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   by marco1 5y ago

   Thanks. It has indeed been down multiple times recently, both for active DDoS and for maintenance in response. A week ago, there was a post titled “Fastmail is having problems again”, so today, “yet again” seemed adequate: https:/&#x2
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   by marco1 5y ago

   By the way, is the “yet” what is regarded as “editorialized”? There’s hardly any “original title”, apart from frequently changing status updates in the body. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29058685
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   by marco1 5y ago

   Their response from a few days ago, including mentions of similar services affected, e.g. Mailbox.org and Posteo: https://fastmail.blog/company/fastmail-fights-off-ransom-cyb...
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   IEEE 7000: Model Process for Addressing Ethical Concerns During System Design(standards.ieee.org)

   3 points by marco1 5y ago|0 comments
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   Google using 'frankly abysmal' Android sideloading as bargaining chip(courtlistener.com)

   2 points by marco1 5y ago|0 comments
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   Google acknowledged sideloading 'frankly abysmal' and 'most will not go through' [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)

   2 points by marco1 5y ago|0 comments
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   Netflix had a deal to share only half of Apple’s standard revenue share on iOS [pdf](s3.documentcloud.org)

   5 points by marco1 5y ago|0 comments
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   Apple manually boosted its 'Files' app ahead of 'Dropbox' in organic search [pdf](s3.documentcloud.org)

   82 points by marco1 5y ago|5 comments
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   German $18M app querying Exposure Notification API now on 2M devices after a day(play.google.com)

   1 points by marco1 6y ago|0 comments
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    uBlock Origin 1.25.0 uncloaks CNAME-masked network requests in Firefox(github.com)

    56 points by marco1 7y ago|4 comments
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    by marco1 7y ago

    Analysis of the same tracking mechanisms from September 2018, and its discussion on HN late last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21034849
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    by marco1 7y ago

    Popularized by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, as per https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning/
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    by marco1 7y ago

    There is a very old version of this, indeed: “Plans are worthless when the fighting is once begun, and all depends on the inspiration of the moment.” (1877) https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning&#x
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    by marco1 7y ago

    You’re right about the gold rush being over. But what certainly remains true is that, although your product may be failing, it could be possible to identify individual features or adjacent markets that are more promising.
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    by marco1 7y ago

    For YouTube and Groupon at least, it definitely was the latter. This can be seen in the sources.
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    by marco1 7y ago

    Thanks a lot for tracking that down! I would also say the change of some metadata in a non-static page is fine.
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    by marco1 7y ago

    Well, would you say that the pivot from a dating app to what YouTube is today is a joke? Is that just a refined product? Same for games turning into social networks or productivity tools.
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    by marco1 7y ago

    You would be right – if the point was “just pivot and you’ll succeed”. It’s not.
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    by marco1 7y ago

    You’re right, these are perfect additions. No idea how they could have been missed. Thank you!
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    by marco1 7y ago

    This is great. We also need companies and founders with great visions that ultimately don’t have to pivot. And I’m sure there are many of them. By the way, is there any source for that blog post that proves its existence and form back to
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    by marco1 7y ago

    Sure, there are lessons here. And it’s certainly not “just work on anything ”. It’s really that the initial idea is often overvalued, as you already said, that execution is more important than ideas, that you should constantly (re)validate
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    Startup Pivots(github.com)

    87 points by marco1 7y ago|43 comments
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    by marco1 8y ago

    @media (prefers-color-scheme: light|dark|no-preference) { ... } https://drafts.csswg.org/mediaqueries-5/#descdef-media-prefe...
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    Fractional scaling has landed in GNOME 3.32 (and may make it into Ubuntu 19.04)(gitlab.gnome.org)

    15 points by marco1 8y ago|4 comments
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    by marco1 8y ago

    They dropped in-app subscriptions on Android as well in May 2018. But why? Unless I’m mistaken, the Google Play Developer Policy allows you to use a different payments provider, such as Stripe, in a case like Netflix or Spotify’s: > Deve
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    by marco1 8y ago

    We may need permissions for our dependencies (cf. Android apps). Ryan Dahl already did this with Deno, specifically because he saw weaknesses in Node: network, environment variables, file system, sub-processes. We may need reproducible buil
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    by marco1 8y ago

    Mold is not always black, is it? It can have other colors as well, e.g. yellow.
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    by marco1 8y ago

    You can buy test kits that you expose to your rooms’ air for some time, and then a lab will grow the mold inside the Petri dishes to “amplify” what has been collected in your home. That may be expensive, though, and not easily available eve
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    by marco1 8y ago

    Really sorry to hear that. Sorry to ask, but I’m not really sure I got it right: Do you think the DIY air purifier was the cause of these health problems? Or did it at least contribute by letting the mold come back (inside)? As others have
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    by marco1 8y ago

    Could mold grow inside of a dehumidifier as well? I mean, water is constantly passing the components inside. Or does mold need organic material (such as the paper inside the DIY filter) and thus will not grow on the dehumidifier that consis