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xweb | 1 year ago | on: The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A

My first computer as well! I remember typing game code from a magazine and saving it to the cassette tape. My big Christmas present the next year was the giant expansion box with the floppy drive.

xweb | 4 years ago | on: How I took my SaaS from idea to sold in 14 months

Second this. This product sounds amazing. But hard to believe it without seeing it. What can you charge for that enterprises/funded entities would pay for, but side projects wouldn’t need until they start making money. Like: Electron, Oracle/SQL Server support, Exchange integration, etc. Good luck! As someone who has been “working” on a SaaS project for a year, would love to try this. But can’t shell out $400 out of pocket for something I can’t touch.

xweb | 5 years ago | on: Why do I care the open web is dying?

Well. This article conflates three different complaints as one problem. That their browser supposedly mitigates. There are good articles about the open web vs closed for-profit ecosystems. This is not one of those articles.

xweb | 7 years ago | on: Do You Trust Your VPN? Are You Sure?

Maybe this should be an "Ask HN" - but what do you think about the VPNs mentioned in this article and the use cases described? I also have researched VPNs and basically threw in the towel...gave up...how can you possibly know if you can trust ANY VPN provider?

https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ seems objective, but it is infrequently updated and insufficiently comprehensive, not to mention a bit of a usability nightmare.

There is also the factor that different users have different use cases. A VPN that is perfect for Glenn Greenwald may not be what Joe Schmoe who just wants to hide his porn habit from his ISP needs. It does feel like the market could use some way to figure out which VPNs can be trusted.

So, the questions are:

- What is your VPN of choice? - How did you choose your VPN? - Do you trust your VPN? - And how could you objectively trust your VPN? What would give you that feeling of security?

xweb | 8 years ago | on: One year of cycling to work

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/04/how-effective...

Key point for this discussion: "In 1993, New South Wales, Australia, commissioned a study to see if a new helmet law for children was increasing helmet uptake. It did—but the researchers also found 30 percent fewer children were riding to school. In New Zealand, where helmet compulsion was introduced in 1994, the number of overall bike trips fell 51 percent between 1989–90 and 2003–6, according to one research paper."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/do-bi...

"Meanwhile, it seems that bicyclists wearing helmets may encourage riskier driving by motorists."

Just to be clear, I'm not advocating against wearing a helmet if you DO commute on a bike. As someone who fifteen years ago cracked a helmet instead of his head after falling on some jagged pavement, I appreciate what a helmet can do for you. And there may be statistical support for wearing a bike helmet as well:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/sep/22/bicycle...

However, I think the OP's basic point holds. Being sedentary is a greater health risk than riding without a helmet.

xweb | 8 years ago | on: CSS Grid for UI Layouts

When you use numbers, it's referencing the lines between sections, not the sections themselves. So a grid of 4 columns will have 5 line numbers.

xweb | 8 years ago | on: Lessons from starting a design-as-a-service startup

@vinrob92 - This is great of you to put this discount code here. I am strongly tempted, but it is unclear on the website what the value proposition of the "premium" service is. Looking side by side, it just appears to add "logo, branding, and illustrations" to the basic plan. But wouldn't that fall under "graphic design" in the basic plan? Can you explain here what "premium" means in your service offering?

xweb | 8 years ago | on: Yahoo is now part of Oath

Thank you for this link. Worked well and quickly. I haven't maintained my yahoo account for years, it's good to actually get rid of it.

xweb | 8 years ago | on: Mastodon 2.0

> In fact, it happens on all sides...

Great reframing here - now, it's not a discussion of how abuse on twitter is an issue, but a discussion of how abuse happens both from the right and the left. Good job of deflecting the actual point, very alt right of you.

> To my knowledge, nobody is receiving hundreds of credible death threats.

"Credible" - so, as long as the death threat is not "credible", it's ok. Uh huh. "I hope you die" does not contribute in any meaningful way to discussion. And hundreds of "I hope you die"s do not provide an abusive and suppressing environment? Suuuuure, bro.

> The truth is somewhere in the middle, and not everything is what it seems.

Everything is not what it could be, if it was different than what someone said something could not have been, when all the parties involved might or might not contribute to the problem, even if it's not an issue for all sides to understand equally when some parties are unconcerned with the facts as they lie in the instance of how it should not be in the world today.

In other words, I think your vague bullshit generator is working great.

xweb | 9 years ago | on: In Bay Area, six-figure salaries are “low income”

I would strike Seattle from this list. Just over the last couple of years, home prices are up 50% or more. It's not SF/SV prices but it's 80-90% there...unfortunately. It is, however, easier to build in Washington, so hopefully this will be a bubble and not a permanent trend.

xweb | 9 years ago | on: JavaScript Code smell Survey

I am not affiliated, but I thought the questions were interesting. Hopefully there's a good follow-up post afterwards...

xweb | 9 years ago | on: The cost of small modules

"...It'll be quicker and you'll learn more...." - Not to be snarky, but yeah - it'll be quicker to write up front, but you'll learn more...from finding and debugging all the edge cases the library authors may have already dealt with. And there goes the time you "saved" up front.
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