Torn

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   by Torn 9y ago

   For consumer (non-expert) ways to design great-looking graphics + materials in an easy drag & drop fashion, check out Canva. For the more complicated things, Paint.NET on windows is pretty great (and still free). I've yet to find a
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   by Torn 9y ago

   Brave Browser & Basic Attention Token (BAT) seems to have more traction: https://brave.com/creators/
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   by Torn 9y ago

   Get a hardware wallet then -- the Ledger Nano S is great.
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   by Torn 9y ago

   I've been on the receiving end of this when using some VPNs -- after a few you realise you're being stonewalled. It's an _incredibly_ frustrating experience for real users caught in this
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   by Torn 9y ago

   Stellar was re-written in 2015, so I suspect this critique will be of the legacy Ripple protocol
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   by Torn 9y ago

   Depends on the role; check out the job profiles here https://about.canva.com/careers/sydney/
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   by Torn 9y ago

   We really need a new model for the ad economy. Brendan Eich is making some promising steps in the direction with Basic Attention Token (BAT)
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   by Torn 9y ago

   All bitcoins are created from mining rewards. As the number of coins has increased (and more people started mining), the difficulty goes up and less coins are produced. These 'whale' entities either ran mining operations early eno
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   by Torn 9y ago

   `-f bestvideo+bestaudio/best` might work: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl#format-selection
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    by Torn 9y ago

    It's theorised they have ~1m bitcoins, at 10k each that's a 10 billion net-worth. Presumably that's enough for people to want to hunt them down and coerce them into giving up private keys https://bitslog.wordpress.
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    by Torn 9y ago

    100% agreed on the ethics note. Calling it 'dopamine' is also pretty remorseless. Interestingly, the creators of the like button and pull to refresh, and others, are pushing back against this 'attention economy': https:
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    by Torn 9y ago

    The "don't fuck with paste" extension is worth checking out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-fuck-with-pas...
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    by Torn 9y ago

    This isn't a browser feature, it's a webapp
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    by Torn 9y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior / lead hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://grnh.se/3ti0do1 We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently acqu
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    by Torn 9y ago

    > We have hundreds of images uploaded to our app each day. The issue is some of these images have text that we want cropped out. So... they want to chop out watermarks?
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    by Torn 9y ago

    For simple drag + drop design needs, have you tried Canva? https://www.canva.com
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    by Torn 9y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior / principal / staff / lead hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://grnh.se/3ti0do1 We're one of the biggest travel search produc
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    by Torn 9y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://grnh.se/3ti0do1 We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently acquired by CTri
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://grnh.se/3ti0do1 We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently acquired by CTri
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/ We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently ac
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Freedom of the press is under attack by the Trump administration. From labelling critics as 'fake news' to banning journalists from news briefings[1] - it's a pretty alarming time for democracy. [1] http://money.cn
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    by Torn 10y ago

    I'd say I'm pretty technical (I do frontend / full-stack work in my dayjob), but as startupdiscuss said below, it's a spectrum. There are plenty of people that are better coders than me, that work lower-level in the stac
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/ We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently ac
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Thanks for the feedback - if you have any more questions or are thinking of applying, I'm a principal engineer and would be more than happy to chat about life here
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Hi SITZ, can you send me an email with your details? I'd love to to chase this up on your behalf. We've had a large volume of applicants on the run up to Christmas.
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/ We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently ac
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Preact is a thinner alternative to React. https://preactjs.com/ From a quick look, it seems like this demo is using a web worker (i.e. another thread) to chunk up the dom manipulations. There's also some code to priori
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Skyscanner | full-time senior hires | London, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Budapest, Sofia | ONSITE, VISA http://www.skyscanner.net/jobs/ We're one of the biggest travel search products in the world. Recently ac
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    by Torn 10y ago

    Nope, it's currently a meta-search that owns its own data layer. As to what the future will bring let's see!
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    China's Ctrip.com to buy Skyscanner in $1.74 bn deal(uk.reuters.com)

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