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dothis··on Show HN: Allsearch – Making it easier to use different search engines seamlessly
Is it really a downside that Gnod Search is barebones?

I thought that is a conscious design decision.

Personally, I prefer to quickly go through a simple page with an input box and search buttons than to go through a page with a background image and logos.

dothis··on Show HN: Brutal.js – a small framework for building brutalist web applications
What is the attack vector?
dothis··on Ask HN: Why are there no popular web frameworks merging front- and backend?
I don't see a reason to to that. To me that sounds like making a printing press of paper. Or a newspaper of steel.
dothis··on Ask HN: Disappointed by the new Macbook, what alternatives do we have?
One thing I never liked about my Macbook is that there is no option for a matte screen. So I consider switching and finally getting a matte one now:

http://www.productchart.com/laptops/sets/1

I will replace Windows with Linux. I heard Thinkpads are good for this. But the Dell XPS series looks very compelling too.

dothis··on Show HN: A Facebook Messenger Bot for Hacker News
You should probably explain what it does. When I click your link, I get a message "how do you want to use messanger, web or app?". I clicked "web" and was greeted with a fb login page. At this point I gave up.
dothis··on Introducing CloudFlare Registrar: Designed for Security, Not the Masses
I am a publisher located in Europe and my life's work is all in one .com domain. I often wonder how secure the ownership of a domain is and if there are any steps necessary to secure it. My registrar requires a signed document to transfer domains. By post or scanned. But how secure is that? How would they know if I sent the document or somebody else?

And what if somebody hacked the registrar? Are there global mechanisms to undo wrongful domain transfers?

dothis··on Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
Do you guys think our emails on Yahoo mail are safe after this? I will backup mine as soon as I find the time to do so.

Yahoo has a terrible track record regarding emails. I already lost one due to inactivity. They gave it to somebody else. That somebody probably has access to several of my accounts now. On websites where I used my Yahoo address and then just forgot about it.

dothis··on Show HN: Get the real best price for your hotel or get a superior hotel
"Hello Product Hunters! Get €50 off at the checkout"

As a Hacker Newser, somehow this message confuses me.

dothis··on Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft
I don't want the OS to talk to anywhere except for a clearly defined, lean, verifiable process that fetches security updates.

That's why I use Debian. And hope they do the right thing.

dothis··on Lenovo Is Laying Off 3,200
Hopefully those who injected spyware into the bios are among them:

http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29497693&sid=dd...

dothis··on Ask PG: How is Arc coming along?
PHP won.
dothis··on Ask HN: Teaching programming to asylum seekers?
Hey, that might be a good thing! I am in Germany too. Which city is it? Do you have a link?

As for tips.. why not just start teaching the first steps in your favorite language?

dothis··on Index Funds May Work a Little Too Well

    I have bet a significant amount
    of money on the EMH being correct.
How do you do that?