ecaroth's comments

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Gmail Add-ons

You can now build native add-ons for Gmail that work on desktop/mobile gmail, with native UI and hooks without needing to write hacky chrome extnesions.

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Gmail Add-ons

There's still a shit ton of companies whose products live extensively (or exclusively) in Gmail - not to mention the examples they give are use cases that you would not use in slack. Slack is certainly winning as an external communication tool, but email/gmail dominates external (and customer) communication for gSuite-using companies.

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Gmail Add-ons

Looks like it will from the screenshots (https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HeFnmVgMiJ8/WMDL3f4TQgI/AAAAAAAAB...) - each app will have it's own icon and hooks into emails/threads. I too have built a few gmail integrated apps and this will be super nice and convenient.

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Hackers Are Trading Hundreds of Thousands of xHamster Porn Account Details

from the article: Although xHamster is a free porn site, users can sign up to create personal favorite collections, post comments, or upload their own videos. According to the xHamster site, over 12 million people have signed up for an account.

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: The new MacBook Pro is kind of great for hackers

Which still requires the charging cord

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Reframe.js – Responsive iFrames

What exactly is "dangerous" about this? The functionality is pretty straightforward - it just creates a parent element of the correct width/height around an element that dictates the original elements height, and then resizes the inside one proportionately as needed for responsiveness (using CSS only).

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: EmbedBox, an Open-Source UI to Get Your Embed Code Installed

Very cool idea, and something that would have been useful on many projects in the past. A little light on # of listed sights, but certainly something I could see myself using for future projects.

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?

Many good recommendations in here, but I use froot and am pretty happy with it.

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Paw – Advanced API tool for Mac

I purchased Paw about 6 months ago and used it heavily, until recently I have ran into multiple situations where it didn't properly include custom headers I specified into the request, and was causing odd errors that I assumed were the fault of the code I was testing (happened in multiple different languages/projects). I have since started using Postman, but would love to go back to Paw since I appreciated some if it's features (such as being able to save an API definition into the github repo for sharing with other devs)

EDIT - didn't realize this post was for Paw 3, which just became available. Installing now and excited to try it!

ecaroth | 9 years ago | on: Introducing BangFit by PornHub

The band is sold out already!? I need the high score.. this is upsetting

ecaroth | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to handle 50GB of transaction data each day? (200GB during peak)

Not an answer to your question, but just a quick note- this is the first post in a long while on HN where I appreciate both the problem you are looking to solve and the honesty/sincerity you have in saying that you are not perfectly qualified to solve it but you know those here can help. From all of us on the community watching and lurking, thanks for your candor so we can all learn from this thread!

ecaroth | 10 years ago | on: The Terrible Beauty of Brain Surgery

I wanted to read that article but the NY Times website was so broken on my phone and littered with ads that I couldn't make it halfway through

ecaroth | 12 years ago | on: A Better Way to Track JavaScript Errors

We have used Track.js for many months to track JS errors in our production application and it is truly key to helping me and our CTO be aware of any client-facing issues that exist, recreate/fix those issues, and sleep well at night. I also know the founders personally and they are extremely skilled developers with deep expertise in Javascript and the DOM and I have no doubt they will continue to innovate and give us even more bang for our already well-worth-it buck

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: Chec(kout) - Sell anything, anywhere. A platform for longtail ecommerce.

Love your site design - great use of whitespace and big, bold images! It would be nice to see a sample of a cart/page before signing up so you know what your "shop" will look like..

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: From Python to Ruby: Mind Blown by Rails, the Framework

I started programming python with webapp2 also, after coming from a php, java, and node.js background. I found it to be a bit more low-level and manual as far as frameworks are concerned, but I discovered that to be enjoyable. While it did force me to write a bit more scaffolding, request, and model/caching code I know that I have a MUCH deeper understanding of the frameworks works as a whole and communicates end-to-end. It might have forced me to do more work initially but I find now that I have a deep knowledge of the framework (not just it's APIs and methods) I am able to iterate faster and stretch and bend the framework to work outside of it's traditional modeling - very much unlike other similar frameworks I have worked with in PHP/node.js

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: World’s narrowest house by Jakub Szczesny

Just looking at the pictures makes me claustrophobic...

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: Ninja IDE: written in Python for Pythonists

I'm wondering the exact same thing.

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

is this mac only?

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: WebcamSwiper - a JS library that watches for hand swipes in the air

Didn't work for me either (on chrome). I kinda felt like a moron waving my hands around trying to get it to work. Would have been cool if the camera was doing a live capture and would let me watch my moronic movements after a while.

ecaroth | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How does an experienced freelancer get work?

Not sure where you are located, but most big cities have regular tech networking events, seminars, skillshare classes, etc. The VAST majority of rewarding, quality work I have done freelancing was for real-life people (businesses, many startups, etc) that I met at network events. Get a decent personal business card and make sure you tell people what you are capable of doing, and that you are available for work when you meet them. You will be surprised how many opportunities come out of the woodwork.