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phogster··on I challenge you to remove the gray ad using Adblock
I'm not sure how I feel about helping OP create un-blockable ads.
phogster··on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
Being real and very smart does not preclude you from being an asshole.
phogster··on Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes
No, thanks.
phogster··on NSA: we can warrantlessly grab your data and keep it forever if encrypted
Guilty until proven innocent. Sounds reasonable.
phogster··on Dear awesome startups, don’t join an accelerator, unless…
I actually read the entire article and still not sure how to finish that sentence. Her main conclusion is "hustle", which has nothing to do with joining an accelerator.
phogster··on 3D Printed Gun Magazine Shows Off Deadly High-Capacity ‘Wiki Weapon’
Easy, ban the bullets.
phogster··on When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?
I don't mind it so much when British English speakers take out the 'r' in words. What bugs the hell out of me is when they add the 'r' in places where it doesn't belong. Why they do this, I have no idear.
phogster··on IBM's Watson Memorized 'Urban Dictionary,' Then His Overlords Had to Delete It
You can kiss my shiny, metal, mainframe!
phogster··on Proposition HN: I will pay $8000 for you to build your side-project/MVP
I'm loving this entire thread. I wish HN had more brainstorming sessions like these.
phogster··on BitPay, PayPal for Bitcoin, raises $510K – already has 2,100 businesses on board
Reminds me of when NBA announcers call bad players "inconsistent".
phogster··on Seven manufacturers share $1.92 billion fine for 10 years of CRT price fixing
Prisoner's Dilemma anyone?
phogster··on All the crypto code you've ever written is probably broken
Yeah, acabal. Fuck you for trying to learn anything.
phogster··on Pentagon Opens Network to iOS and Android, Dealing Huge Blow to BlackBerry
"many US citizens are now embarrassed to own BlackBerrys"

That was unnecessary. Unless the author is shorting RIM.

phogster··on Help find a bright object on Mars
A mod named "rm -rf" lock-protected the thread. That's a terrible username. Can you imagine thinking you're logging into your account but the focus is accidentally on a command line window?
phogster··on NASA: Mars rover Curiosity finds bright object
Yeah, come on, CEO of a multi-billion dollar company. Stop pandering to stock holders, board directors, and senior management, and go look at a line of text on your photos!
phogster··on The Most Revealing Job Interview Question
You mean they don't ask you to develop web sites during job interviews for nuclear engineering positions?
phogster··on Linus on keeping a clean git history (2009)
>The culture around your product is probably very different from the kernel devs' culture so it makes sense for you to have a different model.

I think he meant he wants the ability to enforce a certain behavior within his own group.

phogster··on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything
I really wish slashdot would add the "4 hours ago" format next to the comment date.
phogster··on “grep -R doesn't automatically search amazon”
No.
phogster··on Introducing the 4chan API
I don't know. Getting an API to 4chan is like getting a parking pass to the local garbage dump. What statistics are you actually mining here?
phogster··on I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day...
I think the word you're looking for is "statutes".
phogster··on How Eduardo Saverin Sold Facebook Ads in 2004
Well the work being judged here is the marketing effort, not the engineering work.
phogster··on [dead]
-1 Offtopic.
phogster··on The "Everyone gets the source code, donations get you binaries" software model
So it's not a "donation".
phogster··on Beautiful Tools
You can give http://eclim.org/ a try.
phogster··on If You Have A Smartphone, Anyone Can Now Track Your Every Move
Big Brother, where art thou?
phogster··on Google Drive detailed: 5 GB of free space, launching next week
I think "free" should be in quotes.
phogster··on Awful Recruiters
A better idea would be a site dedicated to rating recruiters and recruiting agencies. That way you can democratize the process and get a feel for the average experience.
phogster··on How to Find Facebook Users on Match.com by Using Face Recognition Tools
Or somewhere in between.
phogster··on The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car
Great! Thanks.
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