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by pgl 10y ago
Fair enough, I recognise that it's hard. This article does a good job of introducing LBRY, btw: https://bryanalexander.org/2017/03/19/what-is-lbry-and-what-... (h/t @doctornemo). I also saw it descr
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by pgl 10y ago
Sorry, my point was really that "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the community" doesn't help newcomers understand anything, because there are too many unanswered questions.
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by pgl 10y ago
Would love a quick explanation of what this is, especially after clicking through to "Learn More"[0]. I don't want to watch a video, I don't want to read an essay, even the FAQ[1] (which wasn't exactly prominently l
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by pgl 10y ago
Full details on the GitHub page: https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Scope
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UBO-Scope – Measure your 3rd-party exposure score for visited web sites(chrome.google.com)
1 points by pgl 10y ago|1 comments
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by pgl 10y ago
Why is it important to keep it "Reader Private" (as in the article title? What does that actually mean?
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by pgl 10y ago
Glassdoor wouldn't really help someone cheat in this situation. It's not a quick answer, it's a code discussed with the interviewer after finishing it. It would be fairly easy to tell whether someone had copied their code.
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by pgl 10y ago
> It's not possible to design and evaluate a weekend project for each one of them Can't you just design and evaluate one project that they can all do?
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by pgl 10y ago
No interview method is foolproof. If someone goes to those lengths, you'd find out soon enough that they're not actually competent enough to do their job after hiring them. But I'd consider that fairly unlikely. Plus, startin
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by pgl 10y ago
And I thought Brexit was bad.
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by pgl 10y ago
This may be a better link: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00018....
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by pgl 10y ago
I think the point of the page is to demonstrate that for many, many lodash functions, there are direct equivalents in native JS - not rewritten features.
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by pgl 11y ago
Or: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=bind...
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by pgl 11y ago
To be honest, I don't use Unbound myself - I was just going off what was sent to me as an example of the format to use.
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by pgl 11y ago
Yes, absolutely! It's way easier to configure your wifi router (or cable modem, or whatever acts as the DHCP server on your network) to use a local DNS server that blocks ads. Then ad blocking just works , whatever you connect to your
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by pgl 11y ago
I just yesterday added an Unbound format for my list! http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/#unbound
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by pgl 11y ago
It's a lot less resource intensive not to use a hosts file. This might not be a concern for people with modern machines, but having a hosts file with 12,000 lines in it does take a certain amount of processing. If I might mention my ow
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by pgl 11y ago
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=bind...
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by pgl 12y ago
> That's a very strange question; why do you think that matters, or that it's reasonable to ask? It's just to find out more about who I might be working with. It didn't feel weird to ask - but perhaps you're righ
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by pgl 12y ago
I understand why you wouldn't want to talk about money questions earlier on, but for me there's two main reasons to bring it up: 1) Employers have always me about my salary expectations. If they want to know from me, why shouldn
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by pgl 12y ago
"Do you have any questions?" I've come up with a load that I like to ask. Some of them are naturally answered during an interview process anyway, but generally there are at least a few left: TEAM: * How big is the team I wo
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by pgl 12y ago
> These people won't be spending 30% of their time coding, they will be spending 80% of it coding... and 20% helping everyone else out, and talking to leadership about strategy. People who spend 70% of their job organizing the code
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by pgl 12y ago
Hacker News thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9038613
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by pgl 12y ago
> It's like they monitored the front-page of HN everyday for a year, made a list of the top mentioned technologies and then gave that list to their management Or perhaps those technologies were actually useful for them? I don&#x27
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by pgl 12y ago
For those of us who aren't familiar with the project, what is Crunchbang++?
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by pgl 12y ago
The site seems to be down right now. Here's the text-only Google cache for anyone else who just wants to see what's new: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ownclou...
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Trouble with DevOps? Try TrekOps(medium.com)
2 points by pgl 12y ago|0 comments
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by pgl 12y ago
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by pgl 12y ago
Personally I find the Facebook placeholders quite distracting. You still have to wait around for something to load, and scrolling down to see something that has loaded means you just have to remember scroll back up again if you want to se
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by pgl 12y ago
> Firefox hello is a website that implements webRTC based video conferencing in a browser agnostic way. It's very misleading. The page is full of quotes like these: "All you need is Firefox" "Get Firefox to get starte

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