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I recently learned about Piped - liked it so much that I've made an iOS shortcut [1] that replaces YouTube URLs with piped.video

edit: iCloud link

[1] https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d8ee1ef618da423e889272f9c0f...

Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy on Monday May 21, 2018 @11:16AM (#17118988)
Salaries went up a bit also tax was reduced - needless to say the price spikes aren't proportional but it's a start
Re:Ethiopia is now Africa's fastest growing economy on Monday May 21, 2018 @10:36AM (#17118674)
Ethiopian here

Yes, Chinese contractors are having a big boom (banks, stadiums, airports & roads)

There's a shortage of foreign currency due to the mega projects underway - medicine, electronics, car prices have nearly doubled

Re:D3.js 5.0 is out on Friday March 23, 2018 @12:37AM (#16655112)
I still use on axios over fetch. Mainly because fetch doesn't have abort function. axios implements cancelable promise proposal that didn't go though TC39

Tho it has been a while since I checked TC39 status on fetch

Re:iPhone X on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:38PM (#15230181)
They worked with Hollywood mask makers. On the keynote they said it still knows you if you're wearing a scarf, sunglasses, grow a beard...

Touch ID: 1:50,000

Face ID: 1:1,000,000

Re:Feather: Open-source icons on Thursday August 24, 2017 @01:54PM (#15092399)
Should be noted the _bundled_ SVG set of Feather on icomoon is out of date.
Re:Show HN: Schwifty – make a Spotify playlist on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:51AM (#14236011)
It's now mobile ready
Re:Show HN: Schwifty – make a Spotify playlist on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:34PM (#14233408)
Thank you for your feedback

Added a link to the original tweet that inspired the app

Re:Show HN: Schwifty – make a Spotify playlist on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:25PM (#14233361)
Inspired by: https://mobile.twitter.com/errikkxa/status/84934921200542105...

PS: it's a weekend hack; I'll optimize it for mobile soon

Angular 1.x was never meant to be an MVC initially. It was mainly for templating then they started adding stuff to it (services, directives, digest cycle, dependency injection...) leading to API bloat

By the time Angular 2 was released, Ember, Vue and React have devoured the market

Re:United Broke Its Contract with Flyers on Friday April 14, 2017 @04:57PM (#14117294)
[1] Pepsi: That was the biggest PR blunder of the week, year maybe.

United: Hold my beer.

Sean Spicer: LEEEEEEEEEERROOOOOOOY JEEEENNNNNNKINS!

Fickle indeed. Hopefully United learns from this incident, tho I think it's unlikely

There's also an episode of It's Always sunny in Philadelphia (S12E04) where they talk about the 24 hour news cycle - which pretty much sums up social media unforgiving nature

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/lance_bradley/status/851864862426...

Re:Instagram Stories hits 200M users, surpassing Snapchat on Thursday April 13, 2017 @01:28PM (#14109065)
> My understanding is that SnapChat's inscrutable UI is deliberate: they want you to have to be shown how to use SnapChat by someone already on it, to avoid the "My grandmother's on Facebook, how uncool is that?" problem.

Couldn't agree more

It's evident by most of the comments here

Instagram / Facebook / WhatsApp will not get that < 25 demography

I doubt Instagram counts this as success. They didn't get any new users - that was the main goal when mimicking Snapchat

I just tested coolors out using a screen capture of Spotify desktop on MacOS and it didn't pickup the green color. I guess it's only picking out dominant colors

Colormind picked the green color on all attempts

Edit: after several more attempts coolors started picking up the green color

Test Image: http://i.imgur.com/6pMMV4W.jpg

Re:How to Write a Git Commit Message (2014) on Thursday March 16, 2017 @07:33PM (#13890116)
This is great

Some of the active verbs are also commands that automatically close/reference issues right out of the box on GitHub & BitBucket (& I'm sure on GitLab too)

Re:React Conf 2017 Livestream on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:32PM (#13862056)
The creator of Inferno joined the React team a while back. Performace wise, I'm sure some of that Inferno magic will be there
There's an iOS accessibility engineer who's blind [1]. It's amazing how dedicated they are on accessibility features

[1] http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-innovation-blind-engine...

Re:Whiteboard sticker for your laptop on Sunday January 29, 2017 @09:31AM (#13514254)
Sadly, yes it is "staingate"

Did a bit more digging and found a site [1] which has a gallery of affected MBP, showing the different levels of "staingate"

[1] http://staingate.org

Re:Whiteboard sticker for your laptop on Friday January 27, 2017 @11:59PM (#13505001)
> Unfortunately for my screen-doodling habit, new MacBooks have some kind of coating (AR? Oleophobic?) that causes the marker's fluid to bead up, ruining the effect.

I can confirm, my mid 2014 MBP screen is _ruined_. Tried alcohol, screen wipers (which actually made it worse)

I am this close to using a detergent (I know I shouldn't). Any suggestions?

Adding on the issue of refresh; I usually access HN on my iPhone - currently every back action triggers a _refresh_. A great example of back action handing is Reddit's mobile page.

Other than that the whole thing looks really neat.

Re:Hyper 1.0.0 on Monday December 12, 2016 @12:49PM (#13160035)
Zeit team is amazing, thier OSS is examplary; what they've achieved/ing in relatively short time is astounding. I highly recommend their blog [1], an absolute joy to read.

Congrats to the team and all the contributors.

[1] https://zeit.co/blog/

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