dnaquin | 8 years ago | on: Zeta Global acquires Disqus (YC S07)
hear hear. congrats guys!
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dnaquin | 12 years ago | on: Feinstein wants mass domestic spying. Let's get her off intel committee.
good luck. the last time her election was close was 1994.
dnaquin | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin Is Fundamentally Flawed
The US went off the gold standard before the great depression.
dnaquin | 13 years ago | on: Heyzap (YC W09) adds option to pay game developers with Bitcoin
> When a currency is experiencing deflation it makes sense not to spend it. In that world, keeping my money under my mattress is the soundest investment strategy.
A does not imply B.
If the currency deflates at 1% but you could invest at 2%, your mattress isn't the most sound investment strategy.
dnaquin | 13 years ago | on: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
dnaquin | 14 years ago | on: House votes down stopping employers asking for Facebook passwords
read the amendment.
"1 SEC. 5. PROTECTING THE PASSWORDS OF ONLINE USERS.
2 Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this
3 Act shall be construed to limit or restrict the ability of
4 the Federal Communications Commission to adopt a rule
5 or to amend an existing rule to protect online privacy, in-
6 cluding requirements in such rule that prohibit licensees
7 or regulated entities from mandating that job applicants
8 or employees disclose confidential passwords to social net-
9 working web sites."dnaquin | 14 years ago | on: Mythbusters experiment goes awry, sends cannonball through two houses
sounds like at least one of these was broken.
"ALWAYS keep the gun pointed in a safe direction.
ALWAYS keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot.
ALWAYS keep the gun unloaded until ready to use."
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Zuckerberg: Privacy anxiety is fleeting
also "no" is a valid answer to "employer asked for access to their Facebook page".
i'd do the same thing if an employer asked to search my apartment or read my email.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Faster Web Development With Virtual Machines at deviantART
Only use VMs or sandboxes on production-like machines.
Local development doesn't scale.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Facebook is not worth $33 billion
As far as I can tell MySpace only ever had 100M MAU tops. Comparing that to something 5x that is apples to oranges.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (Summer Edition)
we're always hiring. lots of projects lots of impact. shipping code to a half billion people on your first week.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Facebook has become the third largest nation
"users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days" facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Facebook now has 500 million users
Facebook user ids are not generated sequentially.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Zuckerberg Makes It Official: Facebook Hits 500 Million Members
"users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days"
facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
5% is unrealistic. 1% is.
50 million * .01 * .65 (tax) / 4 years = 81,250
considering opportunity cost and time spent. likely not worth it.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: My experience as the first employee of a Y Combinator startup
this is similarly ridiculously high.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Diaspora: One Month In
Sorry to say but "this doesn't work, that's wrong, this is broken etc" is going to be said regardless of when you release and regardless of how many users you have.
The number one rule of software engineering. Your code sucks.
dnaquin | 15 years ago | on: Woot To Be Acquired By Amazon
largely modeled on Tony Hsieh's.
dnaquin | 16 years ago | on: Heyzap (YC 09) raises $3M round for social game platform expansion
Good job, guys.
dnaquin | 16 years ago | on: U.S. Steps Up Probe of Tech Hiring
I'm not convinced the difference is that pronounced.
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