thesimon

17 ms·

151.
by thesimon 6y ago
I've been using it in production and it's quite good, just two things I've learned: * XML is a lot better for configuration if you don't have a very good YAML verification. Wrong indention and stuff can be easy to miss *
152.
by thesimon 6y ago
> that exec could potentially take other roles that pay even more If he would do that, maybe better leadership would improve Mozillas situation.
153.
by thesimon 6y ago
>and Management division may force in future to ditch Gecko and adopt Webkit/Blink in the hope that it could bring more userbase (just my thought) to lessen maintainance and focus on revenue. They laid off most people working on Ser
154.
by thesimon 6y ago
Relevant HN thread from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790
155.
by thesimon 6y ago
> Require apps to disclose their in-app marketing budget+ Require apps to disclose the average amount of in-app purchases per user.
156.
by thesimon 6y ago
I guess I've not worked in big enough corporates to use this. Can any user here provide some context what JFrog does? The website doesn't really say much, the example pipeline files for JFrog pipelines seem more complex than GitLa
157.
by thesimon 6y ago
> Uber and Lyft were so welcome Then you are lucky. I can't count the times the drivers called me before picking me up, asking me where I want to go and then cancelling if it was nearby (or no answer at all). I never cancel, but the
158.
by thesimon 6y ago
Do we go to 25k LOC of our own code or including libs? If the first, I guess my side-projects were too small if they need 25k LOC just for the boilerplate.
159.
by thesimon 6y ago
> Airbnbs in Barcelona, Lisboa Lots of places in Lisbon list their AL number, indicating they are registered places for renting out. Locals have been priced out of Lisbon for a long time, but seems like restricting airbnbs has not limite
160.
by thesimon 6y ago
Booking.com has been expanding into home rental quite a bit
161.
by thesimon 6y ago
> Their biggest risk is regulatory and taxation. Many AirBnBs are illegal, and what will really grind government to act are the potential lost revenues And if they are legal, they tend to be a bit boring. When I look at some cities, agen
162.
by thesimon 6y ago
> It does not work very well if you are the only nice guy within a group of a--holes You are saying Europe is behaving like China?
163.
by thesimon 6y ago
Maestro or VPay they expected, the european old-school debit brands.
164.
by thesimon 6y ago
>I feel increasingly dumb the more I see these configs. Especially since there is no IDE support. I've come back to enjoy XML with nice schemas and IDE validation and autocompletion instead of YAML and liquibase changes not going th
165.
by thesimon 6y ago
> not checked into the source code repository Or checked-in, for easy distribution, just encrypted: https://github.com/sobolevn/git-secret
166.
by thesimon 6y ago
>Ever tried to use Yelp or Reddit's mobile websites? Impossible The other day I tried to view a subreddit in Safari. It was literally impossible, it was claimed to be only available in the app.
167.
by thesimon 6y ago
Don't they have more than enough money already?
168.
by thesimon 6y ago
Especially convenient with KMS auto-unsealing ( https://learn.hashicorp.com/vault/operations/ops-autounseal-... )
169.
by thesimon 6y ago
Vault for big stuff, git-crypt for file-level encryption of secrets (in Terraform files etc.)
170.
by thesimon 6y ago
So looks like it's not too easy, which means salaries will not get better in Europe anytime soon.
171.
by thesimon 6y ago
How could Europeans move to the US? Apply to a position and hope to be moved over with a L1 visa?
172.
by thesimon 7y ago
>But these are just cashless and tied to our SEPA accounts (so not a credit card). which wouldn't be a problem for shopping online if they had a Visa or MasterCard cobrand, as these can be debit and tied to your bank account as well
173.
by thesimon 7y ago
>Probably a cultural thing. Associating Mastercard and Visa to credit and not debit as well.
174.
by thesimon 7y ago
>or maybe banks colluding to protect their interests? Mostly banks and retailers colluding together to use a cheap domestic-only POS-only scheme (think Przelewy24, but offline or LINK but at POS).
175.
by thesimon 7y ago
I am willing to chalk this up to an honest mistake considering "encryption" as being compression, although that's not the accepted use of the term. This appears to be their explanation. I hope their marketing team fixes this
176.
by thesimon 7y ago
Or something like Hugo or Jekyll if it's supposed to be static and markdown is fine.
177.
by thesimon 7y ago
>it freaked me out when my bank started classifying my expenses Through the MCC they already have that information - they just exposed it to you.
178.
by thesimon 7y ago
Quite impressed with the valuation. Transferwise Borderless seems to have a better business model with sane prices and not "everything free". And Revolut still uses their e-money license instead of their proper Lithuanian banking
179.
by thesimon 7y ago
>in practice some terminals are limited to £30 to match the card limit Mostly the fault of a cheap implementation from my understanding as they them don't have the data required to verify the CDCVM.
180.
by thesimon 7y ago
>Very easy to skim even while it's still in your pocket Do you have any details on that? From my understanding skimming is mostly an issue for magstripe, as contactless (at least in the proper EMV implementation) is cryptographicall

More ›