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by dvirsky 6y ago
The worst thing about SMS authentication in terms of UX is what happens when you're outside your country. I moved countries recently, but I still need to do things like retrieve tax statements etc. Some companies only support SMS as a
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by dvirsky 6y ago
"Well, let's not risk going live with the new version for such a small improvement. You know, premature optimizations are the root of all evil!"
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by dvirsky 6y ago
There are a couple of companies doing that.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
We moved to this sort of village where our house had a few fields, and I think my dad entertained the idea of trying to do it seriously (he did have past experience but was working in a different field and had an unrelated university degree
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by dvirsky 6y ago
My short list from 15 years of non tech work: * I grew a couple acres of Zucchini with my dad when I was in middle school, and learned about profit margins, middlemen ripping you off, cost of labor and the basics of business. We did it as a
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by dvirsky 6y ago
For me it was funny at first, then it was too much, but then it became funny again, like a joke repeated enough times.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
This conspiracy theory really angers me, like almost on a personal level. I've actually cut all ties to a friend who started spreading it on FB. I first tried to show them how insane it is and thought I'd succeeded, but they seeme
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by dvirsky 6y ago
One bit of positive impact this might have is to increase people's confidence in the safety of the process.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I was totally expecting them to go and creepily stalk her around town with crappy retargeting.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Behdad used to post on an Israeli LUG message board nearly 20 years ago! I completely forgot about it but his name rang a bell now, and I went and looked at the archives. https://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=behdad&l=li
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Do you mean the hosted or enterprise versions? The enterprise version is a behemoth (in a good way). Tuning an open source redis to be able to do what it does is nearly impossible.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
6-7 years ago I used to use Statsd+Graphite. Statsd is kinda like streamz (although it works in a completely different way, but from the app perspective it's similar), and Graphite is like Monarch. It had a pretty ugly UI, and I think
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Hosted cloud redis and enterprise redis. It's all in their website.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Being a former Redis Labs employee (disclaimer: I own a few shares), I can attest that their leadership has a scrappy ethos and this is a company that doesn't waste money on stupid things.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I actually checked the About page to see if this is an Israeli project. Maybe someone started this business in an old chicken coop in their backyard or something :)
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by dvirsky 6y ago
In modern Hebrew Lulim means "chicken coops" :)
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Probably where I had read about it as well. Thanks.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I remember reading about this place once, sounds like something out of some dystopian novel. How was growing up there?
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Not to turn this into a meta discussion of the responsibility of media outlets, but they could have probably gotten better CTR with the headline "Top 10 celebrity boobs". There's a difference between phrasing headlines more d
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It's so annoying that this gets misrepresented in all the news stories and discussions about this. I guess the non clickbait headline - "Google will let people WFH for 11 months regardless of offices reopening" is just not as
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by dvirsky 6y ago
There could be a model where you just define what "bad" is in concrete terms and fire people who are not up to a relatively high standard; yet you aren't required to fire the the "bottom people" if they are good eno
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I've heard from people who worked there at the time that as part of the stack ranking system, it contributed to a culture of mediocrity and stagnation. The high performers did not want to excel in fear of retaliation from teammates tha
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Fauci has stated early 2021 as the goal for mass vaccination in the US if everything goes right. Provided that it works and provided that hundreds of millions of doses will be ready by EOY, and provided that the US govt. has already ordered
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It won't be mandatory but you probably won't be able to work and your kids won't be able to go to school.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Interestingly in Hebrew slang, to "zamburize" someone is to kick their ass, usually in the context of sports.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It's nowhere near that. It's estimated that most cases aren't detected, and even of the ones who are, it varies between 15% and less than 1%. The actual fatality rate is estimated to be between 0.3% and 1% - varying wildly by
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Ready-Search. Source: I named it.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
What I was aiming for originally beyond speed, was a simple API and an intuitive query language ( https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/Query_Syntax/ ) that scales from simple textual queries to structured queries, a
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by dvirsky 6y ago
You don't have to pay for it. The original license was completely Free As In Speech and even today it costs only for the distributed version. There is even a fork of it preserving the original license. It attaches to existing redis has
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by dvirsky 6y ago
> RediSearch’s ranking is “user provided” That's completely untrue, it comes with a few scoring algorithms out of the box ( https://oss.redislabs.com/redisearch/Scoring/ ) and results can also be ranked by t

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