Hacker News: buttsex

New comment by buttsex in "Ask HN: I mentioned I accept Bitcoin to a client, will they think I'm crazy?"

buttsex — Sat, 25 Apr 2015 02:45:29 +0000

Have you looked into something like Bitwage (https://www.bitwage.co/)?

New comment by buttsex in "Ask HN: How did you meet your co-founder(s)?"

buttsex — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 12:56:48 +0000

College roommate. We named our two-man agency after our old college apartment.

New comment by buttsex in "Slack was hacked"

buttsex — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 18:16:07 +0000

They archive chat messages so that you can search through them later.

New comment by buttsex in "The Canadian Mincome Experiment of 1974-79"

buttsex — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 17:57:52 +0000

Some money would be saved by eliminating the current welfare system and replacing it with UBI.

Ask HN: Removing yourself from online directories, any negative consequences?

buttsex — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 01:15:34 +0000

I saw this article [1] and it seems like something I should do? I show up in a lot of those directories if you search my name. I've heard people say that doing this only "validates" that my info is real to those sites. I've heard the same thing about unsubscribe links in emails, that clicking them only confirms with the spammer that you are a real person.

Is there any evidence to these types of claims? Any downside to actively trying to remove my info from these types of sites?

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2849263/doxxing-defense-remove-your-personal-info-from-data-brokers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: What TLD do you use for your personal site and email?

buttsex — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:07:52 +0000

I'm in the process of moving away from my gmail account and would like a personal domain for my email and website. I already own firstnamelastname.com, the problem is that my first and last name together are really long and I'd like something shorter, for email especially (i.e. me@lastname.com). I'm thinking of getting lastname.co since lastname.com is taken and the guy won't give it up (funny since lastname.com was registered in Colombia and I think he's Colombian). My last name is short so it looks nice. I could come up with some hacky domain names but I like the simplicity of lastname.co

In this day and age, is there any downside to owning a .co TLD (besides typos). I plan to use me@lastname.co for email and I'd like to make some aliases for different services (dropbox@lastname.co, contests@lastname.co). I would host a small blog at the domain name, I don't really promote myself too much, and if you Google my name it would come up at the top any way.

What do you guys use?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8466018

Points: 3

# Comments: 10

New comment by buttsex in "MIT And Dropbox Alums Launch Inbox, a Next-Generation Email Platform"

buttsex — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 18:52:40 +0000

Everybody has a price. It is hard to take a promise like this seriously this early. Hopefully I am proven wrong.

New comment by buttsex in "Hospitals Are Mining Patients' Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick"

buttsex — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:17:12 +0000

How do they know what specific items were purchased? Is there any way for a consumer to see their own data on that? Also, seems like there would be a lot of false positives as I don't consume or use everything I buy with my card.

New comment by buttsex in "Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?"

buttsex — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 18:00:05 +0000

How'd you manage to get that domain name? Did you have to buy it off someone else?

New comment by buttsex in "Coinbase introduces Vault"

buttsex — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 14:12:31 +0000

Same with BitGo.

New comment by buttsex in "Working from home"

buttsex — Tue, 06 May 2014 15:45:14 +0000

This has worked for me too. I take a 45 min nap everyday after lunch. It helps split the day up into two parts where I am fully refreshed for both. Some of my friends find it odd that a grown man takes a nap during the day but it works great for me.

New comment by buttsex in "Firefox 29"

buttsex — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:10:57 +0000

I like the update, looks a lot better. It is the small details that keep me using Chrome's dev tools. For instance,

- why can't I drag and drop DOM elements in the inspector?

- Chrome's autocomplete seems smarter. If I go to edit a style and I type `li` Chrome gives me line-height, FF gives me lighting-color?

- I prefer the color highlight when you hover over DOM elements in the inspector, I can see the box model in Chrome but just a dotted outline in FF.

FF's tools do seem to get better and more robust with each update though.

New comment by buttsex in "How Mike Judge and Co. Are Turning "Silicon Valley" Into the Next "Spinal Tap""

buttsex — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 15:38:33 +0000

Startups don't last long so it'd be pretty fitting for a show about them to only last a season or two.

New comment by buttsex in "Top Bitcoin questions I’ve been asked"

buttsex — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:21:41 +0000

Holding and speculating is a valid use case for BTC. Many people see it as an investment and don't use it as a currency so it's not absolutely false.

If you are going to use coinmarketcap, at least filter out the non-mineable coins, Dogecoin is in the top 4.

New comment by buttsex in "Mozilla Supports LGBT Equality"

buttsex — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 02:35:27 +0000

Found an HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3793012

New comment by buttsex in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

buttsex — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 03:36:56 +0000

Yeah, the 24 hour rule seems a bit excessive. I see a lot of Show HN posts where the OP will respond to questions that users have about the particular thing they are showing off. The OP now needs to hope that a 1000+ user is continually monitoring their post in order for them to quickly answer any questions others may have.

New comment by buttsex in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

buttsex — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:33:01 +0000

The posting delay sounds like a terrible idea. Say I spend some time writing a very long comment to a not so popular thread and hit submit. Then I notice that someone replied to another comment of mine and had a question or something. I can't reply to him in a timely matter since I used my one comment already. So do I need to go and delete my newest comment, reply to the person who responded to me, then go back and re-comment the one I initially did? This sounds very silly.

New comment by buttsex in "Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments"

buttsex — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:09:24 +0000

Agreed. This will only work to increase the echo chamber that is HN. Any type of debate will now need to go through the HN elite. I really didn't have a problem with the current system, any obvious troll comments were always downvoted out of sight. I rather see any unapproved comment and make up my own mind on its "worthiness" instead of someone else.

New comment by buttsex in "Complaints as Amazon Raises Cost of Prime"

buttsex — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 03:59:32 +0000

Here's a way [0] to lock in another year at $79.

[0] http://slickdeals.net/f/6784580-heads-up-amazon-prime-price-...

New comment by buttsex in "The Face Behind Bitcoin?"

buttsex — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:32:51 +0000

Society? People have always wanted to know who Nakamoto was in real life and would consider creating Bitcoin something of note. Any news story about Bitcoin in the past couple years have included something about the mystique of Nakamoto.