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by zxer 12y ago
How could a bank transfer be less safe? I don't know the US system but if I give out my bank account number the only thing someone can use it for is to send money to me. On the other hand if someone malicious gets my credit card number
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by zxer 13y ago
Except when not. When I was interviewing they didn't make me sign one. They rejected me for the original position, but later occasionally called me with some alternate options. These calls usually went like: - We would be interested in
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by zxer 13y ago
Seems strangely similar to the allegedly planned bitcoin attack from 2 days ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1cu4ck/ridiculous_d... It also started with a first step to "Spread bogus AP press releases".
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by zxer 14y ago
London
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by zxer 14y ago
another datapoint: Linode 512: 3.96647 s, 50.8 MB/s DigitalOcean 512: 5.87315 s, 34.3 MB/s (though the digitalocean one feels much snappier)
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by zxer 14y ago
> (though that website is still being set up) Even if it's just a quick-and-dirty list, or an appstore link, it would make a huge difference if the applicants had at least some idea about you. Btw, for what timeframe are you looking for
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by zxer 14y ago
To different fake testimonials... splendid :) When google rolled out their images search, I thought similar simplistic sites would stop using pictures obviously stolen from the internet to use them as fake customers, but apparently not.
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by zxer 14y ago
I don't think it makes any sense to follow any community-agreed guidelines until Notch finalizes his design. Do you plan to make a short description of what exactly it took to create the backend? I thought this would be an excellent excuse
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by zxer 14y ago
In this case it does, but very often doesn't. It seems to me that this happens mostly with rapidly changing websites, as if the cache showed a somewhat later state than when it was indexed. And this has been an annoyance since years.
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by zxer 15y ago
The plot thickens: http://itunes.apple.com/app/lockitize-your-lock-screen/id445... This is the exact same app from a different developer, who claims that the other one is a copy-cat and a scam. (leaving out the small detail that his own a
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by zxer 15y ago
If you are looking for algorithmic puzzles you can browse the archives of topcoder.com : http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MatchList These usually require less time and less math skill than the already mentioned projecteuler.net problems.
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by zxer 16y ago
The email also says "take user feedback [...] into account". So perhaps the automated system isn't that automated after all. And frankly, I am not surprised if Facebook isn't comfortable having this app around. If someone finds an exploit,
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Lima Sky Claiming Trademark on the Word “Doodle”?(148apps.com)
1 points by zxer 16y ago|0 comments
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by zxer 16y ago
"search was totally and completely useless" Often I feel that in recent years the quality of the results are declining again. Now if you search for X, you get a lot of webshops, which tell you the price, but not any other useful information
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by zxer 16y ago
Isn't this whole timestamping thing overcomplicated? Just set up a twitter account and post the hash codes. The code in itself is useless, so it does not have to be kept secret, and you will have a way to proof that you had the document gen