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tomd3v··on Ask HN: As a developer what are your aha moments?
This is really great.
tomd3v··on Police tracked a terror suspect until his phone went dark after Facebook warning
This. This is so obvious I can't comprehend how people don't realize this.
tomd3v··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
1. A huge recession like never before happening before 2025.

2. Facebook Libra becomes prevalent. Others (Google, Apple, Microsoft) follow to have their e-coins.

3. AR and/or VR is the smartphone of the 20s.

4. Facebook becomes the most valuable company in the world first to reach a 2T$ valuation.

tomd3v··on 267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online
> Facebook makes zero effort to protect your grandma

How much effort do you put in to protect your grandma?

tomd3v··on SQL Murder Mystery
Very nice except the fact the whole page breaks for me when using joins.
tomd3v··on How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
That wasn't my point. And actually I am not sure what are you trying to say with your reply cause it's not related to what I was saying. My point was that those engineers working on those problems have a good impact on economy as a whole. Efficient engaging ads are great for everyone, it's great for growth.

> To me, if I was promised "the most meaningful work of my career" then I was assigned to anti-ad-blocking I wouldn't feel my Facebook career was delivering on that promise.

Then you could easily just quit.

tomd3v··on How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
Can you explain what is wrong with engineers working on problems like these?

As I see this, it allows businesses to connect with more people, therefore being more profitable, therefore making economy grow in general.

I just don't understand this hate towards developers who work for companies like FB and Google and whose job is focusing on increasing ad engagement. In my opinion, they definitely provide a hugely positive effect on economy (unless you think capitalism / consumerism is evil / wrong or whatever, which is another topic).

tomd3v··on Richard M. Stallman resigns
You learn by discussing.
tomd3v··on 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
> Mathematicians are interested in which natural numbers k can be expressed as a sum of three cubes.

Why?

tomd3v··on What's Coming in Python 3.8
Seriously. I recently came from PHP, and this is one feature I've been missing quite often and a lot.
tomd3v··on Maine Governor Signs Strictest Internet Protections in the U.S.
> Maine’s new law does not allow an ISP to offer a discounted rate to customers who agree to share or sell their data.
tomd3v··on Grooveshark Shuts Down
I've been using them for the last 2 years and had a huge playlist. Is there any way to retrieve the playlist? groovebackup.com just returns "Missing data for playlist"
tomd3v··on Show HN: Kiwichat – group chat of people who are within 1 mile
>though I'm curious what happens when you physically leave the coverage area for a chatroom.

At the moment, nothing happens, user stays in a group chat.

tomd3v··on Show HN: an online shop that bargains with you
To get the lowest price:

setInterval(function() { $("#price").val(0); $("#bid-button").click(); }, 100);

:)

I like the idea by the way.

tomd3v··on Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost
"What he did was certainly wrong" - why, exactly? Telling a joke to your friend is certainly wrong?
tomd3v··on Making the travel site people want, even if it’s impossible
What's that song at the end of their video?
tomd3v··on Limiting passwords to 12 characters is "secure enough"
I don't understand why you are so upset. Just edit the HTML and set maxlength to anything you want. It will seal a deal. :D
tomd3v··on Apple, stop trolling me
Please, please, please..! Change the font color!
tomd3v··on Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
Good post, but it is much more difficult to believe in "this will pass" when you could be sentenced for 35 years.
tomd3v··on Show HN: LaughMatch
That's why he said MVP.
tomd3v··on Show HN: goodbre.ws, a fully open source recommendation engine for beer
Great! And also, this website is a great example how Twitter Bootstrap theme should look like.
tomd3v··on World `countries` – database table for MySQL
Very nice job. That would be great if there were such thing for cities and nationalities.