kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Chezmoi: manage your dotfiles securely across multiple machines
I feel so dumb, I just started coding a project to sync my configuration files across multiple machines. I even tried a quick "configuration synchronise" search on Github but came up with nothing. Oh well.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?
I sadly have to code AMP for work. The reason you see a white page is that the boilerplate code required for any AMP page to be valid includes :
webkit-animation:-amp-start 8s steps(1,end) 0s 1 normal both;
With visibility set to hidden for every element on the page. This is used to minimize page rendering artifacts for the end user, which is one of AMP's main goals, content should be fixed.
The problem however here is that this animation is usually triggered before the 8s, as soon as the AMP javascript has been served from the CDN. Your adblocker of something of the sort is blocking it which results in you having to wait for the hard coded 8s fallback to see the page no matter if the content is already loaded.
AMP is beautiful.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Fortnite teen hackers 'earning thousands of pounds a week'
I don't agree that much with what you are saying, mainly from personal experience.
1. Even if parents find out they probably have no idea what it means (legally or literally)
2. You can open a bank account really easily online for free. (You can find photoshop ID templates for every possible country, maybe they check them more nowadays but some years ago you didn't even need to change any of the hashed numbers and it would be accepted by most services, even PayPal)
3. I did get caught at one point by my parents, they proceeded to take away every bit of technology they could find, so I ended up doing more shady stuff (on a lended machine at mcdonalds) to make enough to buy a new computer and keep on with life as usual. Had to re-buy a new computer every year or so when they found out.
My perspective on the thing is that most parents won't even fathom the idea of what hacking is, so finding out their kid is a "hacker" won't change a thing in their day. And if it does a "hacker" will always find a way to keep on going anyway, trying to not get caught along the way, it's the job spec.
Now what I can agree on is that if the kid tells their parents they're getting money illegally and asking their parents to hold it in their bank account, and the parents agree, then that's just plain stupidity, and a lot of that goes on in the world, parent or not parent...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Amazon Promised Drone Delivery in Five Years Five Years Ago
Not Amazon but drone delivery is becoming a thing, a startup called Zipline is currently (successfully) running trials in Rwanda of drones that are used to deliver blood to hospitals where it would never be able to arrive in a timely fashion otherwise (because of terrain, poor access etc). From what I remember delivery time was about half an hour. It is however clearly not as elegant a solution as Amazon was proposing with their quadcopters, Zipline uses scaled model airplanes with an old-school tail catch system for "landing" (same concept on aircraft carriers). Not "elegant" but certainly gets the job done.
I know I saw a YouTube video covering this recently but cannot find the link sadly.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: What comes after serverless?
Strongly agree with this, why sell a service when you can give your client the tools they need to implement the service themselves with ease.
Strapi has been working in this direction, selling-itself as a "Wordpress" for backends.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Show HN: Cross-platform open-source 3D modeling software
Does this play nicely with 3D printing like Fusion/Cura does ? Fusion's UX makes me want to gouge my eyes out. It's almost as if they make it intentionally hard so that you have to buy a training from them...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Headquarter Locations of Top 101 Y Combinator Companies
I can't tell if this shows a terrible bias towards NA or if people who aren't from NA don't even bother applying for X reason(s) or get rejected.
edit: I am getting downvoted to hell for some reason when I'm simply trying to start a discussion based on a fact... hmmm... I don't get HN...
"The only other countries with top companies were Canada (2), the UK (2), Colombia, India and the Netherlands."
"94 of the top 101 companies are based in the US."
_nkoa
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7 years ago
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on: Why I switched sides: From bootstrapping to VC
I think this is related to two distinct philosophies, namely what I guess you could call the "Basecamp" philosophy and everybody else (the more popular one in the world today).
One thing that is undeniable is that a bootstrap will always leave you in control at the end of the day. You could argue then that as the author says the customers are your "bosses" but I think it is a good idea to listen to your customers, but that's just me. I think a product should not be made for the potential profit it could amass but to fill a need for these users, listening to them feels like the next logical step to take (and most companies, even tremendously giant ones, still fail to do this I feel like).
Even more important than that is that it might not be the next unicorn, but that is absolutely fine for some people. They just want enough to feed themselves and their families while having a sane work life/rhythm of say 4-5 hours a day once you get it rolling.
