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It's an odd term, but one that inadvertently brings attention to concerns such as privacy and identity persistence. Such concerns are far less obvious to laypeople when terms like …

Sometimes it really shows that many early Wikipedia articles were someone's labor-of-love about a relatively obscure topic, and even today there's uneven levels of notability acros…

The clearest benefit of conferences for developers is networking and the "hallway tracks" -- the emergent discussions that arise after talks. The social processes of these are hard…

This whole case is contrived, and both actors acted in bad faith, so the outcome will be troubling no matter what. If Oracle wins, others can claim that their API is copyrighted an…

In a JWS the header is integrity-protected by the signature if the alg isn't none. This is prominently noted in the specs and alg=none artifacts are referred to as "unsecured JWS".…

Most people use the JWT compact serialization, which cannot carry the unprotected header at all. If you're exchanging JWT compact tokens, the header is protected by the signature o…

Much of the ahead-of-the-curve, aspirational tech stack posts featured on HN are the blogging equivalent of Instagram-polished shots. On a personal blog they're equal parts self-ex…

I'm a SoFi Money customer. PayPal Cash Plus has a ton of features, but there's lots of fees [1][2]. You earn no interest. It's not a good deal, other than it being familiar. Square…

See the history of the Stabilization Act of 1942 [1] and Executive Order 9250. Wages were frozen by law, but not benefits, so companies began offering benefits, including health in…

"Classic" ones: Schwab [1], Fidelity [2]. Vanguard recently announced they're discontinuing theirs [3]. New ones: Square Cash [4], PayPal Cash Plus [5], SoFi Money [6], Aspiration …

It's disruptive as this kind of product moves downmarket, at least in the sense of mindshare and marketing, if not always in terms of customer segment. These accounts may be common…

I didn't see 'cash management accounts' on the list, but I think these are among the best products. They're not too common, but more are appearing now. There's the classic ones tha…

Tumblr's adult content ban was likely a last-ditch effort by Tumblr, encouraged by owner Verizon, to salvage some business value out a hectic social (re-)blogging site that seemed …

The author is clearly passionate and brings a lot of detail, but it was always my amateur impression that Walmart won primarily on footprint. They covered the country in stores, an…

Not sure if the comparison to Conway's Law works. The key goal of layering is abstraction, so that one can be productive without having to know details about the layers below, but …

Discord hits a sweet spot of design choices that make sense for online friends occasionally intermingling with strangers on the Internet. It's free and has share-URLs to onboard in…

I agree with the points raised in the writing, but it mixes automation, abstraction, and industry consolidation as if they weren't separate processes. As such, the transformation b…

1. Communicating clearly in 'business language' is essential when the junior developer interfaces directly -- not through an intermediary -- with business people and stakeholders. …

Well, the people who dismissed the term 'serverless' early on as trite, misleading, and vague were proven right: these days it's a cloudy notion about something loosely cloud-relat…

In a typical BigCo, much of the "soft service" processes are run by their own group, far removed from the reach of the automation implementers whether they're internal or external.…

Many people can and do go elsewhere, because an individual can have presence on multiple platforms. And while one's social graph in different platforms looks different and is missi…

I don't know the economics terminology, but perhaps average people are just decent at exploiting opportunity? In this study a third party paid out the second-lowest amount to the b…

The author raises some good points about a few gatekeepers controlling the majority of the audience, but then condemns recommendation algorithms and believes no one has attempted t…

People don't download Chrome because EdgeHTML-Edge sucks; they download Chrome because it's familiar, and ironically doesn't nag the person to enable half a dozen Microsoft's servi…

The relevant quote from this version [1] is: > "The definition of online content sharing service providers under this Directive does not cover microenterprises and small sized ente…