme pale in comparison. There wasn't any skimming involved here. I outlined how I think it happened in a couple of other posts.[1][2] It wasn't o
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by tsetse-fly 18y ago
We don't know what the limit was or even if there was one. I'm sure that's why payroll cards were picked for this particular scheme. I think people are too caught in thinking about how their cards work. The same rules that apply to credit
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by tsetse-fly 18y ago
No, it couldn't have been the promise of more money. This scheme was a first , it'd be impossible to know the outcome of the next card. There were 49+ cities involved, you'd need a call center to coordinate that. This organization, which w
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by tsetse-fly 18y ago
No, "cashier" is the proper term used by fraudsters. It refers to people who receive and disburse cash, like someone in a retail store. "casher" is a word made-up by an English major. Also, correcting people for minor mistakes on forums is

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