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by prymitive 3y ago
I feel your pain, it was getting worse and worse over the years and now it’s just trying to game as much “engagement” as possible. Feels like screen time is the only metric they have. I switched from Duolingo to Busuu for my Japanese learni
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Ask HN: Are Websites Doomed?
5 points by prymitive 3y ago|7 comments
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by prymitive 4y ago
And I’m saying I’m not surprised because of their other practices.
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by prymitive 4y ago
Eufy app, which you need to be able to use your camera, is just a platform to show you ads and try to sell you more eufy products. If you complain to the support they will turn it off, mostly, so they’re perfectly aware how annoying it is f
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Show HN: Go, JSON, Streaming and Generics(github.com)
3 points by prymitive 4y ago|0 comments
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by prymitive 4y ago
If a company could charge you more for something then they are already doing it. Companies don’t ask themselves “what’s a fair price for x”, instead they wonder “how can we get more money out of our existing customers”.
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by prymitive 4y ago
I made the mistake of buying Eufy camera and the app is basically an sales channel spamming you with ads on every occasion. If you contact support and complain about it they will disable popus for you but the app is still full of spam and a
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Watsi.org: Dealing with donation fraud(blog.watsi.org)
14 points by prymitive 9y ago|6 comments
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Show HN: Alert dashbord for Prometheus Alertmanager(github.com)
1 points by prymitive 9y ago|0 comments
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by prymitive 10y ago
Quick, name a language where I can do something simple like mention "Whenever this function is called, make sure there is enough free memory (at least ---- MB) before actually calling it; if there isn't, first swap out any object
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by prymitive 10y ago
I feel that when people read this kind of stories they immediately connect it to Trump, but the sad truth is that this is not something new and have been happening under previous administration too. The big difference is that previous admin
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by prymitive 10y ago
I wonder if those stories that started appearing in the media since the Trump ban order are really showing a true change in US border control actions, or are they just a hot topic so both travelers and media are more eager to report on that
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by prymitive 10y ago
[...] government organisation that processes applications for the special visa, has been granted the right to endorse 250 immigration visas this year, 50 more than it had originally been allocated 250 visas will "secure access to ove
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by prymitive 10y ago
It's yet another source claiming that Uber is a dysfunctional organization. At this point it's hard for me to expect they're going to rise to the challenge here. The "urgent investigation" is likely to be focused on
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by prymitive 10y ago
I think that "someone is going to notice" is a fair assumption when you look at the rate of log messages on https://blog.cloudflare.com/more-data-more-data/
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by prymitive 10y ago
At the heart of the communist was the belief that the entire country with all its people can be managed and orchestrated. This translates to a very static universe, where you are born, given an assignment and are suppose to stay in the same
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by prymitive 10y ago
Who are those mythical "smart people"? I keep hearing about their habits all the time. Are they related to "successful people" in any way? Discovery doesn't have any documentaries on them yet.
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by prymitive 10y ago
My motivation is primarily I don't want to learn all the over-complicated details of C I don't understand this statement. Is he saying he want to contribute to postgres, but he doesn't know C well enough, so he kindly asks
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by prymitive 10y ago
Is it just me or is every story titled "10 tips on making X faster" or "how we migrated from X to Y and reduced number of servers from 10k to just 2" or "how we speed up Z by 400000%" is really just a story of
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by prymitive 10y ago
Everything is a brand now. Will we see agencies focused on handling CVEs social media accounts?
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by prymitive 10y ago
After reading a few comments on how to behave when police stops you and how to tell them you're carrying gun I can't shake the feeling that this country is trapped in some sort of a deadly staring contest, if you blink you can die
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by prymitive 10y ago
How about recycling it? We won't need another wind turbine if people stop looking for excuses to keep old and less power efficient devices up & running.
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by prymitive 10y ago
Did you run any study to claim you know why are they buying those services? Security is not a one time purchase when someone is threatening you.
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by prymitive 10y ago
> They need the booters to be alive to sell their service. Well, I think this blog post clearly demonstrate that people are willing to pay for DDoS protection even without any attacks. This is pretty much a conspiracy theory way of think
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by prymitive 10y ago
Hard disk drive manufacturers hate him