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tomascot··on Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick
I guess a psychopath shouldn't show the same level of aging as "normal" people.
tomascot··on The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz
You are late to the party. I remember receiving this kind of questions in 2006 when hotmail and msn messenger were still popular. I think it was part of a game to measure how worldly you were.
tomascot··on Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data
If someone uses this list for security purposes I think that someone has a bigger problem.
tomascot··on Ask HN: Is there an HN for optimists?
Is the URL right? Firefox mobile for Android cant load the page
tomascot··on Neurogenesis linked to aerobic exercise
It's interesting knowing that I enjoy running the most when I'm starting to feel tired.when I get out of the shower after running I feel like I'm super light, redbull like.

I guess every person has it's own rhythm.

tomascot··on Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
Gmail extracts data from emails with certain tags in it, microformats or one of those standars. I think OP is talking about something more flexible using nlp.
tomascot··on Using AWS Lambda to call and text you when your servers are down
I did this for non-critical ops, it's just a foward to my phone's email address, really simple. The problem is that not every company is reliable or even has that email
tomascot··on InfernoJS – A JavaScript library for building powerful user interfaces
You might have misinterpreted what I tried to say. I was talking about languages/frameworks, not the theory behind them. I don't think is feasible to go to a interview for a job that asks for node expertise saying you know the concepts behind node but you haven't used it yourself in a project.
tomascot··on InfernoJS – A JavaScript library for building powerful user interfaces
I think this is spot on. And is hard to understand while working for yourself and thinking your knowledge may become obsolete if you don't know the latest trending tech.
tomascot··on InfernoJS – A JavaScript library for building powerful user interfaces
Don't try to surf the tech wave. Learn to swim.
tomascot··on Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
Good styling is not necessarily equal to a huge stylesheet
tomascot··on Nestle says it will cut sugar in chocolate by 40%
Suppose it has 5% sugar, if you reduce that amount 40% it won't be much. Maybe they add some soy byproduct
tomascot··on How Google Is Challenging AWS
I'm not so sure, if Amazon develops it's own logistics solutions I would say that those are a bit more complicated than Chrome.
tomascot··on Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for Pixel phone resellers
AdSense is a giant hypocrisy, they tell you you can't have ads in the first part of the screen on mobile, but you look at Google search results and they so exactly that.

Then, there is a set of guidelines you have to comply, which is great, except it says this "Pages generated to funnel visitors into the actual usable or relevant portion of your site" and also says you can't copy content from other sites, they are basically describing Google search page.

who watches the watchmen?

They obviously provide a good service with Google search, that's out of discussion.

tomascot··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
Gary, great work! You could add a bot to post links to lectures in social networks, at least Twitter.

Like one random lecture each day, or the most "active" during the week.

tomascot··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
Don't worry, it's a nice problem to have. Having users around the globe is something you should be proud of.

Congrats.

tomascot··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
For us in the rest of the world...
tomascot··on Google to divide its index, giving mobile users better and fresher content
Firefox + ublock. I feel blocking ads on mobile is crucial considering how small data caps are.
tomascot··on Most drivers who own cars with built-in GPS systems use phones for directions
There are situations when going above the speed limit could save your life, at least where I live. It could be for passing or to escape from a robbery
tomascot··on How a Technical Co-Founder Spends His Time
Then you'll love my ebook "1 step to working 8 hours a week and get paid $62,263/hr writing ebooks!"
tomascot··on Affiliate links on Reddit
I guess it could be free promotion, is not unusual for respected sites to publish affiliate links to Amazon.

MercadoLibre, one of the biggest ecommerce platform in latam, had an affiliate program, but they cut it when they were "big enough".

tomascot··on Superdesk – An End-To-End Platform for News
I worked with media companies in latinamerica, an almost no one was willing to move to another CMS, nor add new functionality to the existing ones.

I hope this is gonna start changing soon, because the main issue is that people in charge of media is old for the most part, so they kind of hate change and prefer to keep things as they are.

tomascot··on Superdesk – An End-To-End Platform for News
You are probably right, but I've worked with news sites using Wordpress and they love the fact that almost everything they want could be added to the platform.
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