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digitalboss

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Austin Dork in SF. Lover of Startups, Tech, Social Good, People & Everything Above. Coder, Founder, @StructureVC Partner, Advisor @GoCopia - Happily a Busy Man.
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digitalboss··on Ask HN - anyone making money off of email lists?
Sponsored email lists, ie the HN Digest: http://www.newsletterdirectory.co/profile/hndigest/?utm_sour...
digitalboss··on Google Security Team Member on NSA: "Fuck These Guys"
I asked this question 6 months ago, I liked the reply.

---- Most programmers are very much unlike you or I. Think about those legions of DoD/DoD contractor engineers that trust government implicitly and totally, and really don't give a shit about more "hacker"/"technologist" subjects. ---- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5836416

digitalboss··on Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative
Those are the same partners, what are you saying?
digitalboss··on Humanity wasted 14,526 years watching Gangnam Style
From 3/07/12 - Nearly 6 Million Years of World of Warcraft Healthy for Players' Brains

By one analyst's calculation, the 11 million or so registered users of the online role-playing fantasy World of Warcraft collectively have spent as much time playing the game since its introduction in 2004 as humanity spent evolving as a species-about 50 billion hours of game time, which adds up to about 5.9 million years.

http://kotaku.com/5891421/nearly-6-million-years-of-world-of...

digitalboss··on Smooth Online Signatures, Open Source
....and? Do you have some comparisons you wanted to share?
digitalboss··on Particle effects in JavaScript
Full screen'd this beast and jammed out, bass line is thickkkkk.

Works perfect on Version 30.0.1599.101 Chrome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5R4GFbXPvY

edit: added link to OfficialTrapCity

digitalboss··on Lou Reed, Velvet Underground Leader and Rock Pioneer, Dead at 71
While you code/hack, here's the Full Album of Lou Reed's Transformer....Today is NOT a perfect day. Be sure to select HD for playback quality.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDZT8XXkFw#t=378&hd=1

digitalboss··on Oracle attacks Open Source
Actually, here's a Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1okbdb/oracle_attacks...
digitalboss··on Rainyday.js
It's feedback, why else would he post on HN - great start.
digitalboss··on Trader Joe's Ex-President To Turn Expired Food Into Cheap Meals
Btw - you mention grocers giving tons of food, is actually not true. It's a very slow process, taking a way too long to become a popular trend. Hopefully with this latest story and initiative that other large/med/small grocers jump on board.

The poor/needy in the US are eating fast food more and more, as they can't afford groceries, with high costs for meat, vegetables and milk all rising. I'm excited to see how this program is launched and copied.

digitalboss··on How I thought I wanted to become a digital nomad
Using Jekyll with Pages

https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages

digitalboss··on Do You Google Yourself? Are You Hiring?
Congrats on the new job.

Have you tried Geeklist https://geekli.st ?

digitalboss··on List of hidden OS X features, tips and tricks
If you have an external display hooked up to a MacBook, using the Macbook keyboard’s brightness keys will change the laptop display. The external keyboard will change the external display (if attached). Ctrl + brightness key inverts the behavior for both external and internal.

http://finerthings.in/mac/tips-for-changing-brightness-on-ma...

digitalboss··on Technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used.
Clarification - Digital Abuses please.
digitalboss··on Show HN: MailDrop, throwaway e-mail addresses, built with Scala and Akka
Wow it's open source - https://github.com/m242/maildrop
digitalboss··on NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
Go back to Techcrunch please.
digitalboss··on NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program
What really shocks me is why wouldn't a technologist/coder / etc - Whisteblow this sort of information. Why would they sit behind a computer, deploy/design such software, and not have some concern, and go public with this?

This is not about the "NSA, CIA, or FBI" - it's about those other companies enabling those gov agencies to gather such information, why doesn't someone from those companies speak up that deploys this software?

Is it really about $$$? Is it the same reason programmers create SPAM bots?

