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videoappeal

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    Comment #3657233

    [quote] The bitcoin breach seems analogous to Bank of America storing your account information on Linode and trusting it as the Real Data. Does that make sense? [/quote] //reply to…

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    Comment #3657163

    Not sure about this PCI complaint stuff, but perhaps this is why major banking companies jumped from Linode to EC2? Much improvement? Although I must say I have friends working on …

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    Comment #3657153

    Well tomg, when I researched this ~8 months ago there were at least 2 US financial websites that were using the same specialized analytic company that injected JS into banking logi…

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    Comment #3656063

    All this talk about banks being safe yada yada and cloud hosting not safe for US50k. Real banking companies (with billions of dollars on hand) do use commodity cloud hosting includ…

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    Comment #3611586

    Why the downvote? Did the word retard offend you?

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    Comment #3611561

    article doesnt open for me just a blank page with word 'deft'? is this some retard post with no content or is the server overwhelmed?

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    Comment #3603081

    What the fuck is it? Following the link /l it is immediately asking for my details without telling WTF it is - is a grade A example of retarded marketing.

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    Comment #3602841

    Oh no... They forgot to add .svn to the .gitignore A kitten has just died...

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    Comment #3595016

    When did we go from standard measure of per second for these types of things, you know, requests per second, transactions per second, to per minute? Statistics eh?

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    Comment #3590224

    tl;dr - giving an article a skim read it appears these devices wont allow facebook or youtube etc... so my point is probably mute.. Learning begins? Or we further Facebook's cause …

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    Comment #3589644

    Why ClojureScript? because it is much closer to feature complete, tested, supported by the core team yada yada

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    Comment #3589407

    If complaining about the startup times of JVM then i believe a solution exists laready i.e. ClojureScript running on top of Node.Js be a better fit?

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    Comment #3582049

    I should add "Have you been accessing sensitive sites such as your Google accounts" on a shared computer." The HN reference was to distinguish if the poster's complaint was worth o…

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    Comment #3581466

    1) Have you been using a shared computer? 2) Did you have a weak password? 3) Do you use same password (or a small pool of passwords) for most sites and service? Answering yes to a…

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    Comment #3565303

    Bad advice. Coffeescript isnt a framework, it is a language. So for your DOM manipulation you say you understand the quirks and difference between WebKit and IE7, what about the ho…

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    Comment #3470935

    Agreed. But with no transparency it pays to be cynical. In addition, bootstrapping it by asking HN to commit their time and web space whilst drawing a salary is a bit of a slap in …

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    Comment #3470921

    Indeed, but perception is a powerful thing, a non-profit for charities especially. Microsoft and [insert-evil-company-of-choice] could be non-profit if you soak up any remaining re…

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    Comment #3470891

    For sure, I hope you dont object I've just registered adsbycappuccino, my idea is to make it a non-profit ad agency that does work for benefit of charities, in my business plan Ive…

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    Comment #3470803

    Can you clarify non-profit, non-profit nowadays means very little, ICANN is non-profit and is about to fuck up top-top level domains so their CEO can buy a helicopter. Do you draw …

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  21. story
    Bad contract or stubborn developer

    Whilst travelling I agreed to do a contract for a company I worked for previously, they knew after a few months travelling that I decided to live in asia (trip to thailand = fall i…

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    Comment #3419995

    Looks like he trying to clean up incase his parole officer finds out (given the sentence reduction), anyone know what court originally convicted him in 2007?

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    Comment #3407107

    >Although my gut tells me that Mongo might be the 'hot' technology Better put that on the list with all the other gut feeling..

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    Comment #3407105

    >[Clojure] .. example of the emerging trend of evented, asynchronous backend languages. Clojure is not a great example of this, and certainly doesnt have any event loop magic or as…

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    Comment #3373902

    Statistic is flawed. Most people who use the default white themes probably dont read HackerNews, dont care to optimize their setup or routine. Those that read hackernews with a wor…