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by epalm 7y ago
I also miss hginit.com. I've been referring new devs to https://web.archive.org/web/20180924182907/http://hginit.com... I guess hginit.com disappearing was a signal of things to come.
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by epalm 7y ago
I wear earplugs when I ride my motorcycle for longer trips on the highway. When people see this, they say "that's dangerous, you'll hear less" but it mostly cuts the wind noise, and counter-intuitively I end up hearing m
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by epalm 7y ago
So what you actually hate are "bad checklists".
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by epalm 8y ago
This past Christmas, the volume of presents was out of control. Next year we plan to do a “Secret Santa”, where you pick someone’s name out of a hat, and get them a present (i.e. everyone gets 1 present).
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by epalm 8y ago
Most users aren’t _choosing_ their browser, in fact they probably don’t even know what a “browser” is, relative to the “web” and the “internet”. If they’re using even a somewhat modern desktop/phone/tablet and things don’t Just Wo
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by epalm 8y ago
I did too ;)
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Ask HN: Which NAICS code do you use to classify your SaaS?
2 points by epalm 8y ago|0 comments
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by epalm 9y ago
This was visible when using credit cards in stores, too. 1990s: your signature needs to match exactly so we know it's really you! 2000s: you must enter a PIN that hopefully only you know? 2010s: fuck it just tap the card near the reade
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by epalm 9y ago
Here's an example: https://youtu.be/iWXebEeGwn0
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by epalm 9y ago
Yep, in Mississauga (just west of Toronto) using Bell, most sites are slow or don't load at all. Can't see a pattern yet though.
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by epalm 9y ago
Something that really bothers me about the DDG interface is how it hijacks the up/down arrow keys I use for scrolling. After searching, press down, and the page won't scroll down, it'll just highlight the first search result
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by epalm 9y ago
Same here, for obscure programming questions. Sometimes I do eventually find good results on DDG if I keep scrolling, but on the Goog it's front and center.
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by epalm 9y ago
If I learn something, it's usually because I want to implement it. After it's implemented, it's in a source control repo somewhere. While I often don't remember exactly how something works, I will remember where/w
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by epalm 9y ago
Front page <h1> typo: "Find out if your website is protected again Hackers" You probably mean "against".
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by epalm 10y ago
I was a Computer Science student and teaching assistant at the University of Toronto for a number of years (about a decade ago), and the 20% rule was in full effect: "On a test, if you write 'I don't know', you get 20% o
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by epalm 10y ago
Reminds me of this article posted back in 2014 by Chris Palmer https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-saf...
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by epalm 10y ago
At this point it's totally inexcusable. Just buy the SSL cert already, or get a free one from Let's Encrypt.
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by epalm 10y ago
I believe Django's logging framework will automatically replace strings in your settings.py file (basically a dict) with ' *' if the key "looks like" a secret (contains the word 'secret' or 'key&
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by epalm 10y ago
How is it possible in this day and age that both http://www.9bis.net/kitty/ and http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ are not HTTPS?
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by epalm 10y ago
Serious question, I'm genuinely not trolling here. How can Twitter (or any other social site) be expected to maintain a high rate of new users, forever? After the first few hundred million users, wouldn't one expect new registrat
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by epalm 10y ago
Here's the product page: https://www.ampaudio.com/ I was excited for an upgraded audio experience and extended battery life (paid for mine back in Nov 2014), but to be honest I'm not surprised. Nearly every commu
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Soundfocus (makers of AMP Audio) shutting down(medium.com)
5 points by epalm 10y ago|2 comments
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by epalm 10y ago
What evidence is there that the phone was actually hacked? Wouldn't saying "ah never mind we hacked it" be a convenient way out of a precedent-setting court case the FBI was losing?
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by epalm 11y ago
Reminds me of https://evan.atavist.com/vanish
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by epalm 11y ago
One reason bringing your resume is a good idea is because scumbag recruiters sometimes modify your resume, inserting the right keywords to get you the interview in the first place.
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by epalm 12y ago
> none of them that big You sound like middle management weighing lines of code instead of quality of work.
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by epalm 12y ago
To those who think inbox-0 is a waste of time, because you can just search for email, so why spend even a second organizing it: what causes you to remember to reply to an email sent to you 3 days ago, which is now the 119th email in your in