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javis··on How to make $800/mo from three lines of code
When browsing the ads on http://weworkremotely.com, I have to force myself to read the highlighted listings, otherwise my brain just ignores them.

I guess it's the product of years of ignoring the ads on Google.

javis··on Ask HN: Is there a place to buy Bitcoin almost anonymously?
It may seem backwards, but the only real way to buy Bitcoins anonymously is to buy them in person using cash.

Check out: http://localbitcoins.com

But you can just buy them through somewhere like Coinbase, then use Bitcoin Fog to make them anonymous.

http://bitcoinfog.com/

If you leave them in Bitcoin Fog for a couple of days / weeks, there is very little chance they'll be traced back to you.

javis··on Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet App Gets Axed From iOS App Store
Seeing as those are still up and haven't been removed, I'm guessing the Coinbase app was removed for quality reasons. I used the thing and wasn't impressed. The experience wasn't great. Hopefully if they fix it up and resubmit the app, Apple will allow it back in.
javis··on Google wins the Book Search suit: declared fair use
I don't have a problem with doing this in general. I just have a problem with a company who's sole purpose is to make profit doing it.

If a non-profit organisation like Wikipedia started doing this, it'd be fine by me. Because they'd actually do it for the purpose of free information and not so they can just slap ads on it.

javis··on Ask HN: MacBook Air alternative for running GNU/Linux
Do you think the MPA is unsuitable for running GNU/Linux? Or are you just looking for a cheaper alternative?
javis··on MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program
I think this may have happened to my MacBook Air 62 GB (Summer 2012). One day I booted up and nothing happened, just had a blank screen that never went away. I tried to use the internet restore and it couldn't find a drive. I then USB booted to Ubuntu and looked for the drive, but no drives were there.

Does this sound like the drive failure they're talking about? It happened a month ago and I haven't touched it since. I obviously can't run the firmware test they suggest, because my drive has already seemingly failed.

javis··on Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007
When I see code like this, I'm always amazed that I can actually read it and (kinda) understand what it's doing. I always expect code like Facebook's to be so finely tuned and advanced that it'd be completely uninteligable to those outside the company and not an expert in the language.
javis··on I like Meteor.js because I'm lazy
Because god forbid people write code in language he doesn't like.
javis··on Why is Linus Torvalds angry with Github's pull request interface?
The Linux Development Community is known for being overly aggressive. Torvalds more than most.

If you say something stupid or do anything wrong, they will hate for for it and call you an idiot.

It's not necessarily a bad thing. I guess it may help prevent lesser programmers from contributing code to the kernal.

javis··on RethinkDB now available on AWS marketplace
Heroku next?
javis··on JavaScript right on the hardware
Many people do enjoy writing JavaScript and view it as just as good as Python and others.
javis··on The Future of Programming in Node.js
I thought it was good.
javis··on Crowdfunding the Ubuntu Edge will fail
Mark Shuttleworth has a net worth of $500 million and has been to space. I have doubt he'll just let the project fail.

I don't see anything stopping him from jumping in at the end, getting it to the $32,000,000 mark. He has the funds.

javis··on Ubuntu Edge
If the Ubuntu Edge reaches its goal of $32,000,000, Indiegogo makes $1,280,000 off it.
javis··on New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users
Didn't David Karp say jus the other day on Colbert he wasn't going to censor Tumblr? What happened?
javis··on Pirate Bay Founder: “Future copy fights will need something better”
'"Shut it down and replace it with something better" says Pirate Bay founder' doesn't get the clicks TorrentFreak are desperate for.
javis··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)
SEEKING WORK - Remote (GB)

HTML/CSS/LESS/JS/CoffeeScript

NodeJS | MongoDB, RethinkDB, Redis, MariaDB/MySQL, PostgreSQL | ExpressJS, Socket.io

Backbone, Underscore, Angular, jQuery, Bootstrap

I'm a full-stack web developer based in Birmingham, England. Been developing websites in some form or another for about 5 years.

Available for part-time projects.

E-mail: jrd@scopeos.org

javis··on .io domains down?
All working for me too, same ISP.
javis··on A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming
One not mentioned in that list is Empythoned, which is the actual CPython engine compiled to JS using Emscripten.

Repo: https://github.com/replit/empythoned

Live demo: http://repl.it/languages/Python

javis··on I Freelanced On Halo 4. It's Time For Gaming's Contractors To Strike
He probably felt he'd get a bad reaction. Link aggregators like Reddit and HN don't generally like Gawker articles. Due to some of their content being blogspam.
javis··on My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint
Just created a mirror of the repo from Google Cache.

Link: https://github.com/joshryandavis/groovr

javis··on A 75-Year Harvard Study Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life
> I drown my sorrows into a mug of beer every friday.

I don't think once a week makes him an alcholic.

javis··on Chrome’s requestAutocomplete()
They could. But Amazon is pretty well loved in the developer community, I doubt they'd jeopardise that and risk hurting AWS.
javis··on Apple's new Objective-C to Javascript Bridge
> Why JavaScript?

Because it's popular.

javis··on BBM for iOS and Android to Launch This Summer
This would have killed iMessage a year ago.
javis··on Show HN: An Etherpad clone in Node.js and Socket.io
You should wrap your JS in an anonymous function. People can just emit sockets from the console.

e.g.

socket.emit('msg', "text here");

javis··on Firefox OS phones now available from Geeksphone
Their Twitter feed hints it isn't out of stock and they recommend trying again in a few minutes.

https://twitter.com/geeksphone/status/326661079826563072

javis··on Introducing Ripple, a Bitcoin Copycat
I don't see how this is even comparable to Bitcoin. It's not open and it's not decentralised.
javis··on Facebook Home destroys any notion of privacy
No.

Unless you SMS or call that person. Then maybe.

javis··on The Summly deal makes no sense
They're shutting it down.
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