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mithras··on The Bike Index: Let's Stop Bike Theft, Together
I don't even know why people pledged over $11000 for this. It will fail, and hard.
mithras··on PayPal Acquires Braintree for $800M
But instead you are reliant on Spreedly. Looks interesting though.
mithras··on Ask HN: Nepal's ccTLD registrar won't let devs update nameservers. What to do?
First thing I thought, if nepal is anything like the rest of the region it makes sense.
mithras··on DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery
It's a behemoth, but a very useful one.
mithras··on Star Wars opening crawl from 1977 in HTML/CSS/JS
Just contenteditable=true, no magic there.
mithras··on FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
How do you get the one time pad to the recipient?
mithras··on Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer
That high school she went too might have been a pretty good lead if you know her approximate age.
mithras··on PhpMyAdmin Turns 15
Do tell about the superior alternative, I still have to use phpmyadmin sometimes.
mithras··on Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europe (Germany)
This is the polar opposite of everything I ever read on Dubai.
mithras··on New Form of Carbon is Stronger Than Graphene and Diamond
No they are correct.
mithras··on Bitcoin Block Time Halved To Five Minutes Amid Exponential Network Growth
Perhaps sold for very little money to people who have free power. Soon it will be about power efficiency more than raw hashing power like what happened during the switch form CPU to GPU mining.
mithras··on The Strange Case of Barrett Brown
Doesn't this make various three strike laws unconstitutional?
mithras··on Rendering templates obsolete
How do you use this when different people are responsible for the layout/design and the js?
mithras··on Ask HN: Splitting profits between a programmer and a sysad/network engineer?
I'd make a realistic list of hours worked, both take your hours * hourly rate out of the total, pay the outsourcing fees and divide the rest 50/50.
mithras··on [dead]
Ahem?
mithras··on Google Homepage Size Over Time
Yeah I don't understand why they do that, igoogle is pretty good and I use it alot.
mithras··on A call to arms: Why every kid (and kid at heart) should write an iPhone game
Eclipse is pretty heavy though, and it is my preferred Java/ Android editor.
mithras··on Convince Me Why I Should Ditch PHP for RoR
I don't see any good reasons to switch either. Ruby might be an objectively better language, but the cost of switching is high if oyu know PHP through and through and use a MVC coding style.
mithras··on [dead]
That would imply the need for an API key though, and he mentions that he doesn't want those.
mithras··on Most app developers make less than $500 a month (chart) — Tech News and Analysis
Nothing new, it's just a pyramid setup, a few big hits raking in tons, and a whole lot of apps that are downloaded twice or make 2 dollars a month with advertising.
mithras··on What happened in the early days of oDesk?
I found a very big client and now work for 3 times my (quite low) starting rate.
mithras··on Show HN: WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air
Possibly if someone managed to include it on a page you had already given permission.

I don't know if how you'd sent it somewhere with the same origin policy in place.

mithras··on Stripe And A/B Testing Made Me A Small Fortune
It's a numbers game, and the money form extra sales might very well make up for a few sneaky users abusing it.
mithras··on MySQL now includes memcached, and a plugin that allows fast NoSQL-style access
I think this is pretty cool, waiting for some benchmarks.
mithras··on Show HN: multi-perspective StarCraft 2 web replays
Cloudflare might be ideal for this.
mithras··on A Different Road To Work, Bypassing College Dreams
The stupidity hurts.
mithras··on Sprite Cow: Generate CSS for sprite sheets
I agree, I'm a bit flabbergasted this didn't exist yet. I guess at least one person made it before but didn't get any traction
mithras··on Untold Story Behind Kickstarter Stats
It shouldn't be that obtrusive at all, don't try to defend bad UI.
mithras··on Where are you on the global fat scale?
Speak for yourself:

"You're most like someone from DR Congo"

mithras··on Children with older fathers and grandfathers 'live longer'
Doesn't evolution itself already imply this?
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