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bvirkler | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why is Microsoft Teams still so bad?

Scrolling up and back down will also clear the notification.

bvirkler | 9 years ago | on: Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta

internet points!

bvirkler | 11 years ago | on: Keybase.io

Got it, thanks!

bvirkler | 11 years ago | on: Keybase.io

I wouldn't mind an invite if someone has one to spare. Email is my username at gmail.

bvirkler | 11 years ago

Basically, OpenID Connect is for federated authentication, and OAuth2 is for delegated authorization. I like Vitorrio's explanation: http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/01/02/oauth-2-0-and-s...

bvirkler | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: StackShare – discover and discuss software stacks

I do, using http://newsblur.com.

bvirkler | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: I created an app to sync any folder with Dropbox

Just curious, why only 30 minutes to try out the premium features?

bvirkler | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Generate interactive heatmaps from your Google Location History data

I have 84 MB. When I uploaded the file in Chrome I got the Frozen Tab screen for a while, but then it went away and the page started showing me processing status.

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best big companies to work for?

I work in IT at Caterpillar and they meet all of your points except being located in SF.

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which language/web framework to learn for employability?

I work for a large non-IT company in the midwest. People with the ability to translate between business process teams and development teams are always in demand. Also, although it seems to be looked down on by the hacker community, SAP/ABAP skills are good if you don't mind the enterprise environment.

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: Ask PG: Postmortem of the outage?

I lost 25% of mine! A whole point!

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: We Need Viable Search Engine Competition

Scour (http://scour.com) has been trying to make a go of "social search" for a while.

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: How to Escape the Community College Trap

This was my first thought as well - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Sure there's kids that treat it as high school part 2, but in my experience there's plenty of that at 4-year schools as well.

I got into my junior college's honors program, which meant free tuition for 2 years. In addition I participated in a local Fortune 100 company's student trainee program working 20 hours a week getting professional experience. It was a great jump-start to my college and professional career.

Even without free tuition, it seems like a no-brainer to me. Junior college professors can tell which students are there to learn. I had great relationships and learned a lot from both my junior college and university professors. To me the university atmosphere/experience isn't worth the extra cost.

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: Google Registry

.DAD but no .MOM?

bvirkler | 12 years ago | on: The State of Client side JavaScript Error Reporting

Missing a closing paren on the Airbrake.try example. Otherwise, looking good!

bvirkler | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Can you customize the Facebook like button?

According to the TOS (http://www.facebook.com/brandpermissions/logos.php) you can change the size but nothing else.

"While you may scale the size to suit your needs, you may not modify the Like Button in any other way (such as by changing the design)."

bvirkler | 14 years ago | on: 10 habits of 10x developers

I refuse to become a slave to "share" buttons.

bvirkler | 14 years ago | on: Coley's Hacker News - Chrome Extension for Pinned Tabbed HN Browsing

Very nice! An option to set the refresh frequency would be useful.

bvirkler | 14 years ago | on: Would you pay for an idea?

I wonder if this question was triggered by the http://www.34ideas.com/ site that was posted here a couple days ago. I wouldn't pay to browse ideas. I might pay to use an idea but I'm not sure how, if multiple people are browsing ideas, you only let the person that "bought" it use it.