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by mxxx 6y ago
Yeah, can anyone explain to me how FB/G are actually accused of giving paid content away for free? All the Murdoch content is behind paywalls in Aus. Is it literally just headlines and the free 3 sentences or whatever a scraper/ag
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by mxxx 6y ago
Started using fastmail about six months ago. Very happy. One account for a handful of different domains and addresses.
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by mxxx 6y ago
Nice one :) Will give it a go tomorrow morning. On holiday at the moment though and I always bring the v60 but never the kettle. I always need to forage for something that can pour slowly and consistently!
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by mxxx 7y ago
https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-recommends-that-you-keep-y...
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by mxxx 7y ago
Interesting that the tag line is "world's best". I feel as though they usually go with something more quantitative like "fastest" or "most powerful", etc. "Best" obviously being completely subjec
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by mxxx 7y ago
We've also been using Metabase lately. It doesn't have some of the querying power of a Tableau/Data Studio, but in terms of being able to just click through and "discover" trends in your data, it's really nice.
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by mxxx 7y ago
Yep. We recently noticed this problem after renaming form fields for the purpose of accessibility (screen readers)
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by mxxx 7y ago
also found this - https://lbl.fm
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by mxxx 7y ago
You actually can search Spotify by record label, but it's super unintuitive and I can't remember how to do it. Maybe give their docs a quick search? It's basically a hidden feature. edit: ok maybe not so unintuitive after a
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by mxxx 7y ago
If you dig this kind of thing check out the work of Robin Fox. Cool stuff.
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Ask HN: Decent quality mic for web conferencing?
3 points by mxxx 7y ago|3 comments
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by mxxx 8y ago
This used to exist. From memory it was called Bets of Bitcoin. Don't think it's around any more.
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by mxxx 8y ago
Kind of impressive that they built Spectrum with just three people. Nice write up.
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by mxxx 8y ago
"More deadlier"...?
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by mxxx 8y ago
If you're seriously considering suicide, please talk to someone about it. If you don't feel like your friends can help, you can find seek professional help. I don't know where you live but there are most likely organisations
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by mxxx 8y ago
It doesn't matter how much RAM it's got if they don't fix the keyboard. I don't think I've ever paid so much money for such a poorly designed piece of hardware.
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by mxxx 8y ago
Mentorloop | JS developer | Full Time | On-site in Melbourne Australia | 80-110K AUD + equity Mentorloop is a Melbourne-based start-up making mentoring relationships easier to start, run and participate in. At a high-growth stage, we’re see
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by mxxx 9y ago
Mentorloop | Full Stack JS Dev | Melbourne, Australia | Full-Time ONSITE | AUD 70-90k Mentorloop is a Melbourne-based start-up making mentoring relationships easier to start, run and participate in. We're currently looking for a mid-le
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by mxxx 9y ago
i _wish_ i had a proper use case for the touchbar. six months in, still haven't figured out what to do with it, apart from, you know, pretend it's the top row of a keyboard. i sort of forget about the keyboard until i use my old m
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by mxxx 9y ago
I think I posted it here the last time some poor guy got gunned down by a swat team by mistake, but Radley Balko wrote a really good book about the history of how this kind of thing became commonplace in the states; Rise of the Warrior Cop.
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by mxxx 9y ago
yeah don't get me wrong, if that's what it's doing it's still a dark pattern. but maybe _slightly_ less insidious than the alternative.
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by mxxx 9y ago
For the exact scenario that the author is describing; attempting to ping your location while you've got your GPS switched off. I don't think it's a particularly uncommon practice. Not saying it's likely, just something t
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by mxxx 9y ago
He hasn't really done much to prove conclusively that it's not just coordinates associated with his wifi SSID. > there is a red push pin right on top of literally the room I am sitting in in the house using Google Maps Satellit
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by mxxx 9y ago
TLDR is: - Meteor uses MongoDB as a data store - You write queries on the server called "publications", that make documents available to the client - The client implements "MiniMongo", which basically lets you query the
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by mxxx 9y ago
I've been working on Meteor apps for a few years now, and my TLDR answer for you is, no, don't use it. The releases since 1.3 have definitely pushed it in the right direction: * NPM instead of atmosphere * React/Vue/what
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by mxxx 9y ago
Cheers dude. I use the pitchfork best albums as an example in the readme because it's quite a simple one. Feel free to fork or borrow or contribute!
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by mxxx 9y ago
I get a weekly newsletter with a bunch of music recommendations in it, which I had been manually adding to a Spotify playlist. So I recently wrote a CLI in Node that takes a URL and a CSS-style query selector (ie, '.album-title'),
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by mxxx 9y ago
nice one. something like this has been on my "things to build when i get some spare time" list for a while; i've used a bunch of budgeting and expense tracker apps and never found one that quite ticked all of my boxes. thanks
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by mxxx 10y ago
If you're interested in how this kind of thing happens (and alarmingly how often it happens), this book is an excellent read: https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Ameri...
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by mxxx 10y ago
because you can do it faster! yeah i had a discussion with a friend recently to this end. they were making a bunch of arguments against the internet that seemed to just as easily apply to the printing press.

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