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by cphoover 5y ago
I don't care as long as they don't track me. (They probably will)
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by cphoover 5y ago
I would love to see more of these technical breakdowns of songs on hacker news.
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by cphoover 5y ago
O mannn I was suspended from HS, and banned for 2 years from touching school computers for net send shenanigans as I wasn't smart enough to cloak the originating workstation. My message to every single computer in our HS: "Hey wha
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by cphoover 5y ago
This made me chuckle, thanks for sharing.
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by cphoover 5y ago
This doesn't really address the problems OP brought up... like centralized authority, rebuilding for rebuilding's sake, and priorities interrupted because of sporadically imposed deadlines from other teams... OP mentions a timeli
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by cphoover 5y ago
Yea or projects that are forever on 0.x.x pre release so any change can be breaking according the spec (as it is considered experimental) even after having many adopters. I can think of at least a few OSS projects like this.
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by cphoover 5y ago
I think if you are going to critique the explicit strategy of "One version" and forced upgrades, an acknowledgement of the many issues with lazy or incremental upgrade strategy implicit to semver is also warranted. One of my bigge
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by cphoover 5y ago
no mention of notaries or people that witness contractual agreements? I feel this would provide even more context
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by cphoover 5y ago
now if only tiktok would fail
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by cphoover 5y ago
What a great piece of software.
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by cphoover 5y ago
what if ID could be validated with homomorphic encryption though? and you never had to send your actual ID in an unencrypted form to the service?
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by cphoover 5y ago
In this context I think it was fairly clear I was referring to HTTP API. If they want to utilize a sqlite client or query local data in some other way I think that makes sense. You could download the whole project as a project dependency, a
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by cphoover 5y ago
Judging by the other comments in this thread and the upvotes to my original comment, many people seem to agree with me also. you are an unpleasant person to talk with
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by cphoover 5y ago
So quick to offense. it wasn't meant to be condescending, it was meant to be a serious technical critique of what appears to be a publicly advertised product.
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by cphoover 5y ago
good explanation summarizing my critique as well
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by cphoover 5y ago
why can't you have programmatic access to local data though? Store the data in a sqlite database if you care to. there are all sorts of different clients that interact with local or embedded data
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by cphoover 5y ago
a law API makes sense to me because laws are updated all the time, especially when you take into consideration all the various jurisdictions. A Quran or biblical text API makes less sense to me because it is essentially unchanging static te
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by cphoover 5y ago
woah woah calm down... I wasn't trying to insult anyone. "I wanted to build a fun, cool project." Is a perfectly valid answer. I think there is value in people critiquing methods and designs for various systems. If I were bui
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by cphoover 5y ago
what is the point of an API for static data like this? storage is cheap... why not just download the entire Quran, Bible, Torah, whatever to your local hard drive... why incur network latency for this task?
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by cphoover 5y ago
In JS we can use JSON/object literal syntax and object destructuring to serve a similar purpose: myFunc({ aBoolFlag : true, anotherBoolFlag : false, aString : "Hello World" }); const myF
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by cphoover 5y ago
Hmmm I guess you could use it and have snail mail as a backup...It'd be better than nothing probably? Yea I'm not sure how you validate everyone in the video has a verified identity and age... Perhaps machine learning could automa
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by cphoover 5y ago
Why? Why can't they use stripe identity verification https://stripe.com/identity to verify age/consent of user's who upload adult content?
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by cphoover 5y ago
Why not use something like plaid and then do direct bank transfers rather than use credit cards. You could also accept cryptocurrencies. This decision will kill their business
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by cphoover 5y ago
A Nigerian, or Jamaican may have a completely different understanding of culture than black people whose family history ties back to US slavery. It is weird how we just tend to generalize over all of this because of the color of one's
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by cphoover 5y ago
Ha I know a few people that work at BMA and two of the security guards (Rob and Dom) were on the same pool league team as me. If y'all see this whats up Smaltimore home sweet home
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by cphoover 5y ago
This would be a real useful repository for someone trying to create a phishing website.
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by cphoover 5y ago
> * - There is no way to override a transitive dependency with npm (there is with Yarn though, so hopefully this feature will come to npm soon)* I do not think this is a good idea as it allows consumer's of a library to utilize that
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by cphoover 5y ago
Perhaps the problem is that user's are entirely too entrenched with using blackbox frameworks they don't fully understand like create-react-app, and not that we have a tool that discloses when these frameworks contain vulnerable d
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by cphoover 5y ago
That's exactly the issue that npm-audit seeks to ameliorate. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing.
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by cphoover 5y ago
> The threat model you're talking about neither seems realistic, nor like something npm audit can help with. The attack vector of a contributor sneaking in malicious code is dealt with by only giving the commit bit to trusted peopl

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