habith

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by habith 3y ago
> Bing is obnoxious, and it's asking me to cognitively process 100 different things other than the only thing I care about: my search results. Google (privacy issues aside) is terrible in that regard as well. I just compared Bing, G
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by habith 3y ago
> The government is banning a business from the country, which I'm sure we've done before. Ah yes, the great firewall of America. We've finally caught up to the totalitarian regimes that ban Twitter, Facebook, Google, and
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by habith 3y ago
Meta hired a firm last year (Targeted Victory) to malign TikTok: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/meta-cant-buy-ti...
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by habith 4y ago
Gecko and SpiderMonkey still exist, despite all of the terrible Blink/V8-only implementations out there…
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by habith 4y ago
Gave “him”?
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by habith 4y ago
Uh, couldn’t link directly to Microsoft? https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
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by habith 4y ago
> "In addition it's probably a good idea for Secure Boot to be enabled for the average user if you can." That's a hard pass for me.
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by habith 5y ago
Why thankfully? What if you cannot access your local library for a myriad of reasons?
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by habith 8y ago
> An optional appstore with verifications is one (great) thing, making it mandatory is another. Sure, and it's great that Android has side-loading and it would be nice if Apple offered that too without a Mac/Dev License and XCo
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by habith 8y ago
I'm pretty sure it's about the ethics of altering humans and a fear or a resurgence of eugenics. That aside, I'm also pretty sure someone reviewed his work and found out that his HIV-immune mutation was not done correctly, it
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by habith 8y ago
Be careful, a few fraudulent transactions and the teams would start thinking you're just trying to get out of paying your bills instead of helping you out. Lots of banks have virtual cards now that you can generate for one time use or
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by habith 8y ago
According to Google Stripe was posted on HN 130 times in the last month. I'm guessing for someone who uses HN daily this might skew their world view to assume that Stripe is everywhere.
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by habith 8y ago
> The cost of Apple's gatekeeping -- their review bureaucracy -- is entirely their own doing and benefits no one. That was actually the reason I ditched my Android and switched to an iPhone a few years back. After writing an app for
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by habith 10y ago
> Older IEs don't have Array.indexOf() IE8 and older to be specific[0]. But, if you're supporting IE8 still you have bigger problems at hand. Microsoft stopped supporting any version lower than IE11 as of January 12th of this y
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by habith 11y ago
> many startups in reality do start paying at or above market I think that's the key phrase here. I don't know if they paid at or above market rate and that would be where I'd start looking before passing judgement. Your c
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by habith 11y ago
> You mean like how Google got ECC forward-secure TLS deployed across the whole Internet? Did you finish reading the article? > Facebook’s WhatsApp has brought end-to-end encryption to more people – over 800 million – than any other s
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by habith 11y ago
> I pay $70 for AT&T's UVerse GigaPower fiber (300/300 right now) in Austin Does that include the opt-out from tracking fee? I don't live in Austin and don't have GigaPower, but I remember there was a kerfuffle ar
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by habith 11y ago
Likewise :) My apologies if that was over the top, I meant no disrespect.
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by habith 11y ago
Excuse the poor pun but.. are you serious? Facebook excluded several of your friends based on their terrible name policy. They run their walled garden however they want to. Your participation in it makes you (in your own words) a "peas
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by habith 11y ago
> I'd assume that the text is modified in units more complex than substrings and whitespace splitting? Correct. Each letter in Arabic can have up to four shapes depending on its position in a word: initial, medial, final and isolate
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by habith 11y ago
> I'd love to see a plan to making the Hacker News site work great on mobile Seconded. I'd also like to see something implemented to control the contrast on downvoted/dead entries. Either collapse them ala reddit or give m
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by habith 11y ago
> I still can't quite follow. FTC = bad. FTC investigates companies for small problem while ignoring other companies that do way worse. Hope this helps.
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by habith 11y ago
Very neat! Mind if I borrow some of the CSS for my cards trick[0]? [0] http://cluecode.com/cards/
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by habith 11y ago
> The amount of bad faith people ascribe to basic usability functions utterly astounds me. I think most of it comes from how Google (and the industry in general) has evolved. There was a day[0] when things were labeled clearly and the de
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by habith 11y ago
> This also happens on iOS with spotlight. As far as I can tell there's no way to turn it off. You can turn it off from Settings > General > Spotlight Search. Uncheck "Spotlight Suggestions" and "<Default sea
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by habith 11y ago
But you _charge_ per user pack, do you not? Can we purchase 17 licenses? How about 23? We have around 20 Backblaze licenses that we pay a bit over $1000 per year for. It makes sense for them to advertise the price per user because they cha
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by habith 11y ago
Thanks for your reply. Price x12 like you said is standard, it's the x10x12 that caught me off guard. I think some language and price listing adjustments like you suggested would be a great improvement. Even if it's as simple as $
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by habith 11y ago
I just looked at the pricing page on Gitlab.com and was genuinely interested in trying it out. But the pricing language and structure on the page turned me off instantly. I thought to myself: "$3.25 per user per month? Sweet! I can thr
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by habith 11y ago
I'd like to add that registering to vote is the first step. Researching the propositions (and candidates for that matter) that get put on the ballot yourself (LAO[1], SOS[2], Ballotpedia[3] and Google) and ignoring media coverage/
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by habith 11y ago
Not only that but the last line on their privacy policy is fun: "This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on March 15, 2013." Thanks, but no thanks.

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