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Antwan··on Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k
So private jets can no longer offer high speed internet to their customers. That’s so sad.
Antwan··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
Please think further than just the passion of code, mind implication of your projects and what you work on, in particular in regards to climate change and energy crisis. Coding, like any other form of engineering, cannot be done just for self interest and without ethics or conscience.
Antwan··on The Delete Act
Data brokers made in California can now wreck all the world but California.
Antwan··on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
The new jquery? Eurk.
Antwan··on IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
Lack table forever
Antwan··on Show HN: FixBrowser – a lightweight web browser created from scratch
Does this come bundled in TempleOS?
Antwan··on Why is there a TikTok tracking pixel on UberEats what is this crap?
UberEats uses Tiktok ads to promote their product, this is used to track conversions.

I missed the part where this is shocking.

Antwan··on Qatar Airways demands payment for training from terminated flight crew
I wouldn't pay anything if I were this guy.

He has the advantage of holding the balance in his account, and this matter doesn't stick in front of any court. So good luck to QAW to see the color of this money.

Antwan··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit
I ran a website for youngsters several years ago. One of the duties to maintain it was to moderate discussion boards. Some kids were difficult to manage and would not accept to be banned (via email/IP/or whatever solution) and would keep recreating profiles.

Ultimately I dealt with those ppl by “greylisting” them. Added a sleep() prior each page rendering of 5 to 25 secs (actually it was more sophisticated and would stream chunks over TCP so the slowness feeling was even more real).

Worked like a charm. Few days after the recalcitrant would no longer come on the website.

I called this “moderation by degradation of user experience”, and was pretty effective like the solution described in your post.

Think about page load if you need to restrain visits.

Antwan··on Sometimes, requiring explanability is counterproductive
This guy is a total genius. Shame he doesn't care more about who he is working for and what his researches are used for.
Antwan··on Y Combinator’s growth fund to back challenger bank Monzo
Yes, but they don't have emoji.
Antwan··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)
BuzzHire | London, UK | Local only (remote work is accepted occasionally) | NO VISA SPONSORING

== ABOUT US ==

https://buzzhire.co

We are developing an on-demand staffing platform, focussed on hospitality and delivery businesses (but virtually open to any markets). We basically connect workers and businesses on a temporary basis so they can take temp. jobs. We've been running our own operations for three years and successfully completed 10,000s of bookings for shifts in London. We innovate and use technology to solve operational issues we face, such as reducing no-shows, predicting latenesses, match the right job with the right people, offer the best pricing, etc. We used data and innovative solutions to address these issues.

We also have mobile applications offering a top notch UX on both sides, we built an internal community to engage our workers so they can connect with each other and share infos. We value flexibility and transparency. Business can book staff the same way they'd book a Uber. We handle payments, payouts, reporting, etc.

We aim to revolutionize the on-demand staffing industry, and we are now opening our platform and our tools to 3rd parties thanks to our experience in this sector, pivoting to a high-growth SaaS business model. Join us to hit this multi billion dollar market!

== WE NEED ==

- Front-end engineers (ReactJS)

- Back-end engineers (Python, Django)

- Mobile application developers (Native iOS and android apps)

Review our detailed job offers and apply on https://buzzhire.workable.com

Antwan··on Source for theguardian.com
This is not even close to bretonne crêpes.

Either you use buckwheat floor and water, in which case you are making Galettes. Either you use plain white wheat floor, in which case it's crêpes you are doing.

Under no circumstances you can put sugar in it, it's only added at the end. And of course, it's missing the most important ingredient: butter. #notevenclose

Antwan··on Firefox Master Password System Has Been Poorly Secured for the Past 9 Years
Dixit the biggest blackmailer of the Internet (cf acceptable ads).
Antwan··on Nginx Unit
Any report of the perf (VS uWSGI for example) ?
Antwan··on OVH Cloud Storage is inaccessible for 2+ hours
Typical OVH.
Antwan··on Ask HN: What are some of the best job boards you have seen (any industry)?
Workshape.io
Antwan··on Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice (2014)
Chrome Dec 2015 : 32% mkt share

Chrome Dec 2016 : 56% mkt share

Switch. Now.

https://netmarketshare.com/

Antwan··on Grumpy: Go running Python
"So we asked ourselves a crazy question: What if we were to implement an alternative ?"

As always with Google...

What if you humbly contribute to open source projects rather than creating new stuffs, labelled with your own brand, controlled by your own engineers, and with your own design choices, however good they may be ?

Antwan··on Piwik 3.0.0
No Postgres, no Piwik.
Antwan··on Show HN: Secrets 2 – Simple, secure password manager for Mac and iOS
Where is that stored ? What's behind ? How could you pretend to be liable if there are no basic explanations.

Just use pass instead and control the things on your own. See https://passwordstore.org

Antwan··on Worldwide Delivery of Amazon SNS Messages via SMS
Price per text in the UK :

Twilio : $0.04/text SNS : $0.05479/text (3UK is slightly cheaper)

https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/gb http://aws.amazon.com/sns/sms-pricing/

Antwan··on First Sublime Text update in 12 months
Actually I'd say the updates stopped between July and January : https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
Antwan··on Show HN: Mejiro – single-file photo hosting PHP app
How can "single dirty file mixing PHP HTML CSS" can be showcased as a feature in 2016...
Antwan··on Linux ate my RAM
This made my monday.
Antwan··on Django Awarded MOSS Grant from Mozilla
DRF is one of the best addon for django, I'm glad to hear it's finally gonna be (partially) integrated to the main project.
Antwan··on The Power of Mozilla
Or how to justify the discontinuation of Firefox OS.
Antwan··on WP REST API: Merge Proposal
How can people still use WP in 2015...
Antwan··on How long would a trip to Mars take?
(1997)
Antwan··on Criticisms of Angular
"With the next article we’re going to introduce you to React JS, [...] that have won us over entirely."

How can you take the article seriously with that kind of conclusion.

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