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yclept··on Why We Moved from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform
Terraform
yclept··on Adopting Feature Flag-Driven Releases
Great, we will be looking at applying this in a new project of ours, and replace our existing feature flag implementations in other systems if things work out.
yclept··on Adopting Feature Flag-Driven Releases
How exactly does the api work? Is every call to check a flag making a HTTP request to LD or does the ld client sync periodically?
yclept··on Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail
Would this not be against the terms of service :)
yclept··on DuckDuckGo announces partnership with Yahoo
What are you switching to? As far as I know ddg and yahoo are basically just bing already. So what is an alternative you are comfortable with?
yclept··on George Soros Was ‘Long’ on Pound Before Vote on Brexit
So is it better for the EU / global economy?
yclept··on Affiliate links on Reddit
I think those same things are still incentivizing the program.
yclept··on Affiliate links on Reddit
There is a difference in reddit handing an affiliate referal code to say Amazon and a party between reddit and Amazon.
yclept··on Affiliate links on Reddit
Of concern is that they are using a third party affiliate network. That means tracking and selling you.
yclept··on Same-site Cookies
I could be misunderstanding, but is that not what the secure cookie flag is for?
yclept··on That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people
Ok, does this make you not poor? I think not.
yclept··on Facebook's new front-end server design
getting a 500 with the given link: https://i.imgur.com/w8cPBa2.png
yclept··on Verizon fined $1.3M for supercookie header injection [pdf]
Here is a discussion from a year or two ago that explains the header: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8500131
yclept··on The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong
I was turned off to Meteor when one of the initial releases was touting being able to use the browser console as a Mongo shell. Never took it seriously since.
yclept··on What I learnt from being sexually harassed at Google
This is the same case in the US but you can still be out of a job which is a serious problem for many.
yclept··on Postmortem: Server compromised due to publicly accessible Redis
Seems like any monitoring saas that allows you to define custom alarm criteria or plugins would let you do this. I know rackspace cloud has this.
yclept··on Show HN: Sodocan.js: Documentation Made Easy
is it compatible with jsdoc?
yclept··on Things men have actually said to me at tech events
It's funny to me because looking at the resume of the article op, you see she is in marketing.
yclept··on Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network
Yep, and Verizon does. They will overwrite your header.
yclept··on Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network
It is an http header: X-UIDH added to http requests
yclept··on Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network
I also changed my provider after the initial story. Originally went to tmobile but the service was terrible. Att removed their tracking header so I have switched to them now.
yclept··on Musk Says Tesla Cars Will Go 620 Miles per Charge in 2 Years, Autonomous in 3
They'd guess c:
yclept··on How much of your audience is fake?
> Not many fake 'searches' are happening

You think similar networks aren't abusing search?

yclept··on Httpbin – HTTP Client Testing Service
https://canhazip.com/
yclept··on The Disturbing Consequences of Seeing Your Doppelgänger
Probably submitters are inspired by Oliver Sacks' death.
yclept··on Closure Compiler: a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster
Check out plovr http://plovr.com/
yclept··on Julian Assange 'disappointed' as sex assault case dropped
Ecuador isn't exactly known as a bastion of freedom.
yclept··on Liu Cixin, China’s hottest science-fiction writer
Maybe they spotted earth millions of years ago and wiped out the dominant dinosaur population mammals being unaffected? :]
yclept··on A Pakistani Teen Gets Rich in E-Sports
It is a team sport
yclept··on The Really Big One
How about a kickstarter?!
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