ucho

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Just to power users? I keep getting suggestions to finish viewing last 1-2 minutes of each episode - the end credits that I previously skipped using big "start next episode" button.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

They are called adrenaline junkies for a reason. That makes me wonder - can we put thrill-seeker in "rehab"? And should we?

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Some monitors just have bad backlight. I had old one where maximizing terminal(which is mostly black) window caused taskbar and window handle also to turn almost black.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Last time I tried hackerrank i wasn't impressed - the problem specification was lacking, input/output wasn't defined well enough. Quality varied wildly between problems.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

> Imgur had DEFINITELY gotten WAY worse than even a year or so ago

There is vicious cycle with all image hosting services and Imgur(and Photobucket) has reached the last step:

1. Notice all other services are filled with ads and full of bloat

2. Create new, free and very simple image uploading site

3. Site gains popularity

4. Operating costs go through the roof

5. Try to monetize by adding ads or move to paid accounts

6. goto 1

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

It worked out for Facebook and PHP so maybe that is why they want to give it a try.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

> Did you read the github issues? There were hundreds of people against it.

Every time github issue goes viral it ends with hundreds of useless comments full of animated gifs. That is not an argument for anything.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Storing hashes in source repo would make it very hard to manage and I am not sure if processing raw names into hashes as part of build would be any help against such DMCA request.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

> My job is not to balance an arbitrary math equation that x% of engineers are supposed to be women

It really sound like Goodhart's law. It no longer matters that corporations wanted to remove bias from hiring process and access mostly untapped pool of talents. Now it is important how well they are doing it, measured by single % value.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Makes me wonder when Firefox will be able to resume interrupted file downloads without addons.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Even more interesting will be the effect on sites that can't get "good" ads due to adult content or sketchy legality like file sharing sites.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

  What is GraphQL?
  GraphQL is all about data communication

Somehow it reminds me of good old "The S stands for Simple": http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Buying ASICs is high risk and (probably) high reward - in event of crash you are left with worthless machines. GPUs will still have some value, even after all crypto currencies drop.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Now it is wrapped in "SmartCloud" instead. I am not sure if that is an improvement.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

> perfectly clean sensors

I saw thin layer of ice appear on parking sensors after few minutes of driving in snowy conditions, triggering "close object" warnings. And cars get dirty all the time, I wonder if cars will end up with separate wiper for each sensor.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

As a counter counter anecdote, scientists where estimating that perfecting automatic text translation will take another 10-15 years... in ~1960. I guess hoping that future technology will solve all out problems is similar to expecting next generation to pay our debts.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Yeas, what about it? Oh right, it might stop working after Firefox 57: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224 . There are people working on it but that isn't true for many other extensions that are no longer under active development.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Yeah, worst example ever. They should make it harder to make inner anonymous classes, not easier. When such code is used inside JEE/CDI/Spring Beans it leads to some annoying leaks or issues with serialization.

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Lucky for us (in this case) certificate pinning is considered to risky to actually deploy in production, it is to easy to make the page completely unacceptable with single mistake.

Also it looks like Chrome actually ignores pinning for proxies as a feature: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq#...

ucho

9 yıl öncediscuss

Maybe it is even worse when it is just few - people won't know that website creator isn't responsible for all of its content. And sometimes is hard to know who is the culprit like in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900 .

Is there any solution other than totally killing HTTP that protects from HTTPS stripping attacks? HSTS won't protect first visit and STS preload lists can only be so large.

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