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by phibit 10y ago
Really weak article with a sensationalist headline. Very reductionist to say Apple is "over", and the analogy to Microsoft as "unsexy" might be apt, but ironically Microsoft is having a great technological resurgence and
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by phibit 10y ago
Another fun one that's becoming more common with cloud hosted services: access to internal metadata services that issue credentials. Blocking file:// doesn't prevent access from > http://169.254.169.254&#x2
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by phibit 11y ago
Yeah I'm with you. My argument was regarding the reasons behind why immigration policies might exist, and why I think it's ok for countries to say "sorry you can't just come in whenever" if they want. The concept th
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by phibit 11y ago
It seems like you just joined a conversation about work Visas, but you had already decided you wanted to talk about Syria today.
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by phibit 11y ago
If you are going to boil things down very basically, all jobs are basically indentured servitude. That's why they call it "making a living".
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by phibit 11y ago
Very thought-provoking question but you've now completely diverged from the original topic.
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by phibit 11y ago
> Canada just accepted 25,000 Syrian refugees fleeing war and something much worse than communism. This is to my point, there is less scrutiny for immigrants in 'dire straits'. > The social and economic climate has changed d
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by phibit 11y ago
> Your ancestors came here for the same reason as him, and with far less scrutiny, same as mine, and were provided many benefits not recieved today, including land grants. There has been a dramatic change in economic and social climate i
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by phibit 11y ago
+1 from someone who has been on H1-B, I recognize it as a great opportunity and privilege. The option to return to my home country was never taken away from me, and at every step I knew I retained the freedom to simply quit my job and leave
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by phibit 11y ago
Does anyone have any more information about the "52 hour online training program" that "the Macro" allowed them to skip? If that training program is any bit as useless as "online driving school", I can sort of
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by phibit 11y ago
This is great! Many times I've thought it would be cool to develop a programming logic harness for elevator logic, but I've never come close to starting. I think many developers have been waiting for an elevator thinking "Dam
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by phibit 11y ago
Spent: $100 Won: 0$ Win/Loss: $-100 Balance $0 ROI: ~1,000,000%
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by phibit 11y ago
opened a PR with a patch :)
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by phibit 12y ago
These guys strap an iPhone to a car wheel, drive at ~ 30MPH and record stabilized video. Pretty neat. http://blog.evilwindowdog.com/post/88969373226/extreme-car-e... Was posted on HN a few weeks back.
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by phibit 12y ago
Yep, you got it! Once again, I don't encrypt all my conversations because I'm making a tradeoff, but I would definitely prefer that they were all private. And again, having a distinct communication channel that was private would
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by phibit 12y ago
Ah yes, that makes sense, thanks!
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by phibit 12y ago
You misunderstood, completely. I never indicated that I don't have any FB/Twitter/Skype/... accounts. The idea of having a secure communication channel doesn't mean that ALL your communications have to be over secur
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by phibit 12y ago
Can you explain how these two statements are mutually exclusive? These statements are mutually exclusive: End to end encrypted: Nobody, not even us, can read or listen into your conversations. Works everywhere: Visit subrosa.io from any com
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by phibit 12y ago
"There is no demo" -- just make an account quickly and try it out. I did this and it was easy. "Open-source, but no git repo" -- Open-source does not always entail git or Github. "I dropped the idea because i realiz
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by phibit 13y ago
Came here to say this, glad someone said it first. The sense of entitlement that sometimes comes with higher academic degrees is flat-out weird. Congratulations you have a PhD, keep making meaningful contributions but don't expect to g
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by phibit 13y ago
Maybe you're just talking about the JSX component? React uses JSX (optionally, they say) but they serve different purposes.
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by phibit 13y ago
"Ouh Github made a trivial change, to the front page!"
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by phibit 14y ago
Maybe I am misunderstanding but it seems like this post is critiquing the investments of a specific set of VCs. Firstly, who cares? If VCs want to blow money on ideas that go nowhere, that's their business. In fact, it's a business that the
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by phibit 14y ago
Does anybody know what the recommended practice is?
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by phibit 14y ago
php > var_dump('9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808'); bool(true) This made me cry.
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by phibit 14y ago
This doesn't show that all paid tweets aren't effective, just that your particular tweet campaign was not effective. There are a lot of ways to take successful advertising channels and make them perform poorly.