stevenwliao

328 karma · joined January 9, 2015

Software engineer (Google, Twitter, Doordash). I like distributed systems and marketplaces.

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stevenwliao··on The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard

The first mainstream browsers with support: Chrome and Edge!

https://caniuse.com/#feat=loading-lazy-attr

stevenwliao··on Ever Loved’s funeral marketplace undercuts undertakers

(YC S19)

stevenwliao··on Essential shutting down after failing to launch ‘GEM’ smartphone

The first phone only sold 150,000 units over its lifetime, even after a fire sale. It's reasonable to conclude that iterating on the same concept won't create enough sales.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/andy-rubi...

stevenwliao··on Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

At that point, if you then build your own, you're still ahead.

stevenwliao··on Will Spotify Ruin Podcasting?

Distribution is "real work". Artists can publish under their own label, but finding and reaching an audience is hard work.

stevenwliao··on Thank HN: My SaaS paid my rent this month

> rename "amateur"

Possibly "starter"

stevenwliao··on SMS is not 2FA-secure

Which common cases does the insurance cover? What uncommon cases does it not?

How do you protect against an insider attack?

stevenwliao··on First Earth-Size World in the 'Habitable Zone' Found

Are planets that are earth-sized more likely to contain life than ones without?

stevenwliao··on Chrome OS has stalled out

There's a direct link at the "x days ago" timestamp:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21935330

stevenwliao··on Downsides to working at a tech giant

What are the right metrics to look at for growth?

stevenwliao··on Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for building your next app?

Why would you write a test instead of a type declaration if you had the choice?

stevenwliao··on Shopping Sucks Now

Overall, what you can buy with a little research is much better in 2019 than 1999, even with the lemons and fake reviews.

stevenwliao··on Shopping Sucks Now

Shopping sucks less now. Wider selection and more transparent information means that you can make a better choice today. If the author stops looking for the absolute best item, they'll find that it's a great world for the satisficing consumer.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satisficing.asp

stevenwliao··on Security and Cryptography Mistakes You Are Probably Doing All the Time

There's no comments in the Slashdot thread, we should update the URL to https://towardsdatascience.com/security-and-cryptography-mis...

stevenwliao··on Slack to Bring Back Optional Markdown Editor

> After the decision was criticized by O’Dwyer and others (and after this article was published), Slack told Motherboard that it would switch gears and provide an option to bring the old interface back.

stevenwliao··on The 40% Keyboard

https://www.gboards.ca/product/ginni

I hear you can still get one before Christmas if you order soon :P

stevenwliao··on In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

Do companies delete paid users' most important data for billing failures? I can't recall such a case.

Still, if you're willing to handle the availability and security concerns yourself, going self-hosted could work.

stevenwliao··on Back to Windows after twenty years

> The first version of WSL is marred with terrible file-system performance...

Does anyone know why this is and how it can be fixed? (Either by the Windows team or by end users)

stevenwliao··on Ask HN: What to Choose for a side project? Vue, React, Angular?

Also, if you already know at least one, choose the one you know best.

stevenwliao··on We're Incentivizing Bad Science

We need to incentivize thorough reviews as well.

stevenwliao··on Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow

It's softer than the original proposal: instead of archiving an answer (reducing vote weight to 0) at an arbitrary time, we do it gradually at an arbitrary rate.

stevenwliao··on Ask HN: We need a better alternative for Q/A than stackoverflow

We can get the most relevant answers on top if the algorithm decays voting power for historical votes. Fresh votes will keep relevant answers at the top.

stevenwliao··on Ask HN: As a developer, what attracts you to a platform?

- Makes development/deployment simpler

- Tested in production

- Activity that gives the impression that it will be maintained

stevenwliao··on YC Fall Hackathon 2019

> [we're] hosting it in Mountain View from 11/22-11/23 (evening to evening)

stevenwliao··on Modern Script Loading

It's great to take an idealistic stance here. I just wanted to point out a potential cost to this approach.

stevenwliao··on Modern Script Loading

It's also possible that all of your potential users who were using outdated browsers left...

stevenwliao··on Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Users' Data

How much text can you fit on 94cm^3 of paper?

stevenwliao··on ORMs Are Backwards

What are some heuristics to determine which way fits the current business problem (and future business problems)?

stevenwliao··on Rest-client gem is hijacked

The salts should be different for each user, specifically to deter brute forcing of this nature.

The only time you would have access is when the user logs in, so for rarely logged in users you would have to proactively reset their password or cross your fingers.

stevenwliao··on Ask HN: Given that I am a Software Engineer, how could I help humanity the most?

https://80000hours.org/ has a list of most important priorities and an explanation of why they chose those priorities.

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