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by krn 8y ago
CDNPerf[1] provides a real-time performance analysis of all major CDN providers. I have researched this space a lot, and my conclusions are: - Cloudflare: the best all-in-one solution, as long as you don't go above the Business tier -
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by krn 8y ago
That's a good point, and it's probably the main reason why Facebook wants to integrate the infrastructure of all of its platforms, possibly sharing the users and ads between Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp[1]. What el
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by krn 8y ago
We need to separate Facebook as a product from Facebook as a company. People are largely leaving Facebook as a product, because they simply don't find it as useful or novel as it once was to them. And in many ways Instagram is now a bi
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by krn 8y ago
> Proton management is in Geneva, where we met Mozilla. I have pointed this out, because a picture with Mozilla representatives in Geneva office was used as a proof that ProtonMail didn't outsource its free VPN service to a data min
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by krn 8y ago
> The first article is concerning an XSS flaw that was discovered in a pre-release beta version of ProtonMail 5 years ago, prior to public launch. It's not about the vulnerabilities themselves, but the fact, that the existing users
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by krn 8y ago
Well, as if that wasn't enough: Vid shows how to easily hack 'anti-spy' webmail (sorry, ProtonMail) (2014) https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/07/protonmail_fail_jav... Email Provider ProtonM
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by krn 8y ago
This is the best answer. It also depends a lot on where you are from, or if you are willing to relocate. In the UK, for instance, you can get MSc in Computer Science in 12 months, and the tuition fees are much lower than in the US. In Germa
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by krn 8y ago
Am I right thinking, that there are no viable alterneratives to Cloudflare Workers on the market at the moment? And if you decide to move from Cloudflare to another major CDN provider, you will have to change how your product works? Because
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by krn 8y ago
> Factoring liquidation preferences for VCs and you get a small pie for most people involved. Let's say HotelTonight was acquired for $500 mln. How much of that the founders could get at most based on the last valuation?
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> What does Boeing hope to get from this that they couldn't get from them as a partner or supplier? Boeing gets a guarantee that no other company will acquire this app.
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It was one of the universities in Germany, but I cannot find the source now. I was primarily reading material on the postgraduate studies. As a semi-reference, this Spegiel article[1] explains how important the perception of gender equality
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As a side note: I have recently come over a university which promised a gender equality in "all our science degrees", which it explained as an "admission of 50% males, 50% females". But how can it be a "gender equal
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by krn 8y ago
Revolut has the same Electronic Money license in the UK as TransferWise, meaning that the money is parked at a regular bank in the UK, but not under your own name. However, Revolut received a banking license in Lithuania in December 2018, a
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by krn 8y ago
Bunq[1] is an alternative to Revolut with a banking license in Netherlands. I personally don't trust N26 from the technical point of view[2], and Monzo is available to the UK residents only. [1] https://www.bunq.com/ [
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by krn 8y ago
Interestingly, the criteria that apply to a Senior Developer can be also applied to a Technical Co-founder and a Software Contractor. Essentially, someone who is independent enough to be a Senior Developer, should be also independent enough
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by krn 8y ago
I thought the Knowledge Graph was based on Freebase[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase
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Then why has Google announced a major expansion in New York City without making a show out of it? Did anyone protest about Google adding more than 7,000 jobs to the area? Amazon has clearly failed here to offer something everyone would be h
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by krn 8y ago
I didn't mean Nigerians or YC program in particular, but the general idea, that visa applications from different countries might be treated differently. Therefore, the idea of interviews in a "no visa required location" makes
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It might be much more difficult to a get visa for an interview than for the program in some parts of the world, because people are much likely to stay illegally if they are rejected.
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> What is the benefit of Brave? I don't like Brave's business model, but I like the browser itself. Firefox Mobile just didn't cut it to me. All I wanted was Chromium without Google, and all the privacy features[1] built-i
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by krn 8y ago
> Sounds like fixed-price consulting to me. Is there no difference between technical support and consulting? I see technical support as answering emails and picking up the phone when someone needs the help using your product. For instanc
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by krn 8y ago
If I had to guess, the reason why David Pecker got worried about the Bezos investigation, is that the NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware[1] might have been used to hack into his mistres iPhone. It's the same spyware, which Saudi Arabia u
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Undercover agents target cybersecurity watchdog(apnews.com)
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What about the Brave browser[1], which works at the application level? Or Blokada[2], which works at the OS level? Or Pi-Hole[3], which works at the network level? [1] https://brave.com [2] https://blokada.org [3] h
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> It's come to a point where we have about 70 repositories (mostly just generic modules like a logger or an error handling library, but still) to manage a project that, to be honest, it's way too simple for the amount of code w
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The UAE’s secret hacking team of U.S. mercenaries(reuters.com)
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I don't care about Java, but I care about Clojure in which it is implemented. Should I be worried about Oracle?
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I think the essence of a web app is that it works on any platform. It shouldn't know anything about Google Play Store or Apple App Store. Otherwise, it's just a native app with a webview.
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If I already have a web app with a built-in recurring subscription functionality, I shouldn't be required to abandon it just to get it published on the Google Play Store. The entire idea of allowing PWAs on Google Play Store seems to b
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It's even possible in Europe. Lviv, Ukraine is almost Central Europe in both, its geographic location and the quality of life, with the rent prices 91.06% lower than in San Francisco[1]. [1] https://www.numbeo.com/cost-

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