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bkovacic··on Collection of Dark Patterns and Unethical Design
Do a piece on GoDaddy - they're absolutely disastrous. Eg, when you need to do any kind of downgrade of a service, you need a 2fa over email which they intentionally delay for like 15mins. If you leave the page, you have to request a new one. Of course, when it's 2fa for something that's not negative in terms of revenue, it arrives immediately.
bkovacic··on Ask HN: What is the current state of "logical" AI?
Gemini Ultra should show good progress according to Google - it's supposed to perform better than 85% of computer science competitors, which requires a lot of logical reasoning. Lets see it once it goes live, but sounds promising.
bkovacic··on Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
It's a great list. Would be a good to keep it as some live list so we can help evolve it over time.

I'd add two ideas:

Build lightweight memcached - it requires mixture of basic algorithms as well as good system design practices - it's a "simple" problem, but requires to think well from multiple angles - invalidation, concurrency, memory management...

Build your own docker - it's not as complex as it might sound - gives opportunity to understand basics of OS programming, which most engineers nowadays don't really use in day to day jobs

bkovacic··on Dreams of new physics fade with latest muon magnetism result
Edit: ignore. Posted on wrong article.
bkovacic··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
I hope they do. I'm pretty sure that pricing is the key factor that is stopping xamarin from being way more popular
bkovacic··on Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
Hope this means lower prices. Or even some free edition? :)
bkovacic··on Did Microsoft put a final nail in the coffin of its mobile developers?
Yes. That's what I was trying to emphasize - I won't be perfect, but it will be good enough until the platform gains traction.
bkovacic··on Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
Blackberry tried to run Android apps directly on Blackberry. Microsoft is just giving you an easy way to migrate your apps. It's a different thing.