Hacker News: afurculita

New comment by afurculita in "Americans are drowning in spam"

afurculita — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 15:18:41 +0000

Elon should buy the US telecom companies and make their spam algorithm open source.

New comment by afurculita in "Algorand – Fast, low fees and sustainable blockchain"

afurculita — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 06:04:09 +0000

The best recent case that couldn't happen without a blockchain is ConstitutionDAO.

New comment by afurculita in "Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community"

afurculita — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:34:14 +0000

GitHub has a discussions section.

New comment by afurculita in "Brave Search replaces Google as default search engine in the Brave browser"

afurculita — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:46:34 +0000

I've been using Brave Browser for almost a year already. I fallback to Chrome when I can't get through some Recaptchas: this is the only annoying thing on Brave, you get a lot of Recaptchas that are invisible on Chrome and some are impossible to solve.

I've also switched to Brave Search immediately when it come out. I'm satisfied with the search results I get for 90% of my queries, switching back to Google for the remaining 10%. My main problems with Brave Search are: 1. It doesn't have good localised results for non-english queries; here Google remains the best; 2. It doesn't have support for verbatim searching

New comment by afurculita in "Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough"

afurculita — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 04:00:25 +0000

On Apple's side on this.

New comment by afurculita in "Domain-Driven Design"

afurculita — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 08:38:46 +0000

You don't use DDD at your current company. Naming it DDD doesn't make it DDD.

New comment by afurculita in "The Perils of an .xyz Domain"

afurculita — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 12:10:38 +0000

Or a distributed ElasticSearch

New comment by afurculita in "Life-size camel sculptures in Saudi Arabia are older than Stonehenge, pyramids"

afurculita — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 11:45:26 +0000

Something like The Sphinx from Romania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(Romania)). At a first look you'll say it is an ancient sculpture.

New comment by afurculita in "Don't build a general-purpose API to power your own front end"

afurculita — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 09:13:09 +0000

With HTTP2's multiplexing feature, it doesn't really matter how many requests the frontend is firing up. Just use HTTP 2 when you have multiple requests on a page.

New comment by afurculita in "AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped"

afurculita — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 01:10:05 +0000

Yep, that's because they didn't use a blockchain. That would have solved everything.

New comment by afurculita in "The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation"

afurculita — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:32:17 +0000

Only if it is a thoughtcrime.

New comment by afurculita in "The Problem of Free Speech in an Age of Disinformation"

afurculita — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:59:56 +0000

This is like saying: I come from a country where free market was never a real thing and you should oppose even the slightest regulation, anti-trust laws etc.

New comment by afurculita in "Say goodbye to hold music"

afurculita — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 04:04:16 +0000

Ok. What was the experience? Sometimes the customer is not right.

New comment by afurculita in "FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks"

afurculita — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:01:45 +0000

How do you remove a dictator from power without invading that country?

New comment by afurculita in "FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks"

afurculita — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 22:37:50 +0000

Ok. What's your experience?

Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL

afurculita — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 20:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://eng.uber.com/postgres-to-mysql-migration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24191602

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by afurculita in "No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body"

afurculita — Thu, 07 May 2020 12:32:07 +0000

Yep. In US the interchange fee is more than 2% of the transaction. In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards. That's why in US they have those cash back options on credit cards, that are just not possible in Europe.

New comment by afurculita in "Ask HN: What are you learning?"

afurculita — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 03:43:12 +0000

Same here. Also trying to learn a new language without a dictionary: the toddler's cry, and trying to learn to make myself fall asleep on command, but being awake in the same time.