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by flixic 7y ago
This is a great video demonstration by Matt Parker of Parker Square fame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU
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by flixic 7y ago
For those on iOS, built-in Shortcuts app can do this as well.
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by flixic 7y ago
It’s called Proof of Stake (as opposed to Proof of Work) and there are multiple implementations working already and Ethereum will migrate to PoS next year. PoS is conceptually more complicated (block producing is assigned to nodes with stak
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by flixic 7y ago
Being from EU with decent contact to EU parliament... EU officials really don’t need much encouragement. The passion to regulate everything burns deeply.
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by flixic 7y ago
And yet, when the subject boils down to people and culture, testing is slow, complicated and unrewarding. Results need a lot of variable elimination and are rarely used for practical decision making. This applies to most “people” subjects.
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by flixic 7y ago
I store my TOTP in 1Password... I think it's still more secure than SMS (because to restore 1Password vault you also need a Secret, not only your password) and so much more convenient than a separate app, because 1Password auto-copies
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by flixic 7y ago
Authy / Google Authenticator / 1Password have built-in TOTP generators. They have great UX and are much more secure.
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by flixic 7y ago
I've been developing for the web for about 15 years, and I totally can see myself googling "writing cookies". It's not a thing you do that often, and even if you do, perhaps it just doesn't stick in your mind. There
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by flixic 7y ago
Very nice to see them provide a dark CSS theme via prefers-color-scheme, following system preference.
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by flixic 7y ago
What an arrogant take on the impact of Slack from Butterfield. Even if he says that Slack is "not about tech but about making work happen", there has been countless of other programs that, while being "tech", made work h
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by flixic 7y ago
Consider replacing "literally" with "practically" or something similar in phrases like these. I have seen first-hand how much of the business can run on Slack. Yet, if it's gone one day, companies would survive.
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by flixic 7y ago
The data I find says 27%: https://gs.statcounter.com/android-version-market-share/mobi...
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by flixic 7y ago
Hoping to be wrong, checked the data. It's been about a year for iOS 12 and Android Pie. According to the latest numbers, iOS 12 is at 84% [1] and Android Pie is at 27% [2]. I also don't think that waiting 3 years will push Pie pe
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by flixic 7y ago
It's not straightforward to put a face of an anonymous entity on a banknote.
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by flixic 7y ago
FP languages are not that big. FP architecture and practices are very popular. React, Immutability and more have become mainstream. A recent example is SwiftUI. While Swift is not a FP language, SwiftUI (FP UI framework) and Combine (a FP t
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by flixic 7y ago
I'd wager that government-run portals might be even easier to hack. Regardless of that, separating "official communications" from "personal" would be really tricky. Which tweets would come as "the current presi
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by flixic 7y ago
I really like this deconstruction! Never thought about it this way but it makes a lot of sense.
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by flixic 7y ago
Seems like an incredibly efficient way to farm karma. Identity posts in this category (3+ posts, each a year apart and gaining 50+ upvotes) and post them once the time is right (including the right time of the day — I remember seeing some a
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by flixic 7y ago
I'd rather not redirect this discussion to Amazon forests. It was just one example... and I probably could have picked a better one. The dot chain I see is social media -> stronger tribalism, social bubbles -> strengthening of na
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by flixic 7y ago
> I don't know what the solution is. Neither do I but I see tribalism as one of the most destructive forces of the last decade, responsible for almost all big changes (and lack of change) in the world. Politics spill out to other ar
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by flixic 7y ago
European here. Shipping from US can be insanely expensive. Once I had to pay $40 to ship a pen. I can totally believe the $370 figure.
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by flixic 7y ago
There are! The second paragraph in my first comment goes into detail on this. You can purchase the font and get the files, but it's still on you to track views and make sure the files are delivered to the browser safely (preventing eas
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by flixic 7y ago
Well, of course. But limiting design to just open source fonts is really restrictive.
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by flixic 7y ago
Typekit uses the same CSS system. One massive reason people use services like it is licensing. It’s a pretty cheap service, no per-font costs and you are sure that the way fonts are delivered is legal. I am not using one of these services.
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by flixic 7y ago
There’s also Numberwang function.
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by flixic 7y ago
One of the most annoying aspects of media. See also: Apple, Zuckerberg.
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by flixic 7y ago
Your search URLs return a JSON instead of HTML. I get this even when I press Enter in a search box. https://scarf.sh/packages/search/framework
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by flixic 7y ago
Not only the data could be accessed, it's entirely possible it was modified. Unless you have good logging of all data changes (at DB level) it can be very difficult to detect these changes. The first hijacked version was released on Au
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by flixic 7y ago
I believe you do have to be the author to add "Show HN". Show HN indicates that the maker is present in the thread. If we lose this distinction, Show HN becomes quite meaningless as a prefix.
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by flixic 7y ago
HN discussion on original link is very good, not to mention that personal blog is actually better designed than Medium and has no paywall. Don't waste your time on Medium.

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