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nvk··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
yes
nvk··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Can't compete on cheap booze in Ontario (fancy stuff is comparable).. Everything else is.
nvk··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Bay area only pays more because 90% of your salary goes to rent.
nvk··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Very welcoming. I was born in Brazil, being here over a decade.
nvk··on Canada's immigration website crashes on election night
Corp tax in Ontario is 15% and free health care. Dev pay also comparable.

Come over :)

nvk··on Herman Miller Launches New Aeron Chair
I've been sitting on an Embody for over 6 years. Since then, never had back soreness again. Best chair I ever owned.
nvk··on TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging
The way the feature was requested, come across as a dick move and very self entitled. The least the parent could have done is added some niceties or some reasoning in more than 4 words when asking something for free.
nvk··on TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging
You did an incredible job, ignore all this trashing.
nvk··on TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging
It's open source, they take pull requests and donations.
nvk··on TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging
The new version is out, seems to be getting much better.

https://github.com/uTox/uTox/releases

nvk··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
it's a "private" utility. But I take your point.

If they remove all the fat making a tweet page 5mb it could be hosted for nearly nothing by some FOSS org.

nvk··on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
Twitter should be a public utility.
nvk··on The cypherpunk revolution
Not possible it mixes in user generate entropy https://opendime.com/#faq
nvk··on The cypherpunk revolution
Must see "OpenDime: Real Life Cyberpunk Cred Sticks" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQHc3EQVfE
nvk··on OPENDIME
Neat!
nvk··on Hello from Orkut
Not just that, it also requires a phone number just to get started.
nvk··on Agile is not a Fucking Noun
I'm going use your answer as a quote now. Thank you for putting it so well.
nvk··on Rm does not permanently delete files
`srm` works great.
nvk··on WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide Today by a Single Judge
Brasil is not poor, is F*n corrupt.
nvk··on Opendime – Demo software download
Feedback welcome => support [at] opendime [dot] com
nvk··on OpenBazaar is Open for Business
Congrats on the launch!

Looking forward to seeing how this social experiment/project plays out.

nvk··on NexDock – The World’s Most Affordable Laptop
I ordered one for RPI projects, hope it get's the goal.
nvk··on Beijing is banning all foreign media from publishing online in China
They have to handle the devaluation of the Renminbi and a slumping economy somehow /s
nvk··on Issue and Pull Request templates
Many large FOSS projects (which this is aimed for) already have CONTRIBUTING.md etc...

I personally prefer this non UI/Github specific approach.

nvk··on Google recommends inlining small CSS
This is rude, there are many reasons and needs for no JS. A good example is Tor, where turning off JS helps with privacy.
nvk··on Show HN: Open Hunt – an open and community-run alternative to Product Hunt
the round trip breaks with Privacy Badger, disable the first time then on again worked for me.
nvk··on Slack is Down
Someone asked me just a couple days ago, why don't use use Slack instead of IRC?

This. IRC just works. It's not a walled garden.

nvk··on Yahoo Mail now locking out Adblock users
Yahoo mail needs to just die, they also send every Coinkite to spam.
nvk··on Bitcoin Surges Past $400
For anyone that has been around BTC for long enough, this is expected, but also expect more rallies and more crashes.

Quick plug: If you are looking for a secure wallet with good privacy for your fresh Bitcoin, Try [Coinkite Multisig](https://coinkite.com/multisig), up to m-of-15, any/all keys can be generated offline, option to escrow backup, notifications, multi-user-multisig, support, notifications, works well with Ledgers, and the list goes on!

nvk··on New top-level domains a money grab and a mistake: Paul Vixie
The biggest problem is phishing, bad actors send emails from the slightly off TLD.
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