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The future of product is no-product(medium.com)
1 points by arthur_debert 10y ago|0 comments
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by arthur_debert 11y ago
In Brazil's case, as least, it's simpler than that. Mosquito eradication used to be done at the federal level, with military like organization. It kept things in control. A few years ago it has been re-assigned to municipalities.
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by arthur_debert 11y ago
While you're right that as a judge you must respect the law, we as a society must re-evaluate it's usefulness and purpose. You're looking at this the other way round. It's not that privacy makes it harder to foster a civ
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by arthur_debert 11y ago
It's surprising how much of it relates to food delivery (the largest group, in fact). Wrote my take at how the it's distributed here https://medium.com/@arthurdebert/2abb1df33f6d
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by arthur_debert 11y ago
Has nothing to do with Java. There's no stack. They're simply chose the best Javascript compiler available. Pretty simple, really
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by arthur_debert 11y ago
You're 100% right. It's just that security is so hard to get right. Only (maybe not even) the paranoid survive on that front. All it takes is one tiny detail to screw everything up. Leaving development artifacts on your live serve
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by arthur_debert 11y ago
Sorry. Here's the dissonance: we're building tools (including secure messaging) that are government snooping safe. We care deeply about the privacy and security of our users. And the web page that tells us that has mixed content w
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by arthur_debert 12y ago
Thanks, that's a start. And of course, sorry for the misspelling. In all seriousness, it would be more helpful if you'd mention what's wrong with the original article. Since you seem to be knowledgeable and active on the SEO
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by arthur_debert 12y ago
Anyone with any experience in the SEO world knows that dchuck doesn't have a fucking clue anymore. He's no different than a talking head reporting on the daily ups and downs of the stock market on your local news. Ad hominem. If i
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by arthur_debert 12y ago
Not always, i.e. drag along rights. Depending on how you structure your deal investors can override founders on acquisition offers.
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by arthur_debert 13y ago
Pagination does have it's advantages, namely: - Linking - Easier to grok where you are in the result set ( 3 out of 5 instead of the scroll bar that changes height)
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by arthur_debert 13y ago
It is language and written language that enables people to be connected and share ideas. There's no reason to credit specific networks like www or the internet with connecting people, because someone else would have done it (possibly b
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
I'm definitely not advocating for people not understanding the problem they want solved. That said, your post sounds empty. Can you elaborate on why your own scrapers that you write from scratch make it all better? How do you your scrapers
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
EXIF metadata is easy to automate. What if there is a logo of a local business reflected on a surface that most people barely notice. Someone recognizes this, tracks the person down. It's a bit over the top, but these things happen. If tha
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
People have been able to track people and locations surprisingly little information. What if those photos do leak information that could enable real-life harassement (like EXIF metadata, street sign, etc) . Can we trust the submitter to gu
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
Simple: public transportation sucks and will probably take twice the time to get to your destination. Motorbike: you have no idea how madly people drive down here, and how many motorbikers day each day. Also, it rains (heavily) almost daily
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
I don't think the point is that they fail, but how easy for them it is to get money (then later valuations) without having users nor revenue. That is what worries people when they draw the similarities with the first bubble.
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
We at http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/ have. The code is open source https://github.com/pculture/unisubs/tree/dev/media/js/widget . I'm writing a blog post about that should be up still today on our development blog. TL;DR It's ful
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
Anyone running anything remotely serious on AWS should have 2 factor auth enabled I hope
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
Also look that the stage (canvas) size for the demo (this used to make a big difference in older versions of the player at least).
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
This is how much of the world see Americans
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
I find it ironical to read this comment on HN. What's the fuss about HN? What aren't we having this discussion on redit, or digg, or 4chan? Or metafilter? Software and specially social software is not a list of features. You could replicate
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
I think for the general case yes, but there are still some rough spots on certain hardware (e.g. power management on macbook pros and so on). Some other smaller things, like attaching an apple keyboard to ubuntu creates up with pretty weir
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by arthur_debert 14y ago
The issue is not that one would like to tinker, but that without a significant time investment tinkering, you can't get the basics working. Nothing precludes the OS from being tinkerable but mostly working out of the box.
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by arthur_debert 15y ago
It's possible but that probably doesn't mean integration is easy. Writing async code in python forces you to use the-twisted-way or the-greenlet-way. That is the problem with language / standard lib lack of support for async calls - that i
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by arthur_debert 15y ago
There are tons of goodies in there, and the author is doing a hell of a service to Emacs users. That said, a part of my can't but sigh... Now we have new completion & new electric pairs. How is that going to propagate to other modes? Ju
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by arthur_debert 15y ago
Honestly, I'm surprised how cheap that is. If you take into consideration that computers cost between 2x and 3x more, bandwidth 4x more, higher taxes and almost the same wages, it's a steal. I expected it to cost between 2 to 3 times more.
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by arthur_debert 15y ago
It's not that much luck. I've decided to go with Django in 2006. Still going strong, five years later. You'll do fine going with Django or Rails, but the time when this decision would be more rewarding was 5 years ago. I've done mostly flas
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by arthur_debert 15y ago
Bug report: connect with twitter then use your email as your username when the auth redirects and a 500 is thrown.
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by arthur_debert 15y ago
Django compressor has another issue on load balanced environments: the cached key uses the hostname of the machine , which really made it impractical for us. I promised Jannis a clean patch for this, but haven't found the time to do so... I

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