colinbartlett

I came across Conduent's web portal for checking your balance, only to be greeted with this lovely error message that demonstrates just how accessible and up-to-date this company is:

> You're using Chrome 66. Please use Internet Explorer or Firefox version 4 or above.

There was some discussion recently on this pull request that Github was rolling this out to some accounts:

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

This is pretty old news and I recall it being discussed here extensively. Can a mod tag this with (2016)?

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I'm curious of what the lobbying arms of major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter think of this. Are they using their considerable resources to try and push back against this? They can't possibly benefit from this deeper reach of the government's spying eyes.

Congrats to Dropbox and to Y Combinator for their first IPO.

No, but that's a great idea! I have 3 years of data now from hundreds of services including severity of reported outage and text about why it went down. So I could show graphs over time for sure.

There are actually quite a lot of services down across the web now. Maybe they are unrelated... but it could all be related to AWS. https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services

My side project, StatusGator, monitors something like 250 status pages and there's quite a spike in warn or down notices at the moment that I can see.

Could you use some kind of kerning randomizer to prevent this?

I have not had this problem as a CTO. I try to lead by example with comprehensive tests for everything I commit. We also track test coverage with CodeClimate and make checking tests a part of our human code reviews.

This is my method of mitigating these attacks. However, more and more websites and services are blocking VPN providers and it’s becoming increasingly problematic to use a well-known commercial VPN for all day, regular use.

They touch on these key skills in the video. Apparently mental focus is a lot of it as well.

Which is crazy because I've only used it once or twice but each time I've noticed many people use tongue in cheek descriptions like "for drugs" or "strippers" when they are just splitting a bar tab.

PWA = Progressive Web Apps for anyone else confused.

There a bunch of services like this that scan emails and offer something valuable enough in return that they might be worthwhile... Earny is another one.

I really like the idea of them but I just wish there was just some better security model. What if granting read access to Gmail could give you an auditable log of every email read through the API? That way, services like this could prove that they are being responsible with their access rights.

Trying to imagine how something like this even happens... there's probably half a dozen people around him helping him get suited up and half-way through he says... "Hold up, guys. Let me get something from the fridge."

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So if I sell my newfound BCH today, which was birthed from thin air a few months ago, but originates from BTC I bought years ago, is it short term capital gains or long term?

How exactly does one campaign a corporate violator when they only have one choice of provider?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13906804

I think it's more of a devkit. Not something you build a consumer product around.

I'm fortunate that I recognized early the negotiating position I had, and each one of those worthless pieces of paper came with what I would consider a generous, above market salary.

But I worry that many new to the industry are selling themselves short with an "or" and not realizing that an "and" is possible.

I have a drawer full of stock option paperwork from various start ups I’ve worked with over my career, all of which were “confident” in their growth prospects and none of which exist anymore.

At this point I feel like anyone who chooses stock options over cash is naive, delusional, or misled.

Ooooh, awesome! Is there a comprehensive list of these somewhere?

I think the parent meant done intentionally by Apple? The whole thing could be a PR stunt.

Seems like a perfect use for a torrent. Is there a tracker link?

I have a few revenue-generating side projects, most notably StatusGator[1] which monitors status pages.

But the problem I always have with selling side projects is that they are worth a lot more to me in emotional value than they are actually worth monetarily. I've put a lot of heart and soul into StatusGator, not to mention a lot of time, and selling it for what it's worth based on monthly revenue ($1k/month) wouldn't nearly cover that emotional value. And so I hang on to it.

1. https://statusgator.com

I'm using Cricket Wireless and also see Joe Consumer. The second link returned a blank white page to me.

Thanks for posting this, that whole site is new to me and it's pretty incredible.

This would be so useful to me.

I always spend WAY too long picking out hotel rooms when I travel because it's so hard to compare hotels. The prices you see in search results are always for the cheapest room which I typically never want. And there's no way to see prices or sort by room size or amenities.