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medium.com 4y ago

How Stoner Cats Lost Collectors $800K in 35 Minutes

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offsets.gallery 5y ago

Carbon Negative NFTS

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

Paxos Gets SEC Nod to Use Blockchain to Settle Stock Trades

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www.nergaard.nl 6y ago

Paxos Gold (PAXG) – A crypto-based option for physical gold ownership

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medium.com 7y ago

Is Bitcoin Too Risky to Own?

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www.forbes.com 7y ago

New York Regulator Greenlights Paxos Ethereum-Based Stablecoin

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medium.com 8y ago

Analysis of a Kubernetes hack – Backdooring through kubelet

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www.talkmarkets.com 8y ago

An Objective Look at Bitcoin; What No One Is Giving

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en.chessbase.com 9y ago

Praggnanandhaa – youngest chess IM in history

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eng.paxos.com 9y ago

Blockchain: Separating Hype from Substance Part Two

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thehill.com 9y ago

Trump bans EPA employees from giving social media updates

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eng.paxos.com 9y ago

Blockchain: Separating Hype from Substance

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Abuse of my Google apps email

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www.bloomberg.com 11y ago

Your Home Doesn't Matter for Tesla's Dream of a Battery-Powered Planet

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www.emirates247.com 11y ago

Mass kissing' protests in Kerala cities against moral policing

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Bookmarkly.com is down

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us4.campaign-archive1.com 12y ago

Plivo - Attn: Service Interruption Due to DDos Attack

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37signals.com 12y ago

Unapologetically cheap

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boxee-v2.herokuapp.com 13y ago

Boxee will be joining Samsung

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www.braintreepayments.com 13y ago

Introducing Braintree.js

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play.google.com 14y ago

Show HN: My Android App - Quotes

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blog.telemetryweb.com 14y ago

Someone Needs to Help Farmers Solve Their IT Problems

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petelepage.com 14y ago

Building A More App-y Web

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blog.telemetryweb.com 14y ago

The Economic Reality of Mobile Device Security

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blog.telemetryweb.com 15y ago

Stopping to Smell the Technological Roses

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blog.telemetryweb.com 15y ago

Defining The Cloud: You Say Tomato...

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blog.telemetryweb.com 15y ago

And the Maker Shall Inherit the Earth

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Anyone else having trouble with your Google appengine apps?

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www.networkworld.com 15y ago

Intel finds design flaw in Sandy Bridge chipset

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blog.telemetryweb.com 15y ago

$6B for Rural Broadband: Its About Time

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Pebble's next step 10 years ago

Whenever this kind of things happens. It will make all the more difficult for startups to acquire users because this reiterates "Startups are either going to be acquired and killed or die prematurely".

I have successfully used an Android device as a cheep SMS gateway. An app installed on the device acted as the gateway and messages are triggered from the server via GCM push messages to the device.

Incoming messages to the device are intercepted by a receiver on the device and posted back to the server.

[dead] 11 years ago

May be as a first step you should post your blog url here

I already have MFA. Looks like you didn't get my question. How are we going to prevent anyone from using your email id in a signup form for some service? Spammers/abuser don't have access to my email account they just use my email id. What seems to be happening is some spammers creating fake accounts for services using randomName@myappsdomain.

If not using aws features like auto scaling , elastic load balancing etc. you most likely spending more money that needed if you are on AWS.

You are right about your implementation. I was thinking about the Pythons collections.defaultdict

from collections import defaultdict s = 'mississippi' d = defaultdict(int) for k in s: d[k] += 1 d.items()

[('i', 4), ('p', 2), ('s', 4), ('m', 1)]

Your defaultdict approach and the dict.get with a default specified is not really equivalent. In the defaultdict case when you encounter a non existing key it adds a new entry with that key into the dict. i.e. your dict will start growing.

whereas dic.get with default value keep returning you the default value without touching your dict.

As a developer living in the US my experience with Odesk is that you cannot make a living doing just Odesk. But you can still achieve good pay rate on certain projects if you choose carefully. I used to charge , for example $600+ for a 3 hour job in the weekend. and if you are lucky you may end up building relationship with your client and get other projects outside of Odsek.

If anybody looking to get into Odesk, this is my advice on how to get over the chicken and egg problem(You are trying to build your work history while clients looking for your work history).

Find projects that can be partially or even fully prototyped and send the live link in the bidding. If the project is genuine most clients will bite. If they don't , write off your effort as marketing expense!

Also never bid for a project if you think you cannot get a 5 star rating after the delivery.

You can see my odesk profile below , all my ratings are 5 star. No surprise!

https://www.odesk.com/users/~014c438dbb17ea9c46

Making $4000 + / Month profit . Running a consulting firm. I have two direct employees and few pass-through 's . Revenue is much bigger a number at $100,000 + /Month . Effort is very less to maintain this profit as only spend few hours /month to run payroll , invoicing clients and make timely payment out to the vendors.

pass-through : Consultants not employed by my company but work for my clients.