kngspook

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by kngspook 1y ago
My understand is the people behind passkeys are working on an import/export solution. Who knows when it'll happen though. For now, when companies let me have multiple passkeys, that's sufficient for me. I put one on my Apple
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by kngspook 1y ago
Yeah, I hate these. It's also a very not-ergonomic was to sign in. I wish those companies would redirect those efforts to passkeys.
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by kngspook 1y ago
Does the hash end in ...e63f2 perchance, or is it a different dump?
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by kngspook 4y ago
I feel like someone should spin up a separate GCP account, make a pile of projects, and then spam-add every google engineer they can find. Curious to see what happens next…
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by kngspook 4y ago
Google Takeout is actually reasonably robust. I create/download one of those fairly regularly.
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by kngspook 5y ago
For me, a big part of the value of typehints isn’t just the legibility, it’s also helping the interpreter to help me. I can have the interpreter tell me that a string got passed into a function instead of the list of strings that I was expe
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Ask HN: Going for my first eng manager interview – advice/expectations?
5 points by kngspook 7y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?
25 points by kngspook 7y ago|46 comments
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by kngspook 8y ago
Gmail I believe is technically encrypted at rest, just they also happen to have the keys.
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by kngspook 8y ago
I mean, it was Bing not too long ago...
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by kngspook 8y ago
Google blocks domains from Chrome all the time, for the same reason as Apple blocked Google: it was deemed malicious. https://safebrowsing.google.com/
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by kngspook 8y ago
Google (or any company) wouldn't have a single point of failure for alerts like that. :P Those alerts would hit email, phone, etc. all at the same time.
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by kngspook 8y ago
No, Facebook/Google internal apps fall into two categories: - Utilities that are only useful to employees of those companies (cafeteria menus, shuttle schedules, resources for salespeople on the go, etc.). - Pre-release/testing (a
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by kngspook 8y ago
I don't think it's about remind them who's boss. Apple will revoke the certs for as long as is necessary to protect their users, but I don't think they'll stay revoked for punitive purposes. I expect it'll be a
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by kngspook 8y ago
> The whole point of enterprise certificates was to allow creation of internal apps that even Apple shouldn't know about. I think most/all of the companies in the program would say it's about controlling the distribution o
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by kngspook 8y ago
Sure, and Facebook solely controls the messaging ability and photo storage for a significant percentage of their 2B+ users.
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by kngspook 8y ago
No, that's not necessarily for loading an app on to your device. It's only necessary for broader distribution.
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by kngspook 8y ago
From what I understand, it actually is a public app: https://www.tripshot.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripshot/id1007192056?mt=8
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by kngspook 8y ago
>Ah, but you say: I must have signed a contract to use the app store... Except, no, I didn't do that either. Do you have an Apple ID? You need an Apple ID to download apps from the App Store, and when you create the Apple ID, you ac
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by kngspook 8y ago
You can. Just give people the code, and they can load it on their device.
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by kngspook 8y ago
> Things don't have "terms". Sure they do. You want a gun? That comes with certain restrictions on what you can do with it. You want a car? There are certain restrictions on what you can do with it. Jet? Restrictions. Sche
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by kngspook 8y ago
Not really. Give me your code, and I can upload it on to any iPhone I want, without paying a cent to Apple.
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by kngspook 8y ago
I believe Apple will do everything they can to keep them from abusing the ToS, but I also believe Facebook will try to work around any and every restriction applied to them.
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by kngspook 8y ago
I don't think you even need a developer license. IIRC, I think if you just plug your iPhone into Xcode, you can load whatever code you want on to it.
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by kngspook 8y ago
Yes. Because it is technically almost impossible, if not completely impossible, to build a system that gives your code absolute freedom while not giving other code running on the system absolute freedom as well. There will always be the pos
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by kngspook 8y ago
FWIW, it'd also be great to have mirroring with Gitlab (especially since I think Google Cloud has a deal for users with them?).
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by kngspook 8y ago
In priority order, I would suggest: 1. Swift 2. Obj-C 3. Bash 4. SQL 5. Ruby 6. C#
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by kngspook 8y ago
Well, you need to have a fairly large codebase with a fair amount of in-house infrastructure and interdependencies before you have both the need to find code that you're not working on and have a dense enough source tree where search m
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by kngspook 8y ago
And the original (pre-translation) version is, I believe, "plata o plomo".
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by kngspook 8y ago
Well, a couple points: 1. It depends if you don't trust them in the long term or the short term. In the long-term, after you finish the migration, there's no need for Fastmail to still have access to your account, and Google does

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