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That are not porn ads? No, I haven't found any. But you're 100% right, google is a dangerous predator monopoly

[Excentro]( http://www.excourse.com/excentro/ ) is fun specialized software for creating guilloche or "Spirograph" vector designs like you might see on bank notes and contracts and…

I do quite often, both because my content addiction requires more than the front page provides and my vanity likes the idea that my comment will be read by a lot of people if the p…

It didn't get off quickly. It's over day old and has 1665 points. HN news gradually get lower in the rank as they get older.

I like the idea of the bug database synchronized with the code base, becoming part of the documentation, but here are my concerns. Often people who are not developers put "issues" …

I think at a certain point you can only really act on <10 ideas and see them through in your entire lifetime. I would probably only give credence to ones that you think you'll real…

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I wrote two free books specifically on productized services. The first book discuss how to productize your services and hire and manage remote workers (and it covers the tools and …

So you’re not trying to maximize salary but care about equity? Not sure I understand. Equity at seed stage startups is like buying lottery tickets, with the main difference that ev…

The best setup acc to me for web is Firefox + uMatrix + CanvasBlocker + WebRTC Blocker + DecentralEyes + HTTPS Everywhere + Smart Referrer + StartPage / DuckDuckGo + any DNS over H…

Inserts would be in the hundreds to thousands max <10k a second tick data spread across <100 symbols. I generally only focus on 10 at a time but upscaling the window there for hist…

I never studied business, but did spend a couple years as a product manager working with MBAs, and what I was told --- this could definitely be wrong --- about business degrees and…

Mike Sipser's book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/113318779X

I already addressed your question in another comment, but I would like to write a second point: a book seems to me the wrong way to go. Unless your friend is a natural born comp. s…

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I set up my own FreshRSS instance and am adding more and more feeds to it. I found that suitable to give me a broad overview over news etc. But you will have to look for sources on…

My personal favorite Internet Hall of Fame member: https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/test1-test2

We re-upped the post as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

I wonder about the "you are now free to delete the certificate". Not everyone will do this if they aren't tech savvy enough, or don't care. This will mean 2 things 1. Those that do…

Cmd up arrow and cmd down arrow for navigating through folders and opening docs. I miss this so much when I using Windows

Imagine the mental gymnastic you have to go through to convince yourself that shootings are caused by cloudflare.... It's a societal issue, there are literally hundreds of measures…

You can lobby against it in the same fashion there was a small campaign against infinite scrolling portals. Also you can create an extension for yourself which rewrites the URL and…

s09dfhks 14 hours ago [-] Haven't totally automated my entire job but a small portion of what I do is configuring a fresh aws account some core services (SMTP, NTP, LDAP etc etc) a…

I suggest Clojure too. I have a few years of webservices production experience with Clojure and must say that everything was more than fine. You don't need to work too much with Ja…

There are euro hedged S&P 500 ETFs. One of them is this: https://us.spindices.com/indices/equity/sp-500-eur-hdg But, if I may ask. What is the specific reason you don't want curren…