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proexploit

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Product Manager with a focus on user experience
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proexploit··on Glitch effect on text in pure CSS
It's not replaced, it's in addition to the text. The HTML gives you one copy in black, then ::before & ::after are used to create copies in red and lime green. Partially showing those copies is what give you the glitch effect.

`::before & ::after` are pseudo-elements and a very common way of creating independently styleable elements when doing CSS effects like this

`content` is a property you can use to add text to those elements (he could have also just written `content: 'Artificial Truth';` if he preferred - having it as a data-attribute puts it right next to the "real" text and makes things easier to maintain)

`attr(data-text)` sets the value of content to the value of an attribute of the HTML. data-* is a common convention for creating value that aren't used for display. It is not possible, to my knowledge, to access the text contained within the `<h1>` with CSS only, hence the above choices.

proexploit··on Tiny
They're definitely related (and more so the closer to start a business is). Depending on the business you may be benefiting from research, product/market fit, marketing, experiments, and on and on.

It's not that the stuff you would do isn't relevant to starting your business but that it's not the complete picture.

proexploit··on Tiny
I think it's a lot harder to pick a good business than you think. Many "micro" sized businesses have significant issues and avoiding them requires you to know all the right questions to ask.

If you are able to make the right pick and the size of the deal is something you're comfortable seeing go to zero, it may be a good learning experience.

However, you'll be learning to acquire and keep a business alive, not start a business through this. Some things may remain the same depending on the stage of the business but if you're looking for experience starting a business, I think starting on and failing will be better training (and free)

proexploit··on Ask HN: Do FAANG and hire designer developers?
I've worked at Google as a UX Engineer and really enjoyed the role. It's closer to coding than design but if you have strong design skills that may be something you can choose to do differently.

My job was best described as a prototyper specifically. Embedded in a UX team, I worked on prototypes of new features, prototypes for new research and internal tools to assist the UX team (for example, better visual design and motion specification for engineers).

My take was also that non-FAANG companies don't often have enough prototyping work for a full time prototyper so this is a role that's most often seen in large organizations.

Other than that, you won't see a lot of the role. If you're a designer and developer, you've spent time learning both disciplines. Many who have focused just on one discipline may have a greater skillset purely due to time spent learning and executing.

At the end of the day it all comes to down to the individual and the specific team. As a PM now, I greatly value engineers with an eye for UX and designers with an understanding of code which would make me more likely to hire you but the role would still be just for an engineer or a designer.

proexploit··on Ask HN: Why drive users away from the login button?
The emphasis of any one element detracts from the others. In many websites, emphasizing the signup button is achieved by de-emphasizing the login button.

Imagine a page with 100 highly visible buttons. It would be extremely difficult to determine which one is likely to be the important action you want at a glance. The same principle applies with 2 buttons, just to a lesser extent.

proexploit··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Thank you! That's the right link.
proexploit··on Ask HN: Are there 'dumb' ways to make money as a developer in your spare time?
Your personal example seems simple enough, the other 2 seem like massive undertakings for one person though. I'm sure they started simpler. Are you willing to share any profit or traffic stats about your site?
proexploit··on Why Dropbox is Failing
But your application could store them there... I don't think the use case most users are looking for is to have a magic Drive folder that automatically processes purchase orders when they're added.

That's also not what the parent comment I commented on was referring to.

proexploit··on Why Dropbox is Failing
Google Drive has an application data folder that is a separate permission from reading and writing all your files: https://developers.google.com/drive/web/appdata
proexploit··on Anti-Uber Taxi Protest Blocks Access to Paris’s Roissy Airport
Actually yes. You're emailed a receipt with a map that includes the route you took. If you have any complaints, you can email them and they'll usually adjust your rate.

