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by figassis 3y ago
Email senders are trying to solve a problem no one asked them to solve. Me unsubscribing from emails from my grandma is her problem and eventually someone should/will help her find another way to share. Let's not pretend that emai
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by figassis 3y ago
There's worse. An unsubscribe link that asks you to submit your email. Few things anger me more, because they went through the trouble of pretending to comply, and a decision was made to make my day more difficult.
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by figassis 3y ago
Wouldn’t it be amazing, since e signatures have been around for ages, that governments just published the requirements for legally binding digital signatures rather than ask each maker to go talk to them and get some obscure license or bles
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by figassis 3y ago
What I hate about OAuth is how slow and cumbersome it makes the process across the web. Everything requires login with google for example, but that flow is so slow that it’s what I dread the most of all auth. Especially when I see the page
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by figassis 3y ago
I think it's dangerous to think in this way: I succeeded without college, so everyone can, so college should be abolished. Not everyone has the discipline to self learn through a course. Not every one knows how to properly and effectiv
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by figassis 3y ago
I think everyone needs to know everything they do professionally from first principles. And if you are to build abstractions, they also need to be based on first principles in order to be easy to reason about. Sometimes I'm learning a
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by figassis 3y ago
This, a manager and domain manager for everything. One of the reasons I love go is that is inherently encourages being direct. All of the verbosity that people complain about it is infinitely offset by simply doing the thing. Some examples:
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by figassis 3y ago
One cause I've seen of this is the "college is not needed to be a coder" trend from the past few years (decade?). it is true that most of my skills were acquired after college, but there is some sort of global system understa
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by figassis 3y ago
Basically saying: while we wait for some kids to die horribly, let's fake some horrible child deaths to show the world.
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by figassis 3y ago
Regarding RDP, the issue might be the same as no SSH into machines where you can break out of. Best practice for devs is to work locally and submit PRs? For non tech workers, I don't see the need to RDP anywhere since applications toda
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by figassis 3y ago
What is interesting in this story that the article misses is not the delusion. Marc's post has copious amounts of dishonesty and while writing, I'm sure he thought of all the ways his vision could harm/destroy society. But ri
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by figassis 3y ago
Apple had one leader who thought differently, and that paid off, and now there is already some inertia inside apple because that is part of their brand. They put out one bad keyboard, mess with the ports in their macs and the world judges t
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by figassis 3y ago
I'm often flexible in my beliefs, and I believe this is a superpower, but it can be dangerous if you don't place some principled boundaries on your self, or how much you can allow yourself to be convinced to change your opinion. R
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by figassis 3y ago
When I say pay "upfront", I don't mean that the upfront cash is better for business, but that usually, the credit industry is very good at letting people buy things they can't afford. Some one who pays upfront likely can
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by figassis 3y ago
I'm aware of this, CF can be very granular, but businesses do not on average have the know-how or bandwidth to properly setup their rules to not come off like a...holes. So the effect is that most businesses behind CF come off like a..
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by figassis 3y ago
It does, but depending on your shipping patterns and volume, it can be worth it. For example, some provide storage so you can hold your merchandise until you have a container full, and then ship all at once by ocean freight. Other times, th
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by figassis 3y ago
Yes, I'm not Nigerian but I basically mean developing nations, including mine and others.
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by figassis 3y ago
I am convinced that while harder, there are more intelligent ways to block these DDoS attacks other than blocking entire geographies. I often travel between Africa and US, and there are things like buying furniture (home depot blanket block
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by figassis 3y ago
This, CF is the only service that I find amazing, and that I do not use for anything. Compared to AWS, I think I prefer the "we're your unopinionated infra provider, if you want a WAF we have that too", vs the CF "block
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by figassis 3y ago
This is amazing. I’m thinking of building the same thing for self hosted S3 (ie. Minio). I love AWS, they're very reliable and i feel like depending on them is not risky. But being 100% dependent on a single provider scares me a lot, a
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by figassis 3y ago
This will take the ad/surveillance industry to a whole new level because currently this is the only way companies know how to make money. Build something that retains users attention (browsers, search engines, smartphones, TVs, ai chat
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by figassis 3y ago
And I looked at the article at the time, and then showed my righteous indignation on HN. An example of why it’s important to dog deeper before commenting.
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by figassis 3y ago
> as good as the Google of about 2-3 years ago. And that's a good thing? That's 2020 Google, in all it's evil glory. That's just around when I switched to DDG.
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by figassis 3y ago
I think we all saw this coming, talked about it, articles were published even...but now its news
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by figassis 3y ago
idk, that is partly true. Then there's all the college signaling that academics are not enough. To be admitted in a top school you need to show extra curricular experience and generally be extraordinary, but now that's not enough.
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by figassis 3y ago
By now they all know of companies like Deel, which solve these issues. They can even be the employer of record. And yet...
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by figassis 3y ago
I've been on DDG for a while now. Do you think Kagi is considerable better? If so, how? Genunely interested as I'm on the fence.
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by figassis 3y ago
We’ve been wondering why query operators no longer work, or why you can’t quote text to require it in results anymore. There have been many explanations. Well, now we know, it would have broken this algorithm, so google dropped it.
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by figassis 3y ago
I’m thinking they’re still figuring it out, but what comes to mind is AI enabled AirPods, car navigation/entertainment/communication, home automation, etc. so they plan on creating multiple things that interact via the same AI. Ma
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by figassis 3y ago
Sadly not on iOS

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