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Why in the world would they do this, though? I'm at a loss.

Arent' they making lots of money off these poor addicts already?

A suggestion for people who are upset with this behavior:

Use Booking.com (and Google, Expedia, etc) as a showroom, after you have found a certain hotel, find their web site or phone and arrange a booking directly.

Answering myself:

According to Glassdoor:

Software Engineer: 20k USD/year

Senior Software Engineer: 24k USD/year

Principal Engineer: 29k USD/year

(https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/HTC-Taipei-Salaries-EI_IE41...)

I get that it's not exactly Silicon Valley, but, wow.

Hi Zack,

This headline made me think that Cloudflare had finally done what I first assumed Akamai did back in the noughties, before I learned they didn't really have magic tech. :/

Anyway: here's some indirect feedback. It doesn't really apply to your project (which I'm sure will be super useful to other people). I would expect Cloudflare to take the lead in... let's call it widely-distributed-computation. All I want is my code running on your nodes all around the world with an end-to-end ping that is less than 10 ms to the average client.

My guess: Star Citizen will eventually raise 500M USD. No full game resembling the original promises will ever be delivered.

The "investors" will keep saying that with just a little more time, things will be perfect

-1 Off-topic.

(I just explained why Lego is expensive. Nothing else.)

Ok, back to non-smiley world:

Yes. I hope so. Too.

Oh please just go back to reddit.

It happened to me as well. I did verify that my changes actually made change (from the same IP, but in incognito mode). Didn't bother to check if the changes stayed.

I first realized Javascript/Frontend/client developers were a danger to society about 10 years ago.

We were trying to figure out why some particular, quite globally popular web site did not work when transcoded in our Opera Mini transcoder.

The page itself looked perfectly static, no fancy effects or anything. Turns out the site had decided to re-implement the "click a link" feature entirely in javascript, down to the "create a click listener for entire document, then create a click router based on X, Y, width, height coordinates" level. We patched it somehow, had a laugh about the stupidity, but the sour feeling of insanity got stuck with me. It did not provide any feature beyond what a simple 'a' tag would have done.

It was just so absurd. We spent some time to try to figure out if there was a legitimate reason for it but we couldn't find any.

I know you're probably just looking to replace DMOZ, and build something vast in scope/size. But please keep the idea I posted yesterday in mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13802555

Somewhat ironically/fitting one of the triggers for this idea was my dislike for the amount of corporate/institutional "spam" on dmoz.org. Browsing dmoz today it doesn't feel like browsing a treasure chest of information; it feels like browsing one of those vanity contact books that people are scammed into paying for placement in.

Just because 50 different museums from around the world are super reputable (to someone) that doesn't mean they should have a guaranteed place in the "art" category, for instance. They should need to have a kickass art collection online with great UX, super-highres images, easily downloadable if it's stuff that's out of copyright and so on. Just list the best ten (twenty? thirty? no idea what the right number is. it probably depends on the category) things, not every single art institution on earth that someone has bothered to submit.

I guess I would summarize this as opinionated, content quality-based selection.

I miss the 1996-1997 type web sites. Ads and money has changed the web so much.

I recently had the idea to start a like 1994-style Yahoo-style web site that only links to sites which fulfill these conditions:

a) they have a lot of quality content

b) they only have minimal or no ads (absolutely no signups, freemium sites, 14-day trials etc).

c) no obnoxious self-advertising of a company's own brand (e.g. "Will It Blend? | Presented by Blendtec").

d) (this one is hard to quantify, but it's a kind of "I know it when I see it" thing) they were made with love and a desire to spread thoughts and creations.. rather than a desire for making money.

Obviously this directory site would not be a vehicle for making money. I also don't want this to be a hipster coolness thing. It's not the retro-ugly layouts I'm after, it's the content.

Stupid? Does it already exist?

The site that I came across that triggered this thought was http://www.americanradiohistory.com/ .

I guess their bizarre thinking is something along the lines of: "unless we have proof that noone can access the service, we won't change the indicator from green to yellow.

Seriously: I don't understand why you guys stay with AWS.

Yeah, it's quite easy to imagine that their marketing and PR teams overrode the technical documentation team on this matter.

I kind of dislike the attitude Raymond is showing here, to be honest.

Microsoft did a very poor job of disclosing these very relevant (at the time) facts to programmers back then. I guess they still hadn't really understood the power of having a well-documented/readily available platform.

I know that I was hunting for information on this particular topic - just having gotten dial-up Internet access for the first time in the spring of 1995.

(But hey, there were still a shining light compared to Creative Labs :) )

Surely there must be a few suitable candidates at Apple waiting for Tim to screw up enough? I think Apple will need its own Nadella soon.

Observation:

The world community really needs to figure out how to deal with failed states. And the real, live humans that suffer in those states.

The list goes on: Venezuela, Syria, Libya, North Korea, etc.

It's also $18 and closed-source. You might have wanted to disclose that since I mentioned free/open. Just saying.

This seems like a good place to tell Uber users that the only way of removing your credit card details from your Uber account is to either:

a) plead with Uber's customer service to do so

or

b) add another payment method (like another credit card)

This, of course, is horribly bad practice. I can only imagine that they arrived at this very peculiar arrangement after extensive A/B testing - Uber has hired plenty of FB folks and those people tend to be really into that kind of thing. I haven't seen this kind of outright customer-hostility from a large Internet company.. well, ever, before.

So, no, I'm not surprised that this company is doing other unethical things - it sort of seems interwoven into their DNA.

There's so much selling in this post I get tired just by reading it.

They would operate a virtual machine-type layer on top of their actual linux machines. In the upper layer they could be doing whatever..

That doesn't say anything about the servers timezones. SMTP is a service on top of those.

Google App Engine + their other no-ops services. Google is way ahead in this area.

There is really not a shortage of open source high quality C64 emulators. Does this one bring anything unique to the table?

No. According to this document, there is always at least as much encryption with this proxy enabled as it is without.

They are pricing themselves out of the market for traffic-intensive small-fish operations that way though.

Tables? Frames? That stuff didn't exist in 1993.

(Tables first arrived in Mosaic 2.0 Alpha 8 in December 1994, according to http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/layout_tables/history...)

Modern "clone": http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2

What would that matter? It's the arguments which count, not what the person who wrote them "really thinks".

Most use cases or apps don't deal well with read latencies in the thousands of seconds...

From quickly reading the source code; it doesn't do any particularly clever optimizations. I'd file this in the "IP over pigeons" category.