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Apparently around 800: https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/valvesoftware/monthly

I came to the comments to post a similar thing. Was utterly confused how "graph db" and "chaos engineering" go together. Can't you add a distinguishing prefix, like Chaos Gremlin or something like that? I'll start using "Apache Gremlin" for the traversal lang, but that only works if your Gremlin gets a prefix, too.

This news is so old, I was sure the date on the article was 2009.

"For exposure......."

Well they are placing an increased load onto the side and get nice resources for free, not even doing the cheapest form of flattery: attribution. That's happening a million times on the internet each day, where pictures and other copyrighted materials are redistributed without consent or attribution, and it's ridiculous that the currently most valuable company on earth feels the need to be a cheapskate about that, too.

People lost their mind when Google did something like that in their image search, and unlike Apple, they provided attribution and a prime backlink. If Apple likes the service so much, they could just have bought it entirely and it wouldn't even show up in their balance, so proper attribution, and maybe ask the provider if he/she can handle the additional load, or even provide some support to handle the load, would just have been fair, don't you think?

As far as I know, the Swedish just order from Amazon.co.uk, if they can't get something from their Webhallen thingie.

First off, the GDPR just harmonizes existing data protection laws, and increases the associated penalties to give those laws teeth. If you need to do something fundamentally new today, you probably broke these laws yesterday already. Stop whining because you feel forced to comply now, just due to the fines having been increased. That's a basic risk of entrepeneurship.

Next, something like the deletion right has to submit to other laws that mandate data retention, like having to keep sales and bookings records for 10 years due to tax laws. If you do a cascading deletion in your data set, you're probably breaking these, so flagging records as deleted, or moving them to an archive to comply with these other laws still is perfectly find.

So this is just another regulation a startup has to think about. It's way easier than, i.e., tax laws, so please. Just stop panicking -.-

Customer Service representative Käthe acknowledged in a Twitter convo posted by security researcher Scott Helme, that agents regularly view the first four characters of customer passwords for authentication purposes. When confronted with the bad practise this represents, the rep got defensive, stating that hacks would not happen because the telco giant would be "100% secure," and indeed asked whether the hints dropped by the experts were to be understood as a threat against the company.

What's that supposed to be? A pitch ala "But LOOK, Google is collecting data, too, not just me, Facebook!"

Ah, congrats, I've been waiting for this! When's the german localization due? I know you already have some volunteers working on it.

Keep up the great work!

I would prefer it as a true app instead of as a webapp. @OP, You mentioned an apk somewhere in the comments. Is it on an appstore? Couldn't find it on the Play Store.

Week numbers are important in scrum and release plannings, and in university (someone mentioned "parity" - some courses happen in odd weeks, others in even weeks). Keep them, I miss them :D

I never did audio beyond simple midi beepboops in QBasic, so I wouldn't know. I always imagined it to be some kind of specialisation. Like you need a special mindset to be able to build a 3D engine, you'd need a certain set of talents to be able to manipulate sound in awesome ways and not get lost in tech minutiae.

Re: multiple account breaches: keybase.io aims to make that harder. Have you heard about that? (I know, I digress, sorry.)

I imagine it's disheartening to see so much distrust and I'm truly sorry for that, but you could've seen that coming when posting to HN of all places :D

As for the cert: it _could_ be stolen.

Least flak wouldv'e been a github repo. Most people wouldn't even bother check what's in it and if it matches a binary download, they'd just assume someone else would check ;)

I bet the XML parsing and the sound synth are exactly the two things you're least and most proud of? :D I honestly recommend taking a look at JAXB. You start from a schema description and generate java classes from it. Then you just stuff these classes and a conforming XML file into a JAXB Unmarshaller and get a clean instance tree of the file. Such a tree can then be poured back into a file by way of a Marshaller.

FWIW, the decompiled (w/ -deadcode) source from the applet, as retrieved from the server on June 2nd around 9 am CEST, does not contain any obvious mischief. Things of note are a very crude way of parsing the levels from XML (use something like JAXB, dude :D)(the xml is not part of the jar), an interesting sound synth based on the QuantumData, and the fact that self-written code calls color colour. It would be easy to migrate the applet to a standalone Swing application.

Mark Kelly on the advisory board, not bad. It's the only person on the team page that I've heard of.

Still down? Been getting 502 since last week. *sadface

What's really depressing about this is setting the calculator to fast and to the age of my youngest kid and watching the rare odd ball fall at ages younger than me. It is rare, but it does fall. Probability, you heartless bitch.

Man, stuff like WWDC and in a wider sense, Apple, is really becoming a religion. Some of those hearty reactions on Twitter were so euphoric, that for me it cannot be explained by regular, adult, technological excitement anymore. It's not like they announced cold fusion or life on mars.

But anyways, a cordial +1 for being a nerd with all your heart! :)

Well, when they announced a press release for 3/3 at 3 PM, I was certain it would be about Half-Life 3.