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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage you money? on Sunday July 03, 2016 @09:30AM (#12025955)
I hope it's okay for a shameless plug here. I use YNAB before but have been creating my own solution for about a year or so. It's here: https://www.everypocket.com. I'm outside the US and the online banking systems are not very good at personal finance, plus I have about 3 accounts in different banks for different purposes, so I can't use bank's solutions.

I'm a big supporter of manual entry for the extra clarity on what I've been (and will) spending on, I know many people find it cumbersome.

Re:Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple on Monday February 16, 2015 @08:39AM (#9056830)
There are times where mechanical keyboard just doesn't fit. I own a few at home, but in my super quite office, it's a different story, and Apple Keyboard is the least painful alternative after trying many non-mech keyboards, including arguably-mechanical HHKB Pro 2 and MS Ergo 4000.
Re:Rosetta comet landing – live stream on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @03:34AM (#8594526)
It's really smooth here in Malaysia.
Re:Show HN: I updated the Smackbook script for OS X Yosemite on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @04:38AM (#8561090)
I wouldn't use this, but this is cool. At first I thought it was using microphone to detect which side the smacking sound was coming from, but since others have pointed out, I didn't know harddrive heads have such sensors and can be accessed using programming language. It's probably suitable when you want to have an emergency button to destroy/encrypt/close all super-confidential information when someone's approaching and you don't have enough time to type/click anything, just smack!.
Re:CloudFlare SSL Issues Again on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:25AM (#8486305)
Good thing I setup a secondary SSL certificate, so I just have to pause my CloudFlare and my site is back. But few days ago the same thing happened and lately I've been thinking of switching from CloudFlare, any recommendation?

Ask HN: Google drops XMPP today?

I couldn't connect to both gmail and google apps account through Adium, neither my college (through Pidgin and Empathy), but google chat through Gmail and Hangout are working fine. Are they dropping XMPP support already?. So that means no alternatives?

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Re:Just Use Sublime Text on Thursday March 21, 2013 @12:40AM (#5412967)
1. People who want to learn sublime will use sublime.

2. People who want to learn vim will use vim.

I've tried many editors before vim, and now I'm solely using vim, I mean, the whole thing about it. The integration with tmux, ssh, working with all the shortcuts and command magics, its community, everything. I realize this is the editor I wanted to use. I can spend hours doing things in terminal, seamlessly with vim, most of the time I didn't produce either good quality or good amount of code, but I enjoyed every minutes of it.

I'm sure people feel the same way about whatever editor that they use now, if they don't, let them pick whatever new editor they wanted to learn. Why all the hate?.

Re:Apple left App Store open to attack: Google researcher on Sunday March 10, 2013 @11:24PM (#5354736)
Maybe its because saying 'Google researcher' is more polite than saying 'Google employee' which sounds more fishy?.
Re:Samsung Copy and Paste Bug on Thursday February 21, 2013 @06:51AM (#5256869)
I've experienced this many times, but not to the point where my phone get restarted. I used to buy a $5 prepaid phone credits through online banking, and I have to copy and paste the serial number onto the caller app, that's when the browser crashes and I literally lost my $5. What a frustration.

This happened when there are quite amount of elements in the page (text, images, tables, divs). So instead of directly copying from the e-banking site, I now choose 'Search <s/n> in Google' option after blocking the text, and then Google, with much simpler output will render the S/N once again where I can copy it safely. Not sure if this is the problem with Android, or Samsung. I have a moderate amount of installed apps and running background services, my phone is S3.

