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HN Replies is another similar service (http://www.hnreplies.com/), which I’ve been using for a few years now (not affiliated).

Seems quite disingenuous to claim low latency and variance based on a synthetic benchmark when the real world p95 latency and variance will likely be quite high with a normal distribution of user geos.

And FWIW I requested the same link on my laptop and then phone and my phone took >1s to resolve the redirect.

Presumably the server just delays the response for x seconds, with the assumption that any in-flight network requests are cancelled by the email client when the user closes the window or app.

Sounds similar to the micro story “Mold of the Earth” (1884) posted to HN a few weeks ago: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mold_of_the_Earth

It sounds like folks are interpreting your app as promoting behavior that’s irresponsible at best and potentially dangerous to vulnerable demographics at worst. I don’t think that’s an uncharitable perspective given the zeitgeist and would advise pausing for some serious introspection here.

I do sometimes wish that HN provided an optional “proof of work” field for comments to differentiate between those responding to the title and those who actually took the time to read the article. Something like a “verified” check mark or toggle button.

I’ve found that discussions are most insightful when all participants have “done their homework” so to speak. So while it’s amusing that half of the folks didn’t read the relatively short post that was linked here plus the twist at the end, it’s a sad state of affairs when many (most?) online discussions have devolved to this.

>For fun, ask people to draw face. Everything will be at wrong place with wrong size

That’s kind of an odd counter example to use. Most people will certainly draw an anatomically correct face (for all intents and purposes) with two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. And you’re unlikely to see anyone add three eyes, turn the nose sideways, or move the mouth above the nose.

In contrast, this is _exactly_ what people are doing to bikes, as illustrated by the ridiculously funny renders in the article.

From the linked article:

>In no way, shape, or form am I making a case that avoiding function calls alone directly helps performance.

Carmack argues that inlining (small) functions can reduce bugs in handling state by making the logic easier to follow and eliminating any possibility of others calling intermediary functions.

One possible way around this is to use phone number extensions, although I haven’t researched how well supported this might be across apps and the web.

Questions aside, I honestly thought the steps to submit a new question was satire...

  Contributing
  1. Fork it
  2. Run npm install
  3. Add your resource to questions.json
  4. Run node index to update README.md with your changes
  5. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  6. Commit your changes (git commit -am "Add some feature")
  7. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  8. Create new Pull Request

https://github.com/VGraupera/1on1-questions#contributing

Gandi is the absolute worst.

The last time I tried buying a domain through them, they took my money and then demanded "identification" via government ID (citing some bullshit in their ToS). I refused, so they closed my account and took the domain with them.

Based on that, I'm not surprised at all by their CEO's response to this incident[0]:

>If we led you to believe that you had nothing to do on your side when warned multiple times to make your back ups, then we'll have to make it clearer, and stop assuming that it's an industry wide knowledge.

[0]: https://twitter.com/StephanGandi/status/1215287619938062342?...

>does HN have any sort of algorithm designed to maximize my time on it?

HN, like reddit, optimizes for engagement using the post ranking algorithm.

Medium’s RSS feeds include comments made by the user, and there isn’t a way (I found) to only get posts.

Would like to know as well. That said, I recently found that iOS Mail.app has a setting to disable automatic loading of remote images such as those used to creepily track email engagement metrics. Too bad there’s no way to block remote web fonts from being loaded too...but I haven’t seen any/many companies try to use that attack vector yet.

Perhaps the ad was using one of the Google redirect tricks? There’s a few google.com endpoints (if I recall) that you can abuse to redirect to arbitrary URLs.

Off the top of my head:

- PayPal

- Rent payment portal

- University account

- Target

(etc...)

> 3. Create a method to combine the complex password and the simple password.

So what happens when a site / service limits the length? Do you truncate your complex password? And what about cases where only a certain subset of characters is accepted? Do you now need to memorize multiple variations of the complex password?

I used to do something similar to your proposed method, but the number of exceptional cases and work simply made if not worth the effort compared to a real password manager.

I’ve been using Mullvad for a few months and it’s been working pretty well so far—no complaints here. Not sure if it’s standard practice, but I really dig the passwordless account number only login.

From the same page:

> Your computer restarted because of a problem: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

> Your computer was restarted because of a problem: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

> his next question was not how much debt the students had taken on ... But instead of a courageous act of dissuading them

Can you explain how you arrived at this conclusion from the letter? The author literally transitions from "... watched videos, talked about movies and current events" to describing another event. There's nothing about what he said or did after realizing his students' academic inadequacies.

> Intellectual laziness.

It's more of a coping mechanism, is it not? I've read roughly half of the things you've listed, but definitely don't remember most of the nuances.

By default, people don't know (or care) about philosophy, and religion is a type of philosophy. It's a bit like bashing people for not taking the time to read Kant.

Having read a small amount of theology[1], I speculate that the broad and sometimes conflicting Christian perspectives throughout history make it difficult for the layperson to really grasp "true" Christianity (if there is such a thing.) Even going from say, St. Augustine to Kierkegaard, there's noticeable shifts in thought. I think the burden of proof squarely lies in advocates of Christianity, not the other way around.

[1] It's also been many years since I last touched the subject.

Watchcast has the same issues Marco brought up. Developers should not condone Apple's overly-aggressive platform limitations by sacrificing good UX just to release a feature.

+1 for GitUp. Only annoyance is that it can be slow when staging/unstaging lots of files.

I don't sleep with my eyes open, do you?

It was black in Apple Music (now playing view).

Searching "equifax data breach" in iOS 10.3.3 Safari:

- Cnet: no

- Washington Post: yes

- Chicago Tribune: no x2

- Gizmodo: yes

- The Verge: yes

- Wired: yes

- LA Times: yes

- CNBC: no

- Time Money: no (broken)

Wouldn't call that working exactly.

The HN mobile site is perfectly fine now that they tweaked the CSS.

I personally find all Reddit apps to be too opinionated and prefer the reduced mobile site + an RSS reader for smaller communities.

It’s usually done to prevent the parser from interpreting the closing script tag early: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/236073/why-split-the-scr...

If you’re on iOS, Reeder is a safe, no frills choice for iPhone and iPad. (No affiliation with the app, just use it for everything including Reddit).