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by nikanj 2y ago
Ah, you want to read messages without letting the recipient know you've read the message, while still having read receipts enabled. I'm not surprised WhatsApp does not support this one, I think they want their users to be able to
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by nikanj 2y ago
The mystery is what happened between that phone call and the $100M ARR. The customer says "Can I get a PoC" but you don't actually have any code yet. You just hope your tech team is able to conjure whatever you were able to s
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by nikanj 2y ago
I'm still not entirely sure what exactly they were selling during the first year to get to that $100M ARR. Most customers expect to get quite a bit of functionality for $millions.
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by nikanj 2y ago
It is implemented in the app itself. WhatsApp > Settings > Privacy and turn off Read receipt.
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by nikanj 2y ago
They are effective on the day of passing customs to the US
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by nikanj 2y ago
"Maximum severity RCE" no longer means "unauthenticated RCE by any actor", it now means "the vulnerability can only be exploited if a malicious file is imported" Grumbling about CVE inflation
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by nikanj 2y ago
This would turn out very interestingly, because Elon Musk enjoys a level of access to the US executive branch that other companies only dream of. The fury and retribution from POTUS would be terrible, if the company of his close friend was
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by nikanj 2y ago
> How can I get to someone that maintains their SMTP k8s cluster? By posting on Hacker News and making it to the front page. The same support strategy also works for all the other major providers
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by nikanj 2y ago
If it starts with LPsomething or Psomething, it's a pointer. Turns out the much-hated hungarian notation does provide value
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by nikanj 2y ago
To be fair, tons of companies flag their promotional newsletters as transactional urgent act immediately. It's not hard to see why users don't really react to emails anymore
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by nikanj 2y ago
Vancouver is also more than happy to help you out https://www.sanctions.io/blog/the-vancouver-model-of-money-l...
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by nikanj 2y ago
Oh look, a new battery breakthrough. Must be a day that ends in y
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by nikanj 2y ago
The same reason we have not been able to evolve beyond a spoon. Once a tool matches a use-case really well, the best you can do is make it worse for the sake of being modern
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by nikanj 2y ago
About one in five Windows updates shows a notification along the lines of "Update your browser preferences to secure defaults?", which is code for "Can we bing you mate?" Every time I visit my parents, I need to de-bing
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by nikanj 2y ago
> How big can the bill be, for something you could run on a 20 year-old PC? Easily 7 figures, possibly 8 figures. Enterprise sales are a weird realm.
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by nikanj 2y ago
With the current string of SCOTUS decisions, Trump can have the VP shot at dawn, declare it an official act, and elect Musk as the new VP.
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by nikanj 2y ago
I wonder how this surgery was originally 1) invented 2) proposed to colleagues. "Hey peeps, I've been bouncing around this idea lately. So you know how Mrs Smith in room 230 has no eyesight left? Well one of her teeth came off whe
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by nikanj 2y ago
But investors do, and most startup founders are in a bigger need of investors than users
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by nikanj 2y ago
We are looking at another gold rush where the US patent office lets you patent absolutely anything I still remember a few of the previous ones, like ”A mundane everyday thing…on a computer!” and ”The same thing every company has been doing
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by nikanj 2y ago
Only on Linux though, on Windows it’s O(n2) and on Macos it’s O(log n)
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by nikanj 2y ago
With the software giants, you get the best results by sending your complaint to Hacker News. Your issue will actually be noticed by someone who can help
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by nikanj 2y ago
Fortunately they were able to reach the only reliable Google support desk: The HN front page. Getting this resolved via Google's official channels is about very unlikely, but now their issue has reached the eyes of people who actually
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by nikanj 2y ago
I’m sorry your country is fucked, but I don’t live there and I come to HN for tech news, not news about US politics
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by nikanj 2y ago
Where's the coworker who interrupts your flow every 10 minutes?
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by nikanj 2y ago
Does a game like this really need much per-os optimization? I would guess the graphics are not the bottleneck, and the AI/sim code is not really that platform dependant
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by nikanj 2y ago
Modern design: looks cleaner, is harder to use (more clicks)
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by nikanj 2y ago
It might be surprising, but SCOTUS confirms it
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by nikanj 2y ago
TikTok is somewhat unique in presenting a real, non-us-based competitor to FB/Instagram. A bit of lobbying to block your competitor is a deft move on Mark’s part
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by nikanj 2y ago
The easier answer is ”This is really eating into Meta’s revenues”
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by nikanj 2y ago
Kumamoto is in the same ballpark as many European capitals, such as Athens, Helsinki. Most people don't consider those cities "too small to attract talent"

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