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Re:Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @10:10AM (#46434045)
Weirdly, it reminds me of Aptos, the new default font in Microsoft products.
Re:On Coding, Ego and Attention on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:11PM (#23543476)
The author has overfitted for his own psychology. There are a lot of assumptions in there. My brain doesn't work like that at all.
Re:Keybase cancels Stellar token airdrop on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @12:01AM (#21759728)
Seems like a lot of people are saying the airdrop and integrating Stellar to Keybase was a bad idea, but I don't think so. There's a lot I like in the Stellar-Keybase integration.

Keeping cryptocurrency keys secure has always been a challenge. Keep them too well, lose your money; keep them not well enough, someone can steal your money. It's a thin line to walk.

Keybase wants to make encryption user-friendly, and keeping cryptocurrency keys secure fits very well to that purpose. This is probably the least painful way I've kept crypto private keys.

Besides, the wallet is pretty functional, and is integrated to an app that's already sync'd to my phone and computer. It's without fuss and just works. Compare that to yet another app which I don't know, need to evaluate, don't trust to keep my secrets, or won't share them across my devices. Here, it's painless.

I personally knew Stellar already, but as a technical user (which I feel is a natural demographic for any crypto to start to get early adopters), this brought back Stellar in my mind and renewed my interest (or would've interested me if I hadn't known it).

Besides, I quite like Stellar as a cryptocurrency for payments: fees are low, and confirmations are near instant. And I'm not even naming the fact that it natively allows you to keep fiat money as a Stellar asset instead of exposing yourself to the risk of losing value to fluctuation. (Though there are caveats, but the infrastructure is there natively to build very useful things.)

I don't think this was quite bad a move as some make it out to be.

Re:What I wish I knew when I became CTO on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:19PM (#16371835)
I've seen exactly this in a local well-regarded startup. Incompetent hires with problematic behaviors thriving and being protected, and competent hires being unprotected, not cared about, and almost pushed out.

They would hire almost anyone, and then not take active action in maintaining a healthy staff. Needless to say, it's not going very well over there, regardless of the CTO being quite technically proficient.

As always, the implementation here, the lines of code in index.php, doesn't really matter. Anyone can code a job board given enough time. The questions that matter are rather how he got his audience to come to it:

- How did he make his offering known to potential clients? - Why did the clients choose his page, over the N many competitors out there? What's different or better about it? - Conversely, how does he get his job-seekers? Are they of particular quality?

The index.php file is old news. The getting employers and candidates together in a nice package is the valuable part.

(I'd actually be looking forward to hearing about the making of this job market.)

Re:Git 2.11 has been released on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @07:28PM (#13067440)
Case-insensivity is important for some to be able to reliably remember a string. I won't easily retain the difference between 'b4dQbFs31' and 'b4DqBfs31'.

Same thing when speaking it out loud. 'B four D capital Q B capital F s thirty-one' is way more convoluted and error-prone than 'B four D Q B F S thirty-one'.

The best thing I've found that fits this criterion is Crockford's Base 32 [1], basically the extension of hex digits, removing letters ILOU.

But Base 32 (case-insensitivity by proxy) constrains us to 5 bits, which is only a 20% reduction over the 4 bits of base 16. So instead of the 20 bits `1ab2f` we could express them with something like `1qm3`.

Or we could be using words...

[1]: http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html

Re:The P programming language on Sunday October 09, 2016 @08:22PM (#12674316)
"rlang" is not really fun to search for either
Re:I created Godwin's Law in 1990 as a warning on Saturday May 28, 2016 @03:42PM (#11793100)
Not at all, trolling is just a way to provocate people and make th— waaiit a minute...!
Re:How we use Slack in our family on Monday February 01, 2016 @12:45PM (#11013495)
Evil coder is making it easier for his family to buy stuff from our site, better send him a cease and desist!
Re:CodeReddit: Cover UI for Reddit at Work on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @08:22PM (#10855309)
I guess JS really is the new PHP
Re:Game about squares on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:53PM (#8094894)
Can't click or interact with anything on Firefox 33a. Just an unresponsive start screen.
Re:Hachette/Amazon Business Interruption on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @01:07AM (#7808499)
What about Paypal? I've heard complaints against them time and time again, and alternatives have popped up in competition because they sucked too much. Stripe, Square?
Re:Google Made My Daughter Cry Today on Saturday December 07, 2013 @06:47PM (#6868273)
The problem with that is that it's unsustainable. How many ie. Ben Adams would this work with, [email protected]? 1. Now Ben Adams owns `adams.me` and has no incentive or mechanism to offer his domain to the million other people with his last name.
Re:Show HN: Probabilistically Generating HN Post Titles on Thursday November 28, 2013 @02:18PM (#6815994)
A Man Walks All Day to Create Spectacular Snow Patterns

Understanding the code quality of the Fibonacci Sequence

Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this idea by now: Font Icons.

Re:Show HN: How much does Twitter owe me on Friday November 08, 2013 @02:19AM (#6694948)
Ah. So this takes my no. of tweets, * (hourly/60) and feeds me back that number? Genius.

(Protip: if you estimate at 60$/h, it's 1$/tweet. You're welcome.)

Re:Show HN: How much does Twitter owe me on Friday November 08, 2013 @02:09AM (#6694907)
This fails to explain by what logic would Twitter have to pay me/owe me for my tweets.

Are they selling my tweets? Are they asserting rights over what I've written? Maybe I've missed something, but there's no explanation.

Re:Show HN: Roomerly - Find the perfect roommate. on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:45AM (#6667246)
I wish I could use this with critical mass in my home city of Montreal. I just searched HN for 'roommates' thinking, "there's gotta be a better way to do this! someone must've talked about it." And here we are.

Searching for a new home with other people is indeed tiring. I wish you well!

Re:Foundation 4.3: Paving the Road to 5 on Thursday July 18, 2013 @06:37PM (#6067025)
There's even a mixin for that!

    @include grid-column(3);
(There's a mixin for practically everything, documented at the bottom of every docs page, eg http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/grid.html)
Re:Ask HN: How do you focus? on Sunday May 26, 2013 @02:34PM (#5771975)
I find having a pair of headphones on with music makes all the difference; it's like getting into a bubble. Over time, I think I've associated it with the state of being focused.
Re:Can I help you? Why retail customers always say No on Friday May 24, 2013 @12:15PM (#5763778)
When I was working at an electronics shop, we would ask "have you been served yet?" It's a much harder question to get out and customers responded better.
Re:Distributed Personal Wiki on Saturday May 11, 2013 @12:29PM (#5691110)
There's also Gitit (https://github.com/jgm/gitit), backed by Pandoc and Git, supports Markdown and anything you can throw at Pandoc.
Re:New GitHub Pages domain: github.io on Friday April 05, 2013 @09:24PM (#5502178)
May I interest you in the .src project instead then? ;o) http://dot-src.info
Re:Two-Factor Authentication: Too Little, Too Late on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @03:48PM (#5403151)
That's an article from 2005, as someone would have surely pointed out, but I found the topic to be relevant as there is now a trend of companies like Google, Dropbox adopting two-factor auth and the security implications of that.
Re:The Handshake Deal Protocol on Friday March 15, 2013 @01:01AM (#5379293)
Replies are usually embedded in email.

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