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damncabbageon Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Came To Save Us All

What does Washington and Colorado mean for the above now?

damncabbageon How I made $500k with machine learning and high frequency trading

Could you please elaborate what that contribution is?

damncabbageon Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes

Potential voter purging in Pennsylvania: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/watchdog-evidence-un...

Oregon worker altering ballots in the GOP's favor: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/06/oregon-election-worker...

At least one worker taking votes and putting them under the voting box: https://twitter.com/danicamckellar/status/265907196372594688 https://twitter.com/danicamckellar/status/26590774867435110

... What the hell is going on over there?

damncabbageon Ghost — rethinking WordPress

A long-term temporary setback. Even if a) it magically works and does everything, and b) most people get them, you're still looking a span of years before you can count on Glasses users being a significant fraction of your audience.

damncabbageon Is Facebook “broken on purpose” to sell promoted posts?

One of the few headlines that are the exception to Betteridge's Law.

(Yes.)

damncabbageon The Fight

I don't believe that wasn't a shot at dmix so much as a "Well, I didn't know this previously, but evidently he lives near me because I saw him the other day".

damncabbageon Not one Microsoft product on Kaspersky’s top 10 vulnerabilities list

Remember this? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/05/adobes-photoshop-security-...

They left Photo CS 5.5 users twisting in the wind, recommending customers pay to upgrade their one-year-old software to CS 6.

I don't know if it was the external pressure or a slow in-house process, but it took them a month to release a fix for CS 5.5 users: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-11.ht...

damncabbageon Linotype: Letterpress game engine for Ruby

I'd love to hack on this to extend it; do you plan on writing any tests for it?

damncabbageon A Slower Speed of Light

The site seems to be suffering a bit. Here's the cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

damncabbageon Do You Wanna Touch

You just can't beat their hardware, though.

I agree; the Macbook trackpad is literally the only reason why I don't have a Thinkpad.

damncabbageon Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

... And it's apparently owned by eBay. Nevermind. :(

damncabbageon Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

Really? Ouch. :(

damncabbageon Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

http://gumtree.com.au is on the rise for things like your bookcase, but I agree, the market on eBay is much larger.

damncabbageon Fine, eBay. Here’s your $2. I hope you choke on it.

I've used eBay to buy and sell furniture locally with some success. This is, however, a very small niche that is starting to be better served by http://gumtree.com.au here.

damncabbageon Man faces 3 years in prison for tweeting about finance minister in India

  (a) Any willful conduct which is of such a nature as is likely to drive
  the woman to commit suicide or to cause grave injury or danger to life,
  limb or health whether mental or physical) of the woman; or

  (b) Harassment of the woman where such harassment is with a view to coercing
  her or any person related to her to meet any unlawful demand for any
  property or valuable security or is on account of failure by her or any
  person related to her meet such demand.[8]

Could you elaborate on your objections to the above? I am not familiar with its use or misuse.

damncabbageon Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft

As much as I cringed through the video, I think the style really works for them. :)

This is the sort of thing I love to see on Kickstarter. Best of luck!

damncabbageon Plasma Jet Electric Thrusters for Spacecraft

$69K, really? Four engineers could not pitch in to get that much?

How do you know this is the entire lot? The engineers seem to have invested a fair chunk of cash or resources into this already.

I think this may be more PR (a good thing!) than a full funding drive.

damncabbageon Linus Torvalds: Make 2560x1600 the new standard laptop resolution

It's an issue if I need to use Skype. :(

The problem is that both the OS and popular apps need to support it, otherwise in most people's eyes it will seem like Windows is "broken".

damncabbageon Is there evidence that drugs can help programmers produce “better” code?

flywheel has an interesting reply to this, but he has been hellbanned. Go to your preferences and turn showdead on to see it.

damncabbageon Kort - a thumbnail preview concept

I love your second idea; nice one. :) (Not sure how to make it work for mobile, though, unless you have it "peek" out all the time.)

The first reminds me too much of dcurtis' "Kudos" circle, though, where something happens because you left your mouse in the wrong spot for too long; it's nigh-infuriating sometimes.

damncabbageon Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)

Wow. Okay, thanks for the information. Is there an open bug for this already? :(

damncabbageon Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)

It is a source of perpetual amazement to me that there is not an extension that will do this for me.

I hate to be That Guy, but maybe you should look into writing your own; extensions are fortunately just bundles of JavaScript.

(I fear you may be very much into the Realm of the Edge Case.)

damncabbageon The 5$ SaaS

It tells you about paid plans whenever you go to create a new repository, and on the front page when you're logged out, but otherwise, yeah, it's pretty obtuse if you're an existing user.

damncabbageon The 5$ SaaS

dilara: You are currently hellbanned, nobody can see your comments (including the useful one you just posted with the real link to the blog).

damncabbageon Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

Nice! Thanks for pointing that out.

damncabbageon Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/

damncabbageon Dancer.js : A high-level audio JavaScript API

Thanks for the information; I seem to have missed the earlier post. Flagging this one. :)

damncabbageon Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.

What about Small Claims court?

damncabbageon Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, and what I learned.

Offtopic: I'm sorry, but the font you're using is horrendously unreadable; the "i"s (for example) are mostly missing:

http://i.imgur.com/cwn1Q.png

damncabbageon README.md redirects to Github

I feel irrationally annoyed by this, as if registering this to redirect to a library's README.md was a selfish act.

Registered in 2011 (somewhat surprised it took that long):

  Domain Name:	 readme.md
  Registrant:	 The Echo Nest
    City:	 SOMERVILLE
    Country:	 US
    e-mail:	 brian@echonest.com

  created:	 2011-08-23
  expires:	 2013-08-23

  DNS:	
  ns1.p23.dynect.net	 208.78.70.23
  ns2.p23.dynect.net	 204.13.250.23