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20 points - Why are all the posts related to Aria [sic] Richards getting deleted? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416578

45 points - Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416514

81 points - Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416422

48 points - SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416312

(thanks throwaway125) 148 points (not dead, just shadowed) - SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416021

dkulchenkoon [dead]

I think once a post passes 10 upvotes, flags are no longer relevant. My guess would be that the posts are gaining upvotes fast enough (15+ upvotes a minute) that HN's anti-spam triggers are going off.

dkulchenkoon Bitcoin blockchain issue - Mt Gox Bitcoin deposits temporarily suspended

I think OP is referring to something like an AACS key: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

dkulchenkoon Has the ideas machine broken down?

I assure you, it has not.

Sometimes it's hard to look past TechCrunch and the endless SaaS/CRUD apps, but we're in the middle of a technological revolution right now. Platforms like Kickstarter are driving innovation like never before, pushing forward ideas that would have never seen the light of day otherwise. The new tech coming out of the machine is awe-inspiring.

Even as a tiny, tiny sample of what's happening out there: Google's making self-driving cars, healthcare is advancing by leaps and bounds, and portable electronics have changed the way we live our lives over the course of but 5 years.

Google Glass? Oculus Rift? Leap Motion? MYO? All tech that would simply blow your mind just 10 years ago, but we're practically taking it for granted today. I'm typing this on a thin glass slab, for Christ's sake, this is something out of Star Trek.

If you're struggling to see innovation, you aren't looking hard enough.

dkulchenkoon Police crack down on Silk Road following first drug dealer conviction

But doesn't some node eventually have to know the final destination of the hidden server?

dkulchenkoon Coinbase releases iPhone app

Apple has rejected every app that has anything to do with Bitcoin (aside from graphs and stats) thus far.

Examples:

http://www.bitpak.com/?p=34

https://blockchain.info/wallet/iphone-app

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5386/why-isnt-bit...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/06/13/why-apple-...

dkulchenkoon Bitcoin market cap now +$200M as prices keep rising

Ironically, about 45 minutes after this was posted to HN, bitcoin began to crash, down almost 20% as of this comment: http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/

dkulchenkoon My Top Sublime Text 2 Plugins

Both are possible through Sublime's config file.

See http://www.reddshift.com/2011/10/turn-off-anti-alias-for-sub... for how to turn off anti-aliasing, and https://gist.github.com/1149379#file-sublime-text-2-settings... for line spacing.

dkulchenkoon My Top Sublime Text 2 Plugins

Not at all. Speaking for myself here, but while I much prefer open source to proprietary software, I find Sublime Text 2 blows any other editor I've used out of the water and I'm not going to not use it just because it's proprietary (same reason I use OS X, Photoshop (versus GIMP), etc).

dkulchenkoon Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition

They didn't, it's fully featured. In some ways it's even better than the Android app, more beautifully designed. They mentioned in their blog they'll be bringing much the same to Android soon.

dkulchenkoon Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition

Probably for the same reason iOS app crashes are just an exit to the home screen (compared to Android's visible "force close" message).

dkulchenkoon Google Maps redirect issue on Windows Phones is a matter of competition

This argument is ridiculous. What business sense would there be for Google to restrict access to Maps on one platform in the interest of "competition"? It's not like any potential WP8 users will be swayed over to Android just because of GMaps, considering Bing Maps is a more than adequate alternative.

Occam's razor: it's more than likely that they just don't want to invest the dev + support time to support WP8 (web or native app). It's a relatively small demographic that isn't growing that fast (yet).

dkulchenkoon Developing Backbone.js Applications

Not at all. As a Coffeescript dev it's actually taking some effort to learn Ember with Coffeescript as all the guides and docs are for JS.

dkulchenkoon Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X

From personal experience, USB tethering is both faster (bandwidth-wise) and uses considerably less battery than Wifi tethering.

dkulchenkoon Show HN: HoRNDIS - an Android USB tethering driver for Mac OS X

I've been waiting for this for a very long time; works perfectly. Thanks!

