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by _hyn3 7y ago
Where is the proof or evidence? Are we so captive by our own belief systems that we no longer require a single shred of evidence that anything even close to this ever occurred? Since this is a blog, it doesn't even have the benefit of
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by _hyn3 7y ago
Seems like the website describes it pretty well: https://standardebooks.org/
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by _hyn3 7y ago
.. We will force you to admit that we OWN machine learning for all consumer use cases and will happily sue you just for renting our servers, or force you to turn over your Intellectual Property Rights to us. Thanks.
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by _hyn3 7y ago
> A widespread scholarly and popular consensus suggests that new ventures perform better when launched by teams, rather than individuals. This view has become so pervasive that many of the foremost investors rarely, if ever, fund startup
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by _hyn3 8y ago
I'm currently using XFCE on 3x4k monitors on a desktop . You can control almost everything with the DPI setting in Settings > Appearance > Fonts and use the Display menu to adjust your screen resolution. (The font sizes do refle
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Apparently COBOL isn't over either, so that's good news if you're a mainframe developer from the 70's.. ;) https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/jobs.htm?suggestCount=0&sugges... Your point is well take
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Ask HN: Is devops finally over?
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by _hyn3 8y ago
True, and has ad-blocking built in, so presumably this is an area of focus for them.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Opera is now owned by a Chinese consortium and quite possibly embeds spyware. Check out Brave, instead, which is founded by the inventor of Javascript and extremely privacy-focused.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
> Eh, I think this is spurious. The specific post you're replying to is about a signal that seed funders can use to predict if founders have what it takes. Seed funders can't really use the signal of "did they get VC money
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by _hyn3 8y ago
This is the norm in any high-growth startups, or at least it was for me. A few people seem to fall into things that don't require working all the time, but 16 hour days and two day weekends seem completely normal to me now.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
I agree that this is a thing with VC's, but the claimed logic behind it is not credible. If you are able to recruit founders to work with each other, you didn't prove anything that couldn't be just as easily proven by recruit
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Ten cynical reasons why VC's like to see multiple founders: 10. Sometimes (perhaps rarely) a better idea comes from a group. 9. There really is a lot of work to go around. 8. If one of the founders is willing to sell, take more investm
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by _hyn3 8y ago
You would use PUT in the instance where you have the same id (in other words, the same resource representation/URL), and PUTs should be idempotent, meaning that you can re-attempt creation multiple times without side effects. POSTs sho
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Facebook shareholders back proposal to remove Zuckerberg as chairman(reuters.com)
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Why media people are furious over Facebook’s bad video metrics(fastcompany.com)
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Can you provide a citation or test on a website such as wikipedia? Try pinching to zoom the text size. (Incidentally, Apple invented ( https://www.theverge.com/2012/8/30/3279628/apple-pinch-to-zo... ) and
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by _hyn3 8y ago
What platform are you on? It works perfectly in both Brave and Firefox installations (unmodified) on Android (version 9, Pie). (Tested on wikipedia articles). However, keep in mind that individual web pages can disable this behavior with me
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Lightsail is basically a toy to compete with Vultr/DO/OVH/etc. You can't even rename a server or change its metadata. You can't resize a server (except for taking a snapshot and building a new server). Essentially,
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Do any of these old phones still work on modern mobile networks (even just GSM or CDMA)? The Samsung sph-i500 was another great small phone running PalmOS that came out soon after, with a similar form factor to the Razr.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Only over the short-term. Over the long-term, these should even out, all other things being equal.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
> It was pretty clear to me on reading the RedisLabs page that Redis itself would be BSD licensed. The page has been updated since the original announcement.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Invoking an atheist like RMS doesn't help matters, even if he may have a lot of wisdom and experience in the licensing wars. Conflating an argument over a particular licensing debate in 2018 with deeply-held religious beliefs that may
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Closely related: "The Commons Clause will destroy Open Source" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818407
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AWS needs three years to not attribute a vulnerability(github.com)
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Syncthing does an admirable job here as well (also available on F-droid).
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by _hyn3 8y ago
Everything in iCloud, including your encrypted messages, are easily accessible to Apple[0] and will be released without a fight, despite Apple's vaunted privacy stance. (Perhaps that social contract has some fine print if the CEO of yo
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by _hyn3 8y ago
> Obscuring a database id is probably fine If you can guess what the next database ID is, then you can probably use it to take over the cookie session ID, use it in a replay attack, or whatever, depending on how your app is architected.
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by _hyn3 8y ago
> they basically pick deals based on who else is investing. Another phrase for that is "herd" mentality, which will hopefully result in de-risked "safe" investing, but VC's are supposed to be looking for true bre
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by _hyn3 8y ago
> Before HTTP, people were already long doing RPC using e.g. DCOM, CORBA,RMI, etc. Reinveinting RPC over X has been the fate of pretty much every way we've come up with to make two computers talk to each other. The key difference be

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