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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Some people use aggregators on purpose, because it gives them a broad-spectrum view. Some use aggregators unintentionally, considering Google-searching text boxes have replaced URL bars in all major browsers and platforms over the last deca
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
> It is 2018 and companies still don't know why most customers buy specific stuff. This is not altogether surprising: between perfectly boring options like "it was on sale", "I tried it [somewhere else] and liked it
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Fluff piece almost devoid of content; a quasi-submarine for industry executives that namedrops a few companies selling fancy point-of-sale tech. The two important points made in the article are that fast food places have issues with timing
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Any Chromebook more than $400 right now is just there to absorb even more disposable income from the market, because they ship with nicer finishes and faster processors, but they are anemic on memory and storage, making them subpar for inte
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
The 'old guard' wasn't wrong; Netflix pretty much were suckers for licensing a bunch of old content. The part in the transcript where he presents this as a stroke of genius that led to the pivot to original content is a rosy-
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
I grew up with a web where labor-of-love personal websites -- often about a deep topic the author was passionate about -- were slowly crowded out in number by dynamic blogs where the engine handled all but the content, and the barrier to en
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
This is not without precedent in the ad industry, although the level of subtlety varies a lot. Billboards are a notable example, because the medium is in-house and there's almost always latent inventory. Adams Outdoor once advertised t
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Consequently, game development these days is more limited by art assets than by programming or game systems design. The difficulty and complexity of producing good-looking, stylistically consistent, original 3D assets has led to sprite-base
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
The reason this is so difficult to undo is because callout posts possess attributes that allow them to bubble to the top of social networks: a clueless subject who can be positioned as entitled, a controversy that garners a strong emotional
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Eh, static site generators, CMSes, and bloghosts didn't break the web. Sure, they made it easier for people to churn out content, but it was authentic material they cared enough to write about. Whether they posted under their real name
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
There's some serious kool-aid going on here, which is unfortunate, because they at least wrote that they're focused on non-speculative use cases. Contrary to the announcement's characterization, crypto-powered platforms don&#
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
If you're like me and are wondering what Macaroons are, some searching revealed to me that this is the 2014 paper [1] that introduced them to the public. It's a nested, chained HMAC construction that's useful for delegation,
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
Combine this with yesterday's ill-received-on-HN 'HTTPS Anti-Vaxxers; dispelling common arguments against securing the web' [1], where Scott Helme calls out Dave Winer on his past articles that bemoan the effects of browser-m
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
The problem with name-and-shame posts, other than their juvenile premise, is that you can read up on what the people in question say, and call the author on their shit. Once you do this, you realize that one these objectors is not like the
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by sarcasmic 8y ago
For more details, see the Vermont Attorney General press release [1] and the H.764 bill full text [2]. Cynical prediction: Vermont has less than a million residents. It may be both easier (as in less effort) and less expensive, if you'
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
I close my browser (and all tabs, windows, and any instances of the same process) very frequently, and immediately after I'm done actively interacting with the page. My point is, I highly doubt my browser usage pattern reflects the way
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
When I'm at work, I use my work computer, which has a long lived static IP, to log into my personal Google account. I have configured all of my browsers to clear cookies and storage upon closing. I never use signed-in Google Maps, but
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
Sure, but visiting the URL itself gives no context and just throws you to the generic login page. Conversely, this makes for the sort of HN submission that can't be evaluated without logging in to the provider in question; and unlike a
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
Why is this gated behind a login?
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
I should clarify, both Telegram and Viber allow usernames but require phone numbers for creation, and there's definitely an emphasis on phone numbers as the preferred identifier. Kik (and Snapchat, if I recall) are two of an increa
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
The Verge: "Mozilla's Send is basically the Snapchat of file sharing" [1] Engadget: "Mozilla file sharing test wipes files after one download" [2] Firefox Send [3]; about page [4] [1] https://www.theverge
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
Out of the western networks, Kik, Telegram, and Viber still do usernames. Kik, notably, still has a fairly laissez-faire culture and a userbase that skews young, which makes it the most comparable modern network to the feel of something l
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
Opinion-based, factless essays like this are why webdev is such an unmitigated cesspit. Some random person on Medium proclaims "Angular has already lost to React no matter how hard google tries to hide it, React has a really dangerous
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
Company towns are a very old idea. Unfortunately, demand response curves are fun. By providing company housing, this venture will cause more people who've stayed away from the area due to housing costs to consider it more favorably, as
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
As my Facebook cohort aged up into their mid-20s, my feed is all baby photos and overchurned memes that have been re-shared across 5 different sites, interspersed with relentless posts from artists I forgot I liked long ago, and ads that ar
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by sarcasmic 9y ago
I think so too. But also, the seeming uptick in negative views voiced with regard to Uber is due to the shifting Overton window. Previously, critics were less numerous and the public was less outspoken; for most people Uber brought low fare
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by sarcasmic 10y ago
This is funny to me, because while I used Twitter, I mostly did it to broadcast mundane things to my friends, and never really participated in the "Twitter community", whatever that actually means to people. Facebook cloned one of
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by sarcasmic 10y ago
1. rotate passwords, tokens, auth stuff on any and all service you use that may have used CloudFlare in this time period (as of time of writing this list has not been enumerated) 2. hope that no personally-identifiable info or damaging plai