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Re:Apache ECharts on Friday April 11, 2025 @10:13PM (#43660711)
Late to the party here but we (Sentry) have been using ECharts since 2018 (https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/9072) and still holding strong!
Re:Amazon's Fake Review Problem on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:35PM (#15940983)
I encountered this problem while trying to do Christmas shopping on Amazon. An example is this (parachute hammocks): https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias...

I don't know anything about them, I'm not familiar with manufacturers, but this search result brings up very similar items from "different" companies. What's even more suspicious is that there are MULTIPLE results that have 1-2 thousand reviews and are at a perfect 5*.

Re:Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @06:01PM (#14405747)
would `command W w` fix this?
Re:Standing Up to a Dangerous New Breed of Patent Troll on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:52PM (#14317491)
1. That is another issue, the USPTO issuing patents that shouldn't be issued.

3. They don't seem to be against patents, just against non-practicing entities. Did you even read the article?

It does more then substitution

  $ git pull
  There is no tracking information for the current branch.
  Please specify which branch you want to rebase against.
  See git-pull(1) for details.

    git pull <remote> <branch>

  If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with:

    git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/<branch> test

  $ fuck
  git branch --set-upstream-to=origin/test test && git pull [enter/↑/↓/ctrl+c]
Re:Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal on Thursday December 08, 2016 @12:31PM (#13132124)
My friends and I have used GroupMe (which is owned by Skype) for a few years now and some of us wanted to migrate due to privacy. We tried out Signal, but there were some major usability problems in you intend to use it as a "group chat" replacement. My biggest issue with it is that there is no mute feature for iOS. Yes you can turn off notifications at the iOS level, but I want the ability to only have @-mentions to have access to notifications.

I made us switch to WhatsApp instead as I think the usability/privacy balance was better (for our use case).

We'll probably never know, most people that settle with patent trolls have confidentiality agreements
Re:Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:39PM (#8975670)
I don't think it's ruined football at all. The older fans certainly still have team allegiances, while fantasy helps new fans get interested in the NFL.

Yeah advertisements suck, but any television programming also face the same problems. The great thing with watching football is that you're already conditioned to not pay attention to the game for 30 seconds every 10 seconds.

Re:Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports on Friday January 30, 2015 @09:28PM (#8975647)
- You can watch sports at home, on a TV, through your OTA antennae, costing you nothing

- When was the last time you learned something about yourself or others while watching an eSports event? Do they cause you to think at all?

Re:The Current State of Smart Locks on Monday November 17, 2014 @04:02PM (#8620544)
I have been using the August for a few months now and I have a hard time recommending it to people. Smart locks need to be reliable and if they aren't then you lose trust in your lock, and, well if you lose trust in your lock, what's the point of owning it.

* Auto-unlock is great when and if it works, and is the only reason to own the August. Unfortunately it's currently iOS only.

* Everlock is currently in "beta" (it's the feature that auto-locks your door after 30 seconds), but one night after my friends left the house, it didn't re-lock itself, so now we can't trust one of the few features of the lock anymore.

* Opening the door with your phone itself is a slow and painful process. It takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds for the phone to connect to the lock before you can control it (this doesn't include unlocking your phone, opening the app, and selecting which lock to connect to). It's absolutely unusable for day-to-day users. There's no point in using this when your keys work faster. However, I can say this is useful for people that do not live in the home, i.e. friends, cleaners, pet sitters, etc.

That said, I have an extra August coming in that I'm not sure what to do with. Christmas is coming up and I absolutely do not want to give it out as a present because it's just not ready.

you can do that with itunes
Re:META: The Stylish Rivals Of Google Glass on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @11:53AM (#6399995)
If this is stylish, I don't want to have style.
Re:The San Francisco Rent Explosion on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:51PM (#6067361)
It's far away from, well, everything, there's not much happening on the coast, generally very foggy.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2013) on Monday July 01, 2013 @06:39PM (#5974122)
Woopra (http://www.woopra.com/) - San Francisco, CA Leading customer analytics company.

We just moved to a new bigger space in the heart of SoMa SF (1 block away from the caltrain station). We're looking to fill a few positions:

* Frontend Engineer

* Sysop Engineer

* Software Engineer (Java)

* UI/UX Designer

* Sales Specialist

To apply, visit http://www.woopra.com/careers/ or email us at [email protected].

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2013) on Saturday June 01, 2013 @04:28PM (#5805832)
Woopra (http://www.woopra.com/) - San Francisco, CA Leading customer analytics company. We just moved to a new bigger space in the heart of SoMa SF (1 block away from the caltrain station). We're looking to fill 2 positions: * Frontend Engineer * Sysop Engineer To apply, visit http://www.woopra.com/careers/ or email us at [email protected].
Re:A new Light Table experience on Thursday February 28, 2013 @02:27PM (#5300390)
Nevermind, there's a "Toggle vim mode" command
Re:A new Light Table experience on Thursday February 28, 2013 @02:22PM (#5300359)
How do I go into vim mode?
Re:Show HN: iPhone App I've been building is in the store on Monday November 05, 2012 @01:04PM (#4744925)
Being able to import lists from other external sources would be nice, i.e. foursquare, amazon, netflix.
Janus MacVim distribution - editor

VLC - video player

iTunes - music

Alfred - launcher

Divvy - window management (can create hotkeys for resizing/positioning windows)

Kaleidoscope - great diff tool

I use the default Mail and Calendar apps

Re:Ask HN: What monitor do you use? on Friday June 15, 2012 @05:01PM (#4118695)
I have a 27" Apple LCD, 2560x1440...

I would check these out, supposedly the same LCDs used but a lot more affordable: http://www.ebay.com/sch/dcsamsungmall/m.html?_nkw=monitor...

Forum thread about them: http://bit.ly/GMvsdP

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