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by sarcasmic 7y ago
It's an odd term, but one that inadvertently brings attention to concerns such as privacy and identity persistence. Such concerns are far less obvious to laypeople when terms like "real-time modeling of traffic flows" are use
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
Sometimes it really shows that many early Wikipedia articles were someone's labor-of-love about a relatively obscure topic, and even today there's uneven levels of notability across the encyclopedia. Instead of these hyphenated ir
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
The clearest benefit of conferences for developers is networking and the "hallway tracks" -- the emergent discussions that arise after talks. The social processes of these are hard to replicate online. The asynchronous nature of o
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
This whole case is contrived, and both actors acted in bad faith, so the outcome will be troubling no matter what. If Oracle wins, others can claim that their API is copyrighted and weaponize copyright law to sue anyone they don't want
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
In a JWS the header is integrity-protected by the signature if the alg isn't none. This is prominently noted in the specs and alg=none artifacts are referred to as "unsecured JWS". In a JWE the protected header is integrity p
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
Most people use the JWT compact serialization, which cannot carry the unprotected header at all. If you're exchanging JWT compact tokens, the header is protected by the signature or the encryption.
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
Much of the ahead-of-the-curve, aspirational tech stack posts featured on HN are the blogging equivalent of Instagram-polished shots. On a personal blog they're equal parts self-expression and self-promotion; on a company blog they&#x2
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
I'm a SoFi Money customer. PayPal Cash Plus has a ton of features, but there's lots of fees [1][2]. You earn no interest. It's not a good deal, other than it being familiar. Square Cash, now known as the 'Cash' app,
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
See the history of the Stabilization Act of 1942 [1] and Executive Order 9250. Wages were frozen by law, but not benefits, so companies began offering benefits, including health insurance [2] The next year the IRS decided these were nontaxa
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
"Classic" ones: Schwab [1], Fidelity [2]. Vanguard recently announced they're discontinuing theirs [3]. New ones: Square Cash [4], PayPal Cash Plus [5], SoFi Money [6], Aspiration [7], Simple [8], unreleased and cancelled Rob
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
It's disruptive as this kind of product moves downmarket, at least in the sense of mindshare and marketing, if not always in terms of customer segment. These accounts may be common knowledge among people who invest online and interface
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
I didn't see 'cash management accounts' on the list, but I think these are among the best products. They're not too common, but more are appearing now. There's the classic ones that combine various investment produc
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
Tumblr's adult content ban was likely a last-ditch effort by Tumblr, encouraged by owner Verizon, to salvage some business value out a hectic social (re-)blogging site that seemed like a questionable fit even for the previous buyer Yah
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
The author is clearly passionate and brings a lot of detail, but it was always my amateur impression that Walmart won primarily on footprint. They covered the country in stores, and not just the suburbs, but also rural America where the lik
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by sarcasmic 7y ago
Not sure if the comparison to Conway's Law works. The key goal of layering is abstraction, so that one can be productive without having to know details about the layers below, but much of optimization is about exploiting details in the
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Discord hits a sweet spot of design choices that make sense for online friends occasionally intermingling with strangers on the Internet. It's free and has share-URLs to onboard into the product, it's pseudonymous so one can be kn
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
I agree with the points raised in the writing, but it mixes automation, abstraction, and industry consolidation as if they weren't separate processes. As such, the transformation being described isn't an impending cliff, but an ev
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
1. Communicating clearly in 'business language' is essential when the junior developer interfaces directly -- not through an intermediary -- with business people and stakeholders. This tends to happen in heavily siloed BigCos, esp
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Well, the people who dismissed the term 'serverless' early on as trite, misleading, and vague were proven right: these days it's a cloudy notion about something loosely cloud-related, such that posts like need to exist that c
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
In a typical BigCo, much of the "soft service" processes are run by their own group, far removed from the reach of the automation implementers whether they're internal or external. A top-down mandate to bring increased automa
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Many people can and do go elsewhere, because an individual can have presence on multiple platforms. And while one's social graph in different platforms looks different and is missing some people they know, the network is both self-heal
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
I don't know the economics terminology, but perhaps average people are just decent at exploiting opportunity? In this study a third party paid out the second-lowest amount to the bidders who bid the lowest amounts in return for deactiv
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
The author raises some good points about a few gatekeepers controlling the majority of the audience, but then condemns recommendation algorithms and believes no one has attempted to solve the discovery problem. How does one miss the obvious
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
People don't download Chrome because EdgeHTML-Edge sucks; they download Chrome because it's familiar, and ironically doesn't nag the person to enable half a dozen Microsoft's services one by one. There's two greater
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
The relevant quote from this version [1] is: > "The definition of online content sharing service providers under this Directive does not cover microenterprises and small sized enterprises within the meaning of Title I of the Annex t
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
They're supposedly under 500 employees, which is the EU threshold for small and medium enterprise. They prominently mention their small business status in their post. It's likely that their assertion is deliberate.
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
To add to my earlier, as a personal note, this is frustrating to me, because the text is clearly worded to target the likes of Google and YouTube without calling them out by name, while exempting pretty much all of academia, hobbyist sites,
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
I doubt most of those people who've bought into the notion that small businesses like Reddit and nonprofit services like Wikipedia would be affected have read the relevant text, considering the text specifically says nonprofits and sma
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Original text [1], changed by amendments [2]. Relevant definition: Amendment 150, Proposal for a directive, Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4b (new): > 'online content sharing service provider' means a provider of an informati
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
As usual with upcoming legislation, FUD predominates in the conversation. A reasonable person may be used to parties with vested interests to exaggerate or misrepresent facts, but it's unfortunate when parties from whom you may not exp

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