victorhooi

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by victorhooi 9y ago
It's not about "knowing" better - it's about the fact that I like my job, and have not had clearance to comment publicly on the specifics. However, the general principals I stated do apply in many cases. Also - the autho
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Yes, I happen to like my job, so won't comment on specifics =). However, as a general principal, I've found that Google has very robust protections to protect users from both themselves, and from malicious outside forces. (Disclai
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by victorhooi 9y ago
The author of that post offered an official statement: https://twitter.com/salilstatistics/status/89986397181723852...
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I'm know some of the specifics around this - and whilst I will not comment in any official capacity or on the specifics here, I can offer the following general principles which may be applicable here: 1. More often than not, it'
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Apart from what Ironlink said below, there's also the fact that Google and Apple support mean different things. For Apple, updates often mean some subset of the full operating system updates, or a crippled version. Whereas Google updat
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Do you have any evidence do suggest this is actually a leading cause of divorce, as opposed to other things like personality clashes, financial stress, etc. Everything I've read seems to suggest that incompatible personalities and fina
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Are you sure the two are actually related? AFAIK, Google doesn't mine phone calls, and I'm not aware of any companies that do. Even thinking about it from a technical point of view, it seems quite unlikely.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Right =). I am a guy, btw, but I'm trying to get my wife (and hopefully daughter) into cycling. So anything I can do to break that stereotype is awesome. But I saw your smiley face, and I get the joke =). My wife's first bike was
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Fair point =). Fortunately, I don't race in UCI events, haha. My understanding was that the rule is around safety - i.e. they didn't want people pushing the limits at the risk of failure. There's calls for it to be scrapped,
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by victorhooi 9y ago
There's a pretty large difference between shaving 250 grams off your bike weight, versus replacing all your pedalling with an electric motor =). One will get you banned from the Tour de France - the other will not... I confess I'm
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Lol, I'm not even sure how that even works. How exactly does one changes gears or brake, whilst typing on a laptop? I'm a pretty good cyclist, I commute every day, but even I would probably struggle to use a laptop whilst riding..
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I think you've just supported my point. You cited a single example of somebody using their phone on a bike, several years ago - and yes, I agree, that was a pretty silly risk (and I hope that person is OK, and didn't do it again).
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Speaking as a cyclist - I've seen drivers do far stupider things every single day =). Everything from not checking for pedestrians (or cyclists) when turning, not indicating when turning, using a mobile phone whilst driving, trying to
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by victorhooi 9y ago
And what evidence do you have for it ever having happened? I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I see a lot of conjecture and wild paranoia - but not much factual reporting.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
So to clarify - this is basically a Node.JS wrapper around Chrome headless, right? =_) Seems pretty awesome. My use case is to take screenshots of various pages - the docs don't mention the default viewport dimensions, btw.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I have no idea what you mean by "left-coast/euro-sensitive". However, I will put what lorenzhs said a bit more bluntly. Please don't go out of your way to be a dick - there is no need for it, and it benefits nobody.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I'm sorry - but this just comes across as wild paranoia - you're basically saying they could read your data - so they must? That's like saying your school could install cameras in the toilets - so they must have? Or that yo
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Our of curiosity - how many tabs do you have open? I have many tabs open, and did notice high memory usage. I'll reference my comment elsewhere here - tl;dr - they/we aggressively throttle background tasks now: > Chrome recentl
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I want to try Alacritty on OSX - but the big turnoff for me is the lack of binaries. However, I don't know if that's intentional, because they don't think it's ready yet for people who won't install/compile the
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I don't buy it. Chrome for years and years was sold as lightning fast and secure from malware - and it delivered. That was why I switched back in the day. Even today, it has a reputation for being lightning fast, and having a fast pace
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Could you substantiate this claim? Because it sounds like FUD at this stage, until somebody provides a shred of evidence.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
I think the parent is saying that's it preferable to IE being that one single browser. And honestly, your reply was childish and and a bit douche-bag-ish. There's no need for this here - (I assume) we're all adults, and don&#
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Chrome recently introduced some changes to background tabs (to a bit of grumbling from sites that wanted to use background resources/service workers): https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03&#x2
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The Laws of Australia will trump the laws of mathematics(zdnet.com)
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Weird - OK, that should be fixed now =). Let me know if not.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Are you able to provide more details here? Or you can reach out to me (details in profile). (Disclaimer: I work for Google, but comments here are my own).
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by victorhooi 9y ago
Correct =), there are many improvements in the new client (landing soon), and there are further ones coming in the pipeline shortly after.
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by victorhooi 9y ago
That's a mis-framing of the situation. The issue isn't so much as the client is failing - but that it wasn't designed to handle their edge-case - and trying to sync 700,000+ items, or 700GB worth of files to your desktop is
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by victorhooi 9y ago
That's a bit disingenuous. It's also quite easy to take cheap potshots behind the anonymity of pseudonyms. The customer has unfortunately left zero details with which to contact them - my details are on HN, anybody is free to PM m
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by victorhooi 9y ago
We don't have a monopoly on clever CS people =). I'm pretty sure Dropbox and Box.net have lots of smart people working for them as well. (In fact, I have friends at Dropbox) I'm not an expert in that specific bug, so I won&#x

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