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by quartz 5y ago
In NYC we have the Reported App [1] that lets anyone report driving violations for TLC vehicles (cabs & ubers mostly) which is the first time I've ever seen a public smartphone app actually have an impact. Reports go to the TLC com
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by quartz 5y ago
A lifetime ago I did a stint as an Oracle consultant and 100% this. A gigantic sql query was always the answer no matter the question. I remember using sql queries to generate pdf and ps file output that would stream directly to printer f
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by quartz 5y ago
From the notice: > It affected the system that generates up-to-date schedules for trains and staff. ...boy oh boy did trying to look into what NS uses for crew scheduling ever send me down a rabbit hole. I don't know if the systems
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by quartz 5y ago
This is fun, well done! Also: 700,000,000 peas weighs more than a tyrannosaurus rex?! I need to re-evaluate my perception of the weight of a pea.
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by quartz 5y ago
I like that this keeps the search history as a conversational history... its always bothered me that google resets everything whenever I run a new search vs. recognizing I'm on a journey. I also like that without ads you're able t
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by quartz 5y ago
Seeing AT commandes described as the "way that humans and machines can interact with a cellular modem" made me feel old because they didn't just say "remember AT commands from manually driving your Hayes 9600baud dial up
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by quartz 5y ago
iOS's "live photo" feature is great for this. It captures just a second or so before and after the photo which really brings the image to life. It's very powerful to look back on a photo of my son when he was 2 and cat
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by quartz 5y ago
Might be worth throwing in an "I didn't get covid" option so you can get an idea of your total sample size and how it compares to the wider population.
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by quartz 5y ago
For the Saab lovers I present The Saab Suite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwpzhiNurI0 I personally grew up with Volvo 240's (1 GL and 2 Turbos) and bought a Saab 9000 for college. I thought Saabs were one of the b
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by quartz 5y ago
There's a whole concept of responsible disclosure[1] in white-hat security research that involves notifying the company and then notifying the public after giving the company a chance to fix the bug. It's generally understood to b
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by quartz 5y ago
Seems like the responsible move would be for you to submit this to their bug bounty before disclosing to the community? https://bugcrowd.com/agilebits
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by quartz 5y ago
I really enjoy that Disney puts a lot of effort into making the "behind the scenes" edutainment to the point where it's a natural part of their brand. I remember watching the making-of videos for the Lion King when I was litt
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by quartz 5y ago
There's precedence for this in the crypto space as well. In 2017 Coinbase famously reimbursed everyone [1] impacted by an ETH flash crash that pushed the price from $320 to $0.10. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/0
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by quartz 5y ago
This was a big learning for us when we were first building out Kintaba[1]. Re: task management specifically-- having previously been at FAANG companies that built all their own tools I had not realized just how prevalent Jira is. It. is. E
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by quartz 5y ago
Vercel kind of feels like Heroku's spiritual successor.
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by quartz 5y ago
> At any rate we’re 17 years out from the movie now, long enough for the pendulum of consumer preference to start swinging the opposite way: Merlot is back on the menu. Crud. Underpriced Merlot has been the best thing ever for the last d
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by quartz 5y ago
I still have the giant fold-out hyperspace map at home somewhere from Star Control II and I think I have the DRM ring for Star Control I too! What a great set of games. Playing 2-player melee on a single keyboard on my friend's 386 wa
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by quartz 5y ago
100% do this. Azure has a surprisingly responsive billing support team and will likely eat this as goodwill (honestly with this on the front page of HN they'll probably do it proactively). Just open a ticket in the portal.
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by quartz 5y ago
This specific con really ought to be illegal and it's becoming incredibly common to the point that I see it every time I'm at any medical facility now. The exact statement you described is used: "Oh you won't hit your de
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by quartz 5y ago
> What headache? A sensible solution: when EU visitor is detected, don't set cookies. The headache is convincing someone to pay a lawyer to agree that this is the solution when serving content to the EU is outside your publication&#
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by quartz 5y ago
> Doesn't change that if you don't violate GDPR you won't be fined. For most companies figuring out if they violate a foreign privacy law like GDPR and remaining compliant with it isn't a technical question, it's
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by quartz 5y ago
As someone who has asked that question to a series of lawyers, the answer is surprisingly expensive.
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by quartz 5y ago
I feel like you've got that backwards: making the site available if it violates GDPR would be violating your rights. Making the site unavailable to you is respecting them. That's not to mention that what's much more likely h
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by quartz 5y ago
More likely they're blocking it because they're a local campus newspaper and they spent money on 1hrs worth of time with a lawyer who, well informed or not, told them if they just block the EU/UK they won't have to spend
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by quartz 5y ago
I was at Facebook when the IPO happened and it was a pretty positive experience overall. We had an all-night hackathon the night before (one of the hacks was to wire into the "Nasdaq bell" button to post an opengraph story) and th
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by quartz 5y ago
Oh wow, I completely read it as if you were saying "thanks for condemning me as I expected you would" and was very confused why you'd take it that way. Apologies!
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by quartz 5y ago
I'm so deep into Bear Notes that at this point it's basically a second brain to me. I used to heavily use tags inside documents for organization but slowly moved away from that and began almost entirely relying on search. The de
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by quartz 5y ago
I uh... I don't think that was a condemnation at all?
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by quartz 5y ago
The site more or less emulates a memory leak for me in chrome. Have had it open for 2 minutes and I'm at 1gb ram and a constant 15% CPU use for the tab... ram use is continuing to grow and in the time it has taken me to write this com
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by quartz 5y ago
Heroku's exit was pretty huge for its time. In fact it was the largest YC exit to-date. For context Heroku was created in 2008 just after the housing crash. By the time they exited Facebook was still 2.5 years away from going public a

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