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bibinou

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Sorry, I didn't see the "much softer targets" remark but I disagree anyway.

Marketing on HN can be very powerful. The mindshare gain can be enormous. Niches in general are very rewarding if the underlying platform (Google/Facebook/Amazon/Ebay) doesn't deplatform you.

I don't have time to look it up but I'm sure minimaxir (Certified HN Influencer) has made a study on it.

PG remarked on it in What I've Learned from Hacker News[1]:

"But what happened to Reddit won't inevitably happen to HN. There are several local maxima. There can be places that are free for alls and places that are more thoughtful, just as there are in the real world; and people will behave differently depending on which they're in, just as they do in the real world.

I've observed this in the wild. I've seen people cross-posting on Reddit and Hacker News who actually took the trouble to write two versions, a flame for Reddit and a more subdued version for HN."

Anecdata: just today I reactivated an account on a startup I learned about from a Show HN[2]

[1] https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990238

Apple Cash 4 years ago

yeah rip-off was harsh (ESL). I see now that the Apple Pay Cash name was in place earlier. Though the brand presence and ad campaigns for (Square's) Cash App means it's a bonus anyway.

(Remember Apple once tried to trademark App)

Apple Cash 4 years ago

the name is a rip-off of Square's Cash App: https://cash.app Wallet is an actual wallet where you can put cards, coupons...

Pay is the whole system of APIs used to pay via NFC or online, authed by biometrics (Touch/FaceID). As a user you just add your credit card and it works better than contactless credit cards.

Apple Card is an Apple credit card with cashback backed by Goldman Sachs. US-only.

the subsequent blog post (https://blog.heroku.com/we-heard-your-feedback) says:

Additionally, we have no evidence that the attacker has accessed any customer accounts or decrypted customers’ environment variables.

which, as pointed out in its HN thread, means "we now know they got access to encrypted vars, and we don't know yet if they could have decrypted them." in BS-speak.

The title "We've Heard Your Feedback" is also a red herring, usually means "we know we fucked up bad and we still have no idea of the whole impact of the breach".

The Big Here Quiz 4 years ago

The Thames watershed is pretty small, you've left it if you've ever gone north of Luton.

These messages appeared in the JavaScript console on Safari while browsing multiple pages on techsparx.com. At first I saw it on one page, then checked other pages and got the same messages. This site is using Ezoic's advertising system, which in turn uses Google Ad Manager for some advertising.

Yeah he noticed it... on his own website.