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rafaelcosta

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About rafaelcosta

Software Engineer

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    Comment #48515608

    I don’t think that it is reductionist at all. The examples provided are either qualified with “dedicated” or “many of”. It’s also not surprising at all that people who have an inte…

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    Comment #48458920

    ”Facebook is paying out to creators of monetized content because that content is popular” Would also work as a headline. But wouldn’t attract as many clicks I guess. The implicatio…

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    Comment #47601138

    As it should. Date notwithstanding, I would actually enjoy if there was a manually induced latency penalty for "legacy IP" that needs to be manually turned off on Linux. I know som…

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    Comment #47231336

    Is it just for me that `kmph` stood out? Seems like such a cursed way of saying kph or km/h.

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    Comment #46856396

    Extremely bad timing on my end then, should've waited for a few more days

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    Comment #46033170

    I don't get why this applies on the Cloudflare outage but not on the AWS ones... I'd argue that the big cloud providers are WAY more impactful when they go down than Cloudflare. Th…

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    Comment #46004455

    AirDrop works via AWDL, I think you're just wrong...

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    Comment #44680953

    There's a reason why this went from widely supported/used to... not so much. And even if most people claim it's big-co's locking down their ecosystems (which is partly true), the "…

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    Comment #43854943

    Easy from your point of view... This is the argument I mostly hear from Apple folks, but my experience (especially with less tech savvy folks) is that they have no idea where or ho…

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    Comment #43854928

    Right now, yes, but there's a potential to: - Most legit services move to a web based Apple Pay (note to the unaware reader: this is NOT In-App Purchases and has never had 30% fees…

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    Comment #43854717

    There's a whole class of sh*t-software that only exists (and is profitable) because users subscribe to them and then forget – primarily because the subscription fee is charged as "…

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    Comment #43536749

    Aren’t decane and dodecane present in fossil fuels?

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    Comment #43023548

    I'm wondering what the "because when we read it in, we mangle it" part really means... does this mean that there's no way to reference the commit (signaling that it's just a refere…

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    Comment #41044115

    Let's go back to each city having its own time. _Because making train companies happy is so much more important than making users happy?_ All jokes and "snarkiness" aside, it's jus…

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    Comment #39891623

    I hope no one falls for this (check the date). Straight out of Hunt for Red October! : P

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    Comment #20921951

    Except Positive Cashflow != Profitability. ;)