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by ewi_ 3y ago
If they can reasonably argue that you're being hired because you sound like Morgan Freeman and you wouldn't get the job otherwise, then they likely have a case.
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by ewi_ 3y ago
Excalidraw has been great for me and my team to create diagrams on the fly during meetings.
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by ewi_ 3y ago
> What I'd like to see is a standardized protocol for this exact use case Does Noise Protocol provide what you're looking for? http://www.noiseprotocol.org/
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by ewi_ 3y ago
When you store the time of a future event (like a reminder for 1 year from now), and integer since epoch does not work. Your event is initially in the user's timezone (e.g. 10am 20th of June 2024 in France), if you store it as a number
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by ewi_ 3y ago
Very good point, which is a reminder that you have different "types" of dates that you may want to store. Went storing the time at which an event happened (e.g. for a system log) then a UTC or UNIX time works, and it will be trans
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by ewi_ 3y ago
> I don't know if community notes takes this into account, but That's most of the article. If you're asking yourself that, you should read it
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by ewi_ 3y ago
I believe that the way we represent information is key to understanding. Data points in a list are usually way less insightful than a good graph (emphasis on good). What I have found is that it's the case in describing system architect
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by ewi_ 3y ago
A password manager can generate nice passphrases. Really, generating a nice and secure passphrase is no different from a nice and secure password at this point. It's all about entropy and byte mapping.
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by ewi_ 4y ago
TL;DR: Not the UML you're taught in school, but check out C4 Model https://c4model.com/ -- Pure UML is pretty rare in my experience, and most likely used only in very strict environment that don't change often (se
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by ewi_ 4y ago
Ledger, the leader in crypto hardware manufacturer, has a "Plausible Deniability" feature that works a bit like this https://www.ledger.com/ledger-101-part-4-advanced-security-p...
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by ewi_ 5y ago
I found it here https://archive.is/MZqak
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by ewi_ 5y ago
I love python, and I don't know if the GP are good points, but your answer is really disengenuous. > > pattern matching > We have that in Python 3.10. > > immutability-by-default for lists and dictionaries > We do hav
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by ewi_ 6y ago
I am curious as to how missiles (or any weapon for that matter) could be used in "non-evil" way
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by ewi_ 6y ago
Also people may not want to live in Tulsa, even if they are better paid.
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by ewi_ 9y ago
Or there is simply quite a few people like you who find this interesting, as the YC posting guidelines put it: "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.&quot
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by ewi_ 9y ago
Actually, if what you are looking for is "to the point" reviews, then you should agree with the article's advices. To name a few: - Pointing to a common reference instead of simply stating your opinion in a review will get th
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by ewi_ 9y ago
I'd like to believe that one of the reasons Linus has that kind of reaction is because of the scope and impact his decisions and this kind of patches can have on people all around the world. This is a very specific situation, in which
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by ewi_ 9y ago
Great work! it brings back so many memories =) I was trying it in Chrome on iOS and it seems that it considers each color square as a text entry, kinda annoying
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by ewi_ 9y ago
Bloomberg's second largest office is in London, with a very large news team on site.