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by djacobs 8y ago
Totally agreed. Wikiwand has made me excited every time I see a Wikipedia link because the reading experience is so well thought out.
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by djacobs 8y ago
This is the way we should be talking about privacy. Using vivid examples that are relevant to everyday people’s lives on both sides of the political divide. Avoiding broad, philosophical-sounding proclamations. I hope people on HN are takin
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by djacobs 8y ago
Interesting to see that this headline typo (copied from the Gizmodo article) has lasted on the front page of HN for 9+ hours! Chalk it up to only reading the beginnings and endings of words?
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Equifax admits passport numbers involved in data breach(vox.com)
42 points by djacobs 8y ago|2 comments
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Former top official says Fed should ‘Maybe’ create ‘FedCoin’ to rival Bitcoin(nytimes.com)
99 points by djacobs 8y ago|106 comments
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Mark Zuckerberg’s notes from today’s hearing(techcrunch.com)
3 points by djacobs 8y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft calls for dismissal of U.S. Supreme Court privacy fight(reuters.com)
200 points by djacobs 8y ago|76 comments
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Tau Manifesto(tauday.com)
1 points by djacobs 9y ago|0 comments
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by djacobs 9y ago
I agree, the substance was there, but the story could use some editing and organization. If it were me, it'd look something like: 1) How people think URLs work, the good parts that people see every day 2) Abstract problems with U
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by djacobs 10y ago
This looks excellent. I've wanted to build something like this for a while, and I'm excited to play around with it. Nice work!
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FBI building fresh case for access to electronic devices(theguardian.com)
2 points by djacobs 10y ago|0 comments
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Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek(washingtonpost.com)
362 points by djacobs 10y ago|284 comments
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by djacobs 10y ago
I had the same reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puK5CwThaq4
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by djacobs 10y ago
I looked through the patterns and I wonder what makes them 'idiomatic'? I've found it useful to use wrapper libraries like Enzyme [0] and Teaspoon [1] when testing React components and interactions. [0] https://git
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by djacobs 11y ago
Thanks for the response. If the choice is between manually specifying that (type of) code for every kind of object (and likely moving to a #create factory method) or using a native syntax for class declaration, I can see why people would ch
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by djacobs 11y ago
I'm not yet convinced that it's just syntactic sugar. For example, what (generic) code is `super` syntactic sugar for? Even if it is just syntactic sugar, that syntactic sugar makes it much more approachable for devs who want to u
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by djacobs 11y ago
IMO for web apps that you have open all the time (maybe Asana, Google Docs), native OS navigation and window management is significantly better than tab navigation. Of course it doesn't have as much of a benefit if you do it for every
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by djacobs 11y ago
True, a paid service is probably more likely to be around in a few years (in general), but does that matter for distributed source control? I guess if you depend on non-git features, like issues, there's a chance that there's some
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by djacobs 11y ago
I think my experience is different from yours (I don't let spikes make it past my own branch), but as far as production goes, we're on the same page!
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by djacobs 11y ago
I'm all for using tools that don't make bad things easy, but I think threeseed is saying that for hacks and spikes, the "later point" you're referring to might not matter. (I agree that those are the only jobs I&#x2
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by djacobs 12y ago
I restarted my modem and router two times before I realized that the network was fine and that it was just Facebook that was down. Props to their ops team for uptime that is so reliable.
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by djacobs 12y ago
Backbone Marionette would make the LOC comparison a fair one and is worth looking into if you haven't already. Marionette is an especially good answer for people who like the Backbone way of organizing apps but hate boilerplate/no
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The Making of the FutureStack Badge(blog.newrelic.com)
2 points by djacobs 13y ago|0 comments
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by djacobs 13y ago
Thanks for that insight, I was missing the entropy lens.
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by djacobs 13y ago
From what I understand, it's hard to known when brute-forced decryption is "done" (i.e., the decryption yielded plain text data that is the original data). As far as I know, machines look for patterns in the potentially decry
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by djacobs 13y ago
I'm happy to contribute, too -- let me know if you're interested in any help with editing or creating/maintaining a PDF.
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by djacobs 13y ago
It would be great to host an up-to-date PDF with this, too. (Any interest in publishing this when it's at 1.0?)
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by djacobs 13y ago
I think it's important to remember that Backbone is not one library but a modular ecosystem. I am a huge fan of Backbone Marionette + Relational + ModelBinder as a very valid alternative to Ember and Angular.
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Eike Batista is no longer a billionaire(businessinsider.com)
1 points by djacobs 13y ago|0 comments
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by djacobs 13y ago
I think this is less "Lyft is awkward", more "I am not Lyft's target market and am (inexplicably) upset about it".

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