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   by kevsim 7y ago

   You’d think a short extract would be enough for SEO and then hide the full article behind the paywall server side.
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   by kevsim 7y ago

   One bit of misinformation in the article, I believe: > Not valid, since gdpr applies to eu citizens everywhere, regardless of where they live. This isn’t correct. GDPR applies to people IN the European Union, not their citizenship [0] [0
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   by kevsim 7y ago

   I guess it would be pretty easy in postgres to create a sequence per repository and have the field use the next value in the sequence (i.e. like it normally does for auto incrementing IDs but where you'd specify the sequence to use at
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   by kevsim 7y ago

   Fully agree. For example, it's very handy that GitHub issues are auto incrementing integers starting at 1, so that I can type "Fixes #123" in a commit message instead of "Fixes #<some-uuid-or-something>". Of c
5. 545.▲
   by kevsim 7y ago

   "There is substantial organizational, legal, and financial infrastructure required to support each new jurisdiction we hire in, so we have to be measured in how quickly we expand." Each country you want to pay salary in comes with
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   by kevsim 7y ago

   I'm partial to Bacon Ipsum https://baconipsum.com
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   by kevsim 8y ago

   What other signals are available on iOS across applications provided that you don’t do something that invites tracking (like logging in with FB, etc)?
8. 548.▲
   by kevsim 8y ago

   Jupyter notebooks are really abysmal when it comes to best engineering practices. There's an amazing talk called "I don't like notebooks" by Joel Grus at last years JupyterCon [0]. I highly recommend it. [0] https:&#x2F
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   by kevsim 8y ago

   Perhaps a GDPR takeout request could answer this? Provided they’re doing things by the book.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    So much for journalistic integrity. Might as well have just said “some guy on the internet”.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Funny stuff! You spelled consent wrong in the pop up though ;-)
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    In the case of Waffle, I always thought it was quite a clever name. Their product is a grid of issues. Waffles are a grid of little squares of deliciousness. Works for me.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Facebook was actually using Erlang way before WhatsApp https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Erlang-chosen-for-use-in-Faceb...
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    This brings back fond memories as writing a lisp interpreter in prolog was the final project for my survey of programming languages course in university. Didn’t know people would still be doing it 20 years later.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Looks like a good start! One comment though - if I correctly understand how you’re using “serverless” in this case (which I believe is literal - the whole thing resides in the browser), isn’t this just an implementation detail? It’s great f
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    I think a description of why canvas was used would be nice in the README. My (probably naive) view is that browsers are pretty good at table-ish layouts so it’d be great to know why canvas was chosen.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Agree. I remember Xbox Gold was a pig to cancel back in the day as well.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Cached version since the original is down: http://archive.is/pm3QU
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    I think of Segment kind of like a routing layer for behavioral tracking data. Rather than installing N trackers on your site, you just add Segment's and then in your configuration for Segment you tell them where to route the tracking e
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    While a certain amount of snark may be justified I’m pretty sure we can assume the author is aware their is more than one browser. Are you aware of browsers that don’t interpolate as described?
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Have a pointer to a sane default tsconfig.json people could build upon?
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Several times I’ve been in need of a nice way to build automated/smoke tests for an email signup process. This looks like a nice solution (particularly with the GraphQL subscription API). Anyone used this service yet?
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Yep. Very first line of the README
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Nancy Bass Wyden, the daughter of the Fred Bass (who gave the prediction in question) is now the owner of her father’s bookstore. She is the wife of senator Wyden and an outspoken critic of the tax breaks given to big tech, particularly Ama
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Can someone explain how this worked in the first place? I’m missing how enabling location services helps them gather info on screen time spent
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Ditto. I finally bit the bullet this week and made the switch from Inbox back to Gmail since Inbox is headed to the guillotine. So far I’m finding it awful. Miss my bundling and I miss swiping to snooze on iOS (swiping both directions archi
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    For many people (like me) this is not advice that can followed since many many companies use G Suite.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Yeah, that was my reaction as well. I fully understand his point regarding ORMs that are meant to be an abstraction over a relational database, but imposing the relational model over non-relational datastores sounds like a disaster.
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Yeah, I'm left wondering the same thing. Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention (version 2 of which will ship in Safari/iOS 12 in September[0]) uses some sort of ML-based solution to decide what is and what is not a tracker,
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    by kevsim 8y ago

    Nearly 24 years with a single employer. How many programmers can claim that these days?