cha5m | 8 years ago | on: We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made
Writing maintainable, comprehensible code is truly the greatest challenge when creating software.
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cha5m | 8 years ago | on: Jacquard by Google transforms clothing
This is the definition of a gimmick. How is this superior to the various existing bluetooth-based solutions. Need to navigate without looking at a screen? Bluetooth headphones or a bluetooth connection to your car. Need to skip a track when listening to music? Bluetooth headphones or a bluetooth connection to.... Need to "handle a call"? Bluetooth head-
cha5m | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers
Particularly the question(s?) about list mutability. That is such a language specific property.
cha5m | 9 years ago | on: Elite for Emacs
They also just released "Getting work done" for vim
cha5m | 9 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg's multi-account password was 'dadada'
And see here I was about to go and change all my passwords...
cha5m | 9 years ago | on: Why do so many people hate US airports? (2015)
The TSA is just an expensive, time consuming infringement on civil liberties.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: “We're considering banning domains that require users to disable ad blockers”
I honestly like the sites that block adblock. I only use adblock because it is so easy and has such massive benefits, but I still feel guilty than I am not supporting content creators.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Apple Stole My Music
Stuff like this often makes me question using any DRM or platform-locked services, particularly steam. If valve decided to make a shady decision there is very little that its users could do about it.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Technical Documentation Should Be a Graph
Isn't this already how much documentation is structured implicitly?
For example if you have a technical article which references some concept there will likely be a link to another article which explains that concept.
Thus each page already acts as a node connected to other nodes by the links within it. No need for a more formalized graph.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Uber wants access to browsing history, bookmarks, and running apps
Ah yes the multitude of people who have lyft on one phone, and uber on another.
And then of course they have their twitter phone, and their facebook phone and...
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Shuddle (Uber for kids) is shutting down tomorrow
I hate the pedantry that surrounds the word random. Language is defined by those who use it, and clearly by a random person he meant "someone that the parent do not know"
Which is a real concern, and probably is contributing to the downfall of this company, because their market consists entirely of well-off, but also really apathetic parents, which is a niche market if I have ever seen one.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code
I was expecting something much more subtle.
I guess the best course of action to prevent this would be to alias rm to a custom script, then parse the arguments to make sure the root directory is never recursively deleted, then calling rm from within your script.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: NES classic ‘Punch-Out’ has an Easter egg that went undiscovered for 29 years
The real question is why would someone reverse engineer the source code for no reason? You would have to know what you are looking for before you started.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Atom text editor 1.7.0 released
Couldn't you just disconnect from the web until Atom was installed and metrics are disabled?
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: What is BuzzFeed, really?
There will always be an audience for clickbait. There must be other factors at play.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: What is BuzzFeed, really?
An experiment? Hardly. At least certainly not any more.
They use data to deliver their cancerous content, just in the same way coke uses AB flavor testing to determine what the most addictive coke formula is.
Calling them "scientists" performing "experiments" seems far too dignified.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking
I mean tons of programmers make things for free just because. There is tons of software out there made by people who will never earn a cent off it.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking
After dicking around with the API for a while I found that that you can highlight/dim tabs using chrome.tabs.highlight running in a background script of an extension. Maybe I'll spend a little while tomorrow making a more complete version.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking
Well he commented that it was made with chromium, which I think probably sorts out the three issues that I mentioned.
I would install it, but I am on my windows partition.
cha5m | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Min – web browser with better search and built-in ad blocking
Serious props to you for making a web browser. That is legitimately impressive.
However I feel like most people won't be willing to sacrifice the feature support, stability and security that a larger browser can provide for a potentially better experience.
If this was made by a single person you should really do a write up about the development process. I think many people would also be interested in that.
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