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by lstamour 5y ago
I believe it was the placement of the favicon in regular search results that was reverted because it appeared in the same place as the word "Ad" in the ad.
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by lstamour 5y ago
I heard about it being reverted, but I have seen far too many people, myself included, click the links at the top thinking they're the first result when they're not. This article on ads offering gov services has some great example
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by lstamour 5y ago
Absolutely. Google's making ads look like search results [1], but let's bring up an example from the early-to-mid 2000s [2] because that's extra relevant here when today's relevant search engines put ads confusingly at t
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by lstamour 5y ago
I personally agree that Blockchain or distributed ledgers are overhyped for use cases where simple, centralized approaches to trust would go a lot farther. The one example I can point to where maybe existing systems were improved through bl
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by lstamour 5y ago
I don't know if USPS offers this service, but for Canada Post, you can tape down a note to the inside of your mailbox where the postal worker will see it to indicate that you don't want to receive junk mail. https://www
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by lstamour 5y ago
You need to follow laws to funnel money through your shell companies. In turn, global agreement could require a tax small tax for any capital gains transfers made by each of those shell companies. The end result is that companies can still
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by lstamour 5y ago
Oh and this is just my two cents but - never issue your own JWTs unless you're prepared to watch for bad actors forever, ideally have an HSM to store your private key material and are prepared to publish and add keys to your JWKS so yo
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by lstamour 5y ago
If the session material is routinely compromised, why use that method of storing session material? Make sure cookies are httpOnly, Secure, and where appropriate, use Strict instead of Lax. I can understand the need to invalidate sessions se
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by lstamour 5y ago
I suggested to a big bank back in 2011 that they should have an iPhone app that sends a push notification to alert me to debit or point-of-sale transactions so I could approve them as they happened, and they only recently did so. But in the
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by lstamour 5y ago
I also recommend listening to podcasts like Changelog[1] in which developers are talking through how they approach problems etc., and trying to back up what you don't understand online by watching YouTube conference talks, ideally ones
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by lstamour 5y ago
I wouldn't say the primary takeaway from this post is to remind programmers to be humble. It's a takeaway, yes. But humility comes and goes, and reminders often take the form of bugs in your code that you didn't expect. I wou
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by lstamour 5y ago
(2020), but timeless. If you like this post, you might also like reading the relatively short book, A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout, or the talk you'll find on YouTube by the same name, which covers roughly half the
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by lstamour 5y ago
Also, expect to have very strange windows. Of course, if visible light can pass through, that might be considered a flaw in your faraday cage so YMMV. Personally, I'd like it if my devices knew what room I was in. Back in 2013, I'
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by lstamour 5y ago
Just because it’s impossible for third-parties to write an IDE doesn’t mean Apple can’t. In fact, it seems more likely that Apple would ship Xcode for iOS as a way of trying out new API capabilities and then in a year or two allowing other
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by lstamour 5y ago
> Now, with the emphasis on imagery across the web, users strongly preferred images that could be seen full screen or at a larger scale, looked high-quality, and showed detail clearly. https://www.nngroup.com/articles&#x2
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by lstamour 5y ago
Worse, there were actually two different foot measurements, one used in surveying and the other more generally. They vary by not much, but it adds up when surveying, and still causes trouble today as you have to determine whether or not som
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by lstamour 5y ago
Wow. You're not kidding. And apparently they're not alone: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/world/asia/japan-south-ko... (April 17) https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news&#x2F
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by lstamour 5y ago
... which actually confused me a bit because Firefox doesn't bold the matching substring.
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by lstamour 5y ago
In fact, Safari 14.1 is current as of last week (well, this week...) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212340 And iOS 14.5 (well, 14.5.1) is also current: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT211808#1
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by lstamour 5y ago
Only the first pair counted as a sale, 1 sku of 2 units plus a case. The rest were replacements with their own SKU (probably) and are "sold" through a different channel. Revenue from Apple Support is still revenue, but it's n
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by lstamour 5y ago
This would be the list: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/support/legal/offer-detail... Also documented at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billi...
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by lstamour 5y ago
LOL. I removed the emojis - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27008515 - and then expanded all the available items to expand, hid some of the clutter and exported the list to PDF to read through it. Little did I expe
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by lstamour 5y ago
So I tried it. I combined https://stackoverflow.com/a/64084994 for emoji detection with https://stackoverflow.com/a/25578365 to loop through the page and remove them. The result was an emoji remov
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by lstamour 5y ago
If you ask me, I'd say the odds that Apple makes a second revision of the AirTag within 4-6 years are pretty high. And that they end up deprecating/limiting the resolution of looking up the location of the first-gen devices. That
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by lstamour 5y ago
I'd also point out that organizations can have incentives align with accessibility and inclusion rather than discrimination, accidental or otherwise. For example, having a textual version of a video or image makes your page more optimi
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by lstamour 5y ago
> As an example, a lot of websites drop support for IE. If the makeup of IE users affected by it over-indexed on any particular type of race/gender/class/sexual orientation, would you classify that as inadvertent discrimin
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by lstamour 5y ago
> a proposed resolution backed by the United States, Britain and Spain that would declare that Iraq has missed its last chance to disarm itself of weapons of mass destruction The statement would be correct in that the US put forth a prop
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by lstamour 5y ago
In this case I think it is accurate given forum post evidence, but possibly dated to 2019 given other dates on the page and the fact that Big Sur is not mentioned.
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by lstamour 5y ago
descript.com works pretty well, but it's not free. Under the hood, it uses Google Speech-to-Text, so if you were creative enough, you could probably build something similar. I find it easier to pay descript.com when I need it. :) You c
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by lstamour 5y ago
Can’t say for sure, but it’s possible it wasn’t Uber Eats but instead the Wendy’s - the store can make price adjustments: https://help.uber.com/ubereats/article/i-have-a-price-adjust... https://help.ube

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