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It’s hard to understand that a business partner for 15 years and after dozens of millions of dollars spent can kick you in the @@s and ghost you without any explanation. This kind of behaviors from large corporations have to stop.

An incredible talent on the pitch, a winner and a warrior. He never gave up when soccer was much more permissive and violent. He touched the ball with his left foot as an angel. A pity he hurt himself abusing of drugs all his life. ¡Eterno, pibe!

Best advice a serial entrepreneur ever gave me: don’t risk your own money. I have seen a lot of people losing everything chasing a dream. It’s the most probable outcome of entrepreneurship. Heal your wounds and stand up!

I cannot agree more from the usage point of view. But we have to think how others see them: The difference is about the “business model” of DEA and Freemail providers. It’s easy to justify in a court that the purpose of a Freemail service is to offer email service to individuals and that’s why they ask for PII and acceptance of a ToS. Most of DEA don’t ask for PII to register (if any register at all) and the TOS if exists is against GDPR. In Europe, SIM cards (prepaid or not) must have an owner, so PII is mandatory when buying one. About anonymous letters. Do you know why the snail Mail in some European countries is “Royal Mail”? Because in the past the worst crime in a Kingdom was against the King/Queen. Anonymous mailing could cost you your life because it was a crime against the Royal Crown.

As an old girlfriend told me: “Size matters”.

Closing Guerrilla Mail will upset us a lot but the rest of the world will ignore it. Close Whatsapp and the world will be a chaos.

Most people in HN use Disposable Email Address services like Guerrilla Mail almost on a daily basis to avoid companies spamming us or even worse: sell our email as PII. But bad actors also use these services to anonymize themselves and not only abuse of legit services, but commit fraudulent activities like extortion, porn revenge, identity theft... and also terrorism. I don’t know why OVH shuts down this service, but knowing in first person how laxe OVH rules are compared to other providers, it must be a serious thing. Probably they found out they could break the law (GDPR?) seriously keeping Guerrilla Mail as a customer.

Since I read the word “Ceph”, I knew what the problem could be. Not the first time I find an old 32 bit binary that cannot work in very large partitions. I think they could save time using a virtual machine with a virtualized disk, if the data processing is not too intensive.

Not at all. I changed because I wanted to live the experience of an acquisition and also being part of a company that will probably go public. That’s something only a few people working in tech can enjoy.

I had a side project called https://Apility.io while I was working full time at Microsoft. It started as a side project but soon I realized it got traction and hundreds of user used it on a daily basis. I added a subscription model to the existing community/free service and I got a good bunch of customers. Last year I had a dilemma: keep on working at Microsoft or leave and dedicate full time to Apility.io. But then Auth0 came up and offered me an acquhire. So now I’m full time (among other things) dedicated to Apility.io inside Auth0. Happy ending.

Some notes: - Libremercado quotes an openly pro-indepence as the main source: https://www.elcritic.cat/

- there is only 24 out 39 stations in nov-2019. The projections of my source are for the full line, when L9 north and south should connect.

- they ran out of money and finally they found an investor with another €750M. https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/barcelona/20180823/451412...

https://www.expansion.com/catalunya/2019/10/04/5d966291468ae...

May be it’s a great engineering achievement, but please don’t take it as an example of financial execution.

The author is not right about the final cost of the Line 9 in Barcelona. It is a financial disaster x5 times more expensive than projected, twice expensive the high speed connection between Madrid and Barcelona! http://www.libremercado.com/2015-06-12/escandalo-la-linea-9-...

I would like to see that traffic series from Las Vegas starting in July when the Microsoft Ready & Inspire happens just to compare...

Climate refugees leaving Spain? That must be the reason why retired Europeans buy a house in Spanish coasts...

Yes, climate change is impacting how we live in Spain... but please don’t underestimate how humans can adapt and modify our environment... we have been doing it here for 2500 years. Romans digging to extract gold, Kings cutting forest to build ships (and today are deserts), seas of plastic nowadays to feed Europe of vegetables all seasons...

Even under a heavy heat wave like this, the impact will be much higher in other countries; because we are already use to it. The news about France are more scary than Spain’s.

How much?

CLIPS! It’s still alive 21 years after my first experience with it!!!

Amazing!

I started https://apility.io about 16 months ago and it’s profitable since month six. It’s not profitable enough to leave my job and fully dedicate my time to this, and who knows if it ever happens. I started the project just for fun, btw...

MVP is an anachronism. A legacy of the old Microsoft, when a monopoly had to build the entire community around his brand. Nowadays open communities cannot be driven, Microsoft knows this and I think the MVP program does not fit in this new Microsoft focused on services as it is.

Can’t wait to have one of this for our weekly code reviews.

I was going to write exactly what you just published. You can’t imagine how I identify with you.

Yes, in https://apility.io all the backend services, API endpoints at the edge and parsing services take 'advantage' of async in Python >3.

My opinion is -like somebody said- it breaks the Zen of Python. When I started using it I had doubts about moving to a more async 'friendly' language. But I decided to stick with my old friend Python... even when I don't recognize him very much after some changes after version 3.

English is a very conciseness language too! ;-)

Yes, you are right. Thank you!

Kids have nothing to do with the honesty of your partner.

English is my second language and I did not want to sound rude. I meant 'the guy that is supposed to be the biological father and he is not but he doesn't know'. In Spanish, we have a very rude word for these men: 'Los cornudos'. I love the conciseness in languages but I don't like to sound rude in HN. Sorry! ;-)

It’s almost impossible to mix up babies in a maternity ward nowadays with all tracking stuff they have. No, I mean the mother cheating her couple.

I dated a girl in the nineties that worked at a maternity ward in a very popular hospital. She said that just comparing blood types five to ten percent of the babies did not belong to the mother’s couple. And of course doctors and nurses never said a word.

Some people use DEA to abuse of trial services of SaaS, for example. They register again and again after the trial has expired. These users consume resources but they never effectively become customers. Some companies ban users using DEA, anonymous proxies, TOR, VPNs... or even Free Email addresses (the conversion rate comparing a user registered with his or her company email and a Free Email (gmail, hotmail, protonmail...) is much higher).

Using mail.mailinator.com as MX records are something that almost all tools check to ban disposable email addresses. The only real thing that works for them is to renew their domain pool as fast as they can. In our service in https://apility.io we check for MX records of very well known DEPs, and also we crawl the web to try to keep an up to date list of these domains.

The theory says it's easy to be delisted, but some very large Telcos have given up and they don't try to be delisted anymore. This task can be very time consuming and they only focus on prefixes of their static pool or business services. For example, prefixes of Telefónica de España have been included in Spamhaus Zen for a while: https://www.spamhaus.org/zen/.

Mailinator is a hack to workaround the spam flood. But for trustable business, the anonymity of the disposable addresses is a big problem because it is not possible to start a marketing process (if you register for a trial, for example, you should be "paying" with your email to let the company start a marketing process. Marketing for a service you have registered is not spam...). More and more companies deny registration from Disposable Email Addresses. Because these users are worthless.

Spam is a plague that hurts good users and trustable business.

I wrote the blog post to show how Dilbert's boss would solve GDPR for his company.

Don't take it seriously.