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by nsgi 5y ago
HN should really increase the max title length, there's plenty of space and the current limit often requires important details to be cut out
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by nsgi 5y ago
If you live in the UK and have been in your job for less than two years, you don't have the protection from being fired you think you do. Our laws protect you from being fired for discriminatory reasons but not much else
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by nsgi 5y ago
Unfortunately, the people who make a career out of recruiting people into jobs are even worse
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by nsgi 5y ago
They do, though. They produce a lot of garbage but their best rivals HBO
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by nsgi 5y ago
What if they start using it?
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by nsgi 5y ago
Do you mean restricting new web features to IPv6 sites? Or something else?
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by nsgi 5y ago
Why shouldn't mainstream Linux desktops adopt mainstream interfaces and then people who want a steeper learning curve can use a less mainstream desktop?
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by nsgi 5y ago
Or just accept the fact that you'll never completely stop people cheating? Have your server prevent obvious cheaters but maybe people should just accept that the only way to avoid people cheating against them is to only play with peopl
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by nsgi 5y ago
Videos are much more efficient than apngs or gifs, though, and it's just as easy to allow downloads (unless they're using variable bitrates which are a bit pointless for short animations anyway)
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by nsgi 5y ago
That's a very good point. Bit of a shame to only learn the importance of it after it shuts down. Is there any alternative?
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by nsgi 5y ago
I don't think it necessarily implies a balance of power. Even without that, it makes sense for a company to allow the candidate to ask lots of questions to make sure it would be the right job for them and they're likely to be happ
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by nsgi 6y ago
> redirect to goatse upon login That's a rather shitty thing to do. I understand it has a warning now or doesn't exist or whatever, but no one should have to see it without their consent
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by nsgi 6y ago
Obviously there's no need to ask permission just to have a side project, but if you have any intention of making money from it and there's an IP clause in your contract which might get in the way of that it's another matter
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by nsgi 6y ago
Surely it depends on how you define a success? Although I do agree with you, there are loads of apps in app stores with very few users, and so can't really be considered a success by any metric other than maybe the author found them pe
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by nsgi 6y ago
Depends what you use them for. With a high-capacity hard drive you could store a lot of downloaded movies and you can always download them again if it fails
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by nsgi 6y ago
Couldn't you accomplish that with a browser extension?
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by nsgi 6y ago
How can there be a reasonable expectation that websites won't track users in incognito mode when browsers don't give websites that information (unless the website works it out in a backwards way)?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Don't a lot of startup founders go to elite colleges and come from big companies?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Because the SSH trust model relies on verifying the fingerprint out of band, which isn't practical with a website, and even if it was non-technical users and even most technical users wouldn't do it. Certificate Transparency is a
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by nsgi 6y ago
I don't think it's just the stigma, to be fair. Earning lots of money through OnlyFans requires more than good looks, in the same way that earning lots of money through a tech startup requires more than just writing code. Also, pe
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by nsgi 6y ago
> The same number of people will be vaccinated on Jan 31 That could still mean a big difference in the number of deaths. Some of those people may die/become seriously ill before Jan 31 before the vaccine gets to them
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by nsgi 6y ago
How many people using adblockers block analytics rather than just ads?
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by nsgi 6y ago
Ask whether you really need a world-class team or just a competent one
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by nsgi 6y ago
> dangerous grime (such as needles in bike lanes) Is where you moved to safer to cycle in overall?
55.
by nsgi 6y ago
Between August and November restrictions had been relaxed a lot. Most public places were open, you could meet friends indoors, etc.
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by nsgi 6y ago
How do tech-savvy users contribute more valuable content than non-tech savvy users? Maybe when it comes to content about tech but that's not the majority of content on Facebook and Twitter
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Students create device to capture car tyre microplastic debris(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by nsgi 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsgi 6y ago
> As for Zoom, I don't understand why people trust them or still use their product if they are at all concerned about security. It makes very little sense. Phone calls and text messages aren't particularly secure either, doesn&
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by nsgi 6y ago
> So exposing your internal infrastructure to the whole world and risking a 3rd party (CA) turning the keys (literally) to your kingdom to someone else is better than someone making a mistake that’s very easy to discover and correct? Tha
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by nsgi 6y ago
It probably wouldn't encourage many people to upgrade their phones, though. They would probably just see the website as broken and either click through the warning or abandon it completely

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