blubb-fish

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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   I simply love the idea of a transparently implemented encrypted communication through Facebook chat.
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   It might be tricky if person A is a better fit than person B - but B is at least slightly more competent than A. In that case - if we would decide in favor of A - I guess I would skip that reason. But if you design the testing sufficientl
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   I am currently in the situation of playing the HR role for hiring a developer in our start-up - for which I am actually working as a Data Scientist. I not just almost always give a reason for why we decided against a candidate - I even ofte
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   Probably the stigma.
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   http://www.pnas.org/content/113/5/1417 Cocain destroys your mind - love heals it.
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   yes, yes and yes ...
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   My gf's first smartphone was a Lumia and it was terrible ... especially in comparison to my Android-power-user-setup. No way .. the UX of WP is utterly terrible - utterly. She's so happy now with an Android.
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   So you can do something useful with Excel ... now that's a surprise!
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   by blubb-fish 11y ago

   Well, usually there has to be a SIM card in your phone to use it for communication. That SIM card has an ID and sooner or later there is going to be a correlateable pattern - the location of a phone which happens to be close to you very oft
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    by blubb-fish 11y ago

    They'll still track you by correlating your Signal meta-data with that resulting from your usage of other Google services where you are "onymous".
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    by blubb-fish 11y ago

    I don't see the problem to begin with. The question with anonymity and data securing always is - " who do you want to protect against?" No matter how you set up Signal it's not going to help you against intelligence a
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    by blubb-fish 11y ago

    The big downside of it is though that your stuff is potentially stored on someone elses pod - okay, you can create your own server for the pod etc but this won't help you if messages from you are insecurely stored on some strangers ser
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    Ask HN: Does your company donate to free software it uses?

    29 points by blubb-fish 11y ago|11 comments
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    by blubb-fish 11y ago

    > but I never thought of it as something typical German before. Well, people from Spain, France, Italy, Poland etc. are definitely on average louder in usual day to day situations. In that sense I feel, as a German, keeping your voice o
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    by blubb-fish 11y ago

    Actually it does. Check window.innerHeight and window.innerWidth. The specific values depend on the individual configuration of your browser - icon size, toolbars, themes ... mine is: 1920 x 992 if I add the bookmark bar the sizeing turns:
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    by blubb-fish 11y ago

    > by offering something that has been common to other languages like Ruby, Scala and Perl for quite some time So funny ... the most prominent language known for this stuff is PHP ... and missing :D