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marcioaguiar··on LessPass: sync-less open source password manager
How is this different from having one password for all sites? If I break the master password I gain access to everything.
marcioaguiar··on Startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2
The number of higher education institutions more than doubled in Brazil in the last decade.

I'm not an expert, but I think this was largely because of a government program called FIES, which finances private colleges and universities for students and the student will only pay the government a year after receiving the diploma. Payment is divided into very low portions. It is an excellent deal for the student and the educational institution. This program was greatly expanded in recent years and almost every student was able to receive funding.

With the crisis, the program suffered a major cut. I believe this will further increase the spaces not occupied.

marcioaguiar··on The dominance of baby boomers is becoming total
Here in Brazil we have no such laws. You can drink anywhere and anytime. I remember drinking till 5am when I was a teenager and bars would stay open until the last customer was out. Today there is still no restriction, but mostly because of labour laws and the costs of maintaining service it's very hard to find open bars after 3am.

* edit: of course I'm talking about my experience living on a medium-sized city (Maceió). I guess bigger cities like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro you can find a good number of late open venues.

marcioaguiar··on Critical Vulnerabilities in JSON Web Token Libraries
It would not be possible to establish a period to migrate all tokens? This "if you change in a possible feature" is not a good argument when modeling something, in my opinion. That's how AbstractFactoryStrategies are made.
marcioaguiar··on Warren Buffett Just Wrote His Best Annual Letter
Someone with no integrity, can use their intelligence and energy for bad things.
marcioaguiar··on Why Java Now Rocks More Than Ever: Part 1 – The Java Compiler
It's impossible to deal with ANY LARGE PROJECT without an IDE.

If you don't use an IDE, your project is not large yet.

marcioaguiar··on Big data sets you can use with Open Source R
This is a hacker news link to a reddit post that points to a blog post that references the actual link.

Here is the direct link: http://www.inside-r.org/howto/finding-data-internet

marcioaguiar··on Helpouts by Google
1. You cannot be sure they're going to shut this down soon.

2. What did you lose when google closed reader? It gave you plenty of time and options to go to another service.

3. Products have a limited lifetime, deal with it. And not only on the internet.

4. If you think it's an interesting concept you should join it

marcioaguiar··on Google Treks
Definetly slower. Also, there's some features I miss from the old maps, like navigation on the map while on StreetView and the measurement ruler (from labs). But you don't need to switch to Bing as you can still change to the classic google maps.
marcioaguiar··on Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'
Does not make sense to me. Lavabit claims that it cannot decrypt customer's data, but if someone else could read what goes through Lavabit server and a client it could decrypt the data?? So, how come Lavabit can't do tha same thing?
marcioaguiar··on Snipcart - Effortless Shopping Cart for new or existing websites
Great idea and nice execution!

But I think 2% over sales is too much for a shopping cart API!

And what Snipcart does to avoid fraud? Like the user changing the HTML attributes.

marcioaguiar··on HTTP 2.0
I think it's Google interests to make a simple and faster protocol.
marcioaguiar··on Project Loon
Plenty of pictures on their G+ page: https://plus.google.com/+ProjectLoon
marcioaguiar··on Remember Last.FM?
I use last.fm since 2009 and it seems like it's forgotten. The user experience is very sluggish.

So much possibilities and nothing done. Grooveshark proposes to recommend music based on your last.fm account but I don't think it does a very good job.

marcioaguiar··on Web Framework Benchmarks Round 5
Can you name some examples?
marcioaguiar··on Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
Recommending this, for sure!

Some pictures needed more work than others, but the results were always great!

marcioaguiar··on A new search engine
I just searched for How to make cupcakes and the first three results were instructions of how to make a cupcake, including a video on youtube.

P.S.: I mistakenly typed HOT to make cupcakes

marcioaguiar··on R 3.0.0 Released
nothing for me too
marcioaguiar··on Persona is distributed. Today.
not different from someone stealing your cookies.
marcioaguiar··on Persona is distributed. Today.
He was just making a point that authentication protocol is a domain choice (from 2-digit passwords to retinal scan).

It's up to the users to trust the domain he is going to use as identity. Just like many people trust Facebook Connect.

marcioaguiar··on Show HN: Greater Peace of Mind Guaranteed, or Your Money Isn't Refunded
my thoughts exactly
marcioaguiar··on Show HN: 5000 best movies
How does the score works? 12 Angry Men has a 9.4 score and 7th place, but when I filter by "Law" movies the score goes down to 7.5.
marcioaguiar··on The Web We Lost
Accessibility to truth? Tell me more about how you used to access the truth in 1998.
marcioaguiar··on The Web We Lost
I completely agree with you. He's just nostalgic. We can do everything we did before and much more. The social aspect of the web seems very positive to me. Communities like reddit, twitter, kickstarter have real impacts on people life. If nobody wants to go chat on IRC anymore it was their option to do so.
marcioaguiar··on Bret Victor: Learnable Programming
It's important to point out that was Bret Victor that created this concept from which Kahn Academy took inspiration from.

https://vimeo.com/36579366 http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/

marcioaguiar··on So I tried to convert today's Google's Doodle into Pure CSS (no JS)
Great work, but I think this is the kind of thing that fits better with JS.