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by ghughes 9y ago
> To avoid that kind of stuff, when I deleted my account a few years back, I used an automated script to delete all my posts. Worse still, they've gone out of their way to make this as difficult as possible. There's no bulk del
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by ghughes 9y ago
Makes you wonder what kinds of juicy stuff could be found by a web crawler that specifically looks for inadequately redacted PDFs.
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by ghughes 9y ago
From the readme: > LocalStack builds on existing best-of-breed mocking/testing tools, most notably kinesalite/dynalite and moto. Kinesalite and Dynalite are LevelDB-based reimplementations of Kinesis and DynamoDB, and Moto is a
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by ghughes 9y ago
That's exactly what the adtech industry is starting to do. They've even got WordPress and Cloudflare plugins that can dynamically reinsert blocked ads via their proxy.
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by ghughes 9y ago
The awful scroll hijacking implementation on this page really distracts from the content.
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by ghughes 9y ago
I don’t think he’s doing this media tour for fun.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Many of the phone’s security features don’t only benefit the user - they also make widespread piracy virtually impossible, and they ensure that nobody can set up a rival software ecosystem on Apple’s hardware.
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by ghughes 9y ago
> The local agent that we ended up using instead ... also paid to stage the house--which Redfin would not have done. You paid for that.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Interesting idea, but your own landing page is very text-heavy and doesn't have any screenshots of your landing page builder. A free trial or demo would be even better. There's no way I'd sign up for a $49/mo plan withou
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by ghughes 9y ago
You might want to try Gobble. We tried Blue Apron followed by Sun Basket, and in both cases the prep time was too long for us. Gobble has consistently been much better in terms of both flavor and prep time.
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by ghughes 9y ago
It's possible to be OK with (or even approve of) a company defying local regulations that exist to prop up an entrenched legacy industry, and not be OK with a corporate culture where sexual harassment is condoned.
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by ghughes 9y ago
This is the modern equivalent of a penny stock. Could an admin please change the link to point at their technical whitepaper instead of this content-free solicitation to participate in a funding round that conveniently opens 5 days from now
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by ghughes 9y ago
M&A is the new R&D.
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by ghughes 9y ago
It sounds like the point of this "briefing" - replete with polished videos featuring a who's who of executives hammering the point home - is to threaten corporate employees not to leak. Apple isn't hosting these meetings
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by ghughes 9y ago
The first two are sensible suggestions, but playing the stock market is essentially gambling. Most people would be better off investing in index funds.
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by ghughes 9y ago
I think ubiquitous end-to-end encryption is the inevitable future of 1:1 and group communication. The momentum is in that direction. In your case, supporting the browser as a platform rules it out right now, but hopefully that will change w
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by ghughes 9y ago
On one hand, I don't like the glorification of overwork and burning people out for the sake of maybe making a great product: "You're going to have to give up nights and weekends probably for a couple years as we make this pro
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by ghughes 9y ago
The tweet he was replying to said: "I've heard various reports from people I trust that Signal is compromised. Any comments/thoughts/reliable rumors?" With his reply, Durov is implicitly claiming that Signal must be
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by ghughes 9y ago
Bingo. The CEO of Telegram likes to spread conspiracy theories that are good for business. In a recent tweet he claimed that Signal is "funded by the US government", [1] citing a ridiculous hit piece on OWS and Moxie. [2] [1] htt
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by ghughes 9y ago
I just don't buy this theory until I see some evidence. It wouldn't be hard for a talented individual to reverse engineer the Facebook client app to find out if it's either a) continuously recording and uploading raw audio to
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by ghughes 9y ago
Fair enough. Good to know.
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Uber's Board to Discuss Leave of Absence for Travis Kalanick(mobile.nytimes.com)
50 points by ghughes 9y ago|20 comments
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by ghughes 9y ago
People who understand the literal meaning of the word "unlimited"?
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by ghughes 9y ago
Installing an app is a higher bar than tapping the "get out of my way" button on a modal dialog that some website just shoved in your face.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Here's the official blog post explaining the feature in depth: https://webkit.org/blog/7675/intelligent-tracking-prevention...
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by ghughes 9y ago
> There will be engineers who have to do things to get a pay check, to feed their families. I don't begrudge that. I do. It's not OK to do immoral things just because someone is paying you to do them.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Which browser?
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by ghughes 9y ago
> Code quality, adequate explanations, proper planning, and lenient time tables are an afterthought. Can anyone recommend reading material for a founder who wants to get these things right from the start? Is there a definitive guide to c
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by ghughes 9y ago
The question is whether one can stomach living here while that crisis is ongoing.
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by ghughes 9y ago
The whole thing smells like fiction, and this is the very first post from a days-old Stack Exchange account. > It could’ve been a colleague because I know there is a backdoor way to send emails using someone else’s account via some sort

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