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em0ney

22 karma · joined October 20, 2015

Director at GorillaStack

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em0ney··on Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
I use on Android and MacOS
em0ney··on Opera Touch is a solid alternative to Safari on the iPhone
I know that nobody is asking for alternatives, nor my opinion, but Brave browser is great. Cool project
em0ney··on Why Can a Machine Beat Mario but Not Pokemon?
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who doesn't understand pokemon
em0ney··on Ask HN: What podcasts do you listen to regularly?
InfoSec news: risky.biz

Startups: Masters of Scale

Startups: a16z

Startup History: How I built this.

Comedy: Nothing beats the old episodes of the Bugle for a laugh.

em0ney··on Amazon donates $1M to Wikimedia
Amazon should be picking up the tab on the AWS costs. Great PR move, great for customer case studies etc and slash what is probably 2nd or 3rd biggest cost driver.
em0ney··on AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
AWS often releases features very early, to satisfy the first tranches of early adopters before rounding out the feature with feedback from these passionate users.

AWS EKS is a good example for anyone who has had a play already.

em0ney··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
Yikes. Thanks for sharing, this is noted.
em0ney··on Ask HN: Best alternative to Gmail?
Same here. Ran many domains on a single server for a long time
em0ney··on Postmortem: Azure DevOps (VSTS) Outage of 4 Sep 2018
Really not the worst post mortem I've ever seen
em0ney··on Software Contracts in the Age of React
Great read
em0ney··on Ask HN: How important is it to be with peers you can learn from?
Learning from others is invaluable.

Listen to the perspectives of those around you, but don't regurgitate what they say or follow what they say blindly. Ask them questions, challenge conventional wisdoms and ask "Why".

Experience is a form of bias and must always be taken with a clear head and a grain of salt.

My grandfather would always say: Advice is free, until you take it.

Good luck!

em0ney··on Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
I quit a while back. One of the best things I have done
em0ney··on Americans are changing their relationship with Facebook
I don't think it's just Americans for what it's worth.
em0ney··on List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak
The list of websites once again reminds me of what avenue Q immortalised in song: the internet is for porn
em0ney··on How Nasty Gal Went from an $85M Company to Bankruptcy
Can't read the article without a subscription to WSJ
em0ney··on Bacteria that resist 'last antibiotic' found in UK
Amen. Similar to climate change in the sense that the world's worst offenders need to be on-board to resolve the problem and as a result, all other countries will cop out by blaming and scapegoating those countries
em0ney··on ThoughtWorks's Technology Radar for Nov 2015 has just been published
"JavaScript Tooling Settles to Merely Chaotic" - haha, well put
em0ney··on Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts
I think there is definitely some of this at play. That being said, it is a totally sensible update to the semantics of twitter and I think still worthwhile.
em0ney··on Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts
You still can access a list of tweets you have liked, so this workflow hasn't really changed. It is just a long overdue change to the semantics.
em0ney··on Evolution of Open Source at Netflix
So good to see companies that weren't 'OSS first' playing catchup and doing so effectively
em0ney··on Do you know how much your computer can do in a second?
Thanks for the post! The part on serialisation blew my socks off - big eye opener
em0ney··on Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
Interesting take on the future.

I agree about the current state of developer sentiment. I think anyone who looks at a company like Microsoft will see that developer sentiment isn't static. Might take years for things to change but I commend them for taking the right first steps towards rectifying the situation.

em0ney··on Twitter CEO Dorsey Apologizes to Developers
I totally agree with you there. It is much more useful than LinkedIn for me in most cases.

LinkedIn still has a key benefit of not being overly noisy and not having bots/spam accounts.

Twitter though makes it far easier to connect with the right sorts of people.

If Twitter can clean up the signal/noise ratio and help with killing off spam accounts and bots, I think its potential can only grow

em0ney··on Ask HN: Is there much future in the encryption hardware game?
Anyone have opinions on whether encryption hardware is a growing trend? Or is it simply a less relevant catch-all approach that will disappear with better security practises