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by hw 7y ago
So Facebook "determined" that the passwords were not "internally abused" or "improperly accessed". But, they could have been accessed. When employees have access to passwords, how does FB know that they were no
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by hw 7y ago
Here in the SF Bay Area, some cities have started collecting food waste to be treated and fed to animals. There's been some minor backlash, due to the uncertainties around what goes into the food waste bin and how that gets treated and
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by hw 8y ago
If SF really gave a crap about aesthetics, they would tax residents like you in order to clean up its streets and build affordable housing (hello skyscrapers) for the homeless people who are ruining the aesthetics of such a 'beautiful&
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by hw 8y ago
No doubt you can test on-board flight systems, but you can't really compare virtualizing a booking system with flight systems, which are much more complicated and delicate. Now if you worked at SpaceX and worked on testing their flight
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by hw 8y ago
This would be great, but for that model to work, the end users themselves would have to pay to have their data protected, when in principle I think most people would argue that their privacy should be protected in the first place. For data
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by hw 8y ago
I've had friends who 'graduated' from a bootcamp and ended up with jobs at Google, Uber, Facebook, etc. The quickest way to a good salary job (in the Bay Area at least) is just to take a 3-6month coding bootcamp and apply for
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by hw 8y ago
Perhaps Facebook will put out a post saying how much they value their users' privacy.
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Going Zero Waste in 31 Days(zerowastechef.com)
3 points by hw 8y ago|0 comments
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by hw 8y ago
I believe Shopify is built on Rails and is (or was) a Rails monolith. It's worked well for them.
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by hw 8y ago
Don't have to be pedantic about it. Google is big enough and controls enough marketshare that it can be considered a monopoly. Especially when it rolls out something like 'AMP' that eventually causes others to follow suit to
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by hw 8y ago
The future of email should be a deprecation of email. Email is an archaic system, where different clients implement their own versions of rendering or sanitizing email. Some platforms don't even include proper email headers. Now there&
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Shiri: 1999 South Korean action blockbuster changed Asian cinema forever(scmp.com)
2 points by hw 8y ago|1 comments
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by hw 8y ago
As an app developer the updated T&C really threw me off. How are they going to enforce apps sending back data to Shopify? What happens if a merchant has 5 apps, and each one of them sends back a different phone number or name for the cu
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by hw 8y ago
> Most plugins are subscription based with poor support, no guarantee of future updates and just reeks of poor quality This is why there are reviews, and as a merchant (or any other business) seeking a solution, you should be doing your
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by hw 8y ago
Didn't China ban VPN or at least started to issue fines to people who were caught using VPNs? Unless they backtracked on that..
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China's Greater Bay Area Plan(china-briefing.com)
1 points by hw 8y ago|1 comments
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by hw 8y ago
Totally agree. Sometimes you just have to pay the bills. There are some projects that are extremely well done OSS but also have an 'Enterprise' side to them that's paid and offers more advanced features normally required by c
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Jury finds Apple infringed on 3 Qualcomm patents(cnet.com)
13 points by hw 8y ago|0 comments
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by hw 8y ago
I get that part. If only all startups could afford managed PaaS services. I might be biased given I've spun up and managed my own infrastructure without much difficulty, and I can see how some startups would prefer spending the dough o
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by hw 8y ago
> If you're still using a single server, you're doing something horribly wrong This is so far from the truth. If you built your (fairly new) app, especially a new app, such that it requires multiple servers, then you're ov
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by hw 8y ago
At Re:amaze, we don't hire for customer support personnel. Our culture is that everyone that we currently have on staff, be it engineers, co-founders, marketing - all work on customer support. Granted, we're a small team right now
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The scientific reason you find that Momo picture so creepy(popsci.com)
3 points by hw 8y ago|2 comments
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by hw 8y ago
The 3 is one of the most practical cars I've driven, but I'm not in a place that requires me to drive in heavy snow. The race car feel only applies if you get the top end. Little to no maintenance, savings over gas, quiet, lots of
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by hw 8y ago
Yup - https://3.tesla.com/model3/design
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by hw 8y ago
I don't think it's a stretch to blame Fortnite. It's completely changed the gaming landscape, and there's only so much gaming dollars and attention out there and a lot of it is going to Fortnite (and the new Apex Legends
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7 Things We Did to Double Our SaaS Paid Subscriptions Last Year(betterthansure.com)
1 points by hw 8y ago|0 comments
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by hw 8y ago
Or when shareholders and board members oust Zuckerberg and Sandberg. Employees get fired for making mistakes that cost companies millions - why aren't executives held to the same standard especially when it's cost them billions in
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by hw 8y ago
Sometimes I wish I built on AWS, but then if I did build on AWS I would be so tempted to throw money at everything they have and incurring at least 3-5x of my current infrastructure costs in the process.
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by hw 8y ago
It's ridiculous how much plastic goes into each Blue Apron box. I was on Blue Apron for a couple months until I realized how damaging it is for the environment vs me just going out there and purchasing the ingredients myself. Wasting i
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Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results(apple.com)
93 points by hw 8y ago|187 comments

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