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I think you should re-read what you quoted. He said "Berlin is in fact NOT the only timezone which had a 2 hour DST"

This is the kind of positive practical advice I wish there was more of on Hacker News.

I have some theories, but I think there are a lot of different agendas at Google that make it hard to parse the strategies behind a product release.

One weird trick for whiter teeth!!!

Awesome! Definitely will do.

This is a good question, and I have two answers. 1) You are paying a high premium in San Francisco for the privilege of that stuff and it's simply not worth it. 2) The culture is pretty affected by the echoing and it gets kind of hard to escape. For example, going out to bars people frequently start conversations with things like "what startup do you work for"

Pretty not psyched about the gender normativity.

"If you don't look like our idea of a girl, we'll throw you out of our conference for identifying as one."

This would make for a great mystery novel.

Bucket Brigade is a better term for this kind of attack. Non-gendered speech and all.

I'm not sure Yahoo's brand was ready to be logo-ified. They're currently in such a radical state of change that it feels like an impossible task.

I love the point about iteration here, but I think this post is a little bit disingenuous.

The problem with developing for Android as a startup is that baseline reliability is incredibly resource intensive.

If you want your app to work on the most popular few devices, you will still have to spend a considerable amount of time and money testing the different configurations and fixing bugs that have nothing to do with your core functionality.

If you want broad support to address most of the market, you're going to be spending a huge amount of development time tweaking little details of your code. When you fix a bug for the Galaxy S4, it'll start crashing on the HTC One X, and the Galaxy Note will never look quite right.

Iteration is valuable, but iOS lets you build one product and iterate on it, to build for Android, you have to start by building 15.

I was about to add this to Chrome and then it asked for "all of your data on all web sites" which is too much for me.

That's actually a really good question that this post wasn't focused on. What's cool about the key pair is that the only information that is passed around is the signature, which is only valuable for a few seconds. The key itself is never transmitted and so it can never be intercepted.

That's a separate problem from the length of cracking, but an equally important one with regards to security.

Also, it would be pretty hard to remember even a single password that long...

woops! good catch.

Great research, but browsing this I got the "Join the conversation" popup every time I changed pages. Super, super frustrating and made me stop reading pretty quickly. Left a bad taste in my mouth about hackpad.

My email to Jim Franklin:

Hi Jim,

You have a mess on your hands, and I understand how hard it must be at SendGrid today.

I think you've made a defensible move, and it is hard to hold you in contempt for putting your employees and business first.

That said, I'm really disappointed in your response.

For as long as there have been tech conferences, they have been hostile to women. Sexually exclusive language is the starting point for harassment and assault that have been the status quo for the tech industry for decades. (tech isn't alone here, of course)

A woman trying to report these offenses often went completely unheard. The crimes were completely silenced by a community that protected itself with homogeny, and the results are strikingly obvious in the number of women working, participating, and attending conferences in technology.

This deeply-rooted problem is finally beginning to surface, and we're starting to talk about solutions in a productive way. PyCon was at the forefront of that as they worked incredibly hard to make women feel accepted. Their no-harassment policy and work to get more women speaking and attending represent a huge amount of progress.

It has been a very public effort by the conference, and the results were impressive. A huge number of women showed up to a space they thought would be more welcoming.

Of course, it wasn't perfect. Though we've made a lot of progress, there's still a long way to go before we'll get rid of exclusive attitudes towards women.

What's really disappointing, though, is that when a woman at this conference felt uncomfortable and made her discomfort public, she lost her job.

Her peers, our technology community, responded to her statement with incredible hostility. Threats of rape and murder were abundant yesterday, and we attacked a woman for expressing her discomfort publicly.

Some people, like yourself, said that it would be okay for her to express her discomfort privately, but that the publicity is what made it a problem. But in doing so, you're asking her to give up her voice. You're asking her to stay silent about an incredibly serious problem.

All she did was report factual discomfort publicly. She didn't lie or slander.

And now she's lost her job for it. The message is obvious: women aren't allowed to report misconduct like this. We don't want to hear about the sexual misconduct in our community. A woman's discomfort is her own problem, not ours.

That's the wrong message.

good catch, thanks!

Does Google not allow remote working?

This is creepy and how do they do it?

I did the same thing and no one had yet

You're absolutely right. I have zero tolerance when it comes to cultural acceptance, denial, or apologizing for rape.

We all know what the title is referencing, and it's implying that there are circumstances when "no means no" isn't true. The content of the article may be unrelated, but the title is still problematic.

Quick, integrate with clef.io instead!

Headlines like this are the casual references that makes tech a boys club. You don't think you're doing any harm, but by distorting an important argument about rape, you're undermining the sentiment behind "No means no" even as you use it in a different context.

This is coming soon! We wanted to focus on getting the web login right first, but this is next up on our plate.

We totally agree. Having every site try to re-implement and keep up with security best practices is a waste of time, money, and makes it hard to trust anyone online.

I wrote a post for Seersucker and got a ton of awesome support and feedback from the readers. Definitely recommend it.

I love amazon and think they're probably a good investment, but it is really funny to see the different reactions to this vs. Apple.

A bandaid that covers a lot of sensitive surface area...

The problem is that it's to be removed completely from Facebook. I think about deleting my profile all the time, but there's potential for awkwardness and offense that aren't worth it. Facebook has engrained itself in our lives pretty deeply and it's going to be a huge challenge to dig it back out.

While I agree that education is going to change fundamentally over the course of our lives, this article represents both a misunderstanding of the housing bubble and the likely path of education in our country.

Our community can be somewhat insular and we forget the incredible value that higher education provides to the job market at large, and as unemployment rates rise, the disparity grows and makes education more valuable, not less.

I had hoped this would be an article about the practice of selling bad student debt (debt from dropouts unlikely to pay it back) as a way to get around new regulations. Instead it listed the same, tired list of famous people who dropped out of college. We all know their names and most of us also know that the vast majority of successful entrepreneurs have at least their bachelors degrees, and that a huge percent also have masters or phds.