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by pvorb 8y ago
"Monolith" literately translates to "Einstein" in German, which can't be that bad. Or can it? ;-)
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by pvorb 8y ago
Absolutely. The only thing Twitter poisoned is journalism around politics.
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by pvorb 8y ago
By not documenting them you make clear that they're not intended for production use, which is perfectly valid in my opinion. I also do this a lot.
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Making Money When All the Industry Wants Is Free Beer(business.jooq.org)
12 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
How could DDG ever be as good as Google, which has a profile of large parts of your search history (even if you're not signed in)?
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by pvorb 8y ago
https://www.jollycode.org/ , mentioned in another comment, is exactly what I was looking for.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Echochamber could be even better if it had a trolling bot that responded to your comments.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Satirical software would be a cool new trend in Open Source. I think about things like a library for leader election, where there is a "Russian hacker" service that manipulates the election result or maybe a logging framework that
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by pvorb 8y ago
I bet VW won't sue anyone about this soon to not have new negative publicity. And I agree, this is clearly satire.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I was just referring to Google's own phrase: "Don't be evil." Google is evil in the same way now, that Microsoft was back in the day.
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by pvorb 8y ago
This is hard to do as an afterthought. I bet Firefox had it from the start.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Yes. Acting evil is what makes you evil.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Of course they knew technical professionals would be upset. That's why they are prepared and they all can react with a single voice.
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by pvorb 8y ago
You confuse privacy with security. Also, Google is abusing its market power here, even if the change might be in favor of Chrome's users.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I think it's unlikely that the Chrome team will revert their decision. This will annoy people for a few days or even weeks, but people will eventually accept it. That's just how you make unpopular changes these days. Maybe the EU
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by pvorb 8y ago
Better than Google "having great security" would be if Google was not collecting that much information in the first place.
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Concise Method Bodies for Java(openjdk.java.net)
4 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
So let's also switch to the International Fixed Calendar and make it dead simple to reason about time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar
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by pvorb 8y ago
> A few of them, no doubt, were locals who had grown tired of gawping at their own city. But on a weekend in high summer, my guess is that most were tourists This is probably because there are more tourists in Venice than there are local
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by pvorb 8y ago
If your code is reviewed by colleagues and if you review code of your colleagues, if you do some occasional pair programming you probably don't need to read books about programming. Concentrate on books that help you with things like e
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by pvorb 8y ago
I dedicated a blog post to this idea: https://vorba.ch/2018/url-security-identicons.html Here is the discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17947467
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Improving URL Security with Identicons(vorba.ch)
1 points by pvorb 8y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 8y ago
I found Hoverfly to be a good alternative: https://hoverfly.io/
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by pvorb 8y ago
Right, didn't think of this.
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by pvorb 8y ago
Yes, it would be nice if every child would learn these basics in school.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I think the comparison to spark plugs is misleading when we talk about URLs and security. It's more like looking in the mirror before changing lanes. It's something you need to check in order to stay safe. Mirrors, like URLs, are
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by pvorb 8y ago
Yes, I admit it's hard to get something like this secure. It's in the same problem space like hash functions and might require some research.
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by pvorb 8y ago
How about displaying an identicon, that is rendered from the domain, in the address bar? People might soon learn what the icons of their important sites look like and will easily detect if somebody is trying to phish their bank account.
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by pvorb 8y ago
URLs might have security issues, but they are one of the main reasons the internet became such a success.
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by pvorb 8y ago
I believe that getting rid of URLs will further take control away from users of the web towards search engines, which is likely Google's actual intension behind these efforts. If you have a full URL that you can write down on paper, th

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