grantism | 1 year ago | on: API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
What's stopping the MITM just copying that header?
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grantism | 2 years ago | on: San Francisco Homeowners Lose $260B in Value
Do junior FAANG engineers have to pick up human waste? IMO, "dirty work" deserves the paycheck.
grantism | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some good tech magazines?
I didn't know this existed until clicking your link.
Looking through a few of the issues, there's whole bunch of really interesting articles.
It's a shame it's not still going.
grantism | 4 years ago | on: Spotify is retiring Car View, and users are understandably pissed
The main things that come to mind for me are:
1. Sometimes Spotify will refuse to play certain songs & won't give any indication of why. Closing and reopening the app seem to fix it. Or sometimes switching to a different device fixes it.
2. My listening history isn't carried across devices for some reason.
3. The contents of "daily mixes" and other generated playlists seem to change depending on the device being used.
It's not quite enough to make me use a different service, but it's annoying not being able to just pick up my phone and continue where I was on my computer
grantism | 7 years ago | on: Red Flags Signaling That a Rebuild Will Fail
No necessarily. It depends on what has lead to the need for a rebuild. Sometimes there weren't previously the resources to "do things properly", Sometimes a feature might only added for a specific client, etc.
You need that previous knowledge to know the "why" of things & if that why is still valid.
IMHO it's more dangerous if you're working with experts who don't want to improve the system.
grantism | 10 years ago | on: Thank you for ad blocking
for me incentive would be to show support for websites and advertising platforms who are 'doing the right thing'.
Very occasionally, I even see an ad that is useful to me as well.
grantism | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)
this is such a great idea!
it would be great to be able to choose a series of events (e.g. d-day or the Beatles tour in 1967) and see the progression of events across a map in the order they happened.
or to get a cross section of all the events that happened on a given date around the world or in a chosen area.
edit: after exploring further I realise some of this is already possible. again, a great idea!
grantism | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)
I Had this idea ages ago, but waited too long to start building it.
search for recipes based on the ingredients you have: http://chowdown.co
grantism | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Your favorite to-do list or task manager?
I use wunderlist on my iOS devices and my windows PC at work.
I like it because it offers automatic synching over multiple devices as well as making it easy to separate out each of the projects I'm working on.
grantism | 13 years ago | on: The maker/manager transition phase
I totally agree with this.
There is no bigger disservice to your team or company than being the guy in charge whose knowledge is 10 years out of date.
That doesn't just apply to technical things either. It's an easy example to talk about the project manager who cut his teeth writing procedural code in QBASIC and has an unrealistic grounding. It also applies to the store manager in a fast food restaurant who hasn't made a cheeseburger.
grantism | 14 years ago | on: High Traffic Content Site - Who to sell to?
Is it not a possibility for you to transistion out of actively running/managing the site and hand it off to someone else who will actively grow the site whilst maintaining the income and allowing you to follow your new idea?
This way you can make sure you get a decent price AND sell to the 'right buyer' rahter than just cashing out and potentially leaving your community in the lurch.
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