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by karim 8y ago
I’ve actually written a short blog post about it ( http://khamidou.com/sandboxing/ )! Basically, most of them build a sandbox to prevent the guest system from interacting in unexpected ways. There’s a bunch of ways you c
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by karim 8y ago
"When people rewrite system from X where X in (Python, Ruby, Node, Clojure) to Go they usually see at least 10x improvement." Sure but how much of the performance gains come from Go and how much come from just having a better un
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by karim 8y ago
The Nylas Cloud APIs makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their applications. By being at the core of business communication, scheduling, and contacts, we believe we can sh
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From “Hello World” to VP of Engineering at Reddit (2017)(blog.devcolor.org)
191 points by karim 8y ago|100 comments
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How to write a good engineering job post(khamidou.com)
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by karim 8y ago
Nylas – San Francisco, NYC or remote | Site Reliability Engineer | AWS, Ansible, Terraform | Full-time The Nylas Cloud APIs ( https://nylas.com ) makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and cont
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by karim 8y ago
Nylas – San Francisco, NYC or remote | Site Reliability Engineer | AWS, Ansible, Terraform | Full-time The Nylas Cloud APIs makes it an order of magnitude easier for companies to add email, calendar, and contacts integrations to their appli
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by karim 9y ago
I wonder what is going to happen to the team developing it – IIRC they had a huge team in Paris and Seattle working on it.
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A Frameless Geodesic Dome (2013)(rigsomelight.com)
183 points by karim 9y ago|94 comments
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by karim 9y ago
Nylas | https://nylas.com/ | Mostly Backend (Systems+Ops) | San Francisco, CA (SoMa) | ONSITE Hi! We're Nylas. We’re building an email platform to let our customers build apps integrating with email, contacts, and cale
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by karim 10y ago
Hi Will. I don't really have advice for you, but there's a very useful subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IWantOut . The people there are really helpful and know a lot about the various immigration procedure
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by karim 10y ago
Hey Jim – thanks for doing that! I'm curious, how did you back up IMDB's message boards? Did you scrape the whole website or were you able to find a data dump?
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The story behind OS X's built-in graphing calculator(pacifict.com)
1 points by karim 10y ago|0 comments
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by karim 10y ago
> It will be the same with AI. If you apply enough bright people's mind for long enough, we can possibly automate certain niche jobs, but that's going to be completely uneconomical. The thing is, it doesn't have to be an a
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by karim 10y ago
Also known as the Obsborne effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect ).
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by karim 10y ago
I think that on the contrary, everything should be in the commit. The commit message is dated, it has an author and a context. How often do you come across stray comments which shouldn't be here because the code got refactored away? Co
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by karim 10y ago
I don't get it – why use the nuclear option when you could open an issue and ask them to look into it? This may be just an oversight.
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by karim 10y ago
Nylas Basic supports generic IMAP accounts. We don't show them in the list of supported providers for QA reasons but you can still add such an account like this: https://imgur.com/a/WBdXe (By the way, feel free to
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by karim 10y ago
Unfortunately, standardization != widespread use. Tracking pixels are still the most reliable way to know whether a recipient (or many) opened your message.
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by karim 10y ago
Unfortunately, we have to use an intermediate server to use Google OAuth.
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by karim 10y ago
Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. To add to what you said, the newly released Basic edition does all email syncing client-side, and uses our servers for minimal things (i.e: auth).
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by karim 10y ago
Hey – I'm an engineer at Nylas. This used to be true but Nylas Mail now uses a totally client-side sync engine. If you're on the Basic edition, your emails never touch our servers. This was a huge undertaking (it's not easy t
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by karim 10y ago
The 311 app ( https://sf311.org/mobile ) is really useful to report hazardous things (e.g: needles).
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Ask HN: What New Year's Resolution did you make in 2016 that changed your life?
3 points by karim 10y ago|0 comments
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by karim 10y ago
Genuinely curious — how is this a problem since the iso is served over https?
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by karim 10y ago
I wouldn't read too much into this. People on Hacker News have this pavlovian need to contradict any article they're commenting on. If Schneier was saying the task was too big, you'd have people saying he's giving up too
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by karim 10y ago
The problem with gargantuan languages like Scala and C++ is not that some people will try to use every feature, but that everybody will use a slightly different subset. Most reasonable people will agree on using a subset of the language but
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by karim 10y ago
Ha, those algorithms are far from trade secrets! Here's one of the Discover Weekly developers talking about how they implemented this feature: https://atscaleconference.com/videos/creating-and-scaling-sp... . If yo
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Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
1036 points by karim 10y ago|454 comments
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by karim 10y ago
I think you mixed up imperial and metric systems --- San Francisco has 18,451 people/sq mi. Paris has 55,000 people/sq mi. It's almost three times as much.

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