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by 66d8kk 5y ago
Congrats on the launch! I currently work on projects where HLDs are nothing more than brain dump / thought organising experiments just prior to getting some PoC code bashed out. I usually go as far as paper -> draw.io which gets wil
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Ask HN: Firefox VPN or Mullvad?
2 points by 66d8kk 6y ago|0 comments
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by 66d8kk 6y ago
This is great. Thanks for sharing. I've often wonder how the gamification of debt / saving could work. Have you considered that at all?
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by 66d8kk 6y ago
I'm building a privacy-first fitness / health tracker. I managed to lose a lot of weight during lockdown with the help of fitbit but using a Google service to handover my most personal of data doesn't sit right with me (it se
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by 66d8kk 6y ago
Ah! I didn't know Sainsbury's owned Argos. As we all know our high streets are failing hard, I always pictured (given big enough tax breaks) old/traditional high street companies (Curry's / House of Fraser etc...) w
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by 66d8kk 6y ago
Given the number of Argos stores I always thought Amazon would have swept in 3-5 years ago and bought them as a step closer to "last mile delivery" in the UK.
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Mullvad – Critical: Linux Users at Risk(mullvad.net)
2 points by 66d8kk 8y ago|0 comments
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by 66d8kk 8y ago
In the UK we have a magazine called The Week [1]. Crucially for me it pulls in excerpts and opinions from all matter of sources (regardless of political leanings) and allows me to easily digest the big events in a single 45 minute session o
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by 66d8kk 8y ago
A couple of months ago I stopped daily consumption of news content (except technical links on HN ;) and began a physical subscription to The Week [1]. Come Saturday I sit down with a coffee for 45 minutes, catch up on the most important nat
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by 66d8kk 8y ago
Long time fastmail user. Has anyone here managed to automate the creation of aliases? I create a random alias address for every service I sign up to and those steps of creating that alias add a little bit of tediousness.
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by 66d8kk 8y ago
I've never experienced this myself directly. However I used to work at a company who now does this. I still have many silo'd friend groups at that company (who don't even know each other too well - designers/devs/sa
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Sony – Open Devices(developer.sony.com)
1 points by 66d8kk 8y ago|0 comments
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by 66d8kk 8y ago
Any online based computer game. GTA Online and Rocket League are two that spring to mind. The stuff we could create with that data!
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by 66d8kk 9y ago
I always remember when I first started surfing at the age of 10 in the North Sea. I was always sick and off from school with stomach bugs. My anecdote is hardly scientific proof but this article certainly supports my thinking that I've
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Ten Lessons Learned from Launching a Bug Bounty Programme(engineering.skybettingandgaming.com)
1 points by 66d8kk 10y ago|0 comments
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by 66d8kk 12y ago
Anything between £600 - £1200 (so far). We have the process nailed. I'm sure most will agree that the clients with lower budgets are generally more 'work'. So what we do is have initial 2 hour project discovery meeting where
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by 66d8kk 12y ago
We started using Weebly for projects where clients neither had the budget or the technical requirement for anything beyond basic. We've done four in as many weeks, it really is proving itself to be a resourceful little tool. Even thoug
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Magento Go is shutting down(go.magento.co.uk)
2 points by 66d8kk 12y ago|0 comments
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Introvert or rude?(medium.com)
1 points by 66d8kk 13y ago|0 comments
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For 40 years, this Russian family was cut of from all human contact(smithsonianmag.com)
32 points by 66d8kk 13y ago|8 comments
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by 66d8kk 13y ago
Just a thought and I've only glanced at your code but could some of the functionality in the Carbon library come in handy? especially for the logic in weekendDates()? I like to think of it as DateTime on acid ;) https://gith
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by 66d8kk 13y ago
I'm incredibly interested in angling my career towards security and have no real experience. Wouldn't it also be wise to keep people like him 'out of the loop', I imagine it's much harder to audit when they have acc