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by j_s 9y ago
Ask HN: Why does Amazon allow multiple accounts with the same email address? (2014) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7075372
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If this is just a software licensing change maybe the OSS stuff will gain momentum!
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This seems soon. If appropriate you may want to share a general region in case anyone here will be able to help out, unless she is specifically targeting remote work opportunities (which would also be worth sharing).
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Hacker News Extension Suite https://github.com/etcet/HNES
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"Neighbor's house alarm triggers when I put my car in reverse" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15947540 >mindcrime: This seems like a particularly evil variation of that idea: http://www
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Battle-tested multiplatform support (and thus reliability) is definitely a key selling point. This is further reinforced by its impressively extensive test suite. Long ago I lost my first Android smartphone's SMS database since they us
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Back in the dark ages as everyone upgraded from 32-bit to 64-bit environments, shipping two versions of native dependencies caused extra hassle. However, this may not be much of an issue these days.
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Is it possible to pre-allocate a fixed-size file with sqlite to then use as a local cache evicting old data? Supporting this may offer a chance to differentiate a bit. Closest I could find was a workaround that is probably close enough (dis
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by j_s 9y ago
I appreciate your willingness to share your perspective here. The problem is that marketing/PR is a profession dedicated to finding whatever just-barely-technically-true weasel wording is required to make what they're getting paid
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by j_s 9y ago
Thanks! I am looking to attach just an older monochrome monitor to a current-day PC rather than a full-blown terminal. I was unable to find any obvious solutions with a quick search. I believe the constraints of the older technology may off
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When I said course-correct I didn't mean complete reversal, it's usually been just enough to satiate temporary outrage in early-adopter/tech circles before it goes mainstream. Thanks for taking the time to document the detail
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Thanks, I hadn't heard about this. Per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1406647 where Firefox is tying in with Cliqz: > Cliqz is a well-known Adware from Germany[1] and it was a plague Not sure what data
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It looks like it collects payment info via Paypal but it does leak personal info (name, address, email) via HTTP.
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Are there any hardware options connecting old monochrome screens (such as MDA or Hercules) via modern technologies like USB?
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& MongoDB
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> sold and donated [emphasis added] Wild guess: nothing.
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Project Common Voice https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14794654
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No doubt Google Maps is A/B testing towards maximizing their key metrics; the decline in usability is a reflection of how poorly this aligns with the best interests of the end users!
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> For me, using Firefox is the personal conscious choice you refer to. Firefox marketing is effective but to be clear they have begun changing direction, pursuing a more practical "attracting the masses" approach (a la Signal
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Most recently: November Workshop: Running the Pi-hole Network-wide Ad-blocker, and more | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15608052 Related discussions (click the 'comments' links): https://hn.algol
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Yes, since new ToS have always been retroactively applied to all previously collected data they offer zero privacy protection over the long term. Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking | https://news.yco
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(Reply after actually double-checking, also heavily edited) I just went to getfirefox.com, ran the download, and this URL was displayed within tab 2 next to the 'Welcome to Firefox' tab (unfortunately I didn't record which ta
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by j_s 9y ago
(Original reply, heavily edited) My intention was to warn that Mozilla's use of the term 'Telemetry' as a feature does not cover all of their data collection, and to point to official examples demonstrating the mindset of the
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Hour of Code includes options that use JavaScript and Python (and a handful of less mainstream options). If you are allowed to choose, you can use the filter on the side to select 'Language: Typing'. Hour of Code Activities | htt
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My pet peeve is progress bars that increment based on the units of work, rather than extrapolating to an estimated time remaining. When there is no real correlation between how long different segments of the progress bar will take to comple
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by j_s 9y ago
Maybe an old CueCat could work as a cheap barcode scanner? https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=cuecat&_udhi=15
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From the conclusion: cases where it performs well and poorly— both in traditional desktop environments but also in mobile and proxy scenarios not previously tested Example: its benefits diminish or entirely disappear compared to unproxie
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These discussions with responses from Mozilla employees demonstrate that hasn't always been the case (I'm not 100% sure the add-on settings tracking is opt-in at this point, it appears to have been fixed to follow the 'Do Not
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Thanks for another example, and the specifics of this one. From what you've said it doesn't sound like anyone at Mozilla (specifically the Chief Marketing Officer representing the company) apologized for doing anything wrong. &quo
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Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11379475 swanson: My hobby: role-playing how I would respond as the CEO if my company was getting skewered on HN. Here is my version! Also, https://news.ycombinato

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