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Re:AWS Ground Station on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:21PM (#22724035)
Without a doubt.
Re:WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @09:40AM (#22474764)
I've used IVPN for years and it works flawlessly.
Re:GitHub Outage on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:40AM (#22367149)
Posting here isn't part of your break :)
Re:Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz on Thursday February 13, 2020 @11:48AM (#22319164)
Your disclaimer modal doesn't fit on mobile causing the viewport to extend outside expected bounds. Otherwise looks nice.
Exactly, failure or not is a good thing, moving on.
This is not limited to Chrome extensions. If you build and publish any kind of software, there is a high chance that someone shady will come along and offer you money for it, or to become an "affiliate" partner.
Re:Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:54PM (#20033720)
You are referring to sunk cost fallacy.
Re:Google AdWords Exploit Seen in the Wild on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @10:01AM (#19858863)
They have some rules in place, try bidding on Fortnite.
Re:The Route of a Text Message on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:51AM (#18930064)
Still common to call it BTS (GSM era) contra RBS in the states?
Re:A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @09:09AM (#18599506)
Ebook a tad too expensive for me.
well it is all fun and games until you put actual people in it.
Re:System76 on US Manufacturing and Open Hardware on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @09:13AM (#18345342)
I hope they have a better battery this time around.
Re:The Servers Are Burning on Friday September 07, 2018 @11:30AM (#17935031)
Indeed, but prototypes running in production or running without tests, is a symptom of other underlying problems in the organization. I feel that scope creep and lack of testing goes hand in hand for projects that are poorly managed.
Re:The Servers Are Burning on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:38PM (#17929796)
Easy to say, but unfortunately rarely seen in the wild, depending on the experience of the project manager. Once that product is live and climbing, no owner wants to hear talks about slowing down for reasons of better test coverage or refactoring.
Same here, but I ended up adding support for arbitrary world rules which is kind of nice to play around with.

https://github.com/holmberd/js-gameoflife

I also have a Haskell version laying around somewhere.

Re:Javascript Fundamentals: ‘this’ keyword on Sunday August 26, 2018 @10:27AM (#17846070)
Sums it up pretty good. 'this' was a minor problem when promises came out and bind got sort of sprinkled everywhere. Arrow notations can now take care of that by making it less verbose by binding 'this' behind the scenes.
Re:A Look at Vim, a Text Editor for the Ages on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:22AM (#17818853)
And the editor "holy wars" rages on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
Re:Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @12:07AM (#17763694)
Love it, works like a charm.
Re:ESLint compromised, may have stolen your credentials on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:25AM (#17514894)
If your npm is up-to-date it would have provided a critical warning about the use of eval in that code.
If you are on an island where a third of the population is struggling, e.g. bad crop yield, the whole population on the island will experience the negative effects as a whole.

Solutions? 1. Build a wall around the less fortunate and allow some of the more able ones to work for less than you would otherwise pay.

2. Share the resources of the more fortunate with the less fortunate until they are back on their feet and are able to prosper.

A persons good fortune isn't made in a vacuum.

Google is also removing inline install in September, together with some other chrome web store clean-ups.

All in all, this is nothing new and it seems to be a lot of huff about a simple mistake.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression? on Saturday June 16, 2018 @12:17AM (#17325802)
I generalized for the most common case, since there will always be special cases. But the tone of my statement could have been more understanding.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression? on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:04AM (#17320242)
I agree seek professional help if you can. There could also be physiological reasons that triggers an episode of depression, especially lack of B12, iron or D-vitamin.

Developing good routine is not an easy thing for people that are deep inside a negative spiral, but it will help limit the episodes. Good routine is like a spell, it reestablishes your commitment to each day and provides you with energy. This is the same whether you have depression or a bout of sadness.

Re:Ask HN: What are the best hacks to fight depression? on Thursday June 14, 2018 @10:42AM (#17312067)
- Go to bed early and develop a regular sleep pattern, and don't fool yourself with the myth about being a "night person", you are not a cat, you have just offset your sleep/wake cycle from lacking proper routine.

- Exercise regularly. Aerobic exercise(whatever that means for you) that you can maintain without develop injury or over-training will be your baseline. Endorphin is what you are after, since it provides a boost of immune system, better sleep, less anxiety and increased overall health.

- Be outside in the sun everyday, take a walk or sit and read a book.

- Cut out any consumption of large amount of drugs: alcohol, sugar, nicotine...

- Talk to someone about your worries and sprinkle some Zen in your life.

- Help someone else for no personal gain, but don't let it consume all your time.

- Understand that all things are transient, nothing is static, and trying to be eternally happy is impossible and the quest for such a thing will make you unhappy.

Re:Making Web Components Work on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:37AM (#17303463)
I've been using a similar approach for the last year, and I find that most problems are much easier to deal with because of less crud in the build flow. There is currently a W3C proposal for template instantiation that showcase some conveniences to deal with templates in components, could be good, could be bad. https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals...

Most communication I solve by custom event dispatching or attribute callbacks, but there are the odd cases, especially regarding more advanced drag/drop, that still requires state at some level. Do you have any concrete example of inter-component communication to look at?

Re:Spotify Form F-1 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:20PM (#16488898)
I've used Spotify for many years now, especially since growing up in Sweden where its been around for awhile, I currently live in North America.

There is a few things that bothers me though. One is that zero effort is spent on solving developer issues in regards to their public API. Some issues has been open far too long on github and the community is unhappy. The other is that they bought up EchoNest, which provided everything Spotify was lacking in terms of a music API, only to close the service and implement none of those features into their public API.

That's it.

Re:Command Line Heroes Podcast on Saturday January 20, 2018 @10:26PM (#16196728)
Added, looking forward to giving it a listen.
Re:Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL on Saturday January 06, 2018 @01:37PM (#16086726)
Depends on the data right. I've seen good performance on larger tables after using GIN indexing with records that rarely needs to be updated and simple queries. I'm not a expert in PostgreSQL by any means, but reducing cost and learning something never hurts.

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