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bdevine··on Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?
Of course, the more wallets you create and sell, the higher the probability that at least one of their buyers is stupid.
bdevine··on Ask HN: What music do you listen to when hacking?
I am one of those who can't have lyrics in the background. I like a mix of light classical and modern (Satie to Glass) along with cool jazz (if you include Sketches of Spain in that category). For my late nights I tend to go with Boards of Canada though.
bdevine··on $2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December
Honest question: does it really matter? If you're obliquely referencing the holiday season, I have to think that the number of people for whom giving this as a gift is a viable option is basically a rounding error in Apple's customer base. I could be wrong, though.
bdevine··on Ask HN: What is the best way to save links for later?
If you're not aware of it, wget[1] allows you to save pages, whole sites, file types, etc.

[1] http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-downlo...

bdevine··on Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started
The members of the election commission are almost certainly criminals, but I'm not as convinced when it comes to the guy who pulled the trigger on releasing the data. I can all too easily picture a hapless developer whose family doesn't know where he is.
bdevine··on Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started
Snark aside, I feel very sorry for those involved in pushing out the "results" early. I cannot see anything good happening to them.
bdevine··on Apple Reportedly Increasing Gold iPhone 5s Production in Wake of Launch Demand
It was probably media speculation. Since "Champagne" is well-known to be trademarked (only sparkling wine made in the Champagne region can technically be called Champagne), Apple likely never intended to call the gold version a champagne color. I never saw any leaked material from Apple referring to it as such, at least. It seems like the media settled on calling it champagne and the Champagne gatekeepers preemptively made noise about it[1], thus adding fuel to the fire.

[1] https://twitter.com/Champagne/status/370623172166430720

bdevine··on Ask HN: Good coding music?
I swear by Boards of Canada, which, judging from the criteria you listed, might be right up your alley.
bdevine··on Zynga sues sex app maker over Bang With Friends name
Why, I'm sure that would be more than OK, seeing as how that will probably be the sole revenue stream Zynga has in a year or so.
bdevine··on Ask HN: Developer laptop under $1500?
I just bit the bullet on an MBA myself. I would have preferred to be able to wait until the Pros get Haswell, but I can't really wait any longer due to the decrepitude of my current laptop. If OP can wait, though, the Pro might satisfy him/her.
bdevine··on Ask HN: What would you want to see in a nutrition facts food label?
The NRF index[1], which measures the nutrient density of a food.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368382

bdevine··on Ask HN: Am I being too hard on the developers I interview?
Hi, new guy here. My solution took me about 15 minutes to code in Python, but I looked up my algorithm (I am not nearly as math-oriented as I should be; programming came later in life to me). I'm genuinely curious about anyone's opinion of where I would be ranked among candidates.

def gen_pascal_row(n): row = [1] for i in range(1,n+1): row.append(row[-1] * n/i) n -= 1 return row

ETA: This might be better. https://gist.github.com/4612320

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