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Re:Responsibly Bringing a new Cryptography Product to Market on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:05AM (#7271047)
This is critical. If you don't think about this stuff, use the existing code.
Reading this from my chair
F# (and not OCaml)
Re:Poll: Would you have dodged the Vietnam draft? on Friday July 04, 2008 @07:01AM (#236130)
After dodging the draft in college for 4 years, I enlisted in 1972. Because back then a white boy with a college degree wasn't going to end up in a rifle company.
Re:Mac People: Safari or Firefox 3? on Friday June 20, 2008 @06:24PM (#223279)
Camino
Re:Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book? on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @05:27PM (#177009)
Leo Brodie's 'Starting Forth'. Just a great book on how to think about factoring a program.
Re:Ask: why are there are no file sharing startups? on Thursday February 28, 2008 @07:13AM (#125407)
SpiderOak http://spideroak.com isn't specifically a filesharing system, but you can share your backed up files.
Re:Ask YC: Telecommuting startup teams? on Thursday February 07, 2008 @02:51PM (#111314)
Here's our CEO discussing that very thing:

Please scroll down to "The Virtues of Virtual..."

https://spideroak.com/blog

Re:How does everybody backup? on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @09:41AM (#99239)
I use SpiderOak (BTW: I'm a programmer for SpiderOak)
Re:Ask YC: Who's doing new desktop apps? on Wednesday December 19, 2007 @04:53AM (#91098)
We just launched SpiderOak: http://www.spideroak.com