codecaine's comments

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Can you beat 99% of programmers? Try the FizzBuzz challenge

I always thought that was some kind of urban myth that programmers made up to make themselves look better.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Flash 0-day exploit

one word: Flashblock

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Python Facts

added this to my start tabs

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser

which is actually a good thing

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Coding Horror: The Gamification

I like how I dont have to visit Coding Horror regularly to see whether there is a new post but rather just check HN

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Web Designers should all be using this idea by now: Font Icons.

earlier today I was wondering whether someone already created a compilation of those, thanks a lot op!

I think these icons are great for protyping/design mockups.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Bank of America to charge monthly fee to debit card users

fun fact: In Germany it's exactly the other way round at least for 99% of the banks. You will get a free debit card at every bank but you have to put down a considerable amount of money as prepayment for a credit card additionally to the yearly fees. If you want a Deutsche Bank credit card they will lock 1000 EUR before they issue it to you and you will pay around 60-100 EUR yearly.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox

had the same problem when my FF was 30% browser and 70% extensions

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Amazon reveals $79 Kindle

Price of this Kindle in DE : 99 EUR (134 USD)

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

after I've worked with a fast browser like Chrome I just can't go back

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

I did that and installed a couple of extensions that add old functionality and Firefox now crashes pretty much randomly

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

what bothers me most is that they made the whole top part (including title, menu bar etc if you choose to enable it) transparent. I personally just find that horrible. Screenshot: http://0.tqn.com/d/browsers/1/0/Z/c/-/-/firefox-5-show-menu-...

Here is a screenshot comparing FF 3.5 to 4: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/500x_firefox...

(3.5 is right)

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Firefox 7 Live: Download Here

After Firefox 4 came out I had to install so many extensions to make it feel like 3.6 that it became unstable and incredibly slow. Because Firefox apparently tries to be more like Chrome I decided to switch to the original and I haven't looked back yet. I only fire up Firefox when Chromes built-in developer tools lack functionality compared to Firebug, which is rarely the case. The way Firefox decided to take makes me really sad, as I was a big Firefox supporter, until they screwed me over with the new UI. I hope this is not too off topic, but I never got the chance to comment on the changes.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Manufacturing "A Minimal Pen" in China, failures and successes

did they actually receive $281,989 in funding or is that a bug on kickstarters side?

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: gpgsend.com - encrypted emails from your browser.

I don't know what the term for those sites is. Something like http://nopaste.info/. How do you plan to implement file encryption in JS?

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Why All Employees Should Be VIPs At Your Company

I've never been to Silicon valley, in fact I've never been to the US but I personally feel that this picture the author draws of "old" SV is very idealized. This rant contains high amounts of nostalgia and therefore does not seem to be entirely rational. I would love to know if SV used to be like O'Neill describes it in his article.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: gpgsend.com - encrypted emails from your browser.

did you do the JS implementation of PGP yourself? Really cool service btw. Maybe you could write up a nopaste-tool which encrypts the stored contents before they get posted to your server.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Chrome Privacy

wow, I was assuming that everything is stored encrypted on Googles servers. Would be cool if someone could clarify this, as the explanation in the Google help is a bit vague IMHO.

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it feasible to use redis as the only datastore?

thanks for keeping me updated about redis :)

codecaine | 14 years ago | on: Facebook is scaring me

I think Ghostery deserves some promotion here : http://www.ghostery.com/ available for all major browsers. It blocks near to all webbugs including the facebook social plugins.