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marcus

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About marcus

Hacker, Poet, Philosopher, Retired bum

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    Comment #29120218

    I haven’t checked their technology yet but if their iteration speed is an order of magnitude faster than the competition my money is on them

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    Comment #11803338

    Programmers aren't commodities as they aren't interchangeable, there are vast differences in outcome between different programmers. To a good programmer most jobs offerings are com…

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    Comment #10407376

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet_period

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    Comment #9953240

    ENV variables are inherited by child processes by default, so please use care when using this approach.

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    Comment #8059991

    Use the tuple (email,passphrase). Still easy to remember and the email functions as a salt, and will prevent any rainbow attacks

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    Comment #6621463

    In a private company you would be mostly correct. In a public one changes like these might require that you go back and fix your previous quarterly fillings -> not something that i…

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    Comment #6310458

    Wix - Tel Aviv, Israel Looking for Front-End hacker. Wix is looking for you, an experienced developer with passionate for Web development; JavaScript, HTML5 ,CSS3, TDD, Angular.JS …

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    Comment #5021433

    Everything you need is part of the standard Android SDK directional pad support, start/select buttons shoulder pad buttons and joystick support An existing game can be switched to …

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    Comment #4895121

    Sorry about that, missed a config param when transferring to the host. Should be working now.

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    Comment #4894294

    Not quite ready for prime time but I am working on a project that makes it really easy to grab content from any site using a point and click interface no xpaths selectors or regex.…

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    Ask HN: need your help for iPad Mini2 detection using Stereo sound&accelerometer

    Hello HN readers, I need your help to test my crazy idea of detecting iPad2/iPad mini by using accelormeter and stereo music. Please visit this link on an iPad2 or iPad mini and he…

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    Comment #4783022

    iOS audio will only play in response to user generated event (click for example) never when the site loads. And I am not saying it has to be a random noise or very loud the acceler…

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    Comment #4782928

    Already posted it on SO but here goes: Play a stereo audio file and compare the accelerometer response when volume is high on the right channel and on the left channel - iPad2 had …

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    Comment #4312678

    I have, but I wanted to get some feedback first, hence the "Show HN"

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    Comment #4312654

    The app is iOS 5.1 only right now, a new version which supports 4.2 was submitted last week to apple

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    Comment #4312329

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    Comment #4001748

    So Yahoo without Alibaba is worth about $4.6 billion (18.8-14.2), subtract the $2.1 billion cash and short term investments and you get a price tag of $2.5 billion for all of Yahoo…