SOOooooo, which one of you geeks wrote the code to track call data, then wrote a script to export the data to the NSA - THEN you didn't tell the rest of tech community.

DISAPPOINTED IN YOU

digitalboss··on There’s no money in 3D printing
The money made to be made (and saved) is based off the prototypes of products created using 3D printing that are mocked up and tweaked, before the designs are handed over to a production line to mass produce.

3D printing has created a useful and affordable process for engineers/creatives/etc to mock up products that would've otherwise been very expensive to outsource, especially with the back and forth between vendors to modify designs.

digitalboss··on Rails SQL injection vulnerability: here are the facts
Excellent post - clear and with example.

But - I'm confused why one of the readers on the post (Jonas) is calling this a PR Stunt?

digitalboss··on Podcast Episodes from 2012 on Entrepreneurship
sp - Entrepreneurship

Thanks for the collection.

digitalboss··on Code Your Own Holiday Card with Codecademy Code Cards
In a recent Webmaster Help video, Google’s Matt Cutts reported that adjustments to Google’s search algorithms have removed many of the advantages given to sites organizing content using subdomains rather than a subdirectory. More - http://www.brafton.com/news/subdomains-vs-subdirectories-for...

Opinons on both sides for this question. SEOMOZ recommends folders - "Since search engines keep different metrics for domains than they do subdomains, it is recommended that webmasters place link worthy content like blogs in subfolders rather than subdomains. (i.e. www.example.com/blog/ rather than blog.example.com) The notable exception to this is language specific websites. (i.e. en.example.com for english)"

digitalboss··on How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
Thanks for recommendation for RescueTime - just installed, lets see what happens.
digitalboss··on Prime Number Visualization Simulation Spiral
Nice job. - I would suggest re-labling the btm controls to say "Left/RIght for Slower/Faster"
digitalboss··on The World Spends 0.2% Of Its Time On Facebook
Another obscene stat - We've Spent 5.93M Years Playing WoW... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiE2czrG0MI

Jane McGonigal, author of Reality Is Broken, points to the 3 billion hours the world invests every week in online gaming as a clear indicator that many people are not being sufficiently challenged in their day-to-day lives. "5.93 million years is how long people have spent tackling unnecessary obstacles in World of Warcraft," says McGonigal. "We've spent as long playing World of Warcraft as we have evolving as a human species."

digitalboss··on Unified Dropdown Menu: One Menu to Rule All Links
I like the "pinning" the menu feature - interesting.....
digitalboss··on Mixpanel introduces People Analytics
This is great to see, trying right now.

Btw - We've avoided this in past using Google Analytics as in the TOS they mention (http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html).

7. PRIVACY . You will not (and will not allow any third party to) use the Service to track or collect personally identifiable information of Internet users, nor will You (or will You allow any third party to) associate any data gathered from Your website(s) (or such third parties' website(s)) with any personally identifying information from any source as part of Your use (or such third parties' use) of the Service. You will have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy and will comply with all applicable laws relating to the collection of information from visitors to Your websites. You must post a privacy policy and that policy must provide notice of your use of a cookie that collects anonymous traffic data.

Hadn't heard of https://www.intercom.io/ - thanks for sharing @reustle.

digitalboss··on Sonic.net CEO: We Delete User Logs After Two Weeks. Your ISP Should, Too.
Dane Jasper is awesome - met him a couple times at SF Night Owls - follow him here https://twitter.com/#!/dane
digitalboss··on Twitter suffers sustained outage in hacker attack
No - Twitter outage blamed on 'cascading bug'.
digitalboss··on Desktop First
Why don't you give them real feedback? This site thrives on collaboration not "one-liners" like what you provided.
digitalboss··on Happy Easter CSS3 animation
Works great, catchy tune, sounds like an Apple commercial. * Worked on ipad 3 nicely * Worked halfway thru on iphone 4s, it broke right before the Red line came in.

Did you use a tool to output the CSS animation?

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