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by rlonn 5y ago
Removing the html.unescape() seems to work
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by rlonn 5y ago
It is small, fast, easy to use and easy to embed.
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by rlonn 5y ago
Of course it is silly - it infringes on my personal freedom not to be able to execute arbitrary code on the computers of people visiting Github!
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by rlonn 5y ago
You can put external links into e.g. your Github README.md to display badges but yes, Github seem to have some silly policy of not allowing people to inject executable Javascript into their website so you can't embed things using <o
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by rlonn 5y ago
Yeah, the service itself is kinda hard to use on a tiny screen so I haven't put a lot of effort into providing a good mobile user experience. I guess it would be useful to have a mobile-friendly version for people just checking out the
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by rlonn 5y ago
Ooh, you have a designer I see, neat! Also, the API looks nice. Lots of image manipulation functionality. I've been thinking that the next step for Supershields would be some kind of lower level SVG creation API that lets people build
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by rlonn 5y ago
Thanks :) To be honest, I'm not sure there is a viable business here. I think perhaps making it more niched, like going for financial badges only and providing lots of templates for those types of badges, may be smarter. But it's
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by rlonn 5y ago
Hi, I built supershields.io as an alternative to shields.io. If you're interested in reading about the somewhat unorthodox product development process, I've written a blog article about it here: https://supershields.io
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Show HN: Supershields.io – smart, Lua-powered SVG status badges(supershields.io)
97 points by rlonn 5y ago|54 comments
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by rlonn 5y ago
OTOH, limited congestion and packet loss do not affect things much if you have UDP-based event/object updates. With TCP there there is no way to avoid latency due to head-of-line congestion, but with UDP you just drop a message and mov
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by rlonn 5y ago
I have a raspberry pi with a 1TB USB stick, which is enough space for me atm. I use SFTP to upload new pictures from phones etc. to the pi. There are many apps that can do SFTP, like e.g. Foldersync on Android. I have a shell script on the
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by rlonn 5y ago
It’s buzzword bingo with the aim to inflate the writer’s ego and intimidate the reader. This stuff happens all the time when insecure people get to write things.
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by rlonn 5y ago
You mean he ought to spend his limited time picking random comments from unimportant people that noone wants to read and help edit those comments, so that the world becomes more fair and just? Sounds like a recipe for a successful forum.
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by rlonn 5y ago
41?
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by rlonn 5y ago
Which obviously does nothing but rearrange the mites on the ground before they’re stepped on, and makes me think they’re hypocrites for adopting a useless measure to make it seem like they actually care. If it is true.
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by rlonn 5y ago
I admire the jainist (?) philosophy of not killing, but it does seem incredibly impractical, to the point of being stupid even. How do you avoid killing mites on the ground when you go out for a walk?
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by rlonn 5y ago
I think Elon being a true polymath scares a lot of insecure engineers out there. They’ve gotten used to being pampered and told they’re special, and here is a goddamn billionaire business guy who could do their job also. It’s just too muc
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by rlonn 5y ago
When I recognize fear of looking stupid prevents me from doing something I see it as a challenge to do it. This makes it easier to push through. Most of the time it was the right decision, but not always. When picking up my kid at kindergar
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by rlonn 5y ago
Seriously impressed that you produced this at 11. Like another commenter wrote I think we often underestimate kids but in this case I’m not saying it’s impressive that you built and launched something - I’m impressed with the polish here. Y
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by rlonn 5y ago
But aren't these L/D numbers calculated for a theoretical case where there is no wind? What kind of L/D ratios would you see for helicopters, planes and blimps given a 20 knot head wind? Sure, I don't doubt a blimp is m
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by rlonn 5y ago
Stupid question: how do you handle air resistance on a windy day? I always thought that's what made blimps inherently uneconomical (though can also imagine maintenance costs are high). An airplane has very little drag compared to its
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by rlonn 5y ago
The difference I think people will notice is how much less service a BEV requires as opposed to an ICE car. The ICE needs constant changes of oils and filters to keep those advanced engines operational, and this turns into frequent service
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by rlonn 5y ago
People are unreasonably scared of abductions. The most common use case would most likely be to find a kid that got lost. Of course, this unreasonable fear of abductions means that a commercial GPS tracker for kids would sell much better if
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by rlonn 5y ago
I'm having a hard time finding out the physical dimensions of the cards. Can't see anything in the data sheet about that? I'd like to know how small a configuration with a Notecard + carrier can be? For sewing into a kids bac
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by rlonn 5y ago
I've also thought about building a GPS child tracker, as I haven't found any reasonable/good existing options out there. Tell me if you need any assistance. I am a semi-incompetent full stack developer with IoT experience, re
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by rlonn 5y ago
You’re right that customers don’t know what they want and that can make it a bad idea to include them in the dev process directly. But is that what Agile is about? I thought it was about iterative development. As a long time product dev I k
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by rlonn 5y ago
I think this about sums it up. Seems SA has spent its money instead of investing it wisely, and the next generations will be worse off because of it. Norway serves as a counter example of what they could have done instead, but maybe the Nor
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by rlonn 5y ago
Once, I was going to make a quick backup copy of /usr on a busy multi-user system. I did: $ (cd /usr; tar cf - *) | (cd /mnt; tar xvpf -) Only I typoed ’cd /mnt’ which made the changedir fail and my current working dir w
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by rlonn 5y ago
I've found that while having a dry-run code path is always super useful, having a --dry-run flag is an anti-pattern. I prefer to make dry run the default, with all state-changing actions being in the form: if (clear_db_flag) { if (
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by rlonn 5y ago
That's an interesting observation, that russians and dutch share this trait. I agree but think the russians often deliver their insults in a bit more veiled manner. They will use irony and sarcasm, making you have to figure out if you

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