westoque

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by westoque 9y ago
Maybe we need an open source protocol that has all the standards and edge cases handled. I think competitiveness is a good thing and will drive innovation. But in this specific field, with regards to safety and security, it needs to be out
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by westoque 9y ago
Thanks. Yes, it has been an issue and the adware is definitely unintentional. Will fix immediately :) Adding to my answer above: users are more likely to install your product too if you provide good customer support.
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by westoque 9y ago
Good strategy! That's also what I did to get my side project (Cookie Inspector - Google Chrome Cookie Editor) project to having 80,000/daily users. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-inspect
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by westoque 9y ago
Like others, my experience was also complete opposite. The app I did was a financial related app so we do some good amount of number crunching. From calculations, to transfers, and storage. You won't believe how many type errors we had
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by westoque 9y ago
I believe "overengineering" will not show itself through code but through time. Let me explain, a person thinking through a solution that should only take 1 hour and spends an entire day on it is overengineering. What goes through
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by westoque 9y ago
Interesting about the 50-50 split. If you talk to most people in the valley, they would probably tell you this is the worst thing you can do. That is, if you're looking from the perspective of a VC.
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by westoque 9y ago
This. I am pretty sure this is the case. I have worked with small and large teams. Large teams usually have a lot more abstraction in terms of their architecture. So there is most likely a "backend" app that is just an API and you
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by westoque 9y ago
This happened to me awhile ago too. Some mismanagement on my part. Left me with around 44k of debt. I never let that put me down. What I did instead was to find more work since I do consulting and pay down the debt and still get a decent li
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by westoque 9y ago
As a remote developer myself. I still value having an office. I think being remote with an office setup is the best you can get. I can go in at any time I want, and still have the nice environment to work from of. Being remote doesn't
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by westoque 9y ago
Related. I know a company that does analysis for soccer games. I thought it was state of the art too until they told me they just hired a bunch of people from China that logged every move (distance ran, kicks, etc) from eveyone and also put
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by westoque 9y ago
I just wish they had better SEO than say W3Schools
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by westoque 9y ago
Wow. I just realized browsers should have just used Lua as the scripting language of the web instead of JavaScript. Although similar in tech (both are prototypical languages), Lua seems more mature at the time. Not to mention it is also hea
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by westoque 9y ago
Same. Getting HTTPS issues.
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by westoque 9y ago
Cryptocurrency. Have you sent someone money internationally before? How about across different banks? Typical transfers process at around 3-5 days. With the help of cryptocurrencies like Ripple, Steller and the like. Transfers happen in sec
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by westoque 9y ago
At least they didn't ask you for ransom of 1 bitcoin. lol Joking aside, this is an inevitable event and we just have to be cautious and ready when it does happen.
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by westoque 9y ago
Since there are now many occurrences of data breaches out there. I cannot stress enough the importance of a password manager and diversify-ing your passwords. This one I learned from Troy Hunt and never looked back. https://www.t
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by westoque 9y ago
Thanks. Yes, I am also working in tech, specifically fin tech. I'm not concerned about investing in cryptocurrencies since I don't invest that much. I do invest in it because I believe in the ideas of some them. I would say my inv
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Ask HN: How many people here actually invest in cryptocurrencies and why?
14 points by westoque 9y ago|12 comments
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by westoque 9y ago
> Perhaps you could implement chaos engineering principles in a non-distributed system by simulating the failure of a CPU core or a region of memory? Could be. In a general sense of chaos engineering. For me, I think chaos engineering wo
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by westoque 9y ago
>>> Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production. I don't like how they define "Chaos
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by westoque 9y ago
I wondered the same thing years ago. I always thought that browsers would have implemented other security measures so that websites avoid doing this. Around 90 something percent of websites I visit don't implement that `for(;;)` or `wh
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by westoque 9y ago
I disagree. Technology is actually an advantage. I would look at it this way, if you used N tech, and it actually results in a faster, better app, meaning happier users and therefore more business. TLDR; use technology that gives you an adv
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by westoque 10y ago
Or companies for that matter. I know other companies that have an open source division like AT&T labs.
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by westoque 10y ago
Not sure about that. With regards to Browsers, we are only given ONE language to work with, and that is JavaScript. So there is no bandwagon effect, I think everyone is just trying to work with the language they are given. But the fact that
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by westoque 10y ago
And this is why I use Dart. Not sure why everyone hates Dart, but after working with Dart for sometime, it makes me happy that I never get to touch JS, directly at least. The tooling, libraries, in Dart is great. No need for jQuery, or othe
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by westoque 10y ago
Related, see comments. https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/pull/3757
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Ethereum Go GitHub Repo Keeps Getting Spammed(github.com)
2 points by westoque 10y ago|2 comments
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by westoque 10y ago
Good find. Reminds me of the a query done for Google Search that exposes sites vulnerable to SQL injection.
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by westoque 10y ago
Not all people are motivated my money. Some people really just don't care about their compensations. They are just motivated either by the idea, the people, the leader, the industry, etc.
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by westoque 10y ago
Did you also investigate moving to Heroku rather than GAE?

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