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There are two kinds of programming work. First kind is that of translating application logic into code using the pre-established frameworks and patterns. This involves application domain understanding and modeling of domain into system conc
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For a good RPC abstraction, I think a key requirement is to easily and safely change the deployment separation between modules that use the abstraction – deployment separations being: in-proc, inter-process-communication and remote-procedur
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These videos have definitely made a lot of people curious about unions.
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I saw a Youtube video of an American political campaign event where someone from Europe ask a question about unions and pretty much saying that American unions are weak compared to the ones in Europe. Is this true? How are the unions in Eur
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Does anyone here do Microservices well? And keep them in a monorepo?
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At current dispatch rates, 400 instructions is how many nanoseconds? It isn't really looking ahead that far even now!
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The article kind of ended abruptly. The point about Encrypted Media Extensions and DMCA and rise of encrypted video playback within browser is an interesting point that needs more elaboration. The story of how Internet grew and what made it
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We can learn from the mechanisms applied by the TCP layer for reliable end to end packet transmission and adapt those mechanisms at application layer for reliable message delivery. For example, for any pair of applications that need to send
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I doubt HN is the best place to have discussions about design of societal/civil norms, culture and laws. Surely, there are people who are more expert than us who have well-researched, historically informed opinion on human behavior and
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We still have not heard anything officially from Apple. Based on other comments here, this removal happened via Malware Removal Tool (MRT) which itself is a hidden tool. If yes, then Apple needs to declare Zoom as Malware. For reference, Ap
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Apple or anyone cannot silently pushing changes to my computer without my explicit consent – especially on unrelated things. What Apple did here is also a dark pattern. We cannot commend them and normalize this behavior. This is a dictatori
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Huh? Why is it ok for Apple or anyone to do silent installs on my computer? As a customer, why am I getting this information from YC/Techcrunch and not Apple? What else have they pushed like this? Is there a transparent log? Can we v
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> It would be not, stop pretending acquiring consent from a statistical model counts as acquiring consent from the actual user. I don't know what you are referring to here. Care to elaborate? > Thing you wrote may make it accepta
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Yep, those definitely are the dark patterns.
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There is definitely no problem in having the capabilities in the hardware. But appropriate assured controls should have been built and provided to the end-user. The challenge is these controls are not in hardware-switch-esque form. They are
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It hasn't been one year yet. So let's see. I would expect it to renew for free next year as long as I'm subscribed to their 499 or higher plan.
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I disagree with declaring all helper agents as dark patterns. From a regular user point of view, it would be acceptable to have a helper agent as long as it follows: - platform provided background process methodology (example: launchd could
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In general, I'm NOT happy with how camera/microphone, GPS and sensors like Gyro/accel/magnetometers and beacons (radio/wifi/bluetooth/nfc), screen size/resolution, battery level, hardware port identif
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Let us be clear. Running a local helper agent that accepts properly formatted requests (includes authn/authz) to provide a valid expected functionality is a perfectly valid architectural choice for a full-fledged desktop computer and
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In India, I don't know of anyone who actually pays for prime. Everyone gets it free bundled with their mobile or broadband plans. All of these plans get Amazon Prime with free shipping, prime video and Amazon Music ad-free unlimited do
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Here are the ways I see airline industry produces pollution: * The airports are built (clearing so much green land, using so much concrete) * How flights taxi when on airport * How much time they spend in air due to congestion or weather
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On my Mac, I have uBlockOrigin installed in my browser and I have it configured to always block 3rdparty and 3rdparty frames and it prevents both the POCs completely. I have one browser that I use for work email and video conference, where
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Wow. Mozilla is breaking the standard working stuff like big bullies do.
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I wonder if it is ever possible to move to a protocol like MinimalLT - https://cr.yp.to/tcpip/minimalt-20131031.pdf and solve the privacy aspects in a fundamental low-level protocol usable for all types of packet trans
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I also use Firefox Nightly. But was rudely surprised to notice that settings were getting reset after nightly upgrades. This is really poor decision by Firefox. If they expect early adopters to use and give feedback, then they should be fri
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It's like paying property tax to the government. Even if you own it, you have to pay to keep up the infrastructure, I guess.
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That file looks quite readable (ignoring the comments - which again looks very readable in color syntax highlighted documentation).
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Please elaborate with examples. Since most new cars are Internet connected and have whole hosts of complex safety features dependent on software correctness, I sure do hope you are wrong about this.
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From drying clothes to getting the right nutrition, there are clearly superior and inferior ways to do get any particular result. But of course people don't have the knowledge/skills to figure it out for themselves and come to tha
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The companies who operate the cross-country backbone fibers have independently verified fibre maps and you can also audit them with their cooperation. And those who operate last-mile metro networks are usually highly reputed ISPs (at least

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