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by polote 5y ago
Ring detection works for people who don't know it exists. And thus works well a lot of times. But is very easy to bypass, and I won't tell you how. And if I recall well, dang has already said several times that he will not disclos
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by polote 5y ago
Same question, especially that if someone is infected with delta he can only infect someone with delta. So delta can be outperformed at the person level only if the person is infected by both variant at the same time. For me the only way a
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by polote 5y ago
It's ok to fail sometimes, but if you only fail the only way for you to stop failing is to be lucky. It doesn't seem like a good strategy to me. But yeah if the goal of OP is the guy he quoted at the end "Had a business idea
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by polote 5y ago
> The hierarchical nature of traditional filesystems is great when you want to "visit" everything Not really more than tags. Tags are superior to hierarchy of folders when a content can belongs to several folders. If you have v
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by polote 5y ago
> Truckers are leaving containers all over Los Angeles.[1] There are so many of them, that they couldn't find a picture of one of them to illustrate the article
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by polote 5y ago
Congratz timescale on being #1 on the frontpage 3 days in a row !
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by polote 5y ago
In the honor of this comment about Stripe 3 years ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16880635 We've reached peak Cloudflare glorification.
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by polote 5y ago
Bitcoin too and this has nothing to do with the bitcoin's ability to adapt to new chips
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by polote 5y ago
Cloudflare is a CDN. Nobody is going to use them to store their data even if they are cheaper. If customers cared about price they are already using B2 and B2 is still cheaper than R2. Cloudflare is not eating anyone. They are just trying t
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by polote 5y ago
Telling that nuclear is a bad technology (compared to wind and solar that are not even competing with nuclear) then suggesting to use a WAY worse technology (reverse dams). Is there any advantage of having a reversible dam compare to a nucl
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by polote 5y ago
France only has nuclear plants because they were built a long time ago. Except the EPR in Flamanville, there is no other projects to build nuclear plants. And they closed one, one year ago (The ones announced by Macron, are just politic tac
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by polote 5y ago
Macron announced doubling down on nuclear because a poll said 51% of people were in favor of it. But don't forget this is Macron, he can say the contrary at any time, especially if a new poll say a majority of voters are against it. So
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by polote 5y ago
Github is initially B2B SMB and B2C and Gitlab is B2B Enterprise. 10% of Github employee are sales , 25% for Gitlab. I would say they are not even competitors
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If every investor was apologizing when a company he passed on became successful they would not have any time to do investing anymore. For any criteria (open source or github as a competitor in that case) you will find some company that beca
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by polote 5y ago
Never understood the point of those articles. Do you think you can grasp the market strategy of a startup in two sentences ? For Dropbox, they say "Drew created a simple video, demoing the product, and published it on April 2007 on Hac
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by polote 5y ago
> But as a customer, I'd deliberately avoid Paddle to keep my privacy and avoid spam You make it seems like, this is an issue. But every service that you use today has your email, Amazon, your ISP, Apple, .. everyone. If you don&#x2
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by polote 5y ago
R2 only seems to offer better price than S3. If people using S3 were caring so much about the cost they wouldn't use S3 in the first place. So my bet is that it won't change anything for S3 I also bet it will not change anything f
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by polote 5y ago
> I wonder if this'll lead to software engineers in big companies having more restricted access to code? I don't think that Twitch has closed source code because they want to keep code private. It's probably more a matter
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by polote 5y ago
Almost same thing happened when Signal went down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25803010 Signal apps DDoS'ed their own server Second comment was saying there is no point using Signal if they are down during 2 d
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by polote 5y ago
This is normal, it happens everytime a big communication platform is down. Slack, Teams, Zoom, Google, FB ... If you want to read HN, logout, or use the private mode
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by polote 5y ago
> an organization that hasn't actually thought through all its failure modes Thinking about any potential things that can happen is impossible
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by polote 5y ago
I know that Cloudflare is always very liked on HN and the CTO often comments here. I often refer to friends that Cloudflare only exists thanks to HN. But Cloudflare is not (neither HN) the center of the world you could have better than R2 w
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by polote 5y ago
There is only one way to make documention works. This is to have everyone following the same standards. This is not enough of course. You can have different people using different tools to write it, but all those documents needs to be refer
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by polote 5y ago
> Why not just directly open the 3rd party app in a new tab when you click on an entry in a side menu? Because you lose the ability to give tags, attributes, page comments, document feedback. For example, there is no comments in a Google
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by polote 5y ago
OP here. >I generally find these sort of diatribes against the market leading project management tools a little pointless. Confluence and Notion are not project management software. But if you replace with knowledge base I agree with you
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by polote 5y ago
The link methods works fine for tech people, but less for non technical ones. By displaying directing the content you save one click and you make the workflow more natural (and it also gives the idea to do it, if a user see a link in a blan
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by polote 5y ago
Nothing to see, they just take the comments of Youtube rationally, and thinks this is the real like. Completely ignoring the fact that Youtube comments are almost always JOKES to get likes
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by polote 5y ago
Well it depends of what you are talking about. Usually people who produce contents are power users. But people who search content as you said are the 95% of others users, these are the ones who also needs a search relevant to them. My belie
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Knowledge management is still a neglected area in most of companies. No money => a few players. Confluence has been there for years with almost no competition. Notion has emerged recently but is not really a good fit for medium to large
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by polote 5y ago
I'm working on one, V1 is going to be released in a few days (you can find the link in my profile). It is meant to be a big improvement to Confluence if your goal is to organize the knowledge at company or department level. If you are

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