dkulchenkoon The front page of HN almost exactly 5 years ago

June 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroku

dkulchenkoon Heroku Sandy Situation Room

Looks like only production databases for now, though. Hopefully they'll branch out to us-west for apps as well pretty soon.

dkulchenkoon Canonical asks desktop users to “pay what you think Ubuntu is worth”

Canonical is commercial, the Ubuntu Foundation is not: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/UbuntuFoundation. Ubuntu's been accepting donations for quite a while, long before they added this.

dkulchenkoon PayPal CEO writes personal response

Here's the context for those curious: http://storify.com/goodonpaper/how-twitter-rescued-me-from-p...

dkulchenkoon The Nifty MiniDrive - SD slot hack for the Macbook

You had me excited there for a second... you're linking to an SD card, while this adapter accepts microSDs. Cheapest 64GB microSD I was able to find is $59: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter-SDSDQ...

dkulchenkoon Open Source Madness or People are stealing Mayan EDMS.

If you fork Mayan EDMS into a closed or private respository, stop and think about what you are doing because you going about it the wrong way. Likewise if you fork Mayan EDMS and the first patch you commit is to change the name, stop.

Both of those are allowed under the GPL. See http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/61038 for the former, and the latter is allowed under just about any open source license so long as you adhere with the rest of the terms; in fact, that's the pre-GitHub definition of a "project fork". Under the GPL, others are even free to sell your software as long as they link/ship the source code (probably not what's happening in your case, but I'm mentioning that anyway for the sake of discussion).

How will this affect the future of Mayan EDMS? It is too early to tell, what is certain is that the latest technologies being added to Mayan EDMS must be protected until they are ready to be released.

I might be biased because anything I write is MIT/BSD-licensed, but I don't understand why the fact that there's a few "unauthorized" forks of your project out there is deterring you from continuing working on it. Chances are, those forks have not a single user, and even if they do, so what?

dkulchenkoon Dropbox Introduces 2-Factor Authentication

You'll need their "experimental build": https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=66910

dkulchenkoon I didn't learn programming when I was 12

It's never too late to start, especially today when the barrier to entry is so low (austenallred mentioned Codecademy, I also recommend Treehouse: http://teamtreehouse.com/). The important thing is that you're making the effort, and I applaud you for it.

dkulchenkoon Charles Carreon Drops Bogus Lawsuit Against The Oatmeal Creator

If you do it enough, you can get disbarred: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation

dkulchenkoon Anonymous Publishing is Dead

As an example, take a photo with a relatively new digital camera and open the JPG up with an EXIF reader. In all likelihood, you'll see GPS coordinates, the exact time you took the picture, along with the unique identifier of your camera.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchangeable_image_file_format#....

dkulchenkoon AWS is down due to an electrical storm in the US

This outage only affected us-east-1. Considering an Amazon.com outage would cost them $51k in lost sales every minute, I seriously doubt they put all their eggs (servers, that is) in one basket.

dkulchenkoon Sublime Text 2.0 Released

If the product is good, as in this case, a very sizable percentage of users will pay. The idea that people will only pay for software/music/movies if there are adequate technical restrictions placed on its distribution is what got us into the DRM mess in the first place.

dkulchenkoon Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

The limitation is to prevent distribution to your software's users.

Isn't that an inherent requirement of using the font in software/websites/etc? If I have, say, an open source CMS, I'd have to ship the font somewhere with the code to be able to use it in the UI, no?

dkulchenkoon Symbolset - symbol font using clever opentype ligature hack

Having trouble figuring out the license (http://symbolset.com/license/), specifically: "You may not under any circumstances embed the licensed fonts into software or hardware products in which the fonts will be used by the purchasers of such products."

By that are they only restricting adding the font as a selectable font for writing (i.e. WYSIWYG editors) or can you not use the font in your own software in any case?

dkulchenkoon NSA: It Would Violate Your Privacy to Say if We Spied on You

And, to be honest, I'm leaning more and more towards the idea that it's going to take a revolution to fix the problems with the American government...

Likewise; though is a U.S. revolution even remotely possible in this day and age?