bryan_rasmussen's comments

bryan_rasmussen | 11 years ago | on: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous

hmm, I have to say I haven't had a recaptcha that bad yet, but I have had some bad ones.... But uh... on the first bad recaptcha when trying to guess their password they thought - this recaptcha is ridiculous I will try to solve it of course but just right now I am also going to screenshot it because this is naturally the first thing I think to do!

bryan_rasmussen | 11 years ago | on: Eigenmorality

It seems to me that this would only be of interest if it can be shown that an immoral person is not someone that cooperates with other immoral people but not with moral people.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: J Can be Readable

I think the author means Korean in that he can't read it. I don't believe Ken Iverson had a Korean connection in making it.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Google is Breaking the Internet

If sites can make spammy links to another site and google would then hurt the linked to sites ranking it follows that a profit model would soon arise -> Make spammy links and charge to have links removed.

Has this been seen? Can anyone show a case?

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you perform at an interview

eww, biscuits!

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: New Soylent Website

Hmm, according to the article in the new yorker the food costs for doing it oneself is 50 dollars a month and it was a significant time saving from making food or going out to eat, now if I figure out that it actually works as advertised - why wouldn't I just do what the original inventor did instead of buying it?

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Atom Is Now Open Source

brackets is open source http://brackets.io/

about this, I use brackets, a lot of it does look like brackets maybe with some ideas taken from light table http://www.lighttable.com/

There's a thread on discuss.atom.io about what distinguishes the two http://discuss.atom.io/t/what-distinguishes-atom-io-from-bra... I guess I don't feel atom does enough different from brackets that I can justify switching editor at this point, but if anyone has more to add than was found there I'm interested to hear.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: AngularJS: Factory vs. Service vs. Provider

Finally I feel like I understand Java.

Was that too snarky?

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Popcorn Time is back

They made something to facilitate piracy, most probably piracy not done for profit, but did not pirate something and then put it out as their own with the intention to make a profit.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Hacker School banning “feigned surprise” is absolutely brilliant

gasp I didn't even know what feigned surprise was!

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Microsoft Says: Come Back with a Warrant, Unless You’re Microsoft

I agree with the stupidity on evidence, but Microsoft's taking advantage of that stupidity of course underlines that they will read your email if they think it is to their advantage to do so and can make a legally satisfactory argument.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

There's a difference between an idea guy and a Proof of concept guy.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: A competitor emailed me moments after I signed up to Stripe

not necessarily. there's not enough context as to how they got to stripe.

Did they write the url in the address bar of the browser without any other context, or did they do something that signalled what they were going to do.

I bet #2.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Google wins everything (part 1)

#12 - No Company consistently fails to execute past Proof of Concept stage as much as google.

#13 - No Company consistently fails to monetize extremely popular services and instead shuts them down as much as Google.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Why Programming is Difficult

I don't care about the programming, what I want to know is why is using a spellchecker so difficult?

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: How much would $1.50 in 1945 be worth today?

That's a pretty lousy rate of return for inventing time travel really.

The normal way one calculates this is by buying power of those dollars - what could you buy then and what would it cost now.

But really I could have bought a Sub-Mariner comics #15 in mint condition, and it would be worth quite a bit more today.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Well, if this story is true ( I put the if because it seems silly to have that account be the target ) then access to the account is proof of a crime (this is why it seems silly)

If they sell it to someone I guess that is a reason to take it, but it also seems like some enterprising DA would want to use it as an example of receiving stolen property ( because News! Hacking! Fame!) So if anyone buys this name they might be in trouble at some unspecified point in the future.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: Startup failure post-mortems

this is the obverse of the idea that just because you succeed does not necessarily know why you succeeded. You do not have the full view in either case.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: The Cost of Poor Web Performance

I thought it wasn't irony, but rather the actual message.

bryan_rasmussen | 12 years ago | on: How To Hire Outsourced Developers

Well this one is ok, since he is going to pay for that one hour. Then again, if you do know how to program in the programming language but don't know the APIs used it can be more than one hour to get something done..

I was interviewing with someone that wanted me to make an example sentiment analyzer for twitter and facebook to get hired. But he wanted someone to do it for free, I of course wanted money to do that.