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boracayon 31C3 Streaming: Saal 1 – SD Video

I wish I could say the same. While it is a great event and everything rdl said is true, it seems like it's suffering from trying to do too much at once. I didn't walk away feeling I had to go again this year.

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http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/

"It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity."

Yeah right.

boracayon “I’m in the US – what if I just ignore the EU VAT changes?”

"a single €0.99 sale in Estonia"

Would of course be done through a service. Maybe it's time for these "innovative" payment processor to actually be innovative and provide this service.

"£81,000 threshold applied to the new arrangement"

It can't apply to the new arrangement since you are now paying taxes in the customers country.

It seems that you would just either do your local sales as before and your international sales through a service or start two companies. That why you should be able to keep your threshold for domestic business. (Don't quote me on this though since I'm not in the UK)

boracayon CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem

The demand for "safe"[0] software is going to reach critical mass sooner or later. The question is if it's going to be solved by good tools, processes and education or app stores, insurance ratings and regulation. Software isn't much different from other types of infrastructure.

boracayon CSRF in Doorkeeper OAuth2 gem

As long as we keep treating security as a purely technical problem the state of software isn't going to improve significantly. Responsibility tends to catch up with things. It's mostly a question if it's going to benefit software or not.

boracayon Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'

Not really since he is a participant in the subject at hand i.e. he is not on the sidelines.

boracayon Peter Sunde: 'I went to jail for my cause. What did you do?'

You act like one of those guys he talks about in the article. Judging people from the sidelines and telling them what they should have done without remotely knowing the story.

boracayon The State of Desktop Applications in Node.js

Of course. The world is bigger than SV :P

http://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters

boracayon ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide

It's presumably by train since the estimates are written on train tracks.

boracayon ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide

All major startup hubs have those problems, especially as a foreigner.

boracayon ParisIsBack – The Paris Tech Guide

For most entrepreneurs "regular" startup hubs, despite their burdens, are worth it for everything else they offer.

boracayon Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

Hopefully the name of that boat isn't a bad omen ;)

http://www.thebluehouse.io/#surrounded-with-the-best (scroll up)

boracayon Grappling with the ‘Culture of Free’ in Napster’s Aftermath

This is kind of an old discussions. Let me say it like this: If distributions wasn't free far less of us would be (successful) creators in the first place, probably including you and me.

boracayon U.S. Passenger Rail Ridership (2013)

It's pretty silly to compare the average speed of the Shanghai Maglev. It's like a 7 minute trip with 1 minute at top speed. There's several, traditional HSR, routes in china with faster average speeds.

boracayon Mean People Fail

If you are trying to correct someones speculation, maybe you shouldn't add your own inflammatory speculation.

boracayon Mean People Fail

Your first sentence doesn't exactly make your case more believable.

boracayon Mean People Fail

As I understand it the difference between rude and mean is a matter of intention. With mean being intentional. Linus behavior is frequently explained with him only behaving that way when people deserve it. Making him, or at least his behavior, mean rather than rude.

boracayon Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?

Uhm, I don't know. If there's one area where VCs have far greater understanding than the average startup founder, it's things like resource management. That doesn't mean VCs should make decisions for you, but they should be able to help when it comes to e.g. how long you keep your legacy product going while pivoting.

The reason that "startups rarely die in mid keystroke" is that they run out of steering way before they run out of fuel.

boracayon Dear VCs: Kill the ‘warm’ introduction

"Open submissions" doesn't, or at least have to, mean that you literally take any submission from anyone. It means things like having a larger group go a longer way in the submissions process and trying to stay away from arbitrary qualifications.

boracayon After Threatening Hacker with 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor

If anything sexualizing and dehumanizing celebrities is the cultural norm. Which isn't about the Internet per se. How cloud providers can have zero liability though...

boracayon After Threatening Hacker with 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor

That isn't unique to the Internet though. That goes both for other technologies like cars, guns or publishing and "protected" activities like running a business, being a journalist or a lawyer. Maybe most importantly there has to be a reasonable balance between protection (liability) and enforcement (punishment).

boracayon After Threatening Hacker with 440 Years, Prosecutors Settle for a Misdemeanor

That is not an apt analogy at all and frankly I wish people would stop going out of their way to analogize things. The Internet has been around for a while now, so we should be able to see things, or at least discuss them, for what they are.

boracayon FreeBSD: the next 10 years

It just seems that TOML (and similar formats) would be more of an interface rather than the configuration itself.