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starnix17on Coinbase Vault

Another terrible Coinbase story. A bug in their backend caused a transaction to go through to my bank account, withdraw funds, but not credit me coins.

Contacting support yielded no results at all. I had to go through my bank, close my account (which is a nightmare in itself), and get the money refunded via the bank's fraudulent ACH reversal process.

I would not trust this company.

starnix17on Get Facebook WiFi for your business

Philz Coffee (at least the one at Golden Gate and Larkin) has this. Before you can access any non-HTTPS pages you get a Facebook page with a big "Check-In" button and a very small "Skip" button.

starnix17on Android: The Land That Python Forgot

Lua can easily be compiled and used on both Android and iOS.

starnix17on Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox

I had a simliar rejection because of my app's Rdio integration.

If the user had Rdio installed, my app would open the song in the Rdio native app.

If the user didn't have the app installed, my app would open the song on the Rdio web site in MobileSafari. Apple didn't like this since you could purchase an Rdio subscription on that webpage bypassing the IAP and Apple's 30% cut.

starnix17on Hack your way through Stripe's Capture the Flag

Anyone having trouble connecting to this?

starnix17on Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

Don't forget, if you create a Google account you automatically have a Google+ account.

I made a new Gmail account for my mom a few days, now she has a Google+ account too but I doubt she'll ever touch it.

starnix17on TextMate 2

For what's it worth, this was posted on a publicly accessible TextMate mailing list.

Not sure why he would think it wouldn't leak out.

starnix17on Steam loses user database

At least they're honest about it, compare this to the PS3 compromise.

starnix17on USV invests in Duck Duck Go

Is DDG still just one person? I assume he'll be building a bigger team then right?

Very cool that this is the Philly area, hopefully he doesn't move elsewhere.

starnix17on IPhone 4S: A5 chip, 8MP camera, and Siri voice recognition

Is their DNS hacked?

From whois apple.com:

APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM APPLE.COM.WAS.PWNED.BY.M1CROSOFT.COM APPLE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM APPLE.COM.IS.OWN3D.BY.NAKEDJER.COM APPLE.COM.IS.0WN3D.BY.GULLI.COM APPLE.COM.BEYONDWHOIS.COM APPLE.COM.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM APPLE.COM

EDIT: This is completely false and untrue (well the DNS hack part).

See this Superuser thread for more details: http://superuser.com/questions/37954/how-to-use-command-line...

starnix17on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancers? (October 2011)

SEEKING WORK / HERMAN MILLER MIRRA CHAIR

No, seriously — my current chair is awful but I can't stomach spending so much on a new fully loaded Mirra chair that I've been lusting for.

Stuff I can do in exchange for said chair:

* Native iOS development

* Native Android development

* Take your mobile site/app and make it native(ish) using PhoneGap

Take a look at my porfolio if you're interested: http://endlesswhileloop.com/portfolio/

Also, a native iOS app I just released: http://endlesswhileloop.com/apps/dial/

This offer would be good for small, one-off projects (think 10-15 hours).

Remote work only.

(Is this even legal to offer?)

starnix17on CBC is forcing me to remove my app from the Mac App Store

What about a paid app that's classified as simply an Internet radio player that has a huge directory of stations (similar to iTunes)?

Would that be subject to similar legal issues?

I may or may not have just released one :-).

Edit for more insight: Here's my app - http://endlesswhileloop.com/apps/dial

Some others... Snowtape - http://vemedio.com/products/snowtape_phone Radium - http://www.catpigstudios.com/

Both of these are great apps with their own built-in Internet radio directory that I assume they built on their own with or without stations' permissions.

starnix17on Own Your Identity

Ah, correct, this makes more sense now.

starnix17on Own Your Identity

Also worth noting, he's no longer using Tumblr for Marco.org: http://www.marco.org/secondcrack

starnix17on Zynga's S-1

Not really an important question, but why didn't they specify a symbol?

starnix17on Jedberg leaves reddit

What are the odds he ends up at Hipmunk?

It's not mentioned at all in the post, but it seems like a lot of ex-reddit employees end up there.

starnix17on Justin.tv launches TwitchTV: A destination site for eSports

Ah, that does make sense then.

starnix17on Apple's iCloud will automatically store, sync data for free

Coolest news for developers, there are APIs for this for use with third party apps.

starnix17on Justin.tv launches TwitchTV: A destination site for eSports

Not really related to WWDC, but isn't today a bad day to announce something like this?

starnix17on Try to digest the Groupon story

In case anyone didn't notice, this blog post is by DHH.

starnix17on Android Market's most popular emulators disappear without a trace

"e.g. making a TI-89 emulator should be ok for the market, but you can't include TI's ROM"

I don't think so. For example, I know the PSX emulator didn't include any of the required BIOS files and they are all still removed.

It seems that if someone big enough complains, Google will remove any emulator.

starnix17on Venmo Review

One of the (few?) best startups in Philly, very nice founders and employees.

starnix17on Conway's Game of Life in CoffeeScript

Be sure to check out the annotated source - http://willbailey.name/conway/docs/conway.html

starnix17on IOS RAGE rendered with WebGL

Kudos to John Carmack for being kind enough to help the developer get the demo working.

He seems like a nice guy and it's cool that he's still very much involved with game development (and apparently rockets).

starnix17on Slicehost accounts will be converted to Rackspace cloud accounts

I hope they keep their articles section, it was really helpful for me when I was setting up my first VPS.

starnix17on Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my rate (iOS/Android)

Thanks for the feedback.

More details:

Venmo: handled everything but design (but worked alongside their designer)

Wolfgang's Vault: handled everything for the app, based design off of existing iOS app

BSG Bobble: ported from iOS (also agree with it being pointless, fun project though)

Philly Concert Hub: everything (even the web app that gets listings, http://phillyconcerthub.com)

None of these were overly difficult, nearly everything is just a native client that connects to some web API.

I can't recall the hours for each, sorry.

Strengths: I think I can build a decent product even though I'm not a designer Good understanding of both iOS and Android

Weaknesses: I wish I did more testing

starnix17on Ask HN: Looking for feedback on my rate (iOS/Android)

Clickable links:

* Venmo for Android - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.venmo

* Wolfgang's Vault for Android - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wolfgangsvault.con...

* Battlestar Galactica Bobblehead App - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.laan.BobbleFanSyFy

* Philadelphia Concert Hub for iPhone - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/philadelphia-concert-hub/id31...

starnix17on [dead]

Why was this removed earlier?

starnix17on Reddit Is Down To One Developer

What happens when the last one leaves?

Is Conde just going to run off to Elance or something?

I can't even find a jobs page on Reddit.

At least it's open source.

starnix17on The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28

I think Instapaper's bookmarklet scrapes the page if it's behind a pay wall, very clever.

Edit: To clarify, by scraping I mean if you are logged in and can see the article the bookmarkelet will grab the contents of the page.