octalmage

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by octalmage 8y ago
PixelBook has something like Expose, but it’s no where as smooth. It snaps into place in weird ways and that kills the magic.
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by octalmage 8y ago
I sold my razer to get the N-Gage and I loved it. I am a gamer and loved the games available to it.
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by octalmage 8y ago
I’ve run into this a bit with progress related stuff. I bet if you looked at progress bar libraries they’d have similar logic built in.
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by octalmage 8y ago
I’m glad you mentioned this. I worked on an email client like this for a bit, but I found email difficult to work with. Basically I wanted to be able to whitelist important senders and have those emails appear to my desktop, then the rest I
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by octalmage 8y ago
We don’t have the stats on the number of households the payment processing industry and banking industry could power. Not saying that it’s more or less, just something I considered.
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by octalmage 8y ago
I noticed this too. I wrote a WordPress plugin to trigger a TravisCI build when I publish a post and this works great, but it takes 5 minutes or so to publish a new version of the site. For me this isn’t a huge deal, although waiting 5 minu
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by octalmage 8y ago
I would expect them to post to Snapchat as you take photos.
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by octalmage 9y ago
These are pretty cool: https://lensstudio.snapchat.com I’ve seen them show up a bunch online and on Snapchat.
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by octalmage 9y ago
Yeah anytime Slack is mentioned at work someone brings up IRC. So I get what he’s saying.
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by octalmage 9y ago
AppEngine standard can actually scale down to 0 instances when not in use to save money. Still very different from a serverless architecture though.
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by octalmage 9y ago
Apple is doing similar stuff by refusing to implement the payment request API and instead implementing their proprietary Apple Pay API. So you can use one API to target Chrome and Firefox and another for Safari. This is starting to sound a
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by octalmage 9y ago
When you run code on a website you don’t own you have to be extremely careful. You’ll learn this quick building WordPress themes and plugins. They’re pretty careful not to directly affect the website by running their JavaScript in a scoped
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by octalmage 9y ago
Just a small note that as a customer I would prefer to be redirected to a notice hosted on your website so there is no confusion about the source of the notification. If I saw this pop up on a website I visited daily I would probably think
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by octalmage 9y ago
Exactly. The first thing I thought about when I saw this was the implications of having JavaScript that has not been tested in the context of a website running. You have no clue how it will conflict. As a website owner you should have the
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by octalmage 9y ago
Time Warner did show up at my door when they updated their speeds. I thought it was strange,and asked him to have Time Warner call and schedule a time, but it worked. He was going door to door.
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by octalmage 9y ago
You can totally do all of this. There are projects that just pipe the output of Babel into uglifyjs into a file and call it a day. You still “need” to use npm to install those packages though. npm puts command line utilities in node_modules
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by octalmage 9y ago
I use Firebase with Cloud Functions for form handling and other data related tasks (like caching API calls). I'm loving the integration between the two.
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by octalmage 9y ago
This is super cool! Are there any posts about how the fishtests work? I love reading about how people solve interesting testing problems.
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by octalmage 9y ago
The token is an Ethereum token, so it's totally possible to do it in a decentralized way using a smart contract.
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by octalmage 9y ago
Very interesting! The first static CMS I've seen that isn't just an API. I've used http://prose.io in the past to edit content in GitHub, but this seems nicer. Currently I'm using WordPress as a CMS and Gatsb
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by octalmage 9y ago
I've been using Rails and React for a couple of projects, one using Rails API mode with a separate React front end, and one using react-rails. I'd argue that with webpacker built in, there's no reason not to use React. You ge
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by octalmage 9y ago
Tests have nothing to do with it. You can have 100% coverage on your API and it can still not be "quality". The best APIs I've seen have been "API First" design.
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by octalmage 9y ago
Does the iPhone 6s have a similar flaw? I'm still using one.
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by octalmage 9y ago
I also think Rust is the more interesting choice, but the company I work for went with Go. It does seem to be the more popular choice.
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by octalmage 9y ago
Google is investing a ton of money into their cloud offerings, and it seems like Firebase is a part of this strategy.
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by octalmage 9y ago
But, those little known free streaming services are also losing money here. It's those sites that are really losing.
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by octalmage 9y ago
I have very fond memories of those days. I remember the first time I saw the Linux boot loader after a successful exploit using Mech assault, my buddy and I high five'd. The project has obviously come along way since those days, and co
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by octalmage 9y ago
They're ripping from sites that are ad supported. So the site doesn't get the ad impressions, and the plugin developer could (if they put ads in the plugins). Site operators hate it, and are constantly blocking them. Basically, th
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by octalmage 9y ago
My dad got one on because a coworker told him about it. It's a Fire stick you can buy on eBay that comes preloaded with Exodus. He has no clue how or why it works, just that it has every movie and TV show for free. Which is better tha
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by octalmage 9y ago
I experimented with this some. When you think about the costs of scaling and managing a database, the costs to post might not be so bad.

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