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kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
In the mid-late 90s every store started adding .COM to its official company name, and then putting up new signs on their stores.

It looked horribly tacky and a few years later everyone quietly disappeared the TLDs.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
My decade of experience with lawyers is that most of them aren't great with technology. If I had a dollar for every lawyer I knew with an AOL email address I would be writing this sat on the beach.

I've known a lot of people who were amazing at their job, but shitty at running a business. I guess I would have tried to help these lawyers and explain their wrongheaded tech decisions to see what their next move would be. That would give me a better understanding of whether they were an outfit worthy of my time.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
Is there some sort of attack possible here where you could hand out unique onion addresses to each visitor, so when they connect with Tor you could fingerprint their Tor connection and match it to their cleartext connection? *takes off his black hat*
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
Exactly. Prosecutors goals are to prosecute. Even if they don't see the prosecution through to the end because it becomes politically unfavorable, you might still sit in pre-trial detention for a decade before they drop the charges.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
They at least move some small retail owners from Android to iPhone, so they'll sell some iPhones.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
There is the old apocryphal story of how eBay was started with Pez dispensers. But in 1997 when MAME launched, 99% of eBay was CDs of ROMs, and Beanie Babies. eBay gave no fucks back then (people were buying and selling kidneys) and most people were on dial-up, so buying CDs with 1000 ROMs on it was heaven.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
Perhaps. I was Plausible's paid analytics service I had trouble with. I'm sure their host-your-own is fine.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
Ugh. I had the same experience with a company recently. Completely put me off them.
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
That's funny. I paid for something using my CashApp debit card and the merchant took the money and never delivered it and CashApp say there is nothing they can do there either.

I just got banned from Twitter for posting the contact details of their VPs :|
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
This is great! I tried "chicken burgers for aliens"* and it came up with some fantastic options.

* not currently a real business plan
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
I think GoDaddy's one is used by a lot of sites?
kingcharles
·4 года назад·discuss
Cool to see another jailbird here turning things around. I just did 8 inside. How long were you locked up for?

p.s. I would love to fix the audio on your intro video - the hum and echo is killing me. I used to be married to a voice actor and I set up her studio and recording pipeline. [Audacity and Audition both have a quick filter to remove background noise]
kingcharles
·5 лет назад·discuss
The number of programs ever written without bugs can be counted in a uint8.
kingcharles
·5 лет назад·discuss
I quit the video game biz over crunch.

When I was made to work three nights without sleep for some imaginary deadline, and staff came in on the fourth morning and they had to pry the gold CD out of my hand as I was asleep on the floor under my desk - that was the end for me.

https://www.amazon.com/Abomination-PC/dp/B00001ZT3Z

I left and became the World's #1 seller of Beanie Babies. (True story)
kingcharles
·5 лет назад·discuss
> Every actor in the game world was to have a personality, daily routines etc.

I tried this on a limited scale in a text-based MUD in the 90s, and even then it quickly became an ungodly nightmare. What sounds good in your head isn't always feasible in reality.
kingcharles
·5 лет назад·discuss
I still have a tab open in my browser from week's ago.

LinkedIn: 50 Top Startups in the U.S.

#1 Better [Financial Services]
kingcharles
·5 лет назад·discuss
This sort of leaking is now a felony in most US jurisdictions, e.g. Illinois: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/revenge-porn...
kingcharles
·5 лет назад·discuss
I had to buy dozens of old phones on eBay once for testing a new SMS product and I can tell you that most of the phones were not wiped and lots had naughty photos and videos still on them :|