Rjevski

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by Rjevski 8y ago
Bear Writer. Native app for macOS and iOS with seamless sync. Not open source but very cheap and worth every penny.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Kind of ironic that a project to collect failure stories failed itself.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> through therapy I realized that I didn’t have an identity outside of being a software developer. That’s what was burning me out. I wasn’t Tim the person who has a family and interests and develops software. I was Tim: software develope
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The problem is that some interconnects between carriers use codecs optimised for voice and voice only, and your modem will most likely not work at all. The days of fully analog landlines are long gone - even if you get a phone jack, nothing
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I wasn't criticising the fact that you use a pre-rendered audio file (in fact that's the proper way to do it, as there's no need to recompute the SSTV audio every single time), merely the fact that it's just one-way SSTV
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Only when someone is extremely stupid (or has a stake in the outcome) and falls for the marketing bullshit like the following: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z (warning - graphic content)
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The PSTN is like a worldwide message queue with no authentication what so ever. Anyone can enter from anywhere in the world and spoof any number they want, even those that can’t potentially exist.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Forward the calls to a number that can handle many simultaneous channels and set up an IVR on that. The IVR would tie up the malicious calls, while forwarding the legitimate ones through to yet another number (your mobile?). Also, start pla
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Boring. TLDR: he’s just using Twilio to play back an audio file of an SSTV transmission of a cat picture to incoming callers. I was expecting something more exiting, like an actual modem that could work over mobile phone calls (conventional
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> leaving me with no means of working out how they did what they dun I guess it doubles as a DRM mechanism preventing competitors from easily copying it. ;)
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by Rjevski 8y ago
It would be a good argument if this "innovation" actually had any value for the users, but it does not. I'll take a static webpage any day over some shit full of Javascript.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
A solution for me is to avoid dealing with shitty companies like this and seek online-only alternatives (with a good web UI), and failing that, if a shit company screws up and I can’t fix it quickly through their awful customer support I st
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by Rjevski 8y ago
The reason why is that the phone tree/IVR and back-office systems were developed by someone like IBM, Accenture, Oracle, etc instead of actually competent developers. The budget being blown on the aforementioned companies, they have no
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by Rjevski 8y ago
True, but I won’t put all the blame on Apple here. A good, random 30-char password would be impossible to crack even with thousands of attempts per second.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
That was caused by stupidity - reckless password management on the victim’s part.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
But the “computer age” also created a ton of bullshit jobs that shouldn’t exist. If anything, milkmen, elevator & linotype operators provided actual value. What does “social media analytics” provide?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Nobody is talking about free - I’m happy to pay if I was given the choice. You may not have the choice or free cars, but you have a choice of plenty of paid cars, including ones that don’t stalk you everywhere you go. I don’t have a choic
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I think the issue isn’t Indian engineers living in India, but bad management of India-based companies who set the bar low enough for lots of bad “engineers” to join, making the experience unbearable for any good engineers that work there (i
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Series 3 is actually thicker than Series 0 I believe. You would have better luck putting Series 2 hardware in there.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
When Apple Watch was announced I remember reading somewhere that there would be an upgrade program for these “premium” models to either trade them in for store credit towards a new one or directly replace its hardware with updated stuff. An
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by Rjevski 8y ago
We’ve had newspapers for hundreds of years and they’ve been fine, but now somehow they’re gonna go out of business? Come on, you can do better!
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by Rjevski 8y ago
We actually do want that especially for the internet of things, so that your lights and garage door keep functioning during an AWS outage that takes out the relay servers (used to work around NAT) or if the manufacturer goes out of business
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by Rjevski 8y ago
If anyone has a good idea for a format/protocol to store issues & pull requests in Git itself, I'm all ears. There is a reason why every single product uses a separate database for those.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Prime example of brainwashing right there I guess.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
See my comment below about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17247701
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by Rjevski 8y ago
There is a consistent history of huge vulnerabilities in Wordpress, which is explained by the aforementioned code quality. For maintenance, well if something breaks (especially plugins, etc), it’s much easier to fix it when the code is clea
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Ex PHP developer here. The codebase is an absolute nightmare and doesn’t conform to any best practices (it’s not even MVC but a weird mess of .php files, there is no HTTP routing, it’s all very legacy PHP).
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> most of the people who can afford that actually generate more than $20/mo of ARPU for facebook with ads How so? I’ve never clicked on an ad other than by accident, and I actively despise any brand that tried to push me their garba
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by Rjevski 8y ago
This would work if there was actually a choice. Nowadays there is not - 99% of sites embed some kind of stalking scripts ranging from ads to Google Analytics or Facebook like buttons. This also doesn’t work given the masses have zero idea o
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> Then just don't access any ad-sponsored content I’m trying hard not to. My wallet is always open when there’s an option to not have my privacy violated. The issue? Most services don’t allow me to pay, and the ones that do still

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