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by habosa 5y ago
Good luck, I hope this works! Here's my initial feedback. 1) The site needs to be much more visually attractive. On my 13" laptop it's a gray chat box floating in a ton of white space. Not centered, no color, and the logo loo
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by habosa 5y ago
It's a bit of a chicken and the egg thing. I thought the same thing when I lived in America. I moved to London where Bromptons are very popular (invented here) and I saw so many people of all kinds riding these tiny-wheeled bikes that
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by habosa 5y ago
I used to work with the Google Play services team at Google. I believe they did eventually fix the battery attribution issue to attribute the usage to the app which used the service, not the service itself.
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by habosa 5y ago
Yes! I am so sick of seeing people draw conclusions from Twitter. Twitter is an incredible real-time data source for factual information (ex: is something literally on fire?) but not a good source for real-time opinion polls. It only gives
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by habosa 5y ago
In some cases yeah but not for mail. The GMail API is great but to use it you have to spend like $75k on a security review that Google has to approve.
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by habosa 5y ago
> the only possible reason this exists at all is to illegally circumvent privacy preferences. The article gives multiple other reasons why this exists.
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by habosa 5y ago
I'm new to Slack (just leaving a FAANG for a startup) and all the inbox management skills I've built up over the years seem to be useless now. Is there a good way to create an async task list from Slack? Right now if I get a messa
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by habosa 5y ago
AppImage does seem promising although I tried it the other day for Electrum (bitcoin wallet) and it was a mess. I was not able to double-click to launch and once I closed the app I was never able to launch it again. Maybe I'll give it
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by habosa 5y ago
That installs a binary tool I can run at the command line. Which is great for a lot of things. It's not great for a web browser or a calculator. I want an app. I want it to have an icon I can click on and a button to close it. I don&#x
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by habosa 5y ago
YES THANK YOU The vast majority of motorcyles in America are illegally modified to be louder than they should [0]. This crime is basically impossuble to police because you need an offer with a reliable sound meter device in the right place
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by habosa 5y ago
These apps look very nice, I am happy to see this movement. But this is HN so ... allow me to go a bit off topic and complain. Why is is so freaking hard to install an app on Linux (Ubuntu)? There's nothing in the software center, and
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by habosa 5y ago
Despite being a “comic book” this is a pretty great choice: https://economixcomix.com/
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by habosa 5y ago
In the US if you have a retirement savings account (which is very advantageous to have) it’s likely to be a 401k or IRA which you have to manage yourself. So having some basic understanding of the stock market is essential to your financial
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by habosa 5y ago
In my case I had to call. Maybe because I am not on a contract.
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by habosa 5y ago
People don’t realize how invasive the UK govt is when it comes to internet monitoring. Today if you try to access adult content on a UK mobile device you get blocked by age verification. You have to call your mobile provider and prove your
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by habosa 5y ago
I use Shush for Mac to keep my microphone off at a system level unless I press a button (push to talk): https://mizage.com/shush/ It makes me much more comfortable in the age of WFH. I never know when someone or somet
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by habosa 5y ago
Do you think the users that want dark mode representative of the user base at large? My gut feeling is that it's especially popular among users who are Very Online like programmers, designers, etc. which tend to be the type of users th
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Ask HN: How did dark mode win?
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by habosa 5y ago
This article has almost zero content. It’s spam.
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by habosa 5y ago
I moved from San Francisco to London with my wife (no kids) in Spring of 2020. So my experience has been very covid-y but still hugely positive. We moved here because we always wanted to live in Europe and we only speak English, so London s
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by habosa 5y ago
I think by contractors they meant all non-employees. Temps, vendors, etc. Google has over 100,000 of these and they do not all "know the deal" about how much worse their compensation / conditions will be compared to full time
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by habosa 5y ago
I can’t stand ads on government property, particularly in spaces where I am captive. The best example is public transportation. There are ads all over the station and then ads all over the interior (and exterior) of the train/bus durin
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by habosa 5y ago
Even if your users all use high end laptops, this is still a good idea. Making your site fast enough on a craptop will make it blazing fast and delightful for everyone else. It’s like how baseball players warm up with weighted bats.
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by habosa 5y ago
> Do people regularly run into coworkers like me during their career and simply ignore it because they find it too awkward to criticize them? Yes.
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by habosa 5y ago
I'm happy that he's making money, especially since it sounds like he didn't have it easy as a kid. However it's a bit sad to me that this is the successful end state of the streamer economy. His job is uniquely voluntary
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by habosa 5y ago
Problems I had on Android phones at various times in the 10 years I owned them (mostly Nexus / Pixel): * Can't make calls * Can't receive calls * Can't send text messages * Can't receive text messages *
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by habosa 5y ago
If anyone from HN is here reading: maybe just make this change? The current touch targets on mobile are much too small and definitely fall below most UX / accessibility standards.
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by habosa 5y ago
I'm a software engineer trying to learn more design. My wife is a freelance brand strategist who formerly worked at a top design agency. We were both very impressed with this product! While there are certainly imperfections, it's
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by habosa 5y ago
In every big transaction,” said Leech, “there is a magic moment during which a man has surrendered a treasure, and during which the man who is due to receive it has not yet done so. An alert lawyer will make that moment his own, possessing
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by habosa 5y ago
Edit: it was early when I wrote this. I said free higher education, which is wrong. I meant cheap.

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