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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:43PM (#36606815)
https://derekr.net/notes
But still working on getting back into the habit. After burnout writing for someone else, it’s taken quite a while to want to write _anything_.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:59PM (#34551775)
Very much hoping for some alternative services functionality — would love this in my shop. Cheers for an incredible idea!
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @08:53PM (#34075723)
Maybe it’s impossible to say "I don’t care about this anymore and you should find something else" for a few different reasons: the recurring subs would dry up; he doesn’t want to admit it. OR: he’s been working on pinboard v2 for a couple years and wants to drive people WILD with a sudden drop.
I was an early adopter, though, and I bought in because I perceived the whole point to be "you can have a sustainable, better product than something that gets gobbled up by a megacorp."
Re:Pulse Browser – A better Firefox fork
on Sunday November 13, 2022 @05:58AM (#33581900)
Oddly enough, selective history deleting is absolutely awful in Safari (16.*?) as well.
Re:Why I built a dictionary app
on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:44AM (#32302494)
Congratulations! Super cool. One of the first applications I was blown away by, for many different reasons, was OmniDictionary <https://web.archive.org/web/20050310043334/http://www.omnigr...>. It was something that I couldn't imagine existing, but did, and it was one of the first apps the company I worked for at the time had created. (It relied on a server!? This was an ENTIRE app?)
It used a DICT server for lookups: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICT
And 14 years ago, some servers still existed. They're hard to find now.
It always struck me as something fantastic to a) learn how to interface with a server b) learn cocoa/objective-c/etc c) redesign a simple app (https://www.omnigroup.com/assets/img/app/graffle-7/mac/full-...). Something you've just described in detail. Well, most of it.
Re:How far can you go by train in 5h?
on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:31AM (#32278234)
Too much traffic — all endpoints once on the page are erroring out.
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone
on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:28PM (#31415892)
Yes, both — writing something with chalk on slate.
Re:Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study
on Sunday March 17, 2019 @02:30PM (#19415491)
Exactly that.
Re:Apple Watch detects irregular heart beat in large U.S. study
on Saturday March 16, 2019 @08:34PM (#19411386)
One-off comment, but the new band has really improved HR detection for me. I went from the rubber strap (with holes every centimeter or so) to the adjustable velcro strap and it's night & day. It went from being 100% useless on runs to _actually_ keeping accurate detection the entire run.
Re:Show HN: Use email subject lines to save personal stats and chart them
on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @04:06PM (#8139043)
This is amazing. Was planning on doing a run tracker, similar to this, via twitter. Thanks!
Re:OS X Yosemite
on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:41PM (#7837867)
Hold the option key for older behavior.
Re:My Aaron Swartz, whom I loved
on Saturday January 12, 2013 @04:08PM (#5048899)
This is the only thing I've found, thus far: https://twitter.com/textfiles/statuses/137387291617394688
Re:
on Saturday September 17, 2011 @04:02PM (#3008815)
Awesome & fast. Just a thought: selected text is auto-added to body?
Anyway, thanks!
Re:Interview with Instapaper's Marco Arment
on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:31PM (#2141225)
He was talking about "speech or handwriting recognition, recommendation engines, or natural-language processing".
He got the custom MVC framework for free — they built it for Tumblr, IIRC.
Re:Tweetie 2.0 For Mac Will Launch With The Mac App Store, Tomorrow
on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @08:21PM (#2073426)
Yorufukurou is a pretty-awesomely updated application. Lot of features, development-turnaround time is fast.
Re:Firefox 4 Nightly
on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @06:22PM (#1473105)
The Mac UI _looks_ better; for some reason, though, I'm getting two icons in my dock, occasionally.
Re:Firefox 4 Nightly
on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @06:21PM (#1473102)
They have clear roadmaps for each major version number. I'm not so sure I'd consider it dumb.
Re:International Space Station Tour
on Sunday May 30, 2010 @01:01AM (#1390008)
Look to be quite a few hacks in there — tubes and tubes and tubes. Though I suppose with all the modules, it's one big hack.
Re:Atlanta to San Francisco: What I Learned Moving Cross-Country
on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @03:28PM (#1378318)
I moved to Seattle with my dog, from Indiana.
She's anything but a city dog, and I think the next time I drive home, she'll be coming with me; I'll give her to a friend or my sister.
As dog-friendly as Seattle is, there are definitely dogs that can't do the city.
Re:Lightweight Living (1999)
on Saturday May 15, 2010 @01:36AM (#1349431)
I don't think I'll ever get to this point, but I'm slowly working my way up. Sold a few computers, excessive speakers, and more a few weeks ago to finish paying off my collegiate credit card debt.
It's unbelievably liberating.
Re:Banned from buying iPads... for life.
on Thursday April 22, 2010 @05:25PM (#1286519)
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:2TxVRfz30WwJ:www.protoc...
Text-only cache.
T-Mobile has constantly been coming out on top as of late, (in regards to customer relations/treatment) but they still don't quite have the network though, do they?
(Currently stuck on AT&T.)
Re:Apple Fails at Customer Service
on Monday December 07, 2009 @12:30AM (#980773)
I see the point about having an enterprise level of support.
I also see two edge cases.
I've had an LCD screen replaced (fo' free) 2 years outside the warranty period —
My first Mac, so it made an impression.
So all you had to do was wait for a postage-paid box and send it back?
As an aside, Apple's Bluetooth mice have always seemed terrible, IMHO.
Re:Full Flash Player 10 for Q2 2010 on every major smartphone except i...
on Monday October 05, 2009 @01:46PM (#862259)
It might be there, but it won't necessarily be good.
Flash still stutters on Atom-based devices.
Re:Facebook 3.0 May Be The Most Useful App On The iPhone Yet
on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @01:07AM (#772123)
Useful and productive are two totally different ideas.
Useful is the definition of Yelp or Google Maps.
Productive. Well, perhaps a GTD app.
Re:He'd Rather Be "Raped By Pirate Bay" Than Played On Spotify
on Thursday August 13, 2009 @12:59PM (#761198)
I assumed it was Sony being 'uncool.'