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by pbalau 9y ago
Like this? https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_s...
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by pbalau 9y ago
A success story about location based ads: some time ago, my fat cat went on an adventure. She is a house cat, never been outside. She managed to jump from the 1st floor window (second floor for US peeps) and went wandering around the back g
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by pbalau 9y ago
Ot: what are the logistics of running a pg mirror, traffic and space wise?
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by pbalau 9y ago
Only 1 person? Wow, we use it in our interview process
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by pbalau 9y ago
And then you start hating everything about everything else when you are a teen debugging code written by kids in a consenting adults environment.
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by pbalau 9y ago
The biggest misconception is that adverisers track or even know anything about you. They simply ask fb to show this ad to such and such people and they pay fb to do so. This is the greatest asset of both fb and google, they know who and wha
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by pbalau 9y ago
I used to use an Apple tablet to watch things in bed. I could not buy a day pass for Sky Sports, nor rent/buy things on Amazon Prime Video from the apps. That worked all right with the xbox apps and it works now on the Android tablet I
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by pbalau 9y ago
How would you then detect that there is a bot net messing with your service? How would you discriminate between bad actors from Romania? Are you going to mass ban huge chunks of possible customers because you dont have granulary enough data
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by pbalau 9y ago
Facebook's watchman uses inotify and I made it build and run on FreeBSD 11 2 days ago. Still need to fix some scripts and I will try to submit it to the ports tree
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by pbalau 9y ago
If I understand correctly what you said, I think it worked. It took ~30 mins for the first "I dont use fb anymore because it's evil" reply. Unfortunatelly, not great debate started in the quaiet timeframe
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by pbalau 9y ago
Nah, is not the devs, is the way the market works. If any of the major apps around will skip a release cycle, the entire media will be plastered with titles like "such and such are dying", investors will start panicking, users mig
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by pbalau 9y ago
To buy in for what? If literally everybody apart Facebook stops using React, the project will still go on because it powers a shitload of FB properties.
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by pbalau 9y ago
Why not blame the other website that added the fb button on their page?
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by pbalau 9y ago
Googling points me to: "Andy Gross is an American former professional racquetball player, now a touring comedian, ventriloquist, magician, and illusionist." Sad, somebody died, but why is this relevant to HN. (then I've read
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by pbalau 9y ago
Yeah, he's the one
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by pbalau 9y ago
Secretly? http://www.onavo.com/about/ first paragraph
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by pbalau 9y ago
Today we have the older gentleman from Tips from a shipwright, and the british guy that rebuilds Tally Ho, and that "redneck" Izzy Swan, and that other guy that works in constructions, whos name I forgot, and the Canadian guy with
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by pbalau 9y ago
I think you are missunderstanding this a bit, hack has async io. If you have only 1 external system that both indexes the data and stores it, this won't help you that much. But if you have an indexing system and another, with many read
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by pbalau 9y ago
Chromium can work directly with Wayland afaik. Do a "fake" Wayland implementation and Chromium will happily think it's drawing crap
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by pbalau 9y ago
Maybe playing coop multiplayer games online? That does it for my keyboards
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by pbalau 9y ago
I just want to point out that WhatsApp controls the WhatsApp's client, so who the fuck cares about the server?
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by pbalau 9y ago
You are right, Snapchat's failure to monetize their inventory has nothing to do with either Google or Facebook, simply because neither Google or Facebook has access to the Snapchat inventory to begin with. I believe advertisers are not
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by pbalau 9y ago
In 20+ years that bit eluded me...
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by pbalau 9y ago
Hey, yes we do, check them out at https://m.facebook.com/careers/search/?q=&location=london under Software Engineering. If what you want is not listed you can always just apply anyway, FB is always looking for
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by pbalau 9y ago
Facebook | London, UK | Corporate Network Engineer | Fulltime | ONSITE More details https://m.facebook.com/careers/jobs/a0I1H00000LC150UAD/ This is for our corp network, not the datacenters. Feel free to ask
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by pbalau 9y ago
I think there is a bug in the bathroom, the bucket won't show up (but if you click around you'll get it in the inventory). Very impressive from a 12 years old.
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by pbalau 9y ago
You need to put the nails in somebody's food.
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by pbalau 10y ago
The point is that at the moment we will replace all truck driving jobs in US, we are not going to replace 3.5 million individual workers, with skills that took a life to master, but 3.5 million jobs that a big slice of the 7 billion humans
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by pbalau 10y ago
Air brakes replaced human breakers on trains.
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by pbalau 10y ago
Things that are based on rules will be and should be automated. You are saying that the person that fixes the technical aspects of a picture is screwed. So fucking what? With tech you will have 1 billion people taking technically perfect pi

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