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hoffmabc

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About hoffmabc

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/openbazaar; my proof: https://keybase.io/openbazaar/sigs/wDFqZPZtNfJGQkCTXHwVdue0qiJkqS0qhmnid5T-rEo ]

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    Comment #10859813

    Realistically there are only about 1 million bitcoin users in total worldwide. It is still very early days. We are aiming to make OpenBazaar a common ecommerce standard using Bitco…

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    Comment #10859799

    You have the choice between direct payment transactions which is more risky and should only be used between known parties and then there is a 2 of 3 party multisig escrow transacti…

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    Comment #8576824

    If you need more reasons to have something like OpenBazaar exist here's a few we plan. https://github.com/OpenBazaar/OpenBazaar/tree/master/docs/ma... You're thinking too narrowly …

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    Comment #5893367

    I find it highly unlikely he will reveal what his strategy for staying free is. This would kind of be a dumb reveal even though I am curious what it is.

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    Comment #5893265

    And Samsung couldn't have copied their smart phone concepts to peddling their not quite as good products.

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    Comment #5853632

    All of this being said could be told about any government contractor. The company is 24,500 strong and not all people are working on incompetent projects. I've worked for several c…

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    Comment #5804128

    That's horrible. I feel for the family.

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    Comment #3062987

    Grow up. Are you ten years old? You are offended because you choose to be offended, the f-bombs and s-words as you say are just words. If you ever read Ted Dziuba's blog entries yo…

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    Comment #2009016

    Probably UPS got pissed about them slamming the API or maybe it exposed people to theft since everyone could find out where they were going?

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    Comment #1895393

    Wow. Lot of feedback, really helpful! I will definitely try what I can and see how it goes. Thanks much.

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    Six months old and only three hundred users, what's wrong?

    I opened up shop a little over six months ago and as of today we sit around 300 users. I'm a single founder of a web site called TheMovieTracker.com and although we've had steady i…

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    Comment #1785859

    dude stop being so old. not everyone is a crusty old programmer that can't be hyped up by anything. there used to be a time when programming was fun and we enjoyed being pumped up …

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    Comment #1767746

    I agree. I would have to concede that sometimes the algorithm is not perfect (nor do I believe it ever could be). I took a glance at the Lord of the Rings and some of the ways that…

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    Comment #1767736

    This comment has really resonated with me as I read it once again. I see this same tired comment on so many threads. Nowhere did I say that I want someone to do all the work for me…

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    Comment #1766737

    Ratings are included but the weights are possibly not adjusted correctly. It's a work in progress. One man project as well at this time, hence the request.

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    Comment #1766735

    I am a programmer already, if you look at the link I have created all of this myself. I am merely explaining the type of partner that I expect to team up with. I'm not a nobody ide…

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    WANTED: Partner for existing web application

    I am looking for someone who is interested in working on an existing web application that has the vision and excitement behind building something that is fun and useful to it's use…

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    Comment #1335207

    John Gruber is a retard. He eats every chocolate dropping Apple squeezes out.

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    Comment #1202557

    Javascript. Learn it asap. HTML obviously and then use what you know already for SQL and Java/C++ to code the backend. You already have a lot of the framework for it having done ap…

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    How to kick off your site on no real budget without spamming?

    I have a web site (http://www.themovietracker.com) that I launched a few weeks back. I've had previous sites and generally you start out forcing your friends to join and then you s…

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    Comment #1120524

    Wow! Thanks for the great feedback. I am sorry for the Facebook Connect issue, I'm in parallel working on a mobile version and the authentication kinks need to get worked out. I ap…