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npiit | 5 years ago | on: Working Group Last Call: QUIC protocol drafts

The transition will be faster because of that a big chunck of the internet is gatewayed through a few big players (e.g. Cloudflare, AWS, CDNs, the new wave of static deployment services like Netlify and Zeit.co, big websites like google, facebook, netflix, etc...)

npiit | 5 years ago | on: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

I'd have agreed until I inspected the guy's business and it looks very established. 10 years old. 1 million visits in the last 3 months according to similarweb and nothing really suspicious if you look up his company in hn.algolia.com. Your comment is kinda paranoid but I understand it. Just try to look up the algolia website if you're suspicious of any company's activity.

npiit | 5 years ago | on: The Go Language was rid of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave

The term master/slave of all terms is widely used and established in many fields of EE and CS especially in networking. I was exposed to it since I was a college student endless times and never ever thought of it having any kind of racist meaning, and again, I have a dark skin myself. The term is used in thousands of seminal textbooks and published papers by many great scientists who worked for decades and retired without even thinking that this term could map to the history of racism in the US or anywhere else. What's next? should we organize book burning parties and burn the textbooks of Leslie Lamport and Donald Knuth because they contained the master/slave term?

These lousy radical groups are only brave at the things that don't fight back and are very dedicated to solving non problems and the rest of us is obliged to either bow to their irrational nonsense or labeled as racist by their primitive mob mentality.

npiit | 5 years ago | on: Brave’s browser has been autocompleting websites with referral codes

People, especially non-technical people, still don't ask themselves, how can a company be profitable from a browser? Especially if the browser itself is 100% made by another company but the license permits to be used and rebranded by others. Brave browser is nothing but skin and some config modifications to block Google tracking. But how can a company that raised 42 million dollars make money from a skin and some config modifications that can be developed by a student in his weekend?

The real business model of Brave is obviously to gain enough market share by smearing Google, the company that actually created and still developing the browser, and block its main resource of revenue, Adsense and then make money by replacing the blocked ads with their own, of course this time "private" ad platform. In the mean time they can play with cryptocoin scams but in the end this is the only viable business model. Take and rebrand a browser as "private" alternative to evil big corp that created the browser that their entire business relies on, block ads, wait until gain enough market share and then extort publishers and advertisers to migrate to their own ad platform.

npiit | 5 years ago | on: Why the developers who use Rust love it so much

I don't think that "marketing" is the right word for a FOSS project that is not affiliated with any for-profit entity and has no business strategy. Rust is truly loved by many who had the chance to work with it and that's why it's honestly promoted more than any other modern language.

npiit | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: interviewing.io is out of beta and open to engineers of all levels

I don't think practicing interviewing should be encouraged even though I know this has been done for years and years. If you want to end up working on something you actually love in a place you like, you should just learn what is interesting to you. Your "dream" job at a FAANG might be more unpleasant and boring than you've been expecting.

npiit | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Go Micro – A distributed systems development framework

Dunno why the adversity in the comments. Great job, OP. I think there is a real need for something like this as the GitHub stars show, I considered using Kubernetes itself as a distributed infrastructure but it may be a bit heavy for many use cases. I think this can be a serious alternative for distributed systems that do not have intention to be built over Kubernetes.

npiit | 5 years ago | on: A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere

All those people who downvoted me don't understand neither HTTPS nor how this addon works. The addon is only at value when you request an HTTP url for a website that doesn't automatically redirect you to the HTTPS url. It's almost useless since the vast majority of websites automatically redirect you.
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