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Re:Quiet on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @01:05AM (#16013197)
I agree with this suggestion. I have not regretted having both a smart phone a dumb phone I can use when I want to untether but also still be contactable in emergencies.
This does seem unfortunate especially considering the enforcement doesn’t target Apple’s parter IBM which the article says develops similar apps. I guess the answer is that for many of these apps they need to make their own without a template or just encourage use of a mobile website.
Re:Show HN: Helix – a habit tracking app on Sunday November 19, 2017 @08:43AM (#15733840)
Helix looks really cool. One small usability/onboarding to think about is it took me a little while to figure out that I need to double tap on an item to edit it (using Google Chrome on Android phone). Looking forward to trying Helix out!

Ask HN: Ethical/Privacy Respecting Analytics Principles?

Let's say my local coding group, a Code for America brigade, wants to add some analytics to their website to see how much traffic we are getting. Obviously, it seems ideal to not use 3rd party hosted solution like Google Analytics out of respect for user privacy. However, if we were to use a self hosted or roll our own analytics solution is there a "Ethical Analytics Manifesto" or set of...

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Re:Ask HN: How did you FIRST discover HN? on Saturday April 15, 2017 @06:44PM (#14123250)
A coworker two jobs ago told me about it and I've been reading ever since. So glad she told me about it!
Re:Ask HN: Any nicer alternatives to Mint for personal budgeting? on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:40AM (#12505161)
I've used NeoBudget a virtual envelope budgeting system for years. You do have to manually upload your bank transactions but I really like the visual virtual envelope UI. https://neobudget.com
To deal with the cats want food before we awake we bought an automatic feeder: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002YHUPC/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=... - it seems to work most mornings, but we do think one of our cats may take the food from both so we give them the second part of their breakfast when we wake up. Today they wanted 2nd part of breakfast earlier, they didn't know about the time change ;)
Re:OAuth Has Ruined Everything on Thursday October 22, 2015 @10:50PM (#10436532)
I have really enjoyed Kendo UI but am now just getting into a world beyond jQuery based frameworks, what were you comparing Kendo UI to that you liked better?
Re:Great Hackers (2004) on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @11:04PM (#10195960)
I love this quote from the article: "Hackers like to work for people with high standards. But it's not enough just to be exacting. You have to insist on the right things."
Re:Ask HN: Tools of the trade on Thursday August 13, 2015 @03:11PM (#10056496)
Mine:

  Windows Server
  ASP.NET
  Github Desktop
  SVN
  Visual Studio
  Brackets - awesome text editor with 
    JavaScript syntax checking 
    and undefined variable checking
  Jenkins
  Octopus Deploy
  Stripe.com
  Red Gate SQL Source Control
  Keen.io - not affiliated 
    but wanted to plug since has been coolest thing recently  
    awesome, easy analytics (paid but 
    free plan has 50k events/mo and 
    we've stayed under that so far)
Re:Show HN: Tookapic – Take one photo a day for 365 days on Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:15PM (#9975990)
Really cool idea!

Minor suggestion, make the TOS link on your signup form open in a new window, that way someone signing up without manually opening in new window won't lose what they've typed.

Re:Show HN: XMap – Replacing your walls of sticky notes on Friday February 06, 2015 @05:46PM (#9012092)
My coworkers created a fun "ad" for xMap showing the problem it is solving here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPu68JvQvaw

It all started with one of our directors asking me to spend 1 hour estimating how long it would take to build this: http://blog.xmapit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/approx-may...

Then our company had their own "shark tank" competition, which we didn't win and we made this poster as part of our presentation (sorry about the blur): http://blog.xmapit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/xMap-Shark...

The idea is to stop planning things with a wall of sticky notes connected by string but have a tool designed for organizing info via tags.

We have started a blog (not yet linked to from home page): http://blog.xmapit.com/

I'd love your feedback!

Thanks!