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by kevsim 6y ago
Same for me. For reading articles, give me black text on black background please. For code editor, issue tracker, terminal it’s always dark mode
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by kevsim 6y ago
Inevitably when GDPR comes up, there are always HN commenters talking disparagingly about the "nanny state" in Europe. However, I'll take some annoying cookie banners over an ad tech company scanning my face any day of the we
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by kevsim 6y ago
Anyone interested in OAuth 2/OpenID connect on mobile should absolutely watch Eran Hammer‘s (one of the creators if the OAuth 2 spec) talk on the subject [0]. He contests both the “security” and “user trust” claims made in this article
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by kevsim 6y ago
It seems like eBay wants it both ways. They want to have a huge user base with low friction to get started, but they also don't want fraudulent players. Instead of doing KYC (know your customer) like many financial services, they'
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by kevsim 6y ago
Not a stupid question. These products tend to offer a lot more functionality and flexibility in terms of how you consume your data. Different analysis possibilities, fancy ML models, custom dashboards, etc. Also more control over how the da
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by kevsim 6y ago
I'm not sure I've seen a single person suggesting that. People want change not an abolishment of policing as a concept.
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by kevsim 6y ago
I loved the Five Dysfunctions of a Team. However, the advice in that book requires the main boss to be fully committed to fixing the dysfunctions and to convince their team to get onboard (or fire them if it’s not possible). Not sure how li
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by kevsim 6y ago
That’s a fair point. I guess my point is that even with direction, if I’m not surrounded by a great team, I’m probably not going to be enjoying my job. Both of these things for me are more important than the specific problem I’m solving or
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by kevsim 6y ago
For me, as important as any of these factors is “who are you building it with”. Great teammates and a great manager can go a really long way towards job satisfaction.
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by kevsim 6y ago
What's wrong with https://github.com/search ? After you search on the left there's a link that says "Code".
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by kevsim 6y ago
That's great but then you're not doing what the commenter above said and "logging in to a server and tinkering with it"
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by kevsim 6y ago
Just a nit - the sliders are not very easy to work on my phone (iPhone Safari)
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by kevsim 6y ago
This pops up occasionally on HN but I don't get it. Are you reading every line of every installation script you run normally? What about the things they download and execute? Are you never running a binary installer where you don'
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by kevsim 6y ago
That would only apply if they copied code as opposed to architecture/concepts, no?
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The hardest part of finishing something? Starting it(medium.com)
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by kevsim 6y ago
> but after a point it doesn't make sense to write queries that return so much duplicate data anyway This is what I'm constantly wondering. At what point does it stop being good to return the user table results again and again
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by kevsim 6y ago
This is really well done! I might tweak the Lambda one a little to mention what they run in response to or to even drop in the serverless buzzword.
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by kevsim 6y ago
30 days is the maximum time allowed under GDPR. Quite typical to tell people it might take up to 30 days (though it practice I've found it rarely does).
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by kevsim 6y ago
> These firms mostly sold “popunder” ads, which pop up a new link in a browser tab when you click something Who is buying ads on these networks? There cannot possibly be any returns can there?
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by kevsim 6y ago
How does that help prevent plagiarism?
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by kevsim 6y ago
> This is a simple extension that offers some flavours people can use until HN implement a native one Is this likely to happen?
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by kevsim 6y ago
I think there is a way to do it, that was the peeking I referred to. But it's not how it works out of the box. I think the abstraction is somewhat useful if your GraphQL queries vary tremendously (one device asks for the user along wit
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by kevsim 6y ago
No, it can't because it's actually making two separate queries. For example, let's say we're fetching classified ads with the users that posted them. First your GraphQL resolvers would fetch the ads (and you won't k
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by kevsim 6y ago
We’ve been using data loader a lot and it’s working ok. We were very careful to dump all sql queries our app was making per request to ensure we were not making more queries than necessary. One thing I will say as we do make a lot of “IN” q
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by kevsim 6y ago
Fully agree. It's a couple of years since I've used it, but Swift just feels great. Guard clauses, optional chaining, and many other features just seem to fit the way I like to write code. It's not without its warts, but it&#
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by kevsim 6y ago
Right, but in this example, the author is laying divs on top of the map areas, and those need to be rectangles.
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by kevsim 6y ago
I feel like I'm missing something. It seems like declare a <map> element, associate it with an <img>, but then use JS to iterate over the map and build a bunch of absolutely positioned <div> elements on top of the ima
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by kevsim 6y ago
Wow, I've tried a number of tactics but this didn't occur to me. Did you manage to gain some traction for your projects? Have your teammates found the time they need to work on open source stuff in reality or does it go out the wi
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by kevsim 6y ago
I guess nothing stops us from running one tab per window but I have to say I'm not keen to go back to that. What we be the advantage there over tabs in your opinion?
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by kevsim 6y ago
I think it helped us to go really fast at first. Observable queries and subscriptions made it relatively easy to make the site feel very live and collaborative. Not sure how much help it is now as some of the magic is causing performance ch

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