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tszming

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tszming··on Ask HN: What Is Going on with Neo4j?
so what graph database you end up with?
tszming··on New for AWS Lambda – Environment Variables and Serverless Application Model
Environments (dev, prod etc) support would be great, currently need to use apex to simulate.
tszming··on Priceonomics Idea Tester
Content farm will find it useful.
tszming··on RethinkDB is shutting down
As a product creating so much job opportunities gloablly and didn't take you $0.01, I would like to ask: How shameful is it?
tszming··on [dead]
(Rant) if you site's JS file is not minified, , your script will be blocked (Chrome 99)
tszming··on UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
For those who want to take up a challenge - fork a version of Chrome Android with extension (aka AdBlock) support.
tszming··on Gmail will now support CSS media queries
However Gmail does support inline CSS.

If you want to show your styles to Gmail users and you have to inline your CSS in every HTML tags you want to alter, which is very ugly and made the email size unneeded large.

tszming··on Gmail will now support CSS media queries
For those who are not familiar in Email's CSS support, Gmail is actually a blocker, not a mover: https://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
tszming··on WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information
Why we don't sell ads (2012) https://blog.whatsapp.com/245/Why-we-dont-sell-ads?
tszming··on Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System
>> accidental benefit.

Agree

>> Most admins don't think about a complete TLD failure. Amazon did.

I think companies such as Google or Facebook did think that before, but I am not sure why they didn't follow this trick.

tszming··on Taking Over DigitalOcean Domains via a Lax Domain Import System
I think most of the providers (e.g. DO, Linode, CloudFlare etc) do not check the authority of DNS due to the chicken-and-egg problem. The AWS way to handle this issue is definitely awesome but the infrastructure required is not worth for those companies who are providing "free DNS service" as an add-on to their existing customers. Anyway, IMO, it is your fault if you point to a nameserver but not utilizing it.
tszming··on Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)
> Error establishing a database connection

Why you should never use database

tszming··on ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler
fyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-to-source_compiler
tszming··on Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production
>> Debian is a good example of the opposite end of Docker.

It is not fair to compare Docker with Debian. Docker Inc (who backed Docker) is a for-profit corporation and is backed by investors. It is understandable why they need to push their products into production the soonest time possible.

tszming··on Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X
JavaScript itself also need competition. I really hope the browser vendors can sit down together and start working on a better language for the future browsers.
tszming··on Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site
[youtube.com] https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...

# Some pages on this website install malware on visitors' computers...

# Some pages on this website redirect visitors to dangerous websites that install malware on visitors..

tszming··on Stick a Fork in Ethereum
Maybe you can just use ... PayPal?
tszming··on Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat
Yes until the managements find out the they are losing Billions due to the ad blocking. IMO, not bring extension support on Chrome Android is the same reason.
tszming··on Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat
I joked to a friend that if Google invented a time machine, the first thing they would do is travel back to remove the extension support in Chrome before it was launched - the ad blockers.
tszming··on Defending Our Brand
Dear Comodo: your competitor is GoDaddy, not Let's Encrypt :)
tszming··on JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions
Effectively now you are using database as your session storage?
tszming··on JSON Web Tokens vs. Sessions
People don't realize it is not a proper comparison as JWT is only the format/spec - you can still achieve stateless client session by encrypting an XML payload (e.g. user id) in the browser cookie. Storing data in client and verify by signature is not a new thing.
tszming··on If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10? (2014)
Sadly, if Verisign is not earning $7.85 per domain, I guess every possible combinations of meaningful dot com domains were already exhausted.
tszming··on Google’s stock slid after report on search ad decline
People spend most of their time on Facebook products, especially on mobile - for example, in HK's public transits, it is not uncommon if you find over 70% of people near you are actually using Facebook products at the same time (FB/WhatsApp/Instagram)
tszming··on PHP Sucks
Sadly, most of the complaints to PHP as a language also apply to JavaScript (even worse IMO), but seems like people are more forgiving to the JavaScript/ Node.js community nowadays.
tszming··on Dropbox says it is cash flow positive, in no rush to IPO
>> I wonder what features Dropbox can offer that won't inevitably be surpassed by Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and OneDrive.

Google is blocked in China, not all people use Apple products, many people simply don't like Microsoft.

tszming··on Don't use JSON web tokens for sessions
While several points in the article are arguable but I agree not using "JWT for managing user sessions in their web applications". If you need to add extra / custom / unproven mechanisms to invalidate JWT tokens and this defeat the purpose of the simplicity of using Stateless JWT - people are using sticky sessions or session servers to solve the scalability problem of user sessions in web apps pretty well and most frameworks bundled battle-tested libraries to do so long time ago.
tszming··on Firebase expands to become a unified app platform
The biggest problem with any Google cloud services nowadays is you don't know if it was/will blocked in China, of course it is okay if you don't care the users in China.
tszming··on Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?
Google Reader, Google Notebook, Google My Track, Delicious
tszming··on Introducing WhatsApp's Desktop App
This is what Facebook Messenger is designed for, they don't necessarily need to compete with each other.
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