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Re:Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn on Thursday June 11, 2020 @08:50AM (#23488233)
Same here.

5-6 years ago, I started a website/service (also closed, now) at the intersection of LinkedIn and GitHub. Then Microsoft bought the former. A few years passed, and they also bought the latter. It kind of justified my idea (not that those two services are being merged), but nonetheless I had to close my little initiative.

Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:26PM (#23484631)
Since you were looking for the UK version, did you try (no quotes) "Hisense uk" ?
Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:18PM (#23484596)
I would be happy to know they tried, or at least considered it. Maybe they have and I'm just not aware of it. It's just something that always bugged me a little.
Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:29PM (#23481699)
Editors are usually pretty quick at removing spam links. But yeah.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone else losing friends in droves? on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:24PM (#23481639)
Not an FB user but yes, in the last couple of months. Or was it more discovering what "friend" really means. Either way, I'm actually happier now.
Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @12:13PM (#23478770)
On the other hand, wikipedia's use of nofollow makes it pretty clear they don't want a level playing field. What makes wikipedia great is all the references it builds on, yet those same references never get any "link juice".
Re:MiniCouchDB in Rust on Monday June 08, 2020 @05:09AM (#23454934)
https://pouchdb.com/ is a JavaScript port of CouchDB, running in the browser and capable of replicating with normal CouchDB.
Re:USB-C is still a mess on Sunday June 07, 2020 @08:26AM (#23446879)
Thanks for the info.
Re:USB-C is still a mess on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:35AM (#23444790)
Can the latest usb be "defanged" to only provide power and no data, as a security measure? Or are they too smart for that, now?
Small print inspiration. I miss you Nathan!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3844780/

Re:Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @05:09PM (#22539723)
Only 2 months after Perens left https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958105
I remember playing Tron (light-cycles!) against GA bots. There was thesis on it in 2001: http://www.demo.cs.brandeis.edu/papers/funes_phd.pdf

I felt there was one large flaw (which I explained at the time) since the experiment ran for a few years, computers kept improving. Problem was, the speed at which the game played accelerated along with cpu speeds. You needed quicker reflexes if your computer was faster. If there's anything to retain from this is, make sure the gameplay speed remains the same, whatever the hardware.

Re:BASIC Computer Games on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:19PM (#19618539)
I learned programming on a Timex Sinclair (2 KiB) with the book Brain games for kids & adults using the Timex/Sinclair 1000, 1500 & 2000 series. There were other editions for other platforms (Apple, Commodore, etc.)

It consisted of 26 games/puzzles, one for each letter of the alphabet. Went looking and found this little treasure trove:

http://www.gamebase64.com/search.php?a=5&f=3&id=9556&d=42&h=...

Re:Can you use the terminal for everything? [video] on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:34PM (#17893288)
/me procedes to launch "youtube-dl -f22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-2Ja7T9YF8"
Re:Redis will remain BSD licensed on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @12:00PM (#17819643)
Utterly confused. Does this have anything to do with Creative Commons licences? That's what the articles calls it in its first and last sentences.
Re:Dropbear SSH, a lightweight alternative to OpenSSH on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @01:05AM (#17763883)
From Canada, http://www.thesuburban.com/ too is unavailable in Europe due to GDPR.
On the cli side, you can also browse/explore dat content with https://github.com/millette/dat-shell
Re:The Long, Slow Decline of BitTorrent (2017) on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:48PM (#16361969)
Built on the dat project https://datproject.org/ - my little finger tells me dat will take bittorrent's P2P place in the not too distant future.
Re:Show HN: Listen Notes Podcast Search API on Friday December 01, 2017 @01:58PM (#15826274)
Time? Speed-listen, as was discussed a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15741428
Re:RSS: there's nothing better on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:23PM (#15678523)
2nd RSS post today, and no mention of PubSubHubbub, aka WebSub? Or maybe it's just a low-level feature, not important enough? Strange days indeed.
Re:Parity Wallet security alert on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @08:35AM (#15643206)
Re:Maker of In-Wheel Electric Car Motors Goes to China on Friday October 27, 2017 @03:10PM (#15571297)
23 years ago in Québec, this happened: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moteur-roue_d%27Hydro-Qu%C3%A9... (in French only). It never went anywhere unfortunately.
Re:Show HN: The most-relevant GitHub repos per region on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @08:08PM (#14609123)
Contrary to a torrent, a dat can be updated. I just pulled your latest changes and the dat's content updated simultaneously.
I saw 3000 visits on my post this morning, I thought, wow, lots of spambots last night. But then I notice it was posted here. Fixed the spelling mistake, I usually check for that but sometimes one slips. English is not my primary language. Thanks for your comments.