(I don't know if that's a formal guarantee but it's my experience)

proexploit··on Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool
I'm not sure I consider that to be true. Why is pixel perfection out-dated?
proexploit··on Google Makani – Wind Energy Kites
Would you willing to provide me any detail about the issues you run into with Gmail?
proexploit··on The Best of Material Design, Daily
And force the developer of every app to do two complete themes (assuming they have some branding / color scheme)? While I agree it would be nice if everyone did have the option, I don't think it makes sense as a requirement.
proexploit··on The new Google Contacts
Which also exists but is probably only exciting if you're diabetic: http://googleblog.blogspot.ch/2014/01/introducing-our-smart-...
proexploit··on Stripe refusing access to cards, have a contact so we can avoid a public post?
This is the impression I got as well. Stripe's policy seems to agree to export the cards but that doesn't mean you can pick any format and requirements you want and they have to follow them.

Chase needs the cards in a specific way but without more information it's hard to make the claim that's the only way acceptable by law.

If Stripe is unwilling to do extra work with Chase to get cards exported, that doesn't seem to be "refusing to transfer credit cards to another merchant per their policy".

Can you provide some more information on what part of the transfer they object too?

proexploit··on Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains
> Of course, it's possible more companies have challenged this secret surveillance, but we just don't know about it yet.

And no other mention of Google in the article. Great that Yahoo fought them but it doesn't support your assertion that Google immediately gave in or cares less for privacy than Yahoo.

Even better, the same source you provided (EFF's Who Has Your Back report: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013) gives this as Yahoo's only positive mark while Google is 5/6.

proexploit··on Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains
> Yahoo is definitely not good on privacy, but at least they fought as hard as they could before their hand was forced where google capitulated immediately.

Can you share a source for that?

proexploit··on Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains
Why not? I consider sofa and couch to be synonyms. This lets me do two searches in one.
proexploit··on Amazon Fire TV Stick
Out of curiosity, why don't you get a Chromecast or why doesn't it meet your needs?
proexploit··on Google Inbox
Why are you concerned with the amount of information it can hold if you only ever have 5 emails in your inbox?
proexploit··on IRIS+
People carrying out assassinations don't exactly care about flight regulations.
proexploit··on Show HN: Soothe – Uber for Massages
Alarming only if it contributes to therapists making minimum wage which is not a given. Otherwise, I love not having to deal with tips. I wish every service had tips baked in and we could do away with them entirely.
proexploit··on What happens when National Geographic steals your art?
Whenever I see an article like this where only one side of an email chain is posted, it makes me question the content. The start of the NG email reads "I must respectfully disagree with the implication set forth in your reply email that statutory damages for willful infringement in the range of $150,000 per work are applicable to this situation.". That makes it sound as though his email may have just reach out and said "You guys are so screwed, you do realize stealing my shit is going to cost you $150k right?". How would that prompt anything other than a carefully crafted response from a legal team?
proexploit··on What happens when National Geographic steals your art?
The license isn't based on the amount of sales. He licenses it for $300. I get that NG has more money than he does but I don't think it's relevant in this situation.
proexploit··on Show HN: Memory Chimp – How good is your working memory?
Just add <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" /> to the <head>. Cool game!
proexploit··on How Google's Autonomous Car Passed the First U.S. State Self-Driving Test
I believe that there's many many more jobs at risk but it doesn't need to be a bad thing. Once a robot can accept orders and cook a burger as well as a McDonalds employee, won't we lose them too? Many many jobs will be automated.

As a society we need to find a way to handle this so that people out of work have their needs met and aren't just left to starve but I'm not sure we can expect to keep employment so high.

proexploit··on Ask HN: Which is harder Front end or Back end?
A single device that can be any out of 100's of devices with different browsers, screen sizes, densities and capabilities...
proexploit··on Hacker Says He Can Break Into Airplane Systems Using In-Flight Wi-Fi
IIRC, the legal requirement is to shut down with both conditions are present, some GPS manufacturers simply found it easier to implement each restriction separately.
proexploit··on Google Shopping Express
They do now. I've ordered it. If I had to guess, I imagine it's not a legal requirement you want to tackle right away when you're just getting started.
proexploit··on Show HN: A book about the Meteor.js framework – available online for free
Since you mentioned it, I wanted to highlight the Discover Meteor book as well. I went through it when they had the free access weekend a while back and found it extremely informative and helpful to the point I purchased it afterwards.

This one looks great as well from a first glance so I'm excited to check it out.

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