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wharfjumperon Ask HN: Did Twilio abandon SendGrid?

Would you be willing to share your requirements?

wharfjumperon Ask HN: What do you consider the best way to protect a SaaS from bots?

We're developing a product in this area and I'd love to discuss some ideas with you. Email me if interested (details in profile).

wharfjumperon Ask HN: Is Unlimited PTO a Scam

In most organisations where I've worked, there are a number of people who have very large leave balances that have to be forced to take time off. This presumably wouldn't occur where there is unlimited PTO because there is no liability accruing.

wharfjumperon Anybody else thought about switching to/trying the Edge browser for a second?

Yes. It is my primary source of news from which I discover something useful at least once a week.

wharfjumperon Ask HN: Which headset do you use for work?

I use these too and recommend them. They connect to phone and laptop simultaneously which is handy. And they have a busy indicator on the headset which I've waited years for. Rotating the microphone boom up mutes them which is also useful. Not noise cancelling microphone though so probably not suitable for noisy environments.

wharfjumperon Excel will allow certain auto data conversions to be turned off

Prefix with ' or format the column as Text

wharfjumperon Show HN: I made an all-in-one desktop app with a no-BS approach to get work done

I would try this app but use Linux desktop exclusively

wharfjumperon Ask HN: How do I stop companies from scraping my site?

CloudFlare Turnstile may help. Presumably it would require some coding by you to only display content once the test is passed by the client. I am not affiliated with CloudFlare in any way. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/

wharfjumperon Ask HN: Work for mgr who's never heard of Joel Spolsky?

Been in tech for 3 decades. Use Stack Overflow almost daily. Embarrassed to admit I've never before heard of Joel Spolsky.

wharfjumperon Atlassian Acquires Loom

So someone spent $205m in 2021 and got $133m back in 2023? My guess is that Atlassian does a similar write down in a few years time. I hope the winners in this deal try to make the world a better place.

wharfjumperon The Rules of Margin Collapse

Ardour[1] is Digital Audio Workstation software with a GPLv2 licence. Surprised I've never heard of it before. [1] https://ardour.org

wharfjumperon Go to Chrome://settings/adPrivacy to turn off the spyware that in Chrome

Ask Google

wharfjumperon ServiceNow Insecure Access Control to Full Admin Takeover

Can you elaborate? A customer is in the process of implementing (Tokyo version?) it and it seems to have an intuitive, responsive UI. I'm judging it against Atlassian and Oracle EBS so I have low expectations.

wharfjumperon Ask HN: Is there an e-commerce platform that doesn't suck?

Do you (or anyone) have feedback about Odoo? I've read quite a bit of bad feedback online.

wharfjumperon Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months

NZ new BEV registrations June 2023. 1. Tesla 2. BYD 3. Hyundai [1] [1] https://evdb.nz/ev-new-cars

wharfjumperon SEC notifies SolarWinds CISO and CFO of possible action in cyber investigation

Will we see the SEC issue proceedings against Microsoft?

wharfjumperon Show HN: Jonline, AGPLv3 Social Network Built with Rust, Flutter, React, gRPC

Be careful what you wish for!

Dead for me

wharfjumperon Ask HN: Which is a better unified API platform?

Pricing?

wharfjumperon Show HN: Similarity Search Engine for Equities

How is the similarity score calculated? Nike and Google have about the same similarity score relative to Apple.

wharfjumperon Show HN: Similarity Search Engine for Equities

Apparently a 10-K is a detailed financial report for US public companies https://www.investopedia.com/terms/1/10-k.asp

wharfjumperon Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great

I think the logical flaw is in the assumption that AML checks are a bug in traditional money transfer systems when in fact they are a government-imposed feature (largely following on from September 11 and the expanded scope of the FATF[1]). Therefore the same rules will eventually apply to cryptocurrency financial transactions negating many of the advantages that an unregulated process has when compared to a regulated one.

So the real question is: what is the technological benefit offered by decentralized ledger-type technologies versus traditional ones? The answer for many is that the technology is much worse in fundamental ways. Additionally the governance issues of a decentralized system or organization are very challenging to address.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Action_Task_Force

wharfjumperon Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker

Because ChatGPT assembles letters into words and sentences without attribution and so is untrustworthy.

wharfjumperon Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead

Can you provide some examples of creativity that you think a machine will never have?

wharfjumperon The DVD’s demise leaves many films gone with the wind

Are you hopeful that all books written more than 40 years ago are purged too?

wharfjumperon Show HN: Logto v1.2.0

How does this compare to Ory etc?

wharfjumperon Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu

I hope Microsoft continues to degrade Windows which will result in improved competition.

wharfjumperon Deposit insurance maximization as a service

Too many words for my limited brainpower.

wharfjumperon Ask HN: WWYD? Built a company valued at $1B and may walk away with nothing

You ask "WWYD?". I would secure the funding and then leave immediately.

But my opinion is irrelevant. What you should do depends on what's important to you. Money, health, family, career, status, mission etc. You have achieved something incredible and learned more than you can probably appreciate right now. I wish you well.

wharfjumperon The day Windows died

This is not my experience either personally, or with my 70yo father in law, or employees all running Linux distros. The experience is excellent apart from battery life. My son who games on Windows hates its constant random 100% CPU usage and compulsory reboots.

wharfjumperon TikTok Broke Social Media

Why is TikTok unique in that regard?