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chaitanya
8y ago
I noticed the same for my bank too. Wrote a blog post complaining about it and got a call from them. Essentially their argument was that "we have a confidentiality agreement with Google and that is sufficient to ensure that your data w
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chaitanya
8y ago
This might be a good tool but what is patent worthy about it?
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chaitanya
8y ago
A lot of people here are commenting that its no big deal that organizations are recording every screen, tap and swipe for their own apps. There are two problems with that: 1. As the article mentions, in some cases these apps end up leaking
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chaitanya
8y ago
There's an easier way to specify long floats in Common Lisp: use the exponent marker "L" e.g. 9999999999999999.0L0. No need to bind or set reader variables. That said, even in Common Lisp I think its only CLISP (among the fre
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Google safe browsing flags textfiles.com as unsafe
(mobile.twitter.com)
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chaitanya
8y ago
You can use bootstrap without jquery today with bootstrap native: https://github.com/thednp/bootstrap.native It supports most (if not all) of bootstrap’s components, and works well enough that even large-ish projects c
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chaitanya
8y ago
It amazes me how Junio Hamano maintains one of the most important open source projects out there while flying completely under the radar. I wonder how Linus found him - was he an early contributor to Git?
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Why are date based searches so hard?
(blog.deftask.com)
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8y ago
> What about our response was lacking to you? Several observations recorded in the Project Zero report about CF's response were problematic: "I had a call with cloudflare, and explained that I was baffled why they were not shar
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I can’t believe Cloudflare would run untrusted customer code side by side with that of other customers. V8 isolates sound great but did the Chromium team have this threat model in mind when designing them? Not that long ago Cloudflare was b
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chaitanya
8y ago
(I sent this as an email to helm's support but since the founders are responding here I am duplicating this here) Your technology page mentions that you provide an mx gateway (presumably for inbound email for home networks that don
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8y ago
>> 3 - The way this works for sending emails, your devices that you compose emails on will connect directly with your Helm server over TLS. Your Helm server will then initiate a TLS session with the server hosting your recipient'
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Adaptive Optics Allows Ground Telescope to Take Sharper Images Than Hubble
(popularmechanics.com)
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Design, documentation and exploration of REST APIs
(lisper.in)
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chaitanya
8y ago
Paper ballots might work best in the west, but in some developing countries ballot stuffing remains a big problem. In these countries I feel VVPAT is a better solution. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter-verified_pap
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8y ago
This reminded me of a tragic incident from my hometown a few years back (though I don’t think autopilot was involved): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Jalandhar_MiG-21_crash
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Personal names around the world
(w3.org)
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A blueprint for the next social network
(chaitanyagupta.com)
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9y ago
Any developer working with a database should understand how indexes work. A good book for understanding relational db indexes is http://sql-performance-explained.com . Highly recommended.
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India'a telecom regulator upholds net neutrality principles
(medianama.com)
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chaitanya
9y ago
As a LastPass user, any particular reasons why I should avoid them? Is it down to all the security issues they've faced lately?
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Rationale behind implicit conversions in the == operator in JavaScript
(mail.mozilla.org)
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10y ago
Flock | https://flock.co | Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai (India) | Full time Flock is a communication app for teams. Packed with tons of productivity features, Flock drives efficiency and boosts speed of execution. Flock is a part
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We're sorry about this. It wasn't our intention to promote bogus upvotes. We're guessing as word spread throughout our group of companies, people got excited and up-voted. We’re definitely going to be more careful about this
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10y ago
Arghh.. yes of course we do make use of lambda expressions in Java!
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chaitanya
10y ago
Our core infra doesn't use lambda (we can't really, its not a good fit). However, I think for some of our ancillary services and especially for a lot of FlockOS apps ( https://apps.flock.co ), it makes a lot of sense. Ju
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10y ago
I am sorry you had to face this, we are aware of this issue and are fixing it. We have only just opened up our API platform (FlockOS) for external developers, and we are mostly reaching out to them via hackathons, where we make the steps re
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10y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we will fix the styling. Also, I think someone was a little too eager to link to the FlockOS blog, we will remove it. Our backend is mostly Java, the desktop app is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript while the m
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10y ago
Sorry no Lisp or Clojure here ;-) Our backend is mostly Java, the desktop app is based on HTML/CSS/Javascript while the mobile apps are native. We are working on a migration tool from Slack (and others) to Flock, we will release i
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10y ago
If you are curious about how Flock compares to Slack (we get that a lot), we made a short video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDapdpgCd8
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