jcwayne
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5 years ago
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on: Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
This seems to be a common problem with web-based business applications. Little, if any, consideration seems to be give to user efficiency. I consider that a critical part of UX, but I seem to be in the minority.
jcwayne
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5 years ago
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on: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
IANAL (anywhere), but when you sponsor someone you're listed as a sponsor. I'd say that social credit has some intrinsic value.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Zoom Falsely Claims Its Group Video Can Be End-to-End Encrypted
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like they're misusing the term in the same way that Apple does with iMessage.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Datadog S-1
And more difficult to continue to secure funding for companies that have yet to make a profit.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components
Please clarify the definition of 'user' for billing purposes. Specifically, do end-users (with no edit permissions) count?
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
"Hey there Mr. Smith, I'm Dr. Brown. I'm going to be doing blah, blah, medical stuff, right here on your left abdomen." ... "Well that's the right spot doc, but I'm Mr. Jones."
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Visual Drag and Drop Designer for AWS Lambda
This looks great and I could definitely see using it, but I'd like to know more about the company before providing credit card info and potentially using this tool for sensitive data.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Show HN: Chitter – An inbox for your users
Some explanation/example of what this does would be helpful.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Google – My Activity
Looks like they've removed the summary statistics in favor of a timeline. Still, it's nice to have it all searchable in one place. It also provides a nice place to check that I have all of the handy features turned on.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: The Sunset HTTP Header Field
> Good luck "translating" that into anything except an apologetic error message.
I'm going to have to steal that line. :)
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: The Sunset HTTP Header Field
I'm not sure about Word docs, but FWIW 90s era Excel files have become progressively harder to open.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Urban trees 'live fast, die young' compared to those in rural forests
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The role of street trees in the urban carbon cycle is complex as the environmental costs and benefits of street trees evolve over the course of a tree’s life, with emissions associated with establishment often precluding net greenhouse gas benefits in the early stages of a street tree’s life cycle. The carbon costs associated with nursery production, planting, irrigation, pruning, removal, and disposal are high. Street trees must survive for several decades (26–33 years) to attain carbon neutrality.That's much longer than I would have expected.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Automated Refactoring of a U.S. Department of Defense Mainframe to AWS
The vast majority of the general public has no idea that Amazon is a logistics company (I'm including AWS in that definition) that also happens to do retail stuff. It's similar to how GM was for a long time a finance company that also happened to make cars.
jcwayne
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6 years ago
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on: Up to one million species are on the verge of extinction, U.N. panel says
You're forgetting the status symbol aspect of having the latest phone. It seems to me that fashion is a driving factor for far more people than any technical consideration.
jcwayne
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7 years ago
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on: AWS Web Console Down?
That may be true for small failures, but the AWS Status Page has routinely failed to report large scale outages.
jcwayne
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7 years ago
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on: Notepad++ 3rd Most *Loved* Dev Environment
I'd like to see what the numbers would look like if all of the JetBrains IDEs were combined. Given the methodology, you can't just add them up, but I suspect, taken as a single entity, they'd be the top. That seems the more appropriate comparison, given that they're all essentially IntelliJ with different plugins.
jcwayne
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: Fi – launches first LTE CAT M1 low energy dog collar
Not an engineering question, but do you foresee trademark issues with Google Fi?
jcwayne
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7 years ago
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on: Launch HN: Upsolve (YC Nonprofit W19) – TurboTax for Bankruptcy
jcwayne
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7 years ago
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on: Twins get different results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test
The justice system deeply misunderstands both science and statistics.
jcwayne
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7 years ago
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on: WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality
Never fear, WePivot.
