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by throwaway66666 7y ago
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom and safety.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Then sadly they probably know who you are already.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I agree with your statement (not with the virtue signaling part, but I will ignore it for now). To me, it reminds me like one of those "I gave $100 to a stranger" youtube videos. That end up making $10k from views. There is nothin
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Didn't facebook try "Is this your friend Bob?" (showing you a picture of some random people) as their forgot password captcha, in the past? Now that was evil!
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I had an imaginary friend. It was a dog. My parents wouldn't get me a puppy, so I just imagined having one. It was a lot of work because I imagined having to take it for walks (so I would walk around the block), or try to train it. In
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I was asked if I have taken polygraph tests, and if I am willing to take one. They didn't follow up with it, but they seemed serious about it. That was for a contractor position, not regular employment. PS. Also drug testing.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Some jobs require it. Not even super-secret top-hacker men-behind-the-curtain type of operations. If you wanna be a senior sys admin for bed bath and beyond, you 'll be probably getting one.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Do not hire people who do this. Most of them will say "over 200m downloads of npm packages". Go and take a look. If you see things like 'is-not-foo, checks if a given string is not equal to the string "foo"', a
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Cool! Did you have fun and learn a lot? Nice, thanks for sharing.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I am going to be downvoted, but this needs to be said. The problem with the indie developers is that many of them are driven by greed and only greed. But that is hidden behind a veil of "we are the underdogs, passionate people, like yo
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Well, the fact that one of the biggest phone OS supports QR codes natively in the camera, severely reduces the friction that comes from "what's that weird thing, oh it's called a QR code, here's download this app on the
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Nobody has the resources for that. Some companies make OSes, and some companies send rockets to space. Those feats are also powered by thin wrappers over electron. /s People seem to forget that C++ and opengl is cross-platform. And the
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
iOS camera reads QR codes by default. Just point your phone with the default camera app ON. No special mode required. I have a qr code printed on my living room (made to look like andy warhold art, with multiple colored panels etc) so that
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
> http://www.youtube.com/index.php I didn't know youtube's first version was written in php.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Problem with alphanumeric, is you have people from foreign countries who do not even have an english keyboard installed on their phone. Default is probably their native language and they do not care to add a secondary or switch. Numeric val
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
But what if you have a total of 3000 engineers. What will all of them do? Perhaps a handful of them can investigate and try new things?
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
But... will mozilla or the people behind haveibeenpwned know I am using a pwned password? Basically, by checking if you are under risk, do you leak info to 3rd parties that can be used against you, before having the opportunity to protect y
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Because it comes off as snarky and provides little value I would guess. I would say that due to jQuery's explosion, framework writers went from geeky technical people to being looked at as heroes. Back in 2007 there was actually a big
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Javascript framework makers are the new rockstars. People want to be rockstars.
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Considering that some astronauts turned youtubers, or netflix documentary actors, the famous once at least. Can you blame them?
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Well, I am not doing heavy weight editing or making movies. Most of the time I need to remove audio, resize and re-compress for web, cut the first and last seconds, or splice together 2 videos. Generate thumbs. etc. I have also fully replac
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
From 2014. ( http://adamcadre.ac/14lyttle.html ) "Obama chuckled. “You mean the Chaos Emeralds?”"
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
For my use I have replaced all GUI video editors, with a bunch of ffmpeg scripts (no irony).
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I am wondering why you are being downvoted. This outage could have been prevented with better deployment procedures too. For example my company (nowhere near the scale of Cloudflare) does progressive deployments. New code is deployed only t
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
I hope everyone in the story recovers. I have tried LSD a few times, and the thing that surprises me the most, is how bad his friends in the story are. First of all, the rule is, when you get a new batch. 1 person tries a small dose to judg
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Also... the USA is the only country that has used nuclear weapons against another country. And they dared do it twice! We think of them as barbarians. They think of us as barbarians. And the cycle of finger pointing goes on. Such a dangerou
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Some places (my company included), invite people from client organizations on slack. You can have cross-org accounts and limited access to another org's slack. We are sadly utilizing this heavily. Disabling notifications in those chann
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Worse. When and if you post something that facebook guidelines do not like, instead of getting a "we removed your post" message, you will get fined! And that fine, will be instantly covered and subtracted from your account's
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
Damn! My current CEO wants to do the same. But he wants people to vote across teams. EG, backend engineer nominates machine learning researcher. Machine learning nominates HR. For a $1000 bonus, or a new ipad previous generation. Reasoning
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by throwaway66666 7y ago
My only complaint for Slack (and any instant messaging app), is the sense of urgency it creates. It has been discussed on HN a lot, but I 've never seen someone complaint about the fact that you can invite to your organization people f

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