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by ralmeida 10y ago
For what's worth (and to the best of my knowledge), Spotify's and Slack's desktop apps are based on Electron, the same "underlying tech" as Atom.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
> the JVM has a lot of Bugs, Bugs that you won't have in C There will be different classes of bugs, of course, but I find it hard to believe that it will be more bugs, or more serious bugs, or most costly-to-fix bugs. Otherwise, you
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Reply to the edited comment: The reasoning that "more layers of abstraction necessarily equals less security" does not seem true to me. Granted, it increases the "surface area" that is exposed to attacks, and there'
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by ralmeida 10y ago
That's a good point, for sure. But on the other hand, some upgrades may be delayed or left undone because more services depend on the same library, so the risk of breakage is higher. So, there's at least some incentive to using mo
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I'm not familiar with that perception, any good reads on that?
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Why, exactly? The article's argument is that containerization limits the vulnerable area - even if an attacker gains root access to a container, they still can't do as much damage as they would had they gotten root access in a hos
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Ask HN: How long is your edit-compile-cycle?
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by ralmeida 10y ago
One simple example: you browse a bunch of stuff, and they are able to know these were from the same person due to the identifier. Then you log into, say, Gmail. Now they have information to deduce you are that person. Not saying they necess
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Yep, that's what I meant, fine with the hardware you already have.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I've done computer vision/machine learning with a much less powerful MBPRetina, you'll be fine even if you start now.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Depends a little: essencial for what ? Also, "math" is a very, very broad term. What comes to your mind when you think of "math"? Arithmeric operations? Being good at mental calculations at the supermarket? High-school-
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I believe OP would like to know about solo operations or very small teams, side-project-sized operations.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
People don't die over a low grade. Also, the talk is about reducing income inequality, not eliminating it. I take it you want meritocracy to prevail, but are you against moderate redistribution in order to establish a "minimum
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I believe s/he would, and likely knows it. They just said it was overrated , not useless . They just draw the tradeoff line differently.
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by ralmeida 10y ago
It's not without recourse. It's just a system that became a defacto standard. If WhatsApp goes away for good, surely everyone will move on to something else, maybe even considering the "centralizedness" of it, but the tr
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by ralmeida 10y ago
Depends on how you define disastrous. As pointed out several other times in the comments, several commercial activities rely on WhatsApp on several levels. Even blocking for a few hours causes several man-hours to be spent in setting up alt
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by ralmeida 10y ago
I believe this would create a bad incentives structure. You'd penalize the author for people getting hooked to the book (and therefore getting into the 'flow' and reading faster), and encourage scammers to just linger on page
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by ralmeida 10y ago
That may not make the scam totally impractical to all but the most dedicated hackers, but it does increase the scam costs substantially. Maybe enough to remove the low-hanging-fruit from the scammers and have them target elsewhere. So, I
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by ralmeida 11y ago
It's already a thing ( http://humanstxt.org/ ), and Google's has had the file for quite a while now. It's currently used mostly as a "painting's signature", a point of pride for the team behind t
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by ralmeida 11y ago
Not for Brazil, at least. Here, most people use WhatsApp: local and even larger business are starting to list their WhatsApp number in advertising, even radio stations use it for users to send messages instead of calling. And it's even
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by ralmeida 11y ago
Only if you don't unlock the phone in these 48 hours, no?
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by ralmeida 11y ago
Tried many alternatives, from GNUCash to MS Money to various iOS apps to heavily smart/complex spreadsheets to solutions in the local Brazilian market (GuiaBolso and Organizze). GuiaBolso is most of what I use today, beucase it works l
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by ralmeida 11y ago
Oh, I didn't know that! Here in Brazil, top 50th percentile or so civil servants are likely to be paid about the same as top 10th percentile in the industry (approximating the numbers based on personal knowledge).
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by ralmeida 11y ago
You mean for France or for Brazil?
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by ralmeida 11y ago
I believe he meant that in France, being a civil servant is kind of a common "dream job" - high pay, little work, near 100% job security, plenty of benefits. Brazil has a similar culture with the "concurseiros" too.
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by ralmeida 11y ago
There was a previous discussion here on HN that covered this in depth. You may find it interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9784008 In short, top-voted strategies include: - Try to find out "hotspots"
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by ralmeida 11y ago
I believe s/he meant blank and error states - the screen the user sees when there is no data to display. In short, 37 signals believe this screen should not display an empty list, but instead serve as a guide to the user. This is commo
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by ralmeida 11y ago
Definitely. For me, the main use case of Optional is to provide a way for programmers to express the semantic fact that "there is no such object" without resorting to null. Doing this leads to checking if (obj == null) for dealing
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by ralmeida 11y ago
They've lowered the prices for iCloud storage, so you _could_ argue that keeping the base size at 16GB is a means to get more people to sign up for iCloud.
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by ralmeida 11y ago
Not sure about this, in my (completely anecdotal, yes) experience, it's actually common for non-techies to think (consciously or not) that binary buttons can respond to different forces and press them harder when they are angry, frustr

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