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by fmx 9d ago
This big warning gave me pause, too. Why not have a compression option that automatically checks the data after compression (by decompressing and checking against a hash of the original data), which would reduce the probability of undetecte
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by fmx 2mo ago
A "Message Echo" textbox that makes it look like you can get a response to a prompt without logging in, only to redirect to the sign-up page. Such a classic dark pattern - and such a sure way to get me to leave your site immedia
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by fmx 4mo ago
Even worse, I've seen the JetBrains AI auto-complete insert hard-to-spot bugs, like two nested for loops with i and j for loop index variables, where the inner loop was fairly complex and incorrectly used i instead of j in one place.
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by fmx 5mo ago
> The first class passengers are effectively paying 3x as much 3x? If only! If we're talking international first class (not US domestic "first"), it's typically 10-12x the price of economy.
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by fmx 5mo ago
GMail disagrees with you, because GMail users disagree with you. They are clicking "report spam" on your emails. Whether or not you think what you're sending is spam, the recipients think it is, and that's what matte
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by fmx 5mo ago
Perhaps a stupid question, but why do notifications need to be stored in a database in persistent storage at all? OK, maybe they can be stored until they're dismissed in case the battery suddenly dies, so they can be displayed again on
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by fmx 5mo ago
> Ironically, the good clients pay within 2-3 days normally, and the difficult ones are very “long tail”. Why ironically? Isn't that exactly what you'd expect?
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by fmx 9mo ago
There have been so many cases of Apple, Google, etc. doing this that it's hard to have any sympathy for them at this point. If it was some grandma who didn't know better that would be another story, but the author was surely aware
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by fmx 1y ago
The number of monsters on the screen doesn't seem to affect playing speed for me, but when the wall of fire appears it slows down the game very noticeably. (Using Firefox on desktop.)
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by fmx 1y ago
The paper: https://sci-hub.st/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.10... (Agree that the title is awesome, by the way!)
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by fmx 2y ago
Just tried it and, apart from the UI being highly confusing (you just get a blank workspace basically, and it's unclear how to see other DBs and objects in them) it seems to have no support for PG schemas. When I did manage to connect
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by fmx 3y ago
Right, I didn't notice the end date, sorry. So that was ~5.7% return for ~15 months (not 26) and the remaining ~28.7% was in the last 11 months.
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by fmx 3y ago
> since launching Grizzly Bulls ( https://grizzlybulls.com ) in January 2022, 6 of our 7 models have outperformed the market on an unleveraged basis: > VIX-TA-Macro Advanced: +34.38% I'm not sure how to reconcile that w
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by fmx 3y ago
> This is a pay-per-call work and we need you to join as a interviewee (not interview candidates) for technical calls. > Are you strong enough to pass technical interview? > We will pay $100 for per call whether you pass the call o
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by fmx 3y ago
I like the brevity of it, but I don't like the assumption that every good candidate will have everything that they want to share with a prospective employer on their LinkedIn page. Something like "Link to resume, LinkedIn, GitHub,
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by fmx 3y ago
That is the second-shortest job application form I've ever seen. (The shortest one asked for a name, email and LinkedIn without a free-text field. I think "who are you" is more important than "name".)
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by fmx 3y ago
Ah yes, that actually explains a lot! Thanks.
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by fmx 3y ago
I see, thanks. I guess that answers one question, but raises another: why have his packages depend on more of his packages? If his goal was to be included in as many node_modules directories as possible, and handlebars-helpers was already i
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by fmx 3y ago
When I first heard of the is-odd and is-even NPM packages I was sure they were a joke, yet there we are: 200K weekly downloads! Publishing the packages may have been the effort of one spammer, but many developers obviously chose to use
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by fmx 3y ago
Discussion from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973 Nice to see that some of the suggestions from there, like listing the hidden URLS (/leaders, etc.) seem to have been implemented.
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by fmx 3y ago
Just want to say I really like the values on your careers page. Compassion and humility, but raising the bar at the same time. (Of course, it could all be complete corporate BS, for all I know, but I'd really like to believe it's
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by fmx 3y ago
Yeah, as hilarious as this is when it happens to a bad guy the really sad aspect of it, for me, is that their customer service experience is not so abnormal. If it were, most would immediately identify it as fake. Like, counting the num
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by fmx 3y ago
Here is another good one: too easy to hit CTRL+Q instead of CTRL+W https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 Only 20-and-a-half years to fix that one! In this case it wasn't because nobody got around to it,
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by fmx 3y ago
The timeline of this vulnerability might just be the best argument I've ever seen for full disclosure: 2019-09-26 Reported to vendor with POC 2020-01-14 Followed up with vendor 2022-01-24 Publicly disclosed (still no fix over 2
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by fmx 3y ago
No, the whole point of the original post is that a lot of users see (and use) the option, so that the app's database of personal data is full of rubbish. I don't think the GP's scenario is realistic. A user would see that the
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by fmx 3y ago
XPrivacy was great, but apps would regularly crash when I denied some permissions - so apparently it was not faking data well enough. It got so bad that I would never just click "deny", but always "temporarily deny" firs
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by fmx 3y ago
I was with you until you mentioned "GDPR" right after "effective enforcement". GDPR is, if anything, a great example of ineffective enforcement.
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by fmx 3y ago
https://thanks.dev/faq says: What are your fees? Tips at time of donation. You decide. If payment is required to use a service then that payment is not a "tip" - it is a "fee". Anything over
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by fmx 4y ago
Indeed, it is only a minor annoyance! But speaking of going through several pages, it would be nice to have a kind of "table of contents" for those who do already know the basics and want to skip ahead.
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by fmx 4y ago
Looks great, and I love that it requires no account - you can jump right in! One minor annoyance for me was that the animation for a correct answer - the exploding confetti - was a bit over the top. Like "OK, yeah, chill out, all I did

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