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Do You Get Things Done ? AsAlways™ Founder at Wadilab.com Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about. http://salimane.com

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salimane··on Show HN: Automatically Index the Top 20 Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap
you can use https://github.com/salimane/cryptodiversify today and it is open source
salimane··on 8,000 years ago, 17 women reproduced for every one man
I would be very interested in your sources about the kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa.
salimane··on Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
we manage things, not people. people are led, not managed.
salimane··on Ask HN: In a microservice architecture, how do you handle managing secrets?
We use https://github.com/meltwater/secretary . The key differences with Secretary is that plaintext secrets are never stored to disk or otherwise made visible outside the container.
salimane··on How You Know
That's why, always checking for the origin of things is very valuable, asking why we currently do things the way we do them :)
salimane··on [dead]
original post : http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-types-of-progr...
salimane··on Passwords in plain text
digitalocean.com stored your password in plaintext!!!
salimane··on Where are the African programmers?
I've been asking this question for a long time...any african programmer in Berlin or Germany ? check my contact :)
salimane··on Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails
is there any small library ala "notjquery.js" that is a drop in replacement for jquery but that calls the browser native stuff directly ? serious question ?
salimane··on World
it's not an accurate map, showing north america as the same size as Africa :)
salimane··on Chinese government blocks Google.com, Gmail, Google+, Maps, Docs and more
I'm in Beijing and I'm experiencing this as of now. This is real
salimane··on Don't Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort
what is "working hard" by the way ?.... I prefer working smarter :)
salimane··on Automatic Redis Failover for Ruby
something to keep in kind is that sometimes, the redis server can't accept connections anymore because of limits etc...but the server is still serving old connections. so in that case, i think you don't want to just failover... the tricky part is to know if the server is really down
salimane··on Apple CEO calls Times supplier report "patently false and offensive"
"EVERYBODY DOES IT"

so we should turn our eyes the other way. really?! it's like saying "everybody does slavery, let's not care"... amazing...if what everybody does is good, great!!! but when it's bad, it should be brought to light in order to stop it.

"ITS JUST POLITICS"

if it's about bad practices being brought to light, i don't care if it's politics or not

"DON'T POLLUTE HACKER NEWS"

don't try to find a "getaway reason" to dismiss an uncomfortable discussion, hackers are not "robots", the more you know about our geopolitical world, the better hacker you are

that being said, good that those bad practices are being shown to the world, it will push Apple and co to do something about it, which in the end will better for everyone

salimane··on Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
what i meant with "work and attention" is "greater work and attention in bad working conditions". Apple products should be ,well as S.Jobs wants them, "perfect" despite the working conditions, like polishing that gorgeous ipad back cover in a non-ventilated room. While motorola's back cover doesn't require that polishing .
salimane··on Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
something to notice too is that the work and attention required to assemble Apple's products are greater than other companies thus Apple expose workers to more health damages
salimane··on Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
thanks for the downvote instead of discussing. if you can't discuss, why are you downvoting ?
salimane··on Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else
what I haven't seen in the previous comments is that people naively don't learn from past experiences or other failures. Now let me explain :

- CURRENTLY, we can safely say Google core product is search and at least CURRENTLY people still needs "google search".

- will it be the same in the FUTURE ? well, you don't have to know the answer, but I'm sure some crazy numbers crunching happen every day at Google and those would signal some trends about "google search" in favor or not.

- Now let's learn from "some failures"...Microsoft didn't want to reinvent itself, they thought their cash cows (windows & office) will always give them a foot ahead, so never wants to let them go and try something totally new without "windows" in them...well u know their history.

- Apple once was "Apple Computer", changed to "Apple Inc", entered new industries, created new ones, planning to enter new ones, never cared about "ideals, fair treatment, transparent", never care about what their users think they want, they controlled all their products like never seen before, they basically do what they want and their customers just take it or leave it...basically in short, 13 billions of profits in a quarter!!!

Now with all above, assume you're smart, can learn quickly, , you're Larry Page and you don't want to become something of the past, what will you do ?

salimane··on Is Godaddy delaying domain transfer requests?
same here I'm stuck with one last domain transfer, the one I'm most interested in transferring actually...
salimane··on Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No
"Our system is designed around checks and balances"...who make the check and balances ? humans...which exactly means your current system can never be fair...that's why all current legal systems are doom, they can never achieve their mission of providing fair justice...for any software code, given the same input, it always only has 1 interpretation and 1 output, but for the legal system, the same case with the same law will give different outcomes depending on time/people...software engineering practices should just be used in the legal system for it to have a chance of achieving its mission :)
salimane··on Using Redis SORT and GET to save on roundtrips
@antirez, i see what u mean but in this context with "SORT BY GET", in the case of a single server, the command is send to it in one call and the server replies with the result. but in the case of a cluster, the benefit of having the server handle the one call is no more there as of 2.4 at least. the most a good client could actually do is to take the one call "SORT BY GET", recognize it, divide it, do separate calls, merge the results and send them back...which is going back to what were trying to avoid... or is there another way to handle this currently with 2.4?
salimane··on Using Redis SORT and GET to save on roundtrips
this assume you're connecting to one redis server and not running a cluster of redis servers, or have tagged the keys being requested in a cluster of redis servers
salimane··on Carrier IQ Speaks Out: We ignore extraneous user Data
the thing is, given the context, you can do this without looking at everything the user is doing, you can basically wait for the trigger (error, call drop...) to happen before trying to submit error reports. that's the way it's done in software applications
salimane··on Carrier IQ Speaks Out: We ignore extraneous user Data
you ignore extraneous user data?!??! what!?!?! why do you get it in the first place if you're only interested in a subset? bunch of lying rootkit developers
salimane··on [dead]
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