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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
Dumb question I'm throwing out there. What "sensitive" information do users keep on Twitter beyond their email and phone number? I mean who really cares? Unless I missed something here...
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
My favorite PHP feature: NO COMPILATION! Simply drop your new files and voilà - your SaaS is up to date and serving new code!
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
How did clerks/lawyers find those articles on Wikipedia? Through Google I reckon. I wonder how bad/good the search is for court judgements of their existing system. Sounds like they need to put those court judgements online, or if
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
In the B2B SaaS where I work we started using single use codes to log in for certain account types (non-admins). No password. We send you an email or an SMS with a 6-digit number. Copy/paste it to log in. Very much like 2FA except ther
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
Ok, this is a great example. I will check that out!
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
Can someone point out a known web page/service that uses WebAssembly?
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
In addition, the internet reduced the cost of information to near 0. News is just information.
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
> There was a communication gap between the team that requested the deletion and the team that ran the deletion. Big red flag. If two teams own something, no body owns it.
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
Implementing soft deletes is a lessons every developer learns early in their career. The fact that Atlassian did not implement that in their cloud, is mind boggling. Great case study of a monumental fuck up!
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by martin_drapeau 4y ago
Netflix is kind of stuck. They don't have expansion revenue and therefore growth prospects are limited to increasing subscriptions against now a very competitive, and almost commoditized market. The writing was on the wall that Disney+
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
I love Netflix for the instant content and no ads. The fact I can binge watch and not have to wait every week for an episode I love. I pay Netflix not to wait and not to be distracted by unsolicited content (i.e. ads or previews of other sh
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
This is an excellent setup. You're drinking your own champaign!
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
Are your product managers/owners involved in testing new features? They can play an important role here. Are you a SaaS practicing continuous delivery? Can customers report bugs rapidly? Can you fix them rapidly? If you can reduce the
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
I really like this approach. An engineer who's responsiblity and focus is QA.
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
Playability is great. Simple and addictive. Great job!
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
FB is an ad business. Changing their DNA to something else is very hard to do. I had hope that Libra (now Diem) would bring them into personal finance. There are hard problems to solve and the industry is ripe for disruption. Every FB user
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
Legos are truly a marvel of engineering in terms of design, robustness and longevity. Dimensions are constant across time and parts last forever. Legos 40 years ago work well with today's pieces.
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
History replays itself every new invention or enlightment humans have. Over the past centuries many have been persecuted for studying chemistry, astronomy, physics and even biology. Think of Galileo who was persecuted for advaing the theory
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
Laravel encourages the middle ground. Sprinkle Vue.js. I've worked in both MPA and SPA. The middle ground is much faster. You can pre-load objects in the page and then use AJAX to finalize loading. The user experience is snappier. The
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
Back-end routing is very solid. My experience is that front-end routing is complex and is hard to maintain. Multi SPA allows you to modularize your application into different concerns. Most of the time, an SPA can be limited to one action o
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
I couldn't agree more. It is a spectrum. <-- Fully MPA ... MPA with mini SPAs ... Fully SPA. --> Many don't venture in the middle. Not sure why. Do not stay on either end. It will bite you!
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
I love the fact that Apple prioritizes the human over the machine. I always felt that iPhones and iPads felt faster than desktops. I reckon the QoS strategy is the reason.
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by martin_drapeau 5y ago
CBDCs allow governments to remain competitive and for a bit longer monetary sovereign in a digital age. They can continue to control inflation in their own country. It does not solve the debasement problem though. Only a unified currency li
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by martin_drapeau 6y ago
Agreed. However anyone is free to make things publicly available or not.
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by martin_drapeau 6y ago
I fail to see how you lose if the internet remains free. Just avoid social media if it bothers you. I really don't mind social media being so big and growing. You don't have to live on their platforms.
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by martin_drapeau 6y ago
Tim is so right. In addition, for friends and family a post on FB about my cat is just as news worthy as a NYT article. It is not for governments to decide what is news or not. Keep the web free. Avoid imposing rules and taxes. Ultimately a
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by martin_drapeau 6y ago
Could someone eligthen me. Why not just use JavaScript? It is being used by Cloudflare on the edge, and AWS lambda. Why need to go to WASM?
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by martin_drapeau 6y ago
>Can they prevent you from learning about a local city council candidate by blocking that person from advertising? Absolutely. If you remove moderation rules, there won't be blocking. However we fall in the other extreme with fake n
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Ask HN: How can the US split up Facebook, a global company?
1 points by martin_drapeau 6y ago|0 comments
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by martin_drapeau 6y ago
Facebook goes beyond the US jurisdiction. Only 10% of their users are in the US. How do you split up a company beyond your borders? Really sounds to me lawyers will be at it for very long with no sure outcome.

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