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bvanslyke··on Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
Yep. Looks like it's now called "1for.one". Their CEO has a stock photo on LinkedIn and owned a mining corp.
bvanslyke··on Show HN: Carbide – A New Programming Environment
Same here, on a current-gen MBP.
bvanslyke··on Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money
I'm curious - If you don't mind sharing, how long have you been day trading and what has your percentage return been?
bvanslyke··on Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending
Maybe your password gets converted to its numeric phone keypad equivalent :V

http://colin.keigher.ca/2016/01/bank-of-montreal-has-horribl...

bvanslyke··on Show HN: Penny, an easy way to track your spending
"Where did my money go" budgeting has never worked for me. I've been way more successful with planning ahead every $ of income as I get it and then manually tracking expenses. Budgeting had to become an actual activity for me, and not just something done automatically by a webapp. I'm a huge shill for YNAB[0]. The software is really nice but basically it's a glorified (paid) spreadsheet. My fiance and I agree that the methodology it forces you to use, though, has easily saved us thousands so far.

[0]http://youneedabudget.com - they recently upgraded to a subscription based web app but I'm still using the classic version that's a one time purchase: http://classic.youneedabudget.com

bvanslyke··on Browserify vs. Webpack – Configuration isn't evil
It's like watching a primitive civilization independently re-invent the modern world's technology. This poses ethical questions. Should we have intervened and told them about Maven, when we see them still struggling with their version of Ant?
bvanslyke··on Ask HN: How to talk smart?
Hm, as a professional spy, I don't know... it just comes naturally.
bvanslyke··on Video game execution watched by 325K players
Yes, and that is why I've forwarded this video to Human Rights Watch.
bvanslyke··on Typedrummer
Someone needs to combine this with a melody sequencer that maps ascii <-> pentatonic scale notes or something.
bvanslyke··on Implementing a Virtual Machine in C
For a project that goes a bit deeper (branching, i/o, etc) consider writing a Chip8 simulator. There's lots of games written in chip8 bytecode to test with!
bvanslyke··on Fuzzing Nginx – Hunting vulnerabilities with afl-fuzz
It's like an @erowidrecruiter post.

https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter

bvanslyke··on On Haskell, Ruby, and Cards Against Humanity
I think that's exactly it. We use js so we can unite against a common enemy & build solidarity among the team :-)
bvanslyke··on On Haskell, Ruby, and Cards Against Humanity
Ah! I had this same(-ish) idea but couldn't figure out how to write it. And when I realized how much time I was spending on Fizz Buzz forced myself to stop.
bvanslyke··on How to come up with a catchy name and logo for your startup
Just take a spirit journey like Erlich on silicon valley.
bvanslyke··on Ask HN: JavaScript developer – what do I need to know?
- Location of a good bar near your workplace.

- A taste for strong drinks.

- An ignorance of how nice other languages/environments are.

bvanslyke··on How Betty, Who Is 89, Gets Her News
I'd say I'm pretty decent at not accidentally clicking banner ads. But for some reason I've been redirected to the Uber app installation page a dozen times when I was just trying to scroll through text (on the same sites). Either I have some adware or uber is paying to js/meta-redirect me.
bvanslyke··on This page crashes my chrome tab
Crashes for me on Chrome Version 41.0.2272.76 (64-bit) OS X 10.10
bvanslyke··on Ableton Live Developers at Work [video]
Come on, no need to compare programmer hygiene to that of dogs... you'll upset some dogs :-P
bvanslyke··on Ask HN: How do your enterprise customers pay you?
Bitcoin, overwhelmingly.
bvanslyke··on WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)
Damn! I was going to apply to this but I only have experience with GoDaddy and BlueHost, but not HostGator. I'll have to take my Prolog experience elsewhere.
bvanslyke··on DeadBeef News: Like the Onion but for Programming and Startups
Painfully unfunny.
bvanslyke··on Why the Cool Kids Don't Use Erlang [video]
Hm seeing as it's a bitcoin startup with an .io domain.....
bvanslyke··on By Making a Game Out of Rejection, a Man Conquers Fear
Amazing post. I think I just got an HN bingo.
bvanslyke··on Be My Eyes – Lend your eyes to the blind
The small heading "Blind Requests Assistance" should probably be rephrased. You don't wanna use a disability as a noun like that.
bvanslyke··on Speaking While Female
It makes you much more popular with the majority, sadly.
bvanslyke··on Show HN: Add a custom cursor to improve your UX
HN is unable to identify jokes.
bvanslyke··on Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark
When I was learning web development, it was such a PITA learning rails and dealing with all the ops stuff at the same time (so I could show friends my stuff, on a real domain and everything). I envy the kiddos that can just hit the "deploy to azure" button or whatever now. (This reads like an ad for microsoft but I promise I don't work there :)
bvanslyke··on Don't soak your dried beans
> Only most restaurants and chefs are totally oblivious to this fact

For some reason I find this hard to believe.

bvanslyke··on How my life was changed when I began caring about the people I did not hire
Palantir?
bvanslyke··on DMCA Copyright Complaint to Google
Wow, I'm not familiar with this film studio, but this is a terrible move on their part. I don't go to the movies much anyway, but I'm gonna try to avoid paying for any of their films, and I urge everyone who cares about an open internet to do the same.
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