thsowers

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by thsowers 8y ago
One could argue that social media companies are attempting to appear responsible for fear that if they don't then govt might regulate them more
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by thsowers 8y ago
The screenshot of GIMP running in Chrome running in Firefox is one of my favorites!
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by thsowers 8y ago
> It is entirely normal to have friends you aren't super close with but still want in your life. A lot can be reached through iMessage/SMS but a ton of stuff happens on social networks nowadays. I am in a similar position, and
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by thsowers 8y ago
This is a dangerous precedent that FB has set and that theoretically has no end (Twitter, LinkedIn, Github). Where to draw the line?
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by thsowers 8y ago
This is an awesome opportunity for learning! Much of what you should do depends on your specific situation, company type, and if you anticipate other devs eventually joining you. The specific stack and container technologies that you choose
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by thsowers 8y ago
Oddly enough, it seems the article no longer appears on their blog: https://blog.mlab.com/
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by thsowers 8y ago
Doesn't mean it might not change hands again! (as unlikely as that would be) As for latency, with Mlab you were able to specify the cloud provider and zone IIRC, not sure if other competitors like Compose have that
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by thsowers 8y ago
> As part of combining the two companies we will be sunsetting the mLab service and migrating all customers to MongoDB Atlas. MongoDB really consolidating the Mongo hosting market Wonder if Compose.io will be next? Their initial marketin
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by thsowers 8y ago
I discovered this recently: If the uploader themselves deletes the video then it will also be removed from your youtube history, as well as your Google account's history @ myactivity.google.com
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by thsowers 8y ago
I went to a university where many courses are years behind. HN exposed me to more new technology than I experienced during my entire time at school, and kept me up to date on modern programming. On a more personal level, I have found much a
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by thsowers 8y ago
Do you have any evidence to backup that claim? Their TOS indicates otherwise[0]: "Signal does not sell, rent or monetize your personal data or content in any way – ever." [0]: https://signal.org/legal/
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by thsowers 8y ago
This is really cool, love the project and the writeup! I regularly use nightly (I work with Rocket) and I had always wondered about this. Thank you!
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by thsowers 8y ago
I had to switch to using the basic HTML version, as the performance with the new UI is terrible, no matter how much power the machine has
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by thsowers 8y ago
No worries, I think it only gets turned on (sometimes temporarily) for stories with high volume
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by thsowers 8y ago
It isn't silently hidden at all, it's just on the second page because this story has many comments
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by thsowers 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences, could you recommend any resources for plugging data into Nuxt? This is what I've always been curious about coming from Meteor
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by thsowers 8y ago
Came to the comments to complain about GitLab not having language stats on a repo landing page, as I thought that was the #1 missing feature. Very pleased to see it was added three months ago! Surprised it took this long, this is one of the
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by thsowers 8y ago
Hadn't heard of miniserde before, awesome find, thanks!!
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by thsowers 8y ago
Not qualified to answer, but I did notice recently that Rust appears to generate more compiler code than equivalent C, but I don't think this realistically has a negative performance impact. You can check this out on godbolt ( https:&#
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by thsowers 8y ago
https://github.com/arthurpham/wsjUnblock
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by thsowers 8y ago
I studied piano in college and during one lesson I was struggling to read some Chopin piece that had double sharps. I asked my professor why classical music notation hadn't been "improved" over the years, because some parts o
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by thsowers 8y ago
This aspect of Tesla has always been particularly worrying for me, even though there are upsides. It would be interesting if Tesla let drivers opt into to different versions of their software, like Stable, Beta & Nightly channels so you
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by thsowers 8y ago
I saw it mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but it may be worth noting that there has been a lockout of National Grid workers since June 25th. These workers serviced "700,000 gas customers in 85 communities in eastern Massachusetts&qu
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by thsowers 8y ago
Hadn't heard of rg before, awesome! Perfect counterpart to sharkdp's alternative find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd
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by thsowers 8y ago
I hadn't read this before. Thank you so much for sharing, I will cherish this for many decades to come.
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by thsowers 8y ago
You could still continue development on Github, and allow users to install the extension themselves. I believe this is the approach that some paywall bypass extensions take[0] [0]: https://github.com/arthurpham/wsjUnblo
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by thsowers 8y ago
An interesting idea. Part of me thinks this may be potentially useful in causing change, depending on the projects that adapted it. Another part of me dislikes bringing politics directly into software. What offends people varies from person
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by thsowers 8y ago
> I don't particularly care if people get MITM'ed when visiting my static sites. If they did so it generally is because they chose to use unsafe public access points ( wifi ). This extends to some degree to all forms of wifi si
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by thsowers 8y ago
> No time to waste putting things off till "later". As someone going through something similar (for the second time), thank you for sharing this.
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by thsowers 8y ago
Interesting to note that Tesla's bug bounty program specifically excludes "TLS/SSL Issues, including BEAST BREACH, insecure renegotiation, bad cipher suite, expired certificates..." [0]: https://bugcrowd.com&#

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