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by Rjevski 8y ago
It would be naive to think Google isn't still tracking you despite you're paying.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I actually doubt someone in our community is worth that much. If anything, we're worth less than non-tech-savvy people because we see through the bullshit (when we don't outright block it) where as they don't. A friend of min
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by Rjevski 8y ago
It’s just a bad user experience. If Microsoft is an issue there are self-hosted options available like GitLab.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I agree with this. I can deal with Trac (although I’d still prefer GitHub) but mailing lists are a big no-no for me. The funny thing is that I read this post yesterday and thought about contributing to Django... and they lost me when I saw
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I wonder if you can blow the whistle and raise it with your country’s privacy regulator?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
If I created WhatsApp I wouldn’t worry about fake news - those can still happen over other platforms or even plain old SMS. I would be worried that the platform is now used to silently steal the contacts list of millions of users without th
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by Rjevski 8y ago
How would this work for offline transactions? Cards need to be able to verify PINs offline and provide feedback to users & merchants, otherwise someone can type a wrong PIN at an offline terminal (on an airplane, etc) and get away with
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Bullshit companies like this (they aren't alone - there is also Accenture, Deloitte, and plenty others) will be around as long as there are idiots who believe in their bullshit and are happy to pay them good money to produce it.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
At least with conventional scams it’s up to the victim to voluntarily hand over the money to the scammer. In this case it’s different because the government is complicit in the scam and forcefully takes the money from the victim to give to
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Glad to see natural selection working as intended.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Not including loads of third-party shit (Google Analytics, social media like buttons, etc) would be a start.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Just wondering, if you don't want the information to be public, then why make it public? Put your website behind a login form, after which you can enforce (meaningless) terms of service as well as real technical solutions to prevent
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I agree with Chrome's decision here. The data remains the property of the user, they are free to cache it on their machine or upload it to Google if they so desire. Pages that disable autocomplete (or break it with hacks) should die.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Similar story here in London; I have experience with 2 Indian recruiters and seems like I will not bother anymore. They seem to only recruit for bullshit outsourcing companies - in my case they tried to advertise Infosys and Tata Consultanc
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by Rjevski 8y ago
This is definitely a possibility, but if a feature has 90% malicious/bullshit use and 10% legitimate use then there's a good chance it should either be removed or disabled by default (so the iOS situation regarding web notificatio
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> you are "not too familiar with Tor", but still state everything with an almost absolute certainty. When it comes to security I'd rather err on the safe side and call it insecure until proven otherwise. In any case, even
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Facebook does not give the cancer a platform. Facebook is the cancer.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Technically the key should never leave the web UI (and be discarded once you close the page); but since they control the domain & what they serve, they could serve a malicious version of it that silently exfiltrates that key back to the
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by Rjevski 8y ago
See my comment above. Basically they host the Tor bridge and so your traffic (before being Torified) is still visible to the upstream carrier.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Nice publicity stunt but completely useless from an anonymity perspective. On their website, they mention the following: > Simply, your mobile device can't connect to the Internet, it can only communicate with a Tor Bridge within ou
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Considering how many shit websites ask me for notification permissions upon page load, this is a very good thing it isn't possible on iOS.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> What does that cost per month? (if I may ask) I don't actually remember but I did the test on my own Heroku apps now and with Performance-M dynos (the ones we were using) we were looking at $5000+/month. To be fair the most e
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> Anything negative about Facebook gets to the front page very quickly. Pretty much everyone (whether you're a Facebook user or not) got their privacy violated by Facebook. The majority doesn't know it but we're on HN and
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Officially not. In reality, nobody knows, and given their business model I wouldn’t be surprised if they did anyway.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I have experience running an application with 9M users (around 2M active) on Heroku. We had around 1,5k requests/second average, peaking at over 2k reqs/sec. No major issues, although we were starting to hit the per-app dyno limit
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> pulling every record from a db table to iterate over to find the record using PHP string compare functions As horrible as this sounds, this is actually good from a refactoring point of view because it should be straightforward to rewri
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I once had to look at a client’s code to determine if/how we’d go about taking over their application. Their only developer threatened to quit and this is when they realised it would be best to outsource this and reduce the bus factor.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
Upwork is garbage, but presumably there might be platforms out there which are better. Toptal maybe?
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by Rjevski 8y ago
> I guess you're not the target market for mid-high end skin care products? Agreed, but the rest of my point still stands. I feel there’s a lot of potential for abuse here.
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by Rjevski 8y ago
I’m really concerned that I never heard of those brands before. Besides the obvious annoyance caused by these ads, is there any guarantee those no-name products (as far as I’m aware none of them are a household brand at least not in the UK)

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