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by pgt 6y ago
Yes, this is what I realized too. It is why EACL is embedded in the application layer instead of trying to run in a layer above it. To do authorization properly, rules need to be embedded alongside the secured data and decision code needs t
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by pgt 6y ago
Authentication is a solved problem; authorization is not. External authentication makes your system brittle, so I'm glad to see you can self-host SuperTokens for free. I've been working on Enterprise Access Control (EACL) in my sp
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by pgt 6y ago
Agree with all points except Rust and “standards”. The performance and stability of Firefox Quantum was largely driven by Rust. W3C standards are just out-of-date documentation. Do what’s good for the Web and the W3C will eventually documen
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by pgt 6y ago
Rules should apply symmetrically to any Big State body that makes them, such as the European Union.
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by pgt 6y ago
IMO Periscope missed the boat purely because of lack of marketing. The only reason I know of its existence is because Scott Adams uses it daily (or used to) for his political commentary on Coffee with Scott Adams. Aella_Girl just discovered
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by pgt 6y ago
Your comment is insightful and suggests that perhaps we should try to design a programming language that feels more like a natural language.
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by pgt 6y ago
Change the name. It's an unnecessary question mark on your brand that gets in the way of potential customers asking the questions you want them to ask. Instead of, "how do I pay?" customers ask, "ghosting...that's b
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by pgt 6y ago
The title excited me because I have been advocating for tackling the riskiest part of any software project first because it reveals the most unknowns, thereby increasing the chance of success. But this is not what the article is about, whic
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by pgt 6y ago
Congrats! In Cape town $500 is my monthly rent when sharing a flat.
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by pgt 6y ago
If you paid $549 for headphones, you want people to know. These are like the Gucci handbags of headphones.
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by pgt 6y ago
This is why I write Clojure. Lisp is Lindy. Lisp has been around for 60 years. 60 years from now, Lisp code will find a way to run.
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by pgt 6y ago
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Fully-committed shills are not shills. Edit to clarify: I meant that a shill with skin in the game is less of a shill. Of course a shill can be "fully commited" to shilling, but if they are ful
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by pgt 6y ago
So it could have been titled, "The Urbit Plan" or "Urbit Principles"?
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by pgt 6y ago
I wonder if eggs and embryos from a time before certain environmental risk factors will be useful in modelling epigenetic changes, in the same way low-background steel is useful for making sensors because it has lower nuclear contamination.
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by pgt 6y ago
looks up meaning of "precepts" Not trying to be snarky, but I'm obviously not smart enough to understand what the Urbit project is about.
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by pgt 6y ago
Here in South Africa we have plenty of reasons to investigate the lottopreneurs looting the corrupt lottery: https://groundup.org.za/article/hawks-set-special-team-inves... But I can assure you this is not fraud, becau
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by pgt 6y ago
Materialize can help us manifest The Web After Tomorrow [^1]. My previous comments persuading you why DDF is so crucial to the future of the Web: > "There is a big upset coming in the UX world as we converge toward a generalized imp
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by pgt 6y ago
From the About page ( https://everch.at/about ): > "We promise never to give any of your private or personally identifiable information to 3rd parties." >"Everchat is censorless, but we reserve rights to
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by pgt 6y ago
We know that psilocybin alleviates depression by reducing inflammation in the brain, but how? My pet theory is that given the antiviral properties of fungii, psilocybin cubensis kills off undiscovered viruses in the brain stem, allowing inf
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by pgt 6y ago
Yes, In Defense of NIH, the stronger you become as a developer, the more of a liability other people's code becomes.
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by pgt 6y ago
All roads lead to Prolog :) (that's the name of the bike model - not in the post title)
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by pgt 6y ago
Scale variance of complex systems: a solution that works for 20 people rarely works for 200k or 20M people.
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by pgt 6y ago
I post big ideas on Twitter and see if anyone bites.
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by pgt 6y ago
Why? What if you are making replacement parts for you own watch?
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by pgt 6y ago
Can someone ELI5? "Quantum nanodiamond" triggers my woo detector and the nitrogen vacancy is glossed over.
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by pgt 6y ago
An API is a political boundary.
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by pgt 6y ago
Disrupting any part of a complex system is dangerous to the stability of the system. How can ocean life distinguish between food and small pieces of plastic? I've seen so many photos of dead fish filled with plastic that it must be a c
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by pgt 6y ago
Glass is heavy and shatters on impact into many sharp pieces that can cut you. Plastic bounces.
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by pgt 6y ago
If there are a lot more, it's worth listing them all in a blog post. A set of evidence is more compelling than only one act that could potentially be written off as well-meaning incompetence.
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by pgt 6y ago
I’m not so sure. A handful of high-profile opinions + a few hundred low-brow peeps like myself calling out bad behaviour can have a noticeable impact on sales in the mid-term.

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