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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the Security Freeze(krebsonsecurity.com)
1 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
The credits makes people think 'Is this article worth sending to my kindle? It costs money to do so. Maybe I should just read it?', that adds loads of friction and poor UX. But the OP was experimenting, so I guess that's all
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> Many HR professionals know the unstructured interview has little value for predicting employee performance, yet persist in using this discredited technique. Why? Two reasons are commonly given. And there's the third, which
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How to explain business priorities to a programmer?(workplace.stackexchange.com)
4 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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Hot Swappable Raspberry Pi Rack(hackaday.com)
2 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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Open-source ambient physical display that visualizes weather conditions(tempescope.com)
37 points by gedrap 11y ago|6 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
Shameless plug, a while ago I wrote a micro rest api (ghost.py + flask) to take screenshots and optionally upload them to S3: http://gedrap.github.io/lightshot/ It still needs some extra work to be production ready tho
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Animated data driven documentary about WW2(vimeo.com)
4 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
I believe all of us here are with some intelligent. Therefore, we all know what facebook collects about us. So everyone makes a decision to use it or not. Plain and simple. I don't agree with statements such as 'hard to grasp why
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> If we focused less on revenue generation we'd have a much much smoother web experience But then rather than poor content, there would be next to no content (for the masses) because business have expenses ;) Speaking seriou
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> There are a lot of advantages to using web tech (cross-platform, easier to develop, easier to push updates) Yeah. This shouldn't be overlooked. In some cases (solo founder, bootstrapped, etc) a hybrid app might be a great
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by gedrap 11y ago
Google translation is a bit poor. So, basically, it legislated blocking selected gambling companies which are not licensed in Lithuania (not some shady ones, but including major ones like Unibet). These companies were dominating the sports
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Lithuanian Parliament legislated Internet censorship(translate.google.com)
1 points by gedrap 11y ago|1 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
That's a nice looking CV! :) 2 things I'd change layout wise: remove your home address. It's probably not a great idea to share it with the world. Also, job title in bold, company in blue and the description in regular text,
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by gedrap 11y ago
Similar projects (various readers for HN) keep popping up from time to time. I'll put on my startup hat and say that there's a market for it, at least an indication that there's a problem :)
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by gedrap 11y ago
It's a bit like when you have a survey and you have 5 or 6 options ranging from 'hate it' and 'love it'. The difference is often very small and just adds not really necessary options which makes making a choice hard
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> Create free Android apps to spread reading, writing, and arithmetic skills, and prove their effectiveness over an 18-month period in African pilot communities. 5 prizes of $1M and a grand prize of $10M. That seems quite viable
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Zenefits CEO revoked a job offer after an applicant asked for an advice on Quora(quora.com)
6 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
Eh, I agree with most other commentators, saying that it's quite dissappointing and fairly confused why it got 300+ upvotes. Probably the influence of google.com domain. I even double checked the URL if it's not some publicly edit
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by gedrap 11y ago
W3F is brought up quite often, and W3S receives quite a lot of hate, criticism (not always constructive). But I still use W3S when it's the first result in google search and I am ok with it. It might not be the best learning resource b
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President of Liberland Arrested for Trespassing into His Own Country(news.vice.com)
5 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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Spotify as a simple case study in making something people want(blog.garrytan.com)
41 points by gedrap 11y ago|44 comments
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by gedrap 11y ago
>>> To some extent, the initial product wasn't important. I am not sure if I agree with this. I think a good initial product choice is really important to gain the much needed initial traction. If the initial product is good,
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by gedrap 11y ago
Sort of related, a couple of free decent books with interviews with data scientists http://www.datascienceweekly.org/pdf/DataScienceWeekly_DataS... http://www.datascienceweekly.org/pdf/DataScienceW
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by gedrap 11y ago
Yes, grandparent, please consider this :)
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by gedrap 11y ago
Nope, in the blog post I was referring to the author went to some event (in France, I believe) where some of core contributors helped him, if my memory serves well. Still this is a good post, thanks for linking it!
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by gedrap 11y ago
If someone is interested in contributing and not sure where to start, here's a list of issues tagged as easy: https://github.com/servo/servo/labels/E-easy Not sure if it is still true but a few months ba
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Using an LED as a Simple RF Detector(hackaday.com)
2 points by gedrap 11y ago|0 comments
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by gedrap 12y ago
Could you share your reasoning?
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by gedrap 12y ago
Thanks for sharing :) I found these resources about Sealand http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/sealand-and-haven... and a much more detailed about the legal situation in Sealand (80 pages, PDF) https

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