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martind81 | 8 months ago | on: Continuous Glucose Monitoring

What CGM device would you recommend for a first try?

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s

Remember me of the Eye4U website as well :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aT4wt0fmGU

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: Launch HN: OSIMple (YC W18) – Automating data entry for inspectors

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0 and more info about the previous ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Industrial_Revolution

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: The eastern coyote, a wild N. American canine with coyote-wolf and dog parentage

Eastern Coyote is a variety of Coywolf but it's not the only one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: You Probably Don't Need a Blockchain

At some point in the article they mention that an alternative to the proof of work could be to use the proof of stake: the oldest stake build the next block. Did I understand correctly? How can that work? Doesn't it create multiple problems to do that?

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: How I was hacked, and all my cryptocurrencies were stolen

Google Authenticator, the one time password (OTP) app made by Google, is storing data locally on the device. To my knowledge it has no link with your phone number.

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: 2017 California Autonomous Vehicle Disengagement Reports Are Out

I wonder why Uber isn't in the list? Definitely saw some Uber Volvos in SF last year.

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: MacBook Pro? No

For those interested, this is the cover I got: UPPERCASE GhostCover Premium Ultra Thin Keyboard Protector for MacBook Pro with Touch Bar 13" or 15" (2016 and 2017, Apple Model Number A1706, A1707) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRKLH27?ref=yo_pop_ma_swf

martind81 | 8 years ago | on: MacBook Pro? No

I've just had my keyboard serviced a couple weeks ago because of the sticky keys issue.

So I reluctantly bought a keypad cover. I normally hate covers. But weirdly I like this one; it's very thin, perfectly adjusted and it almost improves the touch. And it's almost invisible. I really like it and it makes me feel way safer.

martind81 | 10 years ago | on: Emerging Best Practices in Swift

I stopped reading the article there. :)

martind81 | 11 years ago | on: Unintended Affordances (or why I believe encrypting everything is a bad idea)

Calculating the checksum of a document and encrypting this checksum is far less costly than encrypting the whole document.

martind81 | 13 years ago | on: New radio blogging startup displays scrolling tutorial as homepage

Really cool and refreshing landing page.

martind81 | 14 years ago | on: Sparrow for iPhone

This app's really awesome. 2 small annoying things though, that I hope will be fixed later is: › the freeze for a few seconds when I open the app (on an iPhone 4S) › the lack of push