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HappyTypist··on S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate
And also, good luck convincing people that you're dumping alphabet and Berkshire Hathaway.
HappyTypist··on S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate
They don't arbitrary choose however. They have published and objective criterias, and they're not singling out SNAP but it is literally the first big stock without ANY voting rights so theyve decided to draw the line now.
HappyTypist··on Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
That's so minute. Different fonts, typography, page layout, structure, etc all improve uniqueness and memorability.
HappyTypist··on Why I left Medium and moved back to my own domain
You are off by four orders of magnitudes

DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode: $0.02 per GB over your transfer limit

OVH $9/month VPS: 100mbps unlimited bandwidth, and yes, OVH doesn't care if you have 7x24 100% utilisation on your 100 mbps.

Let's say you have a 100MB video that gets 20,000 views, and half of the viewers end up streaming the full video.

BW incurred: 1 TB. Cost to you: $20

HappyTypist··on Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
No, they can replace it with Preact pretty simply.
HappyTypist··on Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design
GPS is basically always on - on iOS if you have a background location app, you're being located every 5 minutes at least.
HappyTypist··on SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
Thanks, corrected.
HappyTypist··on SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster
All you need is an universal (ICAO) visual indication for "this is a taxiway, do not fucking landing here". For example, a stripe of alternating red and blue lights.
HappyTypist··on Future Pricing for Atlassian Cloud
Trello said they're staying free forever.
HappyTypist··on Future Pricing for Atlassian Cloud
No. Regressive means it reduces as the quantity increases. Regressive pricing is a good thing for products. Progressive pricing like progressive taxation would suck!
HappyTypist··on I'm a creep. I'm sorry
That really depends. At my current startup there are three "<Company> couples".
HappyTypist··on Runway – Cash planning tool for startups
Just literally account sharing but with a log of changes and ownsership of different scenarios.

Plus you can charge $25 a month per additional user and that'd be a very fair price.

HappyTypist··on O’Reilly Media has stopped retailing books directly on its ecommerce store
Correct, I've had a Google account suspension result in 4 linked accounts being suspended. The others were restored after an appeal though.
HappyTypist··on What It Costs to Open a Restaurant in San Francisco
If you're looking for a chart of the breakdown, I made one with Canva here: http://i.imgur.com/nK56ERu.jpg
HappyTypist··on Author of cURL denied entry to the USA
I should make a low level utility and in the license prohibit governments from denying me entry.
HappyTypist··on Practical waterholing through DNS typosquatting
Another interesting approach is rely on cosmic background noise bit flips. Do it on Google.com and you can get a few thousand visitors a week

I.e. Register a domain where the ASCII representaton is 1 bit off.

HappyTypist··on Reducing the size of iOS app binaries
I hope Apple charges for bandwidth at ridiculously inflated AWS prices. Ignore the first 100MB of an app and offer a devs a $2500/month budget.
HappyTypist··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
They updated their ToS to reflect this.
HappyTypist··on Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O.
Susan J. Fowler's blog post started the snowball that led to the firing of a $70 billion startup's CEO.

I hope this encourages more people to publicly report systematic cultures of sexual harassment.

HappyTypist··on Front End Development Guide for Large Engineering Teams
I've never heard of front end development include graphics design.
HappyTypist··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Exactly. Add $1 to every fare and remit that without taking a cut. There!
HappyTypist··on Uber rolls out in-app tipping
Uber's margin on a ride is already 35-40% in US cities (source: UberPeople), thanks to their 'upfront fares' pricing (rider fare is not used for calculation of driver fares at all, drivers are paid per mile/km and min), their Booking fees, UberPool pricing disparities, and Surge disparities (a rider paying a 1.5x surge does not necessarily mean a driver is receiving 1.5x).
HappyTypist··on European Parliament Draft to Enforce End-To-End Encryption for Citizens' Privacy
The key is the OR:

* "sufficient protection in place against unauthorised access or alterations"

* "guaranteed by the nature of the means of transmission used "

* "OR"

* "state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption of the electronic communications data"

aka:

- HTTPS, non-ETE: fine

- HTTP, non-ETE: not fine

- HTTP, ETE: fine

HappyTypist··on European Parliament Draft to Enforce End-To-End Encryption for Citizens' Privacy
"The providers of electronic communications services shall ensure that there is sufficient protection in place against unauthorised access or alterations to the electronic communications data, and that the confidentiality and safety of the transmission are also guaranteed by the nature of the means of transmission used or by state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption of the electronic communications data. Furthermore, when encryption of electronic communications data is used, decryption, reverse engineering or monitoring of such communications shall be prohibited. Member States shall not impose any obligations on electronic communications service providers that would result in the weakening of the security and encryption of their networks and services"

I interpret this as the following clauses:

* "sufficient protection in place against unauthorised access or alterations" [through]

* "guaranteed by the nature of the means of transmission used "

* "OR"

* "state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption of the electronic communications data"

aka:

- HTTPS, non-ETE: fine

- HTTP, non-ETE: not fine

- HTTP, ETE: fine

HappyTypist··on Automattic is closing its San Francisco office as most employees work remotely
It's about free market at work. You can choose to work for another company that pays you more, or pays you for that time.
HappyTypist··on Chinese authorities detain Apple employees suspected of selling customer data
Sent an email. Thank you
HappyTypist··on Bingrep: Like grep, but for binaries
Is this in /google/ because of copyright reasons?
HappyTypist··on How Torch broke ls and made me vulnerable
Very sensible. I wish OS X featured a even more "rootless" mode where "root" only gives you sandboxed write access, and read access to files it creates.
HappyTypist··on Malware Uses Obscure Intel CPU Feature to Steal Data and Avoid Firewalls
Yes, AMD chips have almost exactly the same features as Intel ME.

The cynic in me thinks that some execs got FISA orders.

HappyTypist··on Intelligent Tracking Prevention
It would be nice if all new HTML5 features and APIs release from now on turns on 'Modern Web Security Mode', which fixes CSRF and a bunch of other security issues that are not backwards compatible.
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