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akras14on We Must Revive Gopherspace (2017)

WTF is gopher space? Asking for a friend.

akras14on Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute

Sounds too good to be true, but also brilliant. Curious what others think. What are the downsides?

akras14on Tesla laid off my disabled veteran husband then cancelled his sign on bonus

I think most people don’t realize just how expensive it is to live here, until they get here.

Babel is a commonly used plug-in Webpack though. So I am guessing all projects that used Babel/Webpack got TypeScript support for free. It’s a TIL for me, definitely going to have to look into this. Sounds exciting.

akras14on WordPress 5.0: A Gutenberg FAQ

I’ll just leave this here: https://www.alexkras.com/how-to-rollback-wordpress-5-to-olde...

akras14on Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

The quiet people like that are the best people in my book and definitely not who I am referring to.

akras14on Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

That’s more than double average salary. Seems like worth going for it, even knowing that they will fire you eventually. Hold on for 6 months, make a yearly salary, take 6 months off :)

akras14on Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

I would rather them do nothing or work on throw away code. I spend way too much of my time fixing other people’s bugs :(

akras14on Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

400k??? This seems insanely high. Are you one of a kind specialist of sort? I find it hard to believe that regular engineer, even in the prime of his career can expect such high salary.

akras14on Working at Netflix Sounds Like Hell

On one hand this seem crazy. On another, every place I worked at was full of free-loaders who did nothing and never got fired. I wonder if things are different at Netflix.

akras14on Please Google, let us revert to the classic Gmail look

I call it Death by Redesign - https://www.alexkras.com/death-by-redesign/

akras14on Guido van Rossum Quits as Python Benevolent Dictator for Life

Ah, cool. Did not see this. Searched for Guido

akras14on Guido van Rossum Quits as Python Benevolent Dictator for Life

Whomever marked this as dupe, I don't see this link submitted in the past, and this is big news that really belong on Hacker News...

akras14on Ask HN: Does a “HN Monthly Digest” Service Exist?

How many items would you like to see in it?

akras14on AMP: the missing controversy

Cache is part of AMP spec. What author seems to refer to is only a 2/3 of AMP spec - Subset of HTML and JS library.

Since the beginning AMP team was clear that AMP is not very useful without cache.

I do agree with all of the concerns raised, but wanted to point this out as to not get sidestepped from the main discussion.

https://www.alexkras.com/i-had-lunch-with-google-amp-team/ https://www.ampproject.org/learn/overview/

akras14on Do not use NPM 5.7

Wayback link, of someone has a better mirror please post: http://web.archive.org/web/20180222170341/https://github.com...

akras14on Save the CR100

Death by redesign... https://www.alexkras.com/death-by-redesign/

akras14on Scalable and accurate deep learning for electronic health records

> As one of the apparently few remaining people on HN who like Google and are excited about the technology they're producing

Lol, as someone who criticized Google on multiple occasions, just wanted to point out that it’s OK to call them out when they (may be) wrong and still like their technology.

akras14on YouTube Drops Online Star Logan Paul from Premium Advertising

Not anymore

akras14on Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% of Stake

They got my business back after he left.

akras14on Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Said to Plan Sale of 29% of Stake

Came here to say something along those lines.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/29/handcuffed-to-uber/

akras14on Show HN: HNCute, a pretty pink Hacker News theme

You may like my side project.

https://www.techtldr.com/posts/2018/summary-for-2018-01-03/

One sentence summary, keywords and statistics for best HN posts with score greater than 50, aggregated daily.

The theme does not look like HN, so thought you might like that.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

Email is the way to go.

I only wrote this because I was shocked too. I genuinely did not expect this behavior, and I've been using Google Photos a lot in the past year.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

I am the same guy...

Re AMP, I was not just posting to gain up-votes, I believed in all the things I said. But I did underplayed the benefits that AMP provided, for which I apologized. You can read more about that here if you'd like: https://www.alexkras.com/google-amp-is-winning/

I don't have an agenda... I saw something the surprised me concerning my security, realized that other's might have overlooked it, and wrote a blog post about it...

Re continues re post, it is not against HN terms. I was doing it because I thought that there are people who can benefit from my writing, I take a lot of time to write my posts and it sucks when nobody gets to read it. I did however go overboard towards the end, I have been warned, and I am only submitting articles once now. Such as this post, as you can see in my history.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

Agreed, I am mostly bothered by UI that allows me to share these sacred private URL without alerting me that there is no additional security in place to insure that only user's I've shared the link with will be able to access my data.

I still think it's OK to use Google Photos. People just should be very careful with what they chose to share.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

Correction, it does show this warning in some flows: https://www.alexkras.com/wp-content/uploads/share-4.png

Unfortunately for me, I was using the other flows to share my photos.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

Google Drive creates a proxy link that makes sure that user actually has the proper privileges to access the content, before doing the redirect.

This can be seen by inspecting image link in Google Drive.

I was simply expecting to see the same behavior with Google Photos. As you said, at the very least it would be nice to see a warning, which turns out they provide in some, but not all flows.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

English is my second language. Re attention seeking, I though it was a big deal. Both my wife and I were shocked by it, so I wanted to share.

Coinbase link, is my experiment of trying to monetize my blog. Like I said, 2 kids...

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

I am advocating for a better UI that is clearly communicates what will happen when post is shared.

Sort of like Google Drive does it. Make it easy, sure, but let me know the trade offs.

akras14on All shared Google Photos are open to the public

Thanks for the tip, I've added the following to the post.

Please let me know if I got something wrong.

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This appears to be true and another key distinction between Google Drive and Google Photos.

Google Photos uses direct link to image in their Web UI. This means that if I right click on a Google Photo image, select “Copy Link Location”, and share this link on the Internet, anyone with the link will be able to see the photo.

Google Drive adds an extra level of protection. The URL exposed in Google Drive Web UI is actually a redirect to the real image location. That redirect makes sure that the user is authenticated and has permissions to access the image. After the check is complete, however, Google Drive will redirect to the physical location of the image. Copying and pasting that URL will have similar security implications.

Given that those URLs are extremely hard to guess, I am not as concern with this finding. My biggest complain with Google Photos is that it offers me a UI to email private links to other people, without alerting me that user authentication will not be performed to view this content.