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feralmoan··on Screw motivation, what you need is discipline
This seems like awful advice to inflict yourself as a burden (pair programming, always seeking review and validation) rather than being self disciplined, autonomous and professional.
feralmoan··on Australian Government Scrambles to Authorize Mass Surveillance
Yeah, Nah. Abbot just learnt what a 'False Flag' operation was and is trying it out so he can feel like a big boy.
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Relativistic arguments break down for Russia in my experience, they're badass.
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'Anything in life is possible if you just say "Don't be a pussy"'. It's a real cultural thing.
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They have a saying in Russia... http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/30gza6/jason-jones-live-fr...
feralmoan··on Private Team Fires 36-Year-Old NASA Probe's Engines
It's had quite an adventure! http://www.npr.org/2014/03/18/289628696/space-thief-or-hero-...
feralmoan··on New York’s Shadow Transit
I've probably done 6 of these types in my travels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi#Traditional_systems_...

...didn't know they were so prevalent. Love the Jeepney's though they're just like little Chicken Bus'

feralmoan··on Bootstra.386 – A Bootstrap theme from the 1980s
oh Turbo Vision, how I miss you!
feralmoan··on What content management system allows to serve private content via unique url?
bipio (https://bip.io) kind of does it, its an ephemeral web hook engine which can obfuscate content sources, with auth/ssl and temporary lifespan etc. I could help you out with it if you want to give it a try/experiment. email in my profile.

blog on content proxying : http://blog.bip.io/post/88186517319/fun-with-http-pods

feralmoan··on Mesh All the Things – Because an "Internet of Thing" would kinda suck.
Very cool, is the plan to add cdjns/hyperboria at all? http://support.pinocc.io/hc/en-us/articles/201464300-Frequen...
feralmoan··on What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Investigating Time Travel
Concept attenuation.... don't think many 57th Century Ultra-monkeys (or drones, or praeter-singularity-humans or whatever) will know or care anything about the Pope. Brilliant thought experiment though, and love that it tests the bounds of discipline and rigour!!!
feralmoan··on 11th Linode Birthday, $10 Linode plan
database replication, elasticsearch, log repositories, headless workers...
feralmoan··on Ask HN: What's being done with the HTTP protocol to fix DDOS attacks?
Sorry for the flippancy, what I meant was it's just 1 application layer protocol (HTTP) amongst the multitude you could potentially be serving. Trying to fix for that one service means nothing, big picture, to people who know how to suppress a network, broad spectrum. Think ICMP, UDP, TCP, routing protocols (BGP if they're feeling sassy), everything that happens on the wire and in the kernel and through upstream ISP's before it even reaches your web server - HTTP protocol handling is literally the last bastion of hope in a DDOS scenario.
feralmoan··on Ask HN: What's being done with the HTTP protocol to fix DDOS attacks?
I hear what you're saying but layer7 DDOS attacks are a mouth breather variety. Need to burn them with fire, network level. Because it's not just HTTP it's the whole network stack you'll be chasing around with wacky-wavy hands (just incase).
feralmoan··on Ask HN: What's being done with the HTTP protocol to fix DDOS attacks?
DDOS has nothing to do with HTTP, its a network layer (routing protocols) issue. Put another way, if frames are making it all the way to your stack and up to a webserver in user space before a decision is made, you're already toasted.
feralmoan··on Carpooling Startup Carma Launches API
Is this a premature press release, I can't find anything about an API on their website
feralmoan··on Rabbit-proof fence
And it's a great movie, at that! :D
feralmoan··on Email Self-Defense – a guide to fighting surveillance with GnuPG
I'm still constantly surprised that this feature isn't ubiquitously built into mail clients by default and users don't get a big 'enable encryption' button which automates sane defaults/manages the keychain transparently. It doesn't seem like such a complicated abstraction that it needs so much manual setup
feralmoan··on The Easiest Way To Set Up Cron Jobs
If only they'd considered NLP support - eg: 'call http://example.org/zip/zap/rap every monday at 5pm'
feralmoan··on Show HN: Font Awesome to PNG
"Why am I useful you might ask? While I find your question a bit offending..."

'Why' was the first thing I was thinking but apparently offensive!

feralmoan··on Ask HN: I'm visiting SF for 3 days, what do I do?
Check out Tonga Room if you're up for something crazy and unique one night!
feralmoan··on On Being 40
Sure, why not? Is there any proof otherwise?
feralmoan··on Poll: Are you burnt out?
I'm not burnt out by programming, I'm burnt out by sitting on my butt for 16hrs a day and having a 1 dimensional life! Hit that gym, friends
feralmoan··on Ask HN: If you coded your own bookmarking service, what features would it have?
Shame about the Pokemon, was hoping for something more magical
feralmoan··on Ask HN: If you coded your own bookmarking service, what features would it have?
That would probably take no time at all with chrome https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/history - push history events to a synced service, auto-tag content (with something like embedly or alchemy ?) - add some social bells and whistles, sprinkle some flat ui and CSS3 transitions on it - alakazam!
feralmoan··on How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup
I'm already a fair way into building a similar paid tool (curated engagement via twitter+disqus), if its something you might want to try out ... email in my profile.
feralmoan··on Founder Ethics
YC founders are predominantly 'young' so it could be chalked to general mentorship.
feralmoan··on Ask HN: What is the most pressing need your startup/business faces?
User feedback + engagement
feralmoan··on The logic of Buddhist philosophy
I think by extension of the Platonic school of thought Western culture has become deeply ingrained in dichotomous thinking applying such constraints to all areas of life (beyond simple science and logic), whereas Eastern non-dualism supposes all things (existentially) being equal. Neither West or Eastern philosophies do a very good job of describing each others domain space and yet they share many similar concepts. Karma (Theoretical) vs Causality (Empirical) is a basic example - they're exactly the same but few Westerners and particularly those in academic circles would admit to such a thing as it undermines Western status quo.
feralmoan··on Flowhub is now in Public Beta
Enterprise ETL, process automation and service integration is a massive market, it'd be cool to see them buddy up with someone like Mulesoft. I tend to think these kinds of services aren't really suited to general consumers but there's definitely a place for it in the enterprise space.
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