vmateixeira

Just out of curiosity, when would you think these prototypes should be best built? Surely not on my free time, right?

If the company is not interested on listening to new ideas, and you're keen on participating in something you would like to help build, then perhaps this is not the right company for you.

In your opinion, would that apply to web APIs too?

How many ways are there to write a create user API besides POST /user/?

Does that mean every company should then be taken to coury as well?

I agree, I think people should start thinking more often what garbage would they not have bought if they hadn't seen that ad.

"Do I really need that dog backpack? How many times will I ever use it? Would I actually have needed it if I didn't know it existed in first place?"

People pay attention to ads precisely because they constantly steal your attention.

You know that Facebook still collects information about you, even though you may not even have an account, right?

[1] http://fortune.com/2018/04/11/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-data-...

[2] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/you-give-apps-sensitive-persona...

Not displaying properly for me.

Thanks, much appreciated! Prefer this to all that JS non-sense.

The page shows no content.. in the other hand, my ad-blocker just blocked 125 external requests...

"A Simple Makefile" .. not that simply exposed.

Tell people about it.

Let it grow from being just your vision to become a small group's vision.

They're session security is hilarious.. a session token is still valid for at least 6 hours after logging out.. even after their humorous advice to close all browser tabs (which as expected doesn't do anything server side)

Fun fact: both books have precisely 1082 pages.

My machines?

I would say greediness.

Back in 2015 I ordered a Vodafone Pre-paid SIM to a friends address and that was how I got "my proof of address".

If a company has money to hire lawyers to make an extra 200 pages of T&Cs, I'm sure they will have the money to argue that those pages are "concise, transparent, intelligible, easily accessible, and it must use clear and plain language".

Maybe a better source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-facebook-...

Yes. 1366x768 and 1920x1080.

That's my point ;)

Edit: To clarify, on a 16:9 the playable area is far from being vertically centered.

I hate having my scroll hijacked

When your cousin's software consultancy company is hired...

Reminds me of old computer magazines like BYTE and Macworld. Context is something completely ignored these days.

This isn't new..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16428671

I would be interested to know how would these autonomous cars/trucks behave on non-linear roads, with potholes, adverse conditions, etc

What kind of problem are these companies trying to address that hasn't been addressed yet?

Will these trucks be a replacement for trains? I can see the later ones being way more easy to automate (e.g. London Overground)

I share your opinion.

Also, I never understood what kind of problem companies are trying to solve with self driving cars to be honest. Traffic in cities will be the same, if not worse. And I consider driving as one of the things I really enjoy doing. Why take that away?

It seems to me that their marketing is really working.. they just got to HN front page and I'm sure almost everyone reading couldn't resist googling them ;)

Exposure period

End result != motivation

Bad at making profit doesn't necessarly means you're not-for-profit.

Also from the article:

"What they told people at the time was we're going to use this data to improve services. But now thanks to [Sky News] investigative reporting, we find out that it's partly to improve the services, but also it's to exploit people's data for revenue, doing advertising."

Another alternative:

https://mremoteng.org/

Thanks for sharing your experience! :)

Funny now that you mention.. I've been doing less and less side projects since my life got 'invaded' by social media. I wonder if I'm suffering from a similar problem...