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DocGon Investing for Geeks

Not a bad investment plan. I do real estate. Earn around market medium and will have initalt investment to pull out or give to children at my will.

DocGon Microsoft, Sony, and others still use illegal warranty-void-if-removed stickers

Soes anyoneone know,is it the same in EU?

DocGon Fun with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

How stable is it? I've been playing around with the idea installing it on my only (dev)machine. I dont expect the ubuntu subsystem to work perfectly but my old workflow to be stable.

Edit: I am regularly suprised that nano filename does not open quick edit in my machine. And then I remeber I am working in my local machine.

DocGon Image Hosting on Reddit

Tabs. Loading on mobile still takes a second or two. Tabs help with this. All those native apps usually staring at blank screen half the time. And I have 4g and top of the line phone.

DocGon Being sued, in East Texas, for using the Google Play Store [video]

Also, depositing 10% of the sued ammount would clean the place right up and bring ammouts to a more reasonable level. If I am correct, this is how it works in my country.

DocGon Ask HN: How to deal with stress and overspecced responsibility?

Somewhat related. Often I leave the office, to do nothing. Walking, talking with people etc. And after those 10-15min when I do come back I usually have a solution for the problem I was working on. It might seem to outsider, or even for myself that Im just slacking off, not really trying to get the problem solved fast, but in practice it saves time.

DocGon Our best practices are killing mobile web performance

The number of times I have miscliked because page is still loading and jumped the buttons. Or losing my already filled content.

And I'm on a fast 4g network and good phone, LG G3

DocGon Viking Horde: A New Type of Android Malware on Google Play

Yes. When I am using app, it is usually already doing everything I need it to be doing.

Example is shazam. Used to be really simple. Big button, listen and get the name and thats about it. Now its loaded with buy now links, the big listen button is gone, wants you to register, takes too long to set up and so on.

DocGon Viking Horde: A New Type of Android Malware on Google Play

I think this. They have killed play store discovery. Only time I use is if I want something specific, like guitar tune for example. Or I find article/intresting read about new app and want to try it out.

DocGon Viking Horde: A New Type of Android Malware on Google Play

I dont know why the change happened but I use play store only in every couple of months when I need something really specific. Long gone are the days I was intrested in searching for new apps and trying them out.

Similar with updates, I've been hurt couple of times by keeping apps updated, so now it happens only when it stops working completely.

DocGon Show HN: Spotbot, a Slack bot that monitors your website for visual bugs

Hey It seems that spotbot does not cover for delayed page transistion effects in CSS. I have multiple objects appearing in row and pictures show currently each page in different stage and not fully loaded page :(

Other than that, awesome :)

DocGon Show HN: 500,000 free WiFi hotspots plotted around the world

Jeah, I found the lack of zoom control also a problem.

shit+rightclick or shift+leftclick works also

DocGon She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

>The girl always has to contact the guy first. It's just how it works

That seems a bit childish.

DocGon Why the Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa Sucks

instead of wires, even between citys the internet is transmitted by air. Im currently in southwest cameroon, and only means for access is over the air. At home, I use mobile network. But even in all the cyber cafes, offices, etc they use different over the air solutions. As far as I know, no one is wired directly to the network. And apparently even from this region, traffic goes to douala over the air, where it meets optical sea cable. Oh, and incoming connection is under monopoly. If it goes down, everyone go dark.

There are startups whose plan is to create local network coverin city for high bandwith content, without relaying to the outside connection as this is mostly bandwith limited. So called alternative network of catche servers and wifi, as often even watching youtube is pain depending on the time and location.

DocGon Sony website leaks personal information

You didn't need account. Just placing an order, going to pay through paypal for example and you will see another persons address etc. Reports of seeing other peoples credit card numbers also.

I managed to order one, received order cancellation notification couple of hours later...

DocGon Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go?

I havent started my career yet, because I've been traveling and moving from the time I graduated. Most of the trips I do are sponsored through one program or another. How has it changed me and am I happy?

Well, I was/am introvert. First time moving away was to Istanbul, through exchange student program I was forced(guided basically) to socialize. It teached me how to make friends in any place I am, how to act in different cultures. Currently I am in Africa, Cameroon, volunteering. Been here for a month, and will be staying here for two months. No big concerns regards moving from europe to africa. How do I do it and what is my secret? I dont have place I call home in my country, so my home is where my ten things are. My home is where my laptop and my cameras are. I also try to find something to do on my travels. As I said, most of the trips are sponsored trough EU or some other program, this usually means I already have a contact ahead and my travels usually have a reason. Thanks to this there isnt usually a problem to kickstart my social life locally either. The most benefit I have gotten out of my trips are self discovery, through putting myself in new situations.

only regret? Sometimes I still think where would my career be if I had stayed back home.

anything bad? access online is quite s*it through out the places I have traveled.

Ps. Anyone in sw cameroon wants to meet up?

DocGon YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin

If they could only do it for the ads also.

The sole reason I started using adblock, was when I lived in Istanbul for couple of months, their ads were out of hands. Imagine having to control the volume, every time ad plays, in playlists or in front of videos.

DocGon To protect itself from attack, Estonia is finding ways to back up its data

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card#Uses_for_ident...

Apparently it is not used anymore?

