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by jdlshore 5y ago
Before everybody gets up in arms from the headline, they're just moving/keeping this feature into the Firefox browser. The article says: > Firefox for iOS will already sync your saved Lockwise passwords. You can currently only
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by jdlshore 5y ago
The headline overstates the situation a bit. Mozilla is shutting down Lockwise and integrating its password management features into Firefox instead. The only impact is people on mobile who use Lockwise as a system-wide password manager, an
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Depends on how you define success and failure, I suppose. By the standard, "a sustainable and profitable," they're successful. They used to average about $30mm per year and in the past few years, it's closer to $70mm per
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by jdlshore 5y ago
That’s a laudable goal, but the suggestion comes across as either naive or disingenuous. I assume that’s why you’re being downvoted. Sure, work to ensure prosperity. But don’t let that stop you from implementing faster, more tractable solut
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by jdlshore 5y ago
You’re overstating the difficulty of investing for retirement. A simple Vanguard target date fund is all you need. Set up a monthly automatic contribution and that’s it. More control is possible but not necessary for decent returns.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Agreed, the constant negativity (especially here on HN) gets very tiresome. For what it's worth, Firefox has been my daily driver for years and I'm very happy with it. The new tab design doesn't bother me at all.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
It’s not an image classifier. It’s an image hashing algorithm that does a server-side comparison to a secret corpus of hashes provided by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (or a similar body—I forget the details) and eq
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by jdlshore 5y ago
No, it is not. The hash is computed on the client, but hash comparison happens on the server, using some cryptographic magic that only reveals a “visual derivative” if enough images match. It’s fairly complex and I don’t recall the details,
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by jdlshore 5y ago
And 5. The “bad” hashes are secret, so it’s not possible to create a false positive that would trigger Apple’s human review.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
You’re probably deleting its cookies. I had the same problem until I set up a (Firefox) container for it and whitelisted its cookies in that container. Now, no university reminder and no need to re-login either. (I use the Cookie AutoDelete
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by jdlshore 5y ago
That's not how it works. The doctor prescribes the drug and gives the patient the free sample. What, did you think they were in a "take one" candy jar?
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by jdlshore 5y ago
You know, you can express enthusiasm without tearing something else down. There was no need for your first sentence. Personally, I loved Vinge’s “True Names” short story, which I believe may be the first “virtual reality” story. I also love
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Change happens in small steps. First, supply of clean energy. Then abundant supply. Then economic superiority. Then oil-powered tankers disappear. If you try to put the last step first, the whole thing falls apart.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
(Author of The Art of Agile Development, which just came out with a second edition.) I don’t agree that going with a publisher is a fool’s game. Yes, they take the majority of the income of the book, but most technical books don’t do all th
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I wish I knew! There are companies that get it, but they're hard to filter out from the noise. Two I'm aware of are Pivotal and Menlo Innovations. I'm sure there are more.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
See my peer reply to mdekkers.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I’m presuming that Apple wants to scan for CSAM, which I think they do. Personally, I’m also in favor of tightly-regulated scanning for CSAM. The fact that they don’t support E2EE, despite their strong pro-privacy stance, supports my presum
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by jdlshore 5y ago
You’re being pretty offensive to someone who you don’t know, and who has only been polite to you. (Note: thrway edited their comment after I responded.)
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by jdlshore 5y ago
> I think it’s fair to consider companies offering Agile training and certifications to be custodians of the Agile philosophy. God no. There’s some good training out there, but a whole lot more bottom feeders. I include all the certifica
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by jdlshore 5y ago
No True Scotsman isn’t what you think it is. > No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I can't grant you humility from the Agile community, or even necessarily from myself, but I can clarify what problems it works well for and doesn't, dangers, etc. Agile works well when organizational leaders are willing to invest
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Perhaps not, but it's what they use instead of Facebook.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
(Author of The Art of Agile Development here.) Lots of negativity in this thread. I can't say I'm surprised. For what it's worth, I mostly agree with the negativity—"Agile," as commonly practiced, tends to be terrib
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by jdlshore 5y ago
Two things: 1. I suspect you're ascribing a level of power to "the Agile custodians" (who, exactly?) that doesn't exist. Nobody has the power to prevent people from misinterpreting Agile, no matter how much as they might
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by jdlshore 5y ago
As another poster said, it's not a choice of whether or not your content is scanned; it's a choice of where. If you upload pictures to the cloud—which is the only scenario in which Apple's scanning was stated to happen¹—the
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by jdlshore 5y ago
For my kids (13 & 15), Discord is the big thing. And YouTube for passive consumption.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
> No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity, is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect their universal generalization from a falsifying counterexample by excluding the counterexample improperly. (Wikipedia) Please explain how t
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by jdlshore 5y ago
So why is the board paying her that much? Are they incompetent? What evidence do you have?
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by jdlshore 5y ago
I’m very happy with FastMail, despite the recent problems.
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by jdlshore 5y ago
There’s a respondent in the thread claiming that it’s not illegal, but I don’t know how accurate their information is.

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