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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: ProtonMail – Opinions?
Been using it for several months post-Gmail. I wouldn't expect all the bells and whistles of Gmail, but you get a solid, reliable, fast, and private email option. The mobile app is solid (though I _really_ wish conversation threading was better). And as @diehunde mentioned, you get @pm.me addresses (up to about 5 alternate email addresses). I don't regret my purchase and would buy again
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7 years ago
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on: E*Trade Is Close to Launching Cryptocurrency Trading
There seem to be ample comments discussing the "viability" of crypto trading/tokens, but if I'm Etrade, all I care about are the commissions - to hell with the underlying tech or what it can/can't do. Not even just for BTC, ETH, EOS, etc now, but for the coins to come in the future. Sure, they can have prolonged periods of low volume (even manipulated volume), but when there's a frenzy (e.g., 2016-2018), I imagine that the profit potential on commissions would do wonders for "shareholder value". Combine that with Etrade's namebrand (as mentioned in other comments) experience, and infrastructure, and you've got a gang of traders that would gladly do away with the sketchy/lesser-known exchanges for Etrade (my opinion).
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7 years ago
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on: ProtonMail now offers elliptic curve cryptography
As a PM customer of almost a year, I'd definitely say they should focus more efforts on the UI/UX as opposed to advancing the crypto for now. What's the point of having the world's most cryptologically advanced, unusable inbox. Specifically conversation threading/nesting. I don't expect everyone to be as streamlined as say a Gmail, but basic "1 conversation - 1 email" in the inbox would be nice for starters.
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do you learn a programming language (e.g. Rust) from a book?
I would suggest reading through and practicing some of the snippets as you go along (however, I would _not_ suggest doing the little projects, often they can get you sidetracked). By snippets I mean things like `foo.chars().iter()` and such to understand exactly what's going on underneath the hood when you use (for example) a `.chars()` or a `.iter()`.
But the book will only go so far. To take things further (especially with Rust), I suggest "reading code". There's plenty of it on Github. And I would definitely add that Rust devs in particular are usually better than most at commenting code (which helps).
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7 years ago
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on: Andrew Yang's Presidential Bid Is So 21st Century
Yea “good grades” people / “bad grades” (as I read it, and was intended) is clearly not meant as a play on intelligence
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7 years ago
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on: Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1B from the Government They Disavow
Wow thank you for this concise explanation
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7 years ago
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on: Southwest Boeing 737 Max Makes Emergency Landing After Engine Trouble
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7 years ago
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on: U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
I always found it interesting that "hating open office spaces" is one of those sort of biased-HN things, similar to general dislike/distrust of popular social media platforms. Virtually every parent comment on the thread is along the lines of "I don't like open offices", which is obviously fine, seeing as how
to each their own. However, I for one
LOVE open offices. The fact that I can see what's going on, feel the
vibe of the office, distract myself for a bit should I so choose to do so. Or even if I want to put my headphones in and turn the music all the way up, I have the option and I really enjoy it. To me, the open style makes the office feel like more of a community, as opposed to "an office" (similar to cubicles, offices, and mini-cubicles) and I absolutely enjoy that.
Side note: I'd be curious to see responses for office preference (open, or not open) distributed by age.
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7 years ago
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on: Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday
If you're a uMatrix fan, just open up the tool in your favorite browser (Chrome, Firefox, etc) and see what cost you pay for that Reddit service. Hint -
it ain't free. You pay in data. Reddit has a horde of remote JS embedded just waiting to read every single little thing you do on the platform
(Not saying Apple also isn't collecting various metrics, but certainly saying that Apple isn't trying to collect every little data point and sell to advertisers, like Reddit. Disclaimer - I <3 reddit)
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7 years ago
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on: Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years
I find it pretty shocking that other commenters are looking at this as excusable. I mean, is that OK/excusable at your company? Logging payloads/bodies of sensitive requests in plain text - 0 obfuscation. That's ok? Wow. Other commenters are saying "it's logging so it's a forgivable mistake". Is it though? Obviously the world won't end because of these decisions, but holy hell I can't believe this wasn't caught/brought up in some type of code review. This seems pretty 101-ish
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7 years ago
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on: Experts Keep Getting the Economy Wrong
Love the list/bulleted way that this is presented. Obviously missing a lot of granular points, but at a high level, I think this is spot on
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Annual Bonus Time, Team's Not Happy
All else aside, this would make for a pretty amazing answer to the "So why did you leave your last company?". I can't imagine the loyalty inspired by this type of "treat my team right or I'm out" mentality.
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7 years ago
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on: My Salary Progression in Tech
Thanks for sharing. My takeaway is that I'm happy to know that east coast co's are willing to go to that $180K+ level. Would be much more interested at that level on the east coast (e.g., VA) as opposed to an AirBnB level ($250K+) in SV.