I feel like the author used to somewhat adhere to this moto but somewhere along the way got lost and is now simply after the money for the sake of it. I might be making a deductive stretch here but it's what reading this post felt like...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
I am not asking for them to support every release they ever did until the end of Apple's existence. I think it is safe to assume that even the "latest" release has some bugs. I am simply asking why downgrading to an older version (even though every technical bit is in place for this to be possible) is not allowed by Apple.
It's not as if your average grandpa was going to do this, but what I cannot fathom is the reason they ACTIVELY go against this.
The only explanation I can come up with is planned obsolescence, but am happy to hear any other idea anyone might have about this.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones
Say I BOUGHT an iPhone 5 years ago, I think I should be allowed to run the software that came with it 5 years ago. I could not care less about security or privacy or the illusion thereof, all I care about is being able to use the device I paid for, and to be able to actually use it, not simply have a paper holder that acts as a constant reminder that I need to get the iPhone 123 XLSE or whatever version is out these days if I want to have the same experience I had with the phone when I took it out of the box 5 years ago. Not a worse one.
It is absolutely not a technical challenge to downgrade as I remember fairly vividly (some years ago) that a simple Jailbreak was enough to allow you to restore to any version you could want. I don't care about data loss.
The last thing is that this would not be the path the average consumer would take, it would simply be a possibility for people who do not want to trade "privacy" and "security" for usability. They have the technology, they have the resources, everything that could possibly be needed for this is already in place and has been since the iPhone 3G.
The only reason you cannot do it today is that Apple has servers that tell iTunes whether or not this image is allowed to be flashed onto the device. So the only reason is probably a text file hosted somewhere with contents along these lines :
Allowed:
>= 12
Disallowed:
< 12
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: A terminal file manager written in bash
Would you mind taking a minute to explain why you needed a tool like this in the first place, please? I'm quite interested.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Released
You can install any theme you want... This is linux, not macos. The point is for you to customize to your liking.
Same for flatpack, I don't see why you expect it to be bundled over snaps (which is included if I recall) or appimages...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Helm: Personal Email Server
Can anybody explain why they want me to buy a 500$ piece of hardware?
Can the same result not be achieved with a Raspberry Pi and any self-hosted open-source mail server?
Why is this not simply a download?
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: The Cryptocurrency Industry Is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says
Tether isn't what cryptocurrencies was/is supposed to be. It's as if you took Herbalife as a valuable/honest/model player in the dietary supplement market...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language
I learned development with Python (after trying to grasp the concepts of C for a while) and I have to say that alongside .NET it is one of the easiest languages I had the pleasure to work with. So much so that after 10 years of mainly Javascript and Node.js work I have decided to go back to Python simply to make my life easier and be more productive.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: One of Bloomberg’s sources told them Chinese spy chip story “didn’t make sense”
Well if you look at the US company stocks since the story (not the chinese ones) you'll see none of them had a negative day.
So either they miss-planed their "stock market" manipulation or it was not their intention...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Image Processing with Deep Learning
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate Amazon and Apple
It's been a few years I've given up on the idea of privacy with technology.
The number of security flaws that get discovered daily is only the tip of the iceberg.
I'm pretty sure some governments (or organizations) have had backdoors, be they hardware or software, in place for more than 20 years. We simply don't know about it yet (and probably never will). Would that actually be that far-fetched? I think not sadly.
Even the Intel Spectre et Meltdown fiascos are a sign that we have no idea how to actually secure this stuff. And that's normal, the very definition of IT security is that nothing can be secure.
Take the whole antiquated concept of processor rings for instance, we are adding a new level every other year now it feels like...
I find it way more interesting (even if it is ultimately "worse") to adapt to the mentality that "nothing is secure" than "let's try and make it secure", which as stated is in itself a fallacy...
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?
Could anyone explain this a little for me, please?
Does this mean you save 93% of your income and only use 7%?
From the website, there is a graph that shows how many years you supposedly have to save for retirement but it does not take into account the actual amount you make.
As a "junior" dev, if you save 97% of X peanuts you still have peanuts.
kjullien
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7 years ago
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on: It doesn't have to be crazy at work
I like the fact they give away free stickers to promote the book! I think it is a great initiative.
