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721.
by ebbv 10y ago
That's a weak excuse for this horrible security hole. Google is facilitating phishing with this terrible behavior. It means that someone trying to phish a Google user can send someone to a totally valid google.com URL and it will stil
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by ebbv 10y ago
$0.22/kWh is very high. I pay like $0.09/kWh. On top of that in my LEAF I average ~4 miles per kWH, which gets me to a cost of $0.0225 per mile. Considerably cheaper than gas, even at $2.20/gallon. The last year or so has had
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by ebbv 10y ago
Disclaimer: I work for a hosting company, but these views are my own personal opinions which I held even before working where I currently do. This is one of the reasons I would consider managed hosting as opposed to AWS, Digital Ocean, etc.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Your analysis seems reasonable until you actually own an EV and see how little maintenance is required. I've had my LEAF for over two years and all I've needed is tire rotation and tire replacement (due to pothole.) The brakes las
725.
by ebbv 10y ago
One thing that this article only touches on briefly is that more and more AWD systems today are just open differentials plus the TCS instead of using more expensive and heavier limited slip differentials. These modern systems are lighter an
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by ebbv 10y ago
I hate to be cynical (really, I do) but this seems like a clear attempt to soften Amazon's current public image as being a horrible place to work. It seems like all surface/headlines and no real substance. The headline makes you a
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by ebbv 10y ago
You keep telling yourself that they are in any way ethical. They are not. Letting people get it "if they spend the retail value" is hardly generous or benevolent. Other people will have also spent a bunch of money, and if you have
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by ebbv 10y ago
I do get it. You're saying Echo has the best IoT integration of all the assistants. That may be true. But it's also possibly irrelevant depending on what combinations of IoT devices someone wants. If everything I want has HomeLi
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by ebbv 10y ago
There's a lot more to these sites than this article goes into. I'll say right up front; these sites are total scams who target poor people who usually have a poor understanding of economics, statistics and math. One of the feature
730.
by ebbv 10y ago
Ok so your specific lighting system integrates better with Echo than with OK Google. That says something about those combinations, it doesn't say much about Echo itself. Like I said in the comment you responded to; on its own the Ech
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by ebbv 10y ago
All that build up and it ends up basically an ad for Amazon Echo? Disappointing. Amazon Echo is of very borderline usefulness at best. On its own it does almost nothing that the digital assistant on your phone can't already do, and a l
732.
by ebbv 10y ago
I mean he knew it was a video for NeXT, so I don't know what else he would have expected. Though I would say I don't think he was portrayed badly in this video, the point was not that he was a problem, the point was that NeXT&#x27
733.
by ebbv 10y ago
Dude really? Commas are not a big deal and you're talking about a major change to get rid of them; making white space matter. Currently white space doesn't matter. In order to get rid of commas it has to. That should not be glosse
734.
by ebbv 10y ago
Search is pretty much it. I don't use it because I don't submit stories. I use Hide sometimes when I feel an article and/or its comments are terrible. I use flag probably too much because I want to keep the link quality on HN
735.
by ebbv 10y ago
Comments on blogs or news sites have always been terrible. The only sites that can have good comments are ones like HN which dedicate the purpose of the site toward that end. Even then it is a struggle (obviously.) It makes no more sense fo
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by ebbv 10y ago
It looks vaguely like that. Notice how all the menu links are clumped together? The same is true for all the action links anywhere eon the site. I may be old (38) and fat fingered, but I often will tap the wrong thing because they're j
737.
by ebbv 10y ago
HN is terrible on my iPhone 5S. Everything is way too small, it's extremely hard to tap on names, arrows or anything else except headlines.
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yeah I mean I loved my BMW and I would love to buy a BMW EV, but the i3 is not in contention with the Bolt or the Leaf for me right now (and I will be getting a new one in 2017.)
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by ebbv 10y ago
If BMW doesn't update the i3 significantly before 2022 they are going to be left in the dust. Chevy has the Bolt coming out this year which will offer 200+ mile range on a EV w/no ICE. Nissan has said they have a 35kWh Leaf coming
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by ebbv 10y ago
Since it's been 7+ years since you made this change personally, what has been your long term experience? Has the change stuck? Have you had periods of struggle? Thanks.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I really enjoyed this, and I've been trying to do similar changes just based on things I've noticed work better but not formalized in any way. Now I have a better guideline to go by and a book to read.
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by ebbv 10y ago
I'm not sure I would characterize this as boring stuff so much as only like a third of the picture. When the article was titled "tech stacks" I was hoping to learn about the actual tech stacks, not just the front end stuff. L
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by ebbv 10y ago
Yeah CloudFlare is not a hosting provider, so that piece seems erroneous. They are on the CDN line below, I just don't understand why they ended up on this line. Maybe because people's DNS points at CloudFlare?
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by ebbv 10y ago
It really depends on the job you're applying for. If you're applying for a job at a company that provides SaaS on a particular software stack that's gonna be really different than applying at a work-for-hire web development h
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by ebbv 10y ago
The spam filtering companies do make mistakes sometimes. Sometimes someone is sending out legitimate mail but it's a new IP sending a bunch of mail and they err on the side of caution. Or sometimes your IP will just get caught when a s
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by ebbv 10y ago
It's gonna be really hard. I work at a hosting company and our staff has to work constantly to make sure people's servers get taken off of spam blacklists, or IP blocks of ours need to get removed, etc. There's a lot of stuff
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by ebbv 10y ago
I agree, this post really does not have any concrete lessons. It has a few nice cliches but nothing that is truly a lesson you can use on your own projects. But that's probably also because it doesn't really get into any details o
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by ebbv 10y ago
This seems to me like punishing users (in this case web developers) for the mistakes of standards organizations of the past (W3C). HTML is what it is and it's not going anywhere. AMP is not a solution to anything, because the whole wor
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by ebbv 10y ago
It means previously you had some expectation that where and when you drive is private data that nobody else has unless they are tailing you. Now your car is broadcasting its location at all times via cell signal, and that data may be (almos
750.
by ebbv 10y ago
> The invasions initial execution was beautiful (first few days) War is not beautiful. The invasion was a revolting, unnecessary horror from conception to now, where it still has not ended and shows no sign of an end. As far as Bush not

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