Web commentary columns of some Estonian newspapers, most notably Eesti Päevaleht, used to support ID-card based authentication for comments. This approach caused some controversy in the internet community.[3]

DocGon Ask HN: Where to Register a Company When Being a Traveling Digital Nomad?

if you manage to get smart card,

Registering company ~186 euros. time ~15minutes online with smart card

bank account ~free first year, full online support with smart card

digital signature with smart card is equal with real one on all documents.

taxes, bookkeeping, hire local bookkeeper ~>30euros per month and use skype/email

DocGon How we built Flow

I agree. Although I believe it might have many uses in other areas, in Photoshop I am fastest with one hand on drawing tablet and other on keyboard. Having 3 modifier + all one key shortcuts/tools under my fingers is the fastest way. Specially in digital painting I might sample color, change size, paint, pan, erase, sample, reverse color, zoom; new layer all within 10-20 seconds. (alt; alt-right click pen; b; left click on pen; e; alt; x; alt+left click pen; ctrl+shift+n)

brush size? even faster than flow is alt+pen right click and hover pen on tablet.

Edit: I would thin it would be really neat music controller. I could see use in there(specially in party's)

DocGon Surface 3 Update

I was looking into it, yes. it seemed the best option. havent got around to order one just yet.

DocGon Surface 3 Update

As I mentioned, the price difference is quite big. Getting Surface Pro 1 to see, does the laptop-tablet style even works, seems reasonable. If it works, there is always possibilty to sell and invest more. 1000+ is not the money I have to spend without knowing does thing work for me, for example. Personally I didn't have a chance to see it before purchase, as it is not sold here.

As Penny Arcade said, the new technology wasn't as good(until now apparently) as old wacom.

Touch keyboard was mentioned, because I made a mistake and assumed it is usable, while it could have been avoided.

overall, I am happy how it performs and other people who draw daily, also love it.

sorry if I am confusing

DocGon Surface 3 Update

Nice! I bought Surface Pro, thanks to Penny Arcade. I have 17" laptop with intuos 5 for heavy painting, but surface with manga studio is my go to for sketching and drawing. Manga studio with its brush engine really simulates real life drawing way better than PS. Specially on Surface Pro.

I decided to go with surface 1, because of the price and how next ones have not evolved so much. Around 400 euros gets you a decent, quite comparable with the latest ones. I would prefer bigger screen, but it is not 500 euro difference need. couple of things that still annoy me:

-border accuracy with the pen is awful

-touch keyboard is useless rubbish. Even on-screen is better, I didn't know it doesn't have real buttons before I purchased it.

-original pen has only one button(would not be problem without the next one)

-no intuitive way of using modifier keys while drawing/missing modifier keys and this slows everything way down. Maybe there is way to remap volume buttons, haven't tried it yet.

If you are thinking of getting one, take get surface 1 off from the ebay. It is cheap, if you don't like it, you don't lose money when reselling. It is not a tablet, it is a laptop, with tablet capabilities.

DocGon Nobody Knows What Running Looks Like

As artist, you would want to draw persons facing towards viewer. It makes pictures usually more compelling. When drawing correctly, you would efficiently cover half the body or rotate the person away from the viewer.

Running is awkward pose, as half the body seems to be rotated the other way always. But in a art, it is preferable to have subject moving one certain way.

So it is only natural to pose people like this, if you are uncertain how they are in real life or it does not matter. Because it is way more aesthetically and understandable for the viewer. In creek example, you could show persons genitals and upper muscular body, not only one of them.

DocGon Show HN: Dumbphone – Turn your smartphone into a dumbphone

Ah, I might have a use for it. If one could also only disable the status bar and lower android buttons.

It would be perfect for my family older generation. Big screen, big nice colorful buttons, super easy interface. They would love it.

DocGon Sold my startup for nothing just before it took off. Now i'm broke. Need advice.

Congratulations!

You managed more than most of the start-ups! Your idea was worth it and it will go and change part of the world. It was your doing.

By now, you have experience in starting, you have confirmation on your ideas. This is bigger win in long term.

Bummer that you didn't get paid in money, but money comes and goes. You will do fine. being a employee for a while, might be a nice change to reflect on your experience and work on your ideas. Less hectic and more stress free change.

DocGon Audi 'lied' about safety testing of vehicles

Because it is A5 everywhere. A5 and A7 are different models, not different names for same model. And A5 also has an 5 door model available, although it is not sold in states.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_A7 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_A5

DocGon Lens Blur in the new Google Camera app

There is something similar like this available already!

Although, I use it on android. DSLR Controller(BETA) with OTG supported Android phone and almost all of the digital DSLR cameras.

I use it with my 600D to take timelapse (it does not have it built in).

You can use it with tablet to have bigger screen for example. And it supports almost every setting.

EDIT: Free "does it work with your device" version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.zig.dslr

Full version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.d...

DocGon Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source

THANK YOU.

I have 0 knowledge about writing all kinds of code. This is perfect to start with. Specially thanks to the API part.

DocGon Credit Card Breach at California DMV

You can research, maybe you have similar possibilities.

My bank allows me to register virtual "credit" card. It lasts 30 days(I can close it earlier also), I can have custom limit and making it takes around 2 minutes online. It costs i guess around 50cents per card. So by the time the card details leak from online shop, card is already useless.