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bboyan

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bboyan··on List of available 2 letter domain names
.gg goes for $75 on Gandi, compared to $150 on iwantmyname
bboyan··on The Interview
You can download this as a DRM-free file with a simple curl command. Most people probably wouldn't bother, however, because Stripe makes it so easy to just watch directly your browser, no need to go through the hassle of downloading anything or needing the hard drive space.

This is a great example of content providers finally beating piracy by providing a simpler method of content distribution. I hope more movies come out like this.

bboyan··on Jaadi.js – JS Storage Abstraction
Look at PouchDB
bboyan··on Ask HN: Best isolating headphones for hacking?
Etymotic hf5: 35-42 dB isolation + good frequency response and accuracy
bboyan··on Disable Facebook Chat Seen Status - Chrome Extension
It adds an http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html#event... handler that prevents requests to /ajax/messaging/typ.php, /ajax/mercury/mark_seen.php, and /ajax/mercury/change_read_status.php.

Copy-pasta from some YouTube ad block extension.