Albright

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by Albright 11y ago
tl;dr: It installs pre-built binary packages instead of building from source as Homebrew and MacPorts does. There are a few other differences, but that's the biggest one.
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by Albright 11y ago
Hey, good work! I've never had to work with phone numbers in a mobile app, but I have with web development, and so many people do it just so, so wrong. I like what I'm seeing here, and will definitely keep it in mind should I ever
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by Albright 11y ago
For those unaware, it looks like this is "Dear Future HomeJoy Engineer:" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794956 Commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8795197
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by Albright 11y ago
I'd like to, but the link just sends me to Forbes' paywall. =/
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by Albright 11y ago
The first step is to wad up your self-doubt and chunk it in the nearest incinerator. If you've been tinkering with code for eight years and have won competitions, odds are pretty certain you can do good enough work to justify a junior
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by Albright 11y ago
Huh. My (mainland Chinese) wife told me about this story after reading about it in the Chinese press. I thought it was sensationalized a bit, but this article lines up with what she told me pretty well (though maybe that just means the AP i
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by Albright 11y ago
Thanks for explaining it, I guess, because your web site sure doesn't. The about page is worse than useless.
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by Albright 11y ago
NetSurf seems to support SSL to the extent that it connected to my site, which scores an A+ on the Qualsys SSL Labs test, without any issues. On the other hand, I agree that not being able to hit Command-L to jump to the address bar as with
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by Albright 11y ago
Do you mean Vasalgel? The article is nearly an advertisement for it. Has a diagram of how it works and everything.
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by Albright 11y ago
Maybe they wouldn't lose their impetus, but they might lose their ability to sell the idea of e-books to publishers. The major stores sell DRM-free music now, but do you think that Apple would have been able to get music publishers on
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by Albright 11y ago
> Amazon can remotely delete the e-book using a back door. It used this back door in 2009 to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984. Tell the whole story, guys. Framing it just this way is dishonest.
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by Albright 11y ago
Once you achieve a certain degree of success, you no longer have the same challenges, concerns, or mindset of the typical "indie dev," yes. This is a guy whose tech podcast I stopped listening to partly because he and some other d
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by Albright 11y ago
Indeed, thinking of Marco Arment as an "indie dev" is sort of like thinking of Minecraft as an "indie game." Regardless of roots, at some point, they both crossed a money line. That being said, assuming he is somewhat fi
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Brotli compression format changes encoding type from “bro” to “br”(github.com)
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by Albright 11y ago
I'm 4/5, meaning that of the five projects I've backed, four delivered what they promised and one turned out to be, if not a total scam, at least a project where the creators lied about how far along they were in prototyping
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by Albright 11y ago
Are you seriously just selling your collection of conference swag T-shirts? For twelve bucks apiece?
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by Albright 11y ago
Use maybe half of that $20k to hire a front-end dev and/or designer to finish the front end.
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by Albright 11y ago
The recently-released, Mac OS X 10.11, El Capitan, will run on systems up to eight years old [1]. Maybe it won't run well, particularly if the RAM is skimpy, but for any machine made in the current decade, it shouldn't be much of
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by Albright 11y ago
"A Two Hundred Million Dollar Dollar Shell Game"
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by Albright 11y ago
Yep. Slack is a pretty poor re-implementation of IRC, and I'm pretty bummed both my previous and my current company forced me to use it. If we're going to go this route, let's at least use something not so patronizing and inf
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by Albright 11y ago
> But with Starbucks in 65 countries now, the world is flatter than ever, and it didn’t feel like I would learn that much. This is such a jaw-droppingly ignorant and unaware comment that I can't even imagine how-- > Instead I dec
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by Albright 11y ago
Assuming you really do get a 1 gigabit connection, your wireless router will be a major bottleneck. See the table on Wikipedia's article on IEEE 802.11 (commonly known as wi-fi): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_
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by Albright 11y ago
This is really great. I've been waiting for the right project to come along with which to experiment with PostgreSQL over MySQL/MariaDB, but haven't had that chance yet. These sorts of articles make me really excited about th
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by Albright 11y ago
We're probably near a point where everyone who wants to own an e-ink reader already has one. At that point, these folks are buying at least some of their books for and through the device (I wonder if this retailer gets a cut of that),
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by Albright 11y ago
> 'clippings' looks really excellent. I would go so far as to say this is a game-changer for me as it currently stands. Midori, my personal favorite iOS J/E dictionary, has had a feature like this since I started using it,
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by Albright 11y ago
> I fail to see how copying my data to more companies reduces my attack surface. I'm talking about your privacy and mine-ability, not your attack surface. (Though it does help with that too, in a way - a bigger chance someone will g
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by Albright 11y ago
Ah, cool. I was looking for a way to contact you, but couldn't find a way on your web site or on the GitHub page, short of opening an issue. Not that I have anything really interesting to say - just that I really enjoyed reading your w
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by Albright 11y ago
At least by using a non-Google "free" mail service, file storage service, etc, you're distributing your mineable information among competing companies instead of handing it all over to a single entity. Or, you can do as I do
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by Albright 11y ago
I'm with you here - I also find OS X's Mail plenty "good enough," including for search. And it works great for connecting to Google Mail accounts via IMAP…
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by Albright 11y ago
Oh, come on. Just connect your Google router to your Google fiber connection and connect to it with your smartphone or laptop running a Google operating system and Google browser. Visit your Google home page (using Google's DNS servers

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