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shamas··on Apple fined $8.5M for illegally collecting iPhone owners' data for ads
?? They've always taken data to sell ads, although they usually try to sell things from within their own ecosystem. Don't drink the koolaid
shamas··on Against 3x Speed
I do this, and I'm constantly in need of book recommendations. Please help
shamas··on js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
What is your automated deployment pipeline for this kind of website?
shamas··on js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
Why would most js heavy companies want content to be long lived? What's the benefit to them? If they're concerned about making data accessible then they'll open an API that they hold the keys to.
shamas··on js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
Why? Why should you be in a position to dictate to twitter how to operate. It's a multi-million dollar company with many smart people working away on the product. Who are you? If you just want walls of text and a completely unengaging product, stick to hackernews.
shamas··on js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.
Why would you browse the internet this way? Why not just enable the scripts and close the site if it's annoying?
shamas··on Why I’m Using C
That does give some food for thought. Of all the new language features, the elements I really need —functors, asynchronous syntactical sugar, and static null analysis— don't require much of the bloat found in many modern languages.
shamas··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
HYPR Corp | Fullstack Engineering roles | NYC, NY, USA | FULLTIME | VISA | Equity + Salary

HYPR (hypr.com) is the leading provider of True Password-less Security. HYPR is the first Decentralized Authentication Platform designed to eliminate credential reuse, fraud and phishing for consumers and employees across the enterprise. An industry leader in the FIDO Alliance.

HYPR is looking for a seasoned Fullstack Software Engineer who brings the very best to join our stellar team. This role is at HYPR’s world headquarters located in New York City. Relocation assistance for the right candidate will be provided.

This is a truly fullstack role helping across all major products. - Backend server automation Py+Shell - Backend development using latest Java+Kotlin frameworks - Frontend using ReactJS+Redux tech

Offering a great work life balance and offering high levels of ownership over projects.

This and other jobs listed at https://angel.co/hypr-corp/jobs/506271-full-stack-engineer

I'm a lead engineer at HYPR, please feel free to DM me via my profile here.

shamas··on Ask HN: Tricks to Avoid Eye Problems?
Eye stretching exercises. Focus on something as close as possible (in good light) then slowly track out to something at infinite distance, one eye then the other then both.

Additionally, make sure the contrast on the screen matches your surriundings! There's no reason to have your brightness very high at all, and brightness is different from contrast.

shamas··on New in Chrome 70
It can be used to access a company's own hardware.
shamas··on Google YOLO clickjacking
I'm perhaps not understanding the significance of this. Is the issue that if you go to a shitty scam site and start clicking things you might have issues?? I don't see how that's an issue to be solved by a browser.

Leaking your image and email is a huge issue though.

shamas··on Google YOLO clickjacking
Yeah, that took me a while to figure out just now. But I still don't see how that's an issue, I'm browsing on ycombinator.com, not ashittyiframesite.com
shamas··on Google Chrome whitelisted the “top 1000 sites” and broke less popular sites
Where the whitelist is stated https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/improving-autoplay-c...

I was really excited about this change, I'm a little disappointed that there wasn't more consideration of these niche web developers.

shamas··on The Future of Software Is No Code
I feel like CRUD web apps are pretty much automated already. You load in React or Vue or whatever, then you just write CSS and HTML in a copy paste style where you're copying from your brain. In fact! The automation has gone so far that people even specialize in using these new automation tools.

Typically they're referred to as designers and web engineers.

Dumb advertisement article...

shamas··on Software Complexity Is Killing Us
There are more technologies between C and a platform where you drag drop things... Who the hell develops with a drag drop interface?
shamas··on U.S. customs agents are searching more cellphones
You are wrong. Airports are not in the USA, so USA laws don't apply there. They can do whatever they wish, but they obviously generally act along the lines of acceptability. Please correct me if I am wrong.
shamas··on Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards
This is a fine example of what I was saying, this is people cramming money into something with the hope of getting rich in a short period of time. People getting in knew it was a high risk gamble. Not to mention that the tech industry is now one of the biggest on the planet. Is it still a bubble?

Edit: attempt to add clarity.

The core of what I'm trying to say is almost any increasing asset is labelled as a bubble now days. I'm not denying that there aren't shady investments that appear and collapse all the time, some are enormous, like the tech bubble.

But it requires further classification. There are gambling bubbles built by thousands of agents where some have seen astronomical profit, but then there seems to be more stable "bubbles" like all of the bubbles mentioned in the article.

A bubble isn't a bubble, not without further clarification.

shamas··on Australia's Economy Is a House of Cards
People have been crying "bubble" my entire life, and I'm yet to see one actually "burst".

The only things close to bubble bursts were scam driven things like the sub-prime mortgage collapse in the USA.

shamas··on Simple React Patterns
Correct me if I'm wrong, but these patterns don't seem very much like a Redux way to do things. A lot of things feel somewhat implicit too. For example, I stopped just spreading my state into the child component, opting to be explicit nearing verbose instead.
shamas··on Simple React Patterns
This is pretty straightforward es6. The difference between =>{} and just => is confusing at first. One is a function body and the other is an implied return statement.
shamas··on A 12pt Font Should Be the Same Size Everywhere (2012)
So this person is proposing that every random site gets to determine the size I want to have my font and wants to make it the same regardless of device? Way to only think of the designers.
shamas··on Show HN: How to ensure JavaScript code quality
I'm not sure what advantage this has over Flow and the usual JIRA ticket management.
shamas··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
But don't you just keep typing and it changes the previous word once the context is established? It checks context for 2-3 words. Just keep typing, bro. They've got your back.
shamas··on Dyslexia: scientists claim cause of condition may lie in the eyes
This feels like a scenario where something is so weird and surprising that it is almost certainly incorrect. Amazingly weird reasons are almost never the reason.
shamas··on Uber London loses licence to operate
Uber's response to the assault claims. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/vv598m/uber-drivers-a...

I suspect that this is actually behind doors shenanigans by the hands of incumbents.

Uber is big... They have many more rides than anyone else (outside of Central Central London), and there doesn't appear to be any evidence that more crime proportionally is happening with them than any other company.

shamas··on Uber London loses licence to operate
"healthy cab ecosystem"? Have you lived in outer London? If you're out as far as one of the houses outside Brixton, the cab system isn't even in existence, let alone healthy.
shamas··on Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others
This would certainly be interesting. One could even keep loading this up with different tax system. Also money could be injected into the system both at a small random rate externally and rarely as an innovation boom following a substantial loan.
shamas··on New technique enables safer gene-editing therapy using CRISPR
To me, it really feels like the people working on this are amongst the immensely tiny fraction of people doing something useful. I'm envious and I hope I can one day find a way to help fund those that are better than me.
shamas··on Functional programming in JavaScript is an antipattern
Just a note on immutability, I feel like this is pretty straightforward in ES6 (map, spread operator, and Object.assign) and will be more so with spread-operator for objects in ES7. Am I missing something?

I mean, you still have to THINK about whether you need to keep something immutable or not, but that's the difference between a junior developer and a more seasoned engineer, right?

shamas··on Hey programmers, we need to talk (2013)
It's a worry when people boil down human communication to pure information theory. This interwebs commenting platform is a human experience, and you're sharing and creating an experience for many others with your words; this does not appear to be covered as a consideration in your 3 categories.
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