darkmirage's comments

darkmirage | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: The Million Dollar Homepage as an Ethereum Smart Contract and DApp

I made something similar https://ethereumpixels.com not too long ago! Had more of Reddit's r/place on my mind. The source code for the contract and the webapp can be found here: https://github.com/EthereumPixels

darkmirage | 8 years ago | on: CryptoMaps: Cryptocurrency Market State

I agree. You can tell how confident they are in their blockchain technology that the only nodes they allow on the NEO network are operated by the company. Decentralized trust is supposed to be the single selling point of a blockchain. If we give that up, we might as well make a REST API for a SQL database and claim that it's the fastest blockchain in the world.

darkmirage | 9 years ago | on: Relay Modern: Simpler, faster, more extensible

I work at Facebook and had the chance to use Relay Modern for an upcoming product. Was really happy with the performance and collocation of data and view just amazing. Love it :) BTW I realized where Relay's logo came from by chance while fiddling around with PowerPoint's new Morph transitions... https://gfycat.com/EnviousBothFinch

darkmirage | 9 years ago | on: How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

I wrote the blog post. It turns out writing a blog post works better than talking to the bank beyond simple catharsis. Just got a call from someone from Bank of America's social media team who credited the money back to my account. Thanks for all the suggestions here!

darkmirage | 10 years ago | on: South Korea announces $860M AI fund after AlphaGo 'shock'

Calling Lee Kuan Yew a brutal dictator is a very huge stretch of the term.

darkmirage | 10 years ago | on: How the decimation of the IPO market has hurt the economy and worse

Is it really business sense or just being lucky to IPO in a huge bubble?

Did Broadcast.com really create value for the economy that the employees were rewarded for, or were they just on the lucky end of a huge unsustainable wealth transfer from retail investors to startup founders?

darkmirage | 10 years ago | on: FontReach scans the top 1M sites to show font usage across the web

It seems like it shows all the fonts found in the CSS. A font like Arial might seem very popular but in reality not show up for most people because it's often the second or third choice.

darkmirage | 11 years ago | on: Stanford – The Get Rich University (2012)

Actually CS comprises of around 15% of undergrads and commands a dominating influence over the rest of the school. http://stanfordvisualized.soraven.com/

darkmirage | 11 years ago | on: The Tech Behind Dropbox’s New User Experience on Mobile, Part 2

Photos and quick viewing of shared documents are common use cases.

darkmirage | 11 years ago | on: Day One with the Oculus Rift DK2

Pretty sure you are referring to Star Citizen.

darkmirage | 12 years ago | on: Top Investors in High-Technology

Interesting that the third highest investor In-Q-Tel is the investment arm of the CIA.

darkmirage | 12 years ago | on: Box has secretly filed for an IPO

Aaron was smart to recognize that Dropbox had the first-mover brand recognition among consumers that is hard to overcome and therefore deliberately chose to focus on enterprise deals. This seems to be paying off for Box. For example, as a Stanford student, we all get 30 GB of free Box space associated with our .edu addresses.

However, I wouldn't write off Dropbox. The flipside of this is that no one at Stanford actually use the Box space that the university has seen fit to pay for. Consumer mindshare is a powerful tool. Think of how a few years ago people were saying that the iPhone would never be allowed in the corporate world because it was not designed for the enterprise.

When it comes to enterprise file-syncing, I see Box as a top-down approach and Dropbox as a bottom-up approach. Box has the lead now but it's a perilous one.

darkmirage | 12 years ago | on: How Google's Android Could Finally Crush Apple's iPhone

I like how there are two comments on the article right now:

Comment 1: "This has to be the stupidest article just to bash Apple which this author continually does. I only read him to laugh at his misguided comments."

Comment 2: "Sam Mattera sounds like a gigantic Apple troll. Android is 1000x times better looking and more useful than the Fisher Price looking Apple iOS."

You can never win...

darkmirage | 12 years ago | on: After neighbor’s death, first-time filmmaker declares war on suicide

This is ridiculous. If he had said that the murderer was a male student, would you be complaining about sexism? Identifying someone's race is not racism. He didn't imply anything about Greeks in general.