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seanieb

1,522karma·339submissions·July 15, 2010
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Working on computer security & encryption stuff. https://conic.al
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Obama appears not to have had a clear picture of the issues back in August when he delivered a speech solidifying his administrations views on the issue. The president suggested that if Mr. Snowden ha…
12y ago·view thread
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Dropbox has the option to add a backup SMS phone number in addition to offline TOTP code. Here are some other steps you can follow if your Google Auth app got wiped: - https://www.dropbox.c…
13y ago·view thread
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Some screen shots would be nice to look at before I sign up.
13y ago·view thread
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Thank you, but your post is somewhat patronizing. Yes, I have accounted for each Chrome process. And you forgot to tick one of the 'we're in denial that FF sucks' boxes...what plugins are you using (a…
14y ago·view thread
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This is my first hacker news post using Chrome. JaegerMonkey and TraceMonkey both failed, I'm tired of waiting. The three curent builds of FF (nightly, beta and release) are horrendous on Mac. Two Win…
14y ago·view thread
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Wait till this guy figures out that T-Mobile also stores his password in plain text.
14y ago·view thread
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Only if the NY Times publishes their content in a fashion that makes it hard to read, undiscovered and freakishly difficult to use in any useful manner, and your site makes it readily discoverable and…
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Flagged. Nothing in this 'article' makes me believe Amazons passwords have been hacked. The only thing I'm sure of is the author doesn't know what a phishing email is.
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Their decision makes perfect sense, today. But, my guess is that cable subscriptions are decreasing, they have just hooked their little red wagon to a sinking ship. I think HBO are overlooking an oppo…
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http://torrentbutler.eu/ seems to have a better UI.
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I'm still using the old look for the following reasons: - using right side chat in the new look results in another vertical scroll bar and breaks how message scrolling works. - my theme no longer exis…
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GlaxoSmithKilne Ventolin Inhaler USA -$41 Ireland ~$10 France -$10 Canada - $10
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I've tried a bunch of "TODO" apps and promptly uninstalled them because they often require more work to update and maintain than some of the tasks on my list. Any.DO is different, I haven't uninstalle…
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Two apps I use almost daily that use the API: - https://agilebits.com/onepassword/android - http://www.quickoffice.com/quickoffice_pro_android/ …
15y ago·view thread
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San Francisco, CA Dropbox http://www.dropbox.com/jobs - Intern - Software Engineer - IT Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer - Software Engineer - Technical Support Engineer…
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"File sharing is the library of today" - Mika Sjöman
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It seems to be down for me. Here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%... …
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Here's another one: http://media.staradvertiser.com/images/20110312_gordonMAP1.g...
15y ago·view thread
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I love Instapaper, partially because its a fantastic product and partially because of the guy that's developing it. What Marco has done represents my goals as a 'hacker', I cant wait to have my own In…
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"As usual, Instapaper 3.0 is a free upgrade to anyone who has ever bought the paid app. For new customers, it’s only $4.99 for the universal iPhone and iPad app."
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Note, that video is from Dec 10 2009.
15y ago·view thread
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Relevant, how Verifone have been gunning for Square since teh start: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVOzysmxhyM
15y ago·view thread
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In the side bar, and I assume he means he'd like to reorder them, in order of priority. The top labels being most important. I'm +1 on this.
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I'm disappointed how they solved this problem. I was hoping they would use clustering to figure out what label to apply based on whats already been labelled. I thought that was the next logical step f…
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