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geekfactor··on How We Got Owned by a Few Teenagers (and Why It Will Never Happen Again)
"We have hired professional white hat hackers with government level security experience to attempt regular pen tests on our system..."

I guess whenever I read this kind of statement from now on I'll be thinking of HBGary and chuckling a bit inside.

geekfactor··on Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of 'App Store'
The Apple "App Store" trademark:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4009:jg...

geekfactor··on Use "Admin Templates" for great looking web application MVPs
I wrote this up based on the response to my comment on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346350.

tptacek - "The 'Admin' templates on Theme Forest are really kind of blowing my mind right now. Every front-end-challenged web app developer on HN should know about this."

edenm - "WOW! If anyone hasn't seen these, seriously, check them out."

geekfactor··on Ask HN: you want HOW much for the design?
I posted a stand-alone follow-up post to this comment:

Read: http://geekfactor.charrington.com/2011/03/use-admin-template...

Discuss: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2347559

geekfactor··on Ask HN: you want HOW much for the design?
WordPress themes are not just for sales sites. The "Admin Templates" on Theme Forest [1] offer some great options for B2B applications.

[1] http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...

geekfactor··on HP CEO: We will build a cloud
> He announced the plan after laying out a strategy combining the cloud, connectivity and software that “enables and joins them together.” He portrayed it as a natural move for HP, which is a powerful player in the server business. “Today seven out of 10 cloud providers are already our customers,” he said.

... so of course we knew we had to compete with them!

geekfactor··on Show HN: My weekend project, language immersion with Twitter
What an awesome idea.

It took me more than a slit second to parse your intent with "I want to read about..." though. Maybe you should try an "I'm feeling lucky" option or perhaps a "Start with one of these" and list some recent trending topics.

geekfactor··on Asking for feedback on an idea: scatter storage across home computers
Check out CrashPlan: http://www.crashplan.com
geekfactor··on Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services
I had that same feeling, and was not convinced it would be worth the time to research the true value.
geekfactor··on Monster bundle by Appsumo - $99 for $5k+ services
I guess Noah needed to do something to make up for the long-form sales letter debacle. :-)

There are a hell of a lot of services here... What are your must-haves?

geekfactor··on [dead]
Just awesome!
geekfactor··on Ask HN: CS PhD at Stanford or Berkeley
Since you didn't mention it explicitly I will -- you also need to pay particular attention to the Intellectual Property Rights policies at each of the school's you are considering.
geekfactor··on Lifelong debunker takes on arbiter of neutral choices
TL;DR. Summary anyone?
geekfactor··on Tom Loverro's rebuttal to Fred Wilson's post on Marketing
Either the author didn't bother to read Fred's article or he totally misunderstood Fred's point. All of his counterexamples fully support Fred's point.

A more accurate position for the author to take would be "I diagree with Fred's use of the umbrella term marketing and think he should have said advertising instead."

geekfactor··on Ask HN: what lifestyle business could I help to create for my mom?
I really like idea #2. Call it something like WorkTheWorld.com. Work out all the details for folks who just want to live and work someplace else for a while. It's something I think a lot of people want to do but it seems too hard for most. This service could make it easier.

For independents, pre-screen living situations with fast internet, find the best language courses, identify meetups and other groups that they might want to connect with while they're gone, plus all the usual travel stuff.

Maybe for folks working for other folks, provide info on visas/work permits and possible employers.

geekfactor··on 15 Strat Tips For Crafting the Coolest and Most Impressive Twitter Bio
That's some very high quality snark!
geekfactor··on Modern Browsers Ship
Ask the person who down-voted me.
geekfactor··on Modern Browsers Ship
There's a certain arbitrariness to this analysis, since all that is being considered is an increment in the major version number. If the author were looking at operating systems this way, Apple hasn't released a new operating system in nearly 10 years! (OS 10.0 Cheetah was released on 3/24/01)

Not to offend anyone, but Chrome major version releases tend to feel relatively incremental compared to what I had come to expect from Firefox.

geekfactor··on HIV as you've never seen it before
Is it at all ironic that it looks like the Death Star?
geekfactor··on Amplify: a jQuery component library for solving common web problems.
Great response!
geekfactor··on Google releases OnePass, a payment system for publishers
The payment angle is timely given Apple's recent moves, but am I correct in reading this as Google offering an officially sanctioned way to get paywalled content into the index?

In the past, publishers had to either offer First Click Free or resort to cloaking or other black-hat techniques for their for-pay content. If Google is now willing to allow paywall content into the index for a 3% fee then that's a big deal.

I can't imagine this pushing search results quality in the right direction, at least from the perspective of a typical user.

geekfactor··on The Knack for Getting Money
One thing that jumped out at me here is the 'many irons in the fire' aspect of hustling. This seems to go against the grain of 'focus, focus, focus' to which I think many of us ascribe, or at least aspire.

For example, YC is supposed to be about entrepreneurs not ideas... I wonder what YC would look like if accepted teams were told to start pushing on their three best ideas simultaneously?

geekfactor··on Using vi key bindings in bash and zsh
Many hackers are "returning to vim" nowadays.

I'm working on the transition myself, and this is one more step in going cold turkey.

geekfactor··on Students invent system to thwart police kettling
I don't think I got this. Are police in the UK really on twitter and tweeting about their operations??
geekfactor··on I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
What rev share percentage is reasonable for an arrangement like this?
geekfactor··on I'm a pregnant hacker. Please review my side project.
I'd like one as well... sbc at charrington dot com. TIA!
geekfactor··on Google Tried To Buy Path For $100+ Million. Path Said No.
It's possible, maybe even likely, that the founders talked it over with Kleiner and Index and the VCs allowed them to cash out a bit.
geekfactor··on Paypal's fraud prevention routine does it again
That leading quote is great:

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

-- Clark’s law

geekfactor··on I'm finally doing it: bootstrapping my start up.
^ awesome ^
geekfactor··on Get rich quick ads from 1909
And over 100!
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