harikb

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by harikb 4y ago
UTF-8 has no upper limit on the number of possible characters / emoji's, now or in the future. Everything else has. And then is UTF-16 which has all the pains of UTF-8 with none of the advantages of UTF-32
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by harikb 4y ago
I agree. unless the one who stole the data comes and lays out the exact preventable vulnerability they exploited, this is just going to result in businesses paying through the roof for fake assurances of security from middlemen, indirectly
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by harikb 4y ago
For a monthly fee of $999 no less
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by harikb 4y ago
Rust fans, when you take a dig at Java or Python, be a bit nice and don't throw numbers without any basis > Python is two Orders of Magnitude (100x) slower than C. Suddenly, your $3,000 MacBook Pro barely beats an early-1990s-era 38
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by harikb 4y ago
School & independent teams have spent $$$ buying lego parts and it is still sad to see things deprecated when they could have easily upgraded the "cpu" and kept things compatible.
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by harikb 4y ago
Do you mean packaging or shipping? While packaging is on the heavy side, I always find alternate uses for those apple boxes :)
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by harikb 4y ago
Keep in mind some of this behavior is because of carriers / telephone companies. They are they ones that force the phone to be locked in the first place.
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by harikb 4y ago
they are simply saying the title should warn users that it is a video and don't click with your mic unmuted while in a meeting :)
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by harikb 4y ago
I tried selecting a particular date. I couldn't. The selection (and the resulting date value in the text column) remained in the previous year. I refreshed the browser and came back, now I can select the date.
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by harikb 4y ago
> We took the product from 0 to 1M ARR, proving a strong signal of the product-market fit. There may have been a slow-&-steady path to get to a mature state. But given the expectations of tech & vc scene these days, I can't
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by harikb 4y ago
I think there is still a lot to improve. See [1] or [2] Things that become a utility / must-have for daily life (say QR to order food) should have better discoverability and accessibility 1. https://discussions.apple.com&#x2
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by harikb 4y ago
While talking about email, don't underestimate the need for calendar integration. There are many projects that start solving "Inbox" before they get in to the abyss that is calendar management and fall flat.
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by harikb 4y ago
Do you use a gas powered stove? My friends won't stop sending me links to articles detailing the cancer causing bad stuff in the natural gas stoves :o If not, are there good electric stoves that work with hard cast iron pans? I have se
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by harikb 4y ago
Do you have any reason to believe it is anything beyond a developer wanting to record usage and runtime issues?
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by harikb 4y ago
They were simply replying to the parent post, which specifically mentioned Menlo park :)
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by harikb 4y ago
As far as I have heard, they could choose to use N out of M channels for either upload or download and they are choosing to keep it the way it is. Probably they need to keep it that way for other reasons (their own cable-TV signal goes thro
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by harikb 4y ago
> Today, the tech team is 30 members strong, and the rest of the company has grown to ~1200 people across various departments like sales, operations, support, and compliance. Stock broking, especially in India, is a complex and hard gig.
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by harikb 4y ago
Well, usually it is the case that “key 10 employees leaving” has the similar effect for both examples
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by harikb 4y ago
Slack is no longer a small private company. They are owned by Salesforce
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by harikb 4y ago
+1 Not only nefarious entities, but the "social/twitter world" has shown us that people tend to be careless and at their worst behavior when anonymous. If one could program ones code to brick the phones/computers of thos
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by harikb 4y ago
I can’t imagine a case where the browser wouldn’t do the decency of closing a connection.
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by harikb 4y ago
I will tag along here - with some details on my experience as well as looking for better answers. Things like Scratch, Python+Pygames etc make the initial hello-world style apps too easy and then there is a gigantic learning curve for anyth
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by harikb 5y ago
they are a spammer/bot https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kingabc
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by harikb 5y ago
For me, on Chrome/Mac, I get the previous About page as a popup that I have to explicitly dismiss. May be it is just me :o
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by harikb 5y ago
Try this 1. Click on the article link and land on the "Design of this website" page. 2. Now click on "Site" on the left navigation to go to "About" page. 3. Click the back button on the browser See what you get
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by harikb 5y ago
Our school (Bay Area/South Bay) uses GoGardian as well. The middle school also forces MITM-ed certificates via securely to monitor all traffic to anyone who wants school WiFi (student, volunteer, or staff) But I am not panicking though
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by harikb 5y ago
The software we develop should have better interfaces too. A security expert should also review stuff created by UX. Back when “I love you” virus started, we had pointed out something simple as “open for read” vs “open as in run/execut
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by harikb 5y ago
There is an interesting discussion here [ 1 ] although this particular project has since modified their stance Summary from thread 1. Too many small contributions takes a toll on core developers 2. Issue of copyright assignment and knowing
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by harikb 5y ago
+1 I have always been annoyed by Redfin's rewrite of history. At least have the decency to show two lines (original prediction for last year and how it turned out to be).
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by harikb 5y ago
Even long term capital gain for “the investment class” is more like 20%. This is not even a capital gain - this is straight income at 35+

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