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sorry, should have clarified: I meant the bank was the one with the token apology, not the guy who deposited the check.

IIRC from this guy's site, before it was a show, he had a stand-off with the bank for a while before learning that this check was holding up a merger between his bank and another c…

We're turning around a beloved but sleepy trade magazine into a modern web-first company. As you can imagine, the existing technical bench is pretty shallow. We need someone who en…

Yes, that figured into my decision to leave a top 5 CS program. The best students were so far ahead that I thought, "Wow, I obviously don't know the first thing about programming- …

I was talking to a video editor who complained that he's running out of trustworthy storage for his raw video. He's using RAID on prosumer home hardware, but it's getting to the po…

Kaleidoscope (OSX) has an "image scope" that at least integrates a couple tools for image comparison. http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/

I was hoping this would cover "Are you calling me a liar?" which seems to be a euphemism for "I dare you to explicitly accuse me of lying so I can change the subject" used by peopl…

Remarkable- that list supports your conclusion way more when you insert an item! Darn those irrational technophobic nature-romanticists, putting mobile phones into lists where they…

More accurately, some of the New Deal (deposit insurance, fiscal & monetary expansion, leaving the gold standard) worked, but some of it hurt. The fact that many countries suffered…

I've never gone through the system, but my first guess would be it's probably so that all the slots aren't given to kids from ideal, wealthy homes, raised with tutors and computer …

I think avinashv is trying to give you perspective on how it might look to the IRS in the worst case scenario, not suggesting that there's no way such an arrangement could be legal…

Sorry! Thought I'd updated my profile with it. Here's my work address: http://imgur.com/zEwd6.jpg Mention hacker news in the subject.

I'd love to find a generalist who can try to find cool, scalable ways to help a rapidly growing, profitable company get really reliable, efficient, and secure. We're located right …