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by moreira 4y ago
I suppose all copies of all pages are theft, if you choose to look at it that way. Me saving a .html file locally, Google caching their search results, archive.org saving copies of pages. The internet is built around this, and we've al
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by moreira 4y ago
According to them[0], Facebook's primary languages are C++, Java, and Python, and they're even embracing Rust now. In general, teams have the freedom to choose what languages and technologies they want to use. (quoting from the li
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by moreira 4y ago
I think you're right. If the vulnerability is there and we know about it, it should be straightforward to write a proof-of-concept that anyone on a vulnerable system can experience for themselves. e.g. If a JavascriptCore vulnerability
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by moreira 4y ago
Or review faking services. Ultimately, there's no real good way to trust stuff on the internet based on what "others like you" are saying.
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by moreira 4y ago
> Honestly, this whole ride makes me think I should just get a job at a US startup and use the cost of living difference to pay devs out of my own salary. I know this was an off-hand remark that you're probably not thinking much abo
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by moreira 4y ago
The problem is that if you increase the price too much, the bad PR and hit to your reputation will likely offset any extra revenue. If a service like Hulu released a $50/mo ad-free tier people would freak out, even if they still had ac
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by moreira 4y ago
It seems like you -are- crediting MS for bundling a browser with an OS. Their reasons are irrelevant. OSs didn’t come with browsers. Microsoft bundled IE with Windows. Now every OS comes with a browser.
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by moreira 4y ago
I have - I can happily go without it most of the time. The watch has cellular, and notifications cover most of what I need. Responding to things can wait till I'm back at a computer. If it's urgent, the watch can make calls, and i
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by moreira 4y ago
You might be surprised to know that Apple has been doing ads for over a decade. [0] They‘ve had ads for a long time, and still do - App Store search ads[1] and Apple News ads, to my knowledge. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by moreira 4y ago
I understand that companies want to avoid getting into legal complications over it, and that's why I think there should be some sort of legislation in place to force companies to explain decisions like this. This is becoming more and m
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by moreira 4y ago
I remember the hype behind that one! "pure DOM animation in 60fps buttery smooth" or something along those lines, right? They had that periodic table demo.
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by moreira 4y ago
It depends on what you want out of life. They now have cachet/reputation, and deeper pockets, and can easily start up and get funding for anything they might want to do. Just making a slow, healthy profit with a company might not be en
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by moreira 4y ago
More than that - apps start off with less features but after enough rounds of updates they grow into full-featured apps again, until some other app with less features (or a less-featured ground-up rewrite) kills it. It's a really stran
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by moreira 4y ago
> If they can't understand that stuff they should not be making decisions. That doesn't seem right. As a developer, if I were the CEO of a company, I would not be able to read progress from the legal team, or finance team, or a
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by moreira 4y ago
They do exist![0][1] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.amazon [1]: https://icannwiki.org/.toyota
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by moreira 4y ago
As someone who's been eyeing Kubernetes as a learning experience, that actually is really disheartening to hear. If you're being forced to manage your database outside of Kubernetes, what are you using Kubernetes for? Running your
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by moreira 4y ago
I think it might just be that that’s not needed anymore. The social networks of the past were useful as a way to keep in touch with people. MySpace, early Facebook, and the countless others from back then. Now everyone’s online 24/7, a
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by moreira 4y ago
> "giving in" does not preserve peace—it simply appeases bullies and makes the workplace toxic. This doesn’t sound right. You are not going to agree with 100% of someone else’s decisions. No matter how much you discuss somethin
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by moreira 4y ago
Not a lawyer, but there is a difference between providing a service (GitHub) and "code is speech". This has nothing to do with code. GitHub are no longer legally able to provide the service, and so those people no longer have acce
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by moreira 4y ago
They're just characters from different Unicode blocks, there's no functional difference between them that I'm aware of, other than that characters from some blocks are not allowed here on HN, including all emoji characters. W
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by moreira 4y ago
That's not an emoji, it's just a standard character[0] - added to Unicode in 1993. ♠♦ There's a whole bunch of them[1]! ♦♠ [0]: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665 [1]: https://www.
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by moreira 4y ago
It's unbelievable. You're selling flowers; why do you have to bring up politics? I feel like a lot of people would do well to revisit the old adage not to discuss politics, sex, or religion, particularly with strangers - or worse,
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by moreira 4y ago
> We're coming back full cycle to decentralized systems. You say this as if it's something that's happening, but it's not. There's a few pockets of self hosted bits here and there, but that's not new. We are
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by moreira 4y ago
> I didn't think about the high availability benefits of the cloud The cloud has outages too, though. If you've been here long enough you've seen plenty of cloud-related outages. The truth is, outages happen, on cloud or o
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by moreira 4y ago
It sounds like your workflow works great for you, and that's great! You asked how some people to live without notifications, and I gave an example of how. That's it.
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by moreira 4y ago
Not the OP, but: 1. General awareness about what's on your plate. You don't need a reminder, you just need to know that you have meeting X at Y hours, or Z appointment on this date. 2. The difference is that you check email/I
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by moreira 4y ago
Almost all of them. All rights are reserved by default without you having to do anything in most countries. Hence open source licenses.
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by moreira 4y ago
And that’s -only- the red blood cells. Consider how that’s only a tiny portion of your body. Think of all the other cells everywhere else. Constantly dying and being born. Isn’t it every 7 years or so that pretty much every cell in our body
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by moreira 4y ago
I'm very much with you on this, but I do understand that it's one of those things that is just not feasible when your team has no sysadmin/devops experience. You were able to do it, but what happens to them when you're n
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by moreira 4y ago
It seems like it’s about statistics, more than anything. Some people can be sedentary and smoke their whole lives and eat lard non stop and still live to be 80. Doesn’t mean any of that helped them in any way. It’s like that for them, too;

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