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by throwaway6845 4y ago
I would really like you to clarify your intentions on serving non-HTML content. I say this slightly nervously as a Cloudflare customer who serves some amount of binary data. One message is "it's ok if you're on a paid plan&qu
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by throwaway6845 5y ago
> I'm sure it would become evident that they know more about spam and anti-spam efforts than anybody else in existence Really? I can point you to Hard Problems that have been solved better at little startups than at Google - or, ind
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by throwaway6845 6y ago
there was also his Thaddeus Zu/Ashley Madison story, which was pure conjecture
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by throwaway6845 6y ago
It's a common HN fallacy that everyone here is a developer whose main life aim is to remain employable as a developer. Lots of us are here to ship stuff; to provide viable products that customers will like. Moving to AWS from Hetzner w
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by throwaway6845 6y ago
Mostly, headspace. If I run my own server, I just need to apply my existing Ubuntu sysadmin knowledge. If I use AWS, I have to learn a whole load of AWS-specific domain knowledge, starting with their utterly baffling product names. My time
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by throwaway6845 7y ago
This is very similar to my experience. I recently measured the difference on my site as 10%-15% (also a non-tech site, though sadly not at $8m a year yet!)
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by throwaway6845 7y ago
While I don't enjoy the blog either (partly for the reason you cite, and partly for the unspoken assumption behind many posts that FAANG-like companies are a good thing and a good working environment), I wouldn't phrase it like th
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by throwaway6845 7y ago
What's wrong with finding out how people use my site, so I can write more of the content they like, and make it easier for them to navigate through?
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by throwaway6845 7y ago
I agree. I have a big problem with UBO etc. blocking self-hosted, single-site Piwik. It feels like being penalised for doing the right thing.
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by throwaway6845 7y ago
> Elon Musk (right) has drawn comparisons to Gerald Ratner in recent years The 1980s British businessman who Musk most reminds me of is not Gerald Ratner but Robert Maxwell.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Other RDBMSs Are Clearly Less Egregious
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Fortunately Google is consistent about enforcing encryption anywhere where passwords could be intercepted. Oh, wait. http://blog.elliottkember.com/chromes-insane-password-securi... And if you disagree with them, you're
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Yeah, no way that would happen in Europe. Oh wait. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8438461/BT-and-Ph...
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
> I don't want my ISP to inject JavaScript to random pages or analyze my traffic. That should be downright illegal. They should be like water supply company: provide me damn clean water and get out of my way. I don't want my se
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
OS X has always had it, albeit a fairly limited implementation. Try it in TextEdit.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
A few years back I spoke at a conference about my product. I made some humorous, slightly disparaging comments about the Google-owned competitor. Two days later my site disappeared from Google SERPs with no ostensible reason. I later found
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
It is _already_ behind a sign-up with a checkbox. They scraped their way past that too.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
We're not talking generic "bots". We're talking a custom scraper written for this site and this site only. Yes, I am expecting the people who spend hours inspecting the source of my site, and then writing a custom scrape
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
The analogy was "doing something anyway because you might be told 'no'", not "my server behaves like a canine quadruped". Copyright infringement is also potentially criminal in the UK, it's not as simple a
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Well, yeah, like if you ask someone to sell you their dog and they say "no". Doesn't justify stealing the dog.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
In what world is "engage a third-party scraping company" a better option than "drop a quick email to the site operator"?
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Yes. Did that after this episode.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
I built a simple CRUD app for a previous (small) employer. Nothing special technology-wise, but a good concept, sound business model, and backed up with a couple of full-time staff creating content for it. Line one of the T&Cs was &quot
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Ok, I'll take your word for it, but that said HMRC is the only way in which I ever interact with the Government online. If GDS can't get their claws into HMRC then Government digital (lower case) is pretty broken.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
It's not a message that needs to be delivered securely. It is literally just "you need to fill in your tax return by the same date everyone else in Britain needs to fill in their tax return". That could have been included in
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
This is pretty horrifying. But almost as bad: websites that insist on over-elaborate security measures for trivial stuff. Take a bow, HM Revenue & Customs: > You’ve got a new message from HMRC > Dear Fred > You have a new messa
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
...ok, I goofed. Getting confused between Inc and Mic (three letters, two of which are I and C, very similar logos). Apologies, please ignore above comment.
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by throwaway6845 9y ago
Inc Magazine is very identity politics, very much written by privileged Silicon Valley kids with preconceived notions of diversity. I gave up reading it a long while ago and I'm as liberal-left as they come.
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
Countdown until a JS extension that takes a normal <input> field and uses • characters to make it look like a password field without tripping Chrome's detector...
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by throwaway6845 10y ago
I don't see this as substantially different from the ads that appear on google.com telling me to switch to Chrome when I have the temerity to access it from Safari.

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