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by altern8tif 9y ago
> computer scientists aren't actual scientists I think a lot of folks here are gonna disagree with that.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Wouldn't it be easy to test your hypothesis even further? Instead of a random conversation, keep repeating a certain outrageous/uncommon phrase (say Korean cuttlefish snacks) and monitor your feed to see if any weird ads appear. M
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by altern8tif 9y ago
This does not really affect one's day-to-day use of VSCode, but their comprehensive release notes (down to crediting contributors for key issues) gives me great confidence in the team. I frequently point to VSCode as an example of a we
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Why would that be crazy? Snap is new to the game and their active user base is an order of magnitude smaller than Facebook or Google. If Snap starts showing signs of accelerating DAU/MAU growth, then there's a chance that they&#x
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I'm interested to hear more about why IG isn't a good platform for linking externally (whether a web browser or a native app). If people are looking for inspiration on IG, isn't there some kind of follow-on action that they w
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by altern8tif 9y ago
While technically true, different people have different thresholds about whether a photo resolution is acceptable. Just like how some people can accept Facebook/Google's invasion of your privacy, while others can't. As with m
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by altern8tif 9y ago
How do the courts rationalise privacy concerns of the less tech-savvy? Do we assume everyone reasonably knows how to block surveillance attempts by Facebook/Google? Shouldn't privacy be a default right, and that users can opt-in (
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Problem with this is that you assume your users will either have a github, google, facebook login. While that may cover most people, there are increasing numbers of online users choosing to delete their facebook or google accounts. If you w
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Talking about uBlock Origin and Medium, the blocked requests on Medium pages always seem to increase at a regular interval. Seems like they use some kind of tracker that "polls" user activity on the page. I suspect that's wh
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I wonder how many man-hours (and by extension, wages) has been spent debating this potentially world-changing issue. The internets giveth, and the internets taketh away.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman ( https://mastersofscale.com/ )
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by altern8tif 9y ago
The rules of the subreddit states that you shouldn't really be posting your wallet addresses on their threads. Having said that, I think the OP's message inbox would have exploded by now.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
My understanding is that the tokens (BAT) are sold to/for advertisers to allow them to purchase advertising on the Brave platform so that they can advertise on specific publishers' websites. The tokens paid for by the advertisers
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Aside from the built-in ad-blocking/privacy features, Brave also allows you to pay publishers you support through their payment system. It seems that with this ICO, Brave users can also start earning tokens (ie. Basic Attention Tokens)
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by altern8tif 9y ago
That's exactly my point. You shouldn't need Google to help you answer that.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
It's fine if you're jumping from one unit to another (ie. inches to feet, feet to yards). But conversion from smaller to larger units require much more (unnecessary) effort. Eg. For a 1-acre square plot of land, what is the lengt
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Let's not forget Musk. He literally had a plan for Tesla and SpaceX while he was still working on Paypal.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Google Site Search is targeted for shutdown by Apr 2018. They're probably refocusing their resources to other more lucrative product lines.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Has this been 3 years in the making? Looks great, but I wished they had released it earlier. I'm pretty much settled into my Omnifocus workflow now.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
My main beef with patents (from a layperson's perspective) is that due consideration isn't adequately given to the effort taken by the patent owner to provide some sort of value to society in general. What use is a novel invention
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by altern8tif 9y ago
There's something fundamentally broken about the patent system.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I suspect most Bitcoin holders view bitcoin as an investment or an asset with extrinsic value (whether consciously or subconsciously). Somewhat like what gold is.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I presume you're referring to Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore? https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/prime...
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by altern8tif 9y ago
I don't think Fira Code recognizes context. It just parses the characters and renders multi-character glyphs into a single one. So the inequality inside the string will be afforded the same treatment as an inequality anywhere else in
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Great design + engineering teams = Awesome products Instagram ( https://engineering.instagram.com/ ) Stripe ( https://stripe.com/blog/engineering ) Airbnb ( http://nerds.airbnb.com/ )
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Go with Brave on mobile ( https://www.brave.com/ ). They've got an ad-blocker built in.
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by altern8tif 9y ago
So much negativity here. Constantly pushing the boundaries of existing technology is how we got here in the first place. If we were content with the status quo, we'd still be looking at a four-month journey from New York to San Franc
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by altern8tif 9y ago
Too many startups go the easy route once they get significant funding – go on a hiring spree. In my opinion, per-employee metrics (ie. revenue/profit per employee) are a great way to make sure that you don't overhire [1]. [1] htt
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by altern8tif 10y ago
Liteicon for apps with ugly icons.
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by altern8tif 10y ago
VS Code is one of the most organised/well-run open source projects that I know. Just take a look at their updates ie. ( https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_11 ). I'm just as excited to read the updates a

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