I'd love to know more on why you said Lenovo Yoga 13 is aimed for consumers. I'm a python coder myself and I'll be getting this convertible ultrabook in the next few weeks. I've come across videos and site reviews but never heard that this laptop is more for consumers than developers.
Re:A vim interface for gmail: Vmail on Friday December 14, 2012 @03:58PM (#4923291)
I think what he meant was seahorse. I just tried it out and I can see my raw passwords by clicking properties and ticking 'Show Password'. Shocked as well, not to mention seahorse is launched without asking my password.
Re:A vim interface for gmail: Vmail on Friday December 14, 2012 @02:45PM (#4922872)
While this is awesome, I am one of those guys who feel uncomfortable to store my raw password in a dotfile, not to mention I'm managing my dotfiles in Github, authentication in every run doesn't seem convenient either. I see that this happens in other places such as Github gists-terminal and some twitter-terminal clients. Is there any way we can store these credentials locally in a safer way like SSH keys?.
I'm using Pelican as a static blog engine, had no issue at first, this happened after the number of commit grow.
I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building.

At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes immediately, but after few days, it just keep showing the old build. I even started a fresh new accounts and setup a new user page, same thing happened. I tried many things to make it work, adding/removing CNAME, changing the page content, even waiting for few days, no luck. Tried to contact the Github team (via Twitter and the Contact Us page), no respond.

Now I am using my shared VPS to host a static site, waiting for some good news about build reliability, until then I wouldn't recommend using Github user pages.

Oh and by the way, if you set a CNAME, you wouldn't be able to access your project pages without adding it as a submodule into your user page.

Re:Love Your Terminal on Friday November 30, 2012 @02:53AM (#4852317)
If say I have 2 topics with 3 tabs each, and I want to switch to different topic, I need to move to the 4th tab either by switching tab few times, or knowing the index of the tab to get a faster shortcut. Both, in my opinion, are not simple.

If I combine tmux with urxvt, I can have 3 tmux tabs in a urxvt tab, and another 3 tmux tabs in second urxvt tab, and I can switch context just by pressit shift+left/right, I can also easily realign context with ctrl+left/right.

tmux is awesome, but in my case, it's not so awesome when I have to handle many tabs with totally different context, which is why I combined it with urxvt.

Re:Love Your Terminal on Friday November 30, 2012 @01:32AM (#4852136)
In my scenario, I have to work on several tabs and splits for one topic/work (say it's Python work), and I usually have 2-3 topics in a day (office related, playing around, and maybe side-project stuff). I'm using tmux, and I tend to have 2-3 tabs for each topic, using only tmux to manage them is painful and ugly: there's too many tabs in the current display, and the default gnome terminal doesn't mix with the looks of everything else. So I'm using urxvt to manage the tabs, it's fast (sometimes I love verbosity), it can handle tabs beautifully, highly customizable, and the default shortcuts are good.
Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users on Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:54AM (#4612030)
Whoops that was my mistake. Sorry!.
Re:Facebook has 1 billion monthly active users on Thursday October 04, 2012 @08:18AM (#4611924)
The next 1 billion will be really challenging, there are developing countries like Africa, countries where there are conflicts like Afghanistan, and countries like Myanmar where corruptions are really high, where infrastructure such as internet and telcoms are still treated as luxury products, if they can enter those barriers, the impact will be really big. Nevertheless, I salute Mark for getting this far.
Re:The IPS LCD Revolution on Thursday July 26, 2012 @02:40PM (#4297836)
I own a 27" Samsung SyncMaster P2770, it's a TN panel, didn't know about any of these things when I bought it, whish I could be patient and research more. I'm not so much for viewing angle, so I'm just wondering how different the color reproduction quality is compared to any average IPS panel. If you just browsing around and doing stuff in terminal, is it worth to get one?
Re:Build muscle memory with your favorite editor on Monday July 16, 2012 @10:56AM (#4250953)
This is great, I've seen a web game that you can use to practice vim schortcuts. But since this one's about building muscle memory, I don't see how this is going to be better than the actual use of the editor itself. Using the actual editor not only gives you the actual feeling but also challenge you with the real text editing tasks. CMIIW. But this is still useful if you just want to see a cheatsheet or not knowing certain shortcuts in the editor.

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