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IndexPointer··on Horrifying PDF Experiments
I remember reading that the early versions of MS Word did the same thing, for performance reasons.
IndexPointer··on GameLisp: Scripting language for Rust game development
This is the most hacker-newsy title I've ever seen.
IndexPointer··on Become Shell Literate
Lookup tldr on github. It works as a replacement for man pages 90% of the time.
IndexPointer··on States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
Search for "CNN video" in the videos tab. You get plenty of results from cnn.com.
IndexPointer··on States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]
Is this about the fact that people can backup their Whatsapp messages using Google Drive?
IndexPointer··on Privacy matters even if “you have nothing to hide”
“can you tell me your email password? I wanna check something in your emails..."
IndexPointer··on Timnit Gebru: Google’s ‘dehumanizing’ memo paints me as an angry Black woman
I know, I was being sarcastic.

In the short letter sundar says "we need to accept responsibility for the fact that a prominent Black, female leader with immense talent left Google unhappily".

It's beyond me how anybody could interpret this as dehumanizing or painting her as an angry Black woman.

IndexPointer··on Timnit Gebru: Google’s ‘dehumanizing’ memo paints me as an angry Black woman
For context, here's the email where sundar dehumanizes her and treats her like an angry Black woman: https://www.axios.com/sundar-pichai-memo-timnit-gebru-exit-1...
IndexPointer··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
Care to elaborate? Was this using work profiles?
IndexPointer··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
Let's say I don't care about a deposition, but I am only scared of my company spying on my personal activity. Should I be worried if I use a work profile?
IndexPointer··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
>Want to go on vacation and still have my phone but not be bothered by company emails and calls. If you use a work profile on Android, you can disable it, eg at holidays or weekends. Not sure about the privacy.
IndexPointer··on Quibi Is Shutting Down
No! Not quibi!
IndexPointer··on U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
Do you have an example of a page that is a good result for that query?
IndexPointer··on U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
>Whenever Google changes SEO in a bad direction What do you mean by Google changing SEO?
IndexPointer··on Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
There are ads on the Gmail app??
IndexPointer··on Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
What's grows exponentially is the volume of individual attacks, not the total volume, so normalization is not important.
IndexPointer··on Massacring C Pointers (2018)
Damn. Those code examples are complete insanity. Half won't even compile. It's like if I tried to write a textbook on how to do neurosurgery.
IndexPointer··on Everything Is Overrated
Everything is considered harmful.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

IndexPointer··on Asana S-1
That was in 2009 apparently. Maybe it made sense then.
IndexPointer··on Ask HN: An alternative to IMDB scores, whats a better way to pick movies?
>Could you describe the process in few words?

Not really, I wouldn't know how to describe it. I just have an intuition of when a movie is "promising" according to my taste. An intuition that gets better the more trailer and movies I watch.

IndexPointer··on Ask HN: An alternative to IMDB scores, whats a better way to pick movies?
Only you can know what you like.

The more movies you watch, the better your intuiton for predicting if you'll like the movie by watching the trailer will get.

I found imdb scores are good to have a general idea. Eg I probably won't like a movie with a 5.9 score, even if the trailer seemed good. Or I'll give a movie with a >8 score a chance if the trailer is okay, but sometimes I know a movie is not for me by the trailer, no matter how high the score is.

For everything in between I decide mostly by the trailer and the past movies of the director.

IndexPointer··on One company's plan to build a search engine Google can't beat
So, another Bing API wrapper to add to the list?
IndexPointer··on Zuckerberg: advertisers will be back to Facebook 'soon enough'
My conspiracy theory mind tells me this is just brands doing a show of power to end up paying less for ads. Plus scoring a PR win. The bad part is that it encourages Facebook and others to do more aggressive automatic moderation, which has low precision and deletes accounts of people merely mentioning sensitive topics.
IndexPointer··on Google Is Not God of the Web
We all use ad blockers but most people don't.
IndexPointer··on Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
Can't you scrape / download a bank statement? Or if you use a credit card scrape the card pdf statement.
IndexPointer··on Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
You can always try selenium to download it programmatically if they don't let you. Or make a script to download it.
IndexPointer··on Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life
Quantity before quality, essentially.
IndexPointer··on Gresham's Law
Could be related to bitcoin. Most people with bitcoin have it because they expect it will be worth a lot more in the future, so they never spend it too buy stuff. Even if it was practical to buy things with bitcoin, they'll keep using dollars and storing the bitcoin they have.
IndexPointer··on Employee Scheduling
Well now I want to spend a few hours using it to solve the peaceable queens problem: https://youtu.be/IN1fPtY9jYg
IndexPointer··on EOF is not a character
Of course it isn't, you couldn't have arbitrary binary files if one of the 256 possible bytes was reserved. That's why getchar returns int and not char; one char wouldn't be enough for 257 possible values (256 possible char values + eof).
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