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nsebban··on Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
Nice and Cannes, France are great places for conferences. We'll gladly have you guys over here :)
nsebban··on Why Everyone Missed the Most Important Invention in the Last 500 Years
> Without accounting there’s no commerce, no trade.

That's quite a bold statement.

nsebban··on Ask HN: What are we doing about Facebook, Google, and the closed internet?
Came to post this.

I have nothing against Github, but I wish developers knew better :/

nsebban··on Google Contributor: Buy an ad removal pass for the web
Hey, do you remember that time when people thought Google would never do any sketchy or annoying stuff to their users ? That's now so far away...
nsebban··on 22-Year-Old Lidar Whiz Claims Breakthrough
You guys seem to have amazingly interesting jobs. Please hire me, I'm your future-colleague.
nsebban··on Lincoln Said What? Bogus Quotations Take On A New Life On Social Media
68%, actually.
nsebban··on Google starts tracking what people buy in physical stores
It also requires trivial opt-out and readability of the opt-ins.

And it gives enough power to really control what companies are doing with people's data. And the fines are huge (up to 3% of the company's global gross amount) compared to what exists today.

nsebban··on Introducing Token
AFAIK Bitcoin early-mined blocks were mined and are still owned by its creator. So it's perfectly ok to be cynical about Bitcoin as well.

Edit: Some details here https://bitslog.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-well-deserved-f...

nsebban··on Me and SVG
The whole story could have a way better outcome if you replace SVG with an area of expertise that helps companies create value :/
nsebban··on Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
These two are in my bookmarks, and often have quite interesting reads.

http://www.gereports.com/

https://www.ge.com/digital/blog/blogger/ge

Any other interesting G-E sites I'm missing ?

nsebban··on Cache eviction: when are randomized algorithms better than LRU? (2014)
When the cost of retrieving an item from your slower storage is pretty much the same for every item, may it be old or new, small or big, popular or not.
nsebban··on Improving startup time in Atom with V8 snapshots
Your solution is a good one, but I get kind of sad when I remember the context : launching a text editor :/
nsebban··on What’s New in Bash/WSL and Windows Console
This is usually because, by default on many Linux flavours, the current directory is not included in your path environment variable.
nsebban··on Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)
You could "compile" your animation as an executable file, as well as an SWF file.
nsebban··on Show HN: The 8 hour diet web app
Genuinely curious : what type of coffee has fat in it ?
nsebban··on Material Design Color Tool
Not sure why your comment gets downvoted. It's a fair point, especially since non-geek people don't have a clue who produces the apps they have installed on their smartphone.
nsebban··on What is this colored fiber in my chicken?
People fry red meat ?!

I have spent much time in the US, but I think I have never seen that...in restaurants at least. And I'm kinda glad I didn't.

nsebban··on Uber's experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice drivers
Probably back when they were focused on disrupting a market, more than on improving their operations in kind-of shady ways ?
nsebban··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
The most perfectly designed thing is IMO the HB or 2B paper pencil. This kind : http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/20000/velka/pen...
nsebban··on Freenom World – A fast and anonymous Public DNS resolver
Writing "fast" and "anonymous" on a product doesn't magically make it fast or anonymous. Why would I trust this service ?
nsebban··on App.net is shutting down
MMW : This domain will be sold a fortune.
nsebban··on Just how smart is an octopus?
You'd be surprised how interesting a pig can be as a pet. They show amazing social behaviours, and they also seem to be quite good at understanding simple spoken communication.
nsebban··on Amazon LightSail: Simple Virtual Private Servers on AWS
It seems to me the exact same service existed already, by picking a stack on Bitnami's website, and single-click-launching it on AWS. The price structure is clearer on Lightsail though.
nsebban··on Ask HN: Which web stack should I learn for personal projects?
Server-side :

- Node.js is great if you like JS. It couples really well with MongoDB (see MEAN stack).

- Play Framework is quite nice if you want to stick to Java.

Client-side :

- React is...well you tried it.

- Vue.js is great.

nsebban··on Ask HN: Would you launch a startup with .xyz TLD?
Contrary to popular belief, your TLD isn't that important. Keep in mind most people will get to your website by following links, and rarely by typing the URL.

Focus on your service's quality more than your TLD. You won't regret it.

nsebban··on SQL Server on Linux – How I think they did it
Dismissing a direct port because it's "hard, [..] time consuming and risk prone" ?!

When it comes to porting database software between OSes, abstraction is IMO the risk prone option.

nsebban··on Why I'm Deleting My Reddit Account If Huffman Stays
Do people really have to tell the whole world when they decide to stop using a service ?
nsebban··on Algorithm on how to find the day of a week
Link needs fixing.
nsebban··on Show HN: Email hasn't changed in 20 years, I've coded something new for 9 months
You may want to aggressively filter the amount of emails you're going to index, then. It's not rare that people have inboxes bigger than 10Gb.

To be honest, I think email search is something even Google hasn't succeeded yet. The way it's introduced on your homepage makes me think you have succeeded...but it will definitely be HARD to scale if your service becomes popular.

nsebban··on Show HN: Email hasn't changed in 20 years, I've coded something new for 9 months
The front-end part looks ok to me. I hope your invite queue advances quickly enough so I can try it soon.

The instant-meeting-setup feature is nice, but the main email/agenda solution have this covered in an acceptable way already, IMO.

I know for a fact that providing a search feature in a mail service isn't an easy problem to solve. Can you tell us a bit about the infrastructure behind this service ?

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