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MarkyC4··on Show HN: Free GeoJSON editor to visualize, download or convert into many formats
As someone who has to edit GeoJSON ~monthly, these would be useful for me:

- edit polygons (ie: to add more points). It'd be useful to click one of the points to add a point after it (then click the next point to close it)

- import (fwiw: my geojson comes from postgres/postgis ST_AsGeoJSON)

- save to gist (or some other share feature). I use this one to show maps to non-tech colleagues for signoff.

MarkyC4··on Off-Facebook activity
> about a percent goes to the store's bank to cover the case when they have to give the money back (either because it was a fraudulent online transaction, or the store cheated the customer and the customer went to their card issuer, etc.)

Is this right? It's been my experience (in Canada) that losing a fraud case or chargeback the store takes the hit.

MarkyC4··on ‘Fleeceware’ apps overcharge users for basic app functionality
It's probably still easier (and with less loss) to sell $500 gift cards for $450 on eBay
MarkyC4··on No, it wasn’t a virus; it was Chrome that stopped Macs from booting
> with it enabled, there are several significant, legitimate things you cannot do with your own computer.

For those wondering about such a use case: the only way to get eGPU's working on <=2015 MBPs is to disable SIP (and use purge-wrangler). It's not officially supported because 2015s don't have TB3

MarkyC4··on Webvan
I currently use Instacart (as an Express member).

I'd say 10% of orders (I order ~2 times a week) contain an item that wasn't of sufficient quality. Their customer support is great when this happens, always refunding the bad item (though sometimes that's besides the point -- I needed that item for my meal!)

The $100 yearly membership fee amortizes to ~$1/order, and the markup on products seems to be ~5-10%. So I'm paying a little extra to avoid going to multiple grocery stores on a weekend/weeknight

MarkyC4··on Webvan
> So much value in learning first hand about the experience

I couldn't agree more! I'm working for a startup doing alcohol/cannabis delivery. Before there was funding, our founders rode their bikes to do these deliveries (and have still done some deliveries in the past 6 months).

There was so many lessons learned from doing our deliveries. One such example: we had a bug where our push notifications told the customer we had arrived, but were actually still pretty far away (GPS math sure is fun :P)

MarkyC4··on Google Cloud Is Down
I don't use the features, but I know my Qnap keeps touting IoT so they might be worth checking out as well.

It's also my Plex media server, file server, VPN, I run some containers on there. I used to use it as a print server but my new printer is wireless so I never bothered

MarkyC4··on Ask HN: A Good Alternative for ReCaptcha?
Ontario, Canada has a similar (maybe a bit more relaxed) law: https://www.ontario.ca/page/how-make-websites-accessible
MarkyC4··on Dividends and Buybacks Now Larger Than Total Reported Earnings for Entire S&P500
Non-American with no position in Chipotle here. Could you elaborate a bit on how they did their buyback wrong? I see their stock have climbed in the past year, so wasn't the buyback worth it?
MarkyC4··on Notion – All-in-one workspace for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
We use them in lieu of JIRA. Overall I like the product!

I wish they had ticket numbers (I like to put ticket numbers in TODOs in the code for more context; I think it leads to more TODOs being done). I had to hack them in using timestamps and hashes.

The ability to see tickets assigned to you (and not in closed status) would be useful too

MarkyC4··on Docker cannot be downloaded without logging into Docker Store
7 years ago, Netflix decided to split into streaming (Netflix) and DVDs by mail (Qwikster). It didn't last long
MarkyC4··on VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negative app reviews
This is probably a shake to report a bug feature (Android users are probably more used to this, I remember Google Maps on Android having this feature)
MarkyC4··on Firefox 61.0 Released
I use tab center redux. Worth noting it doesn't do trees (just a long vertical list if tabs).
MarkyC4··on Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub
You mean like the current extensions in the .github folder (pull request template, etc)?
MarkyC4··on We'll pay you $3000/mo to build your startup on Dark
I went to their homepage to find this blurb:

We’re creating a new programming language, tightly integrated with an editor, compiler and PaaS, to allow engineers to build distributed applications using high-level primitives. We abstract away individual machines and low-level distributed systems code to:

* Generate and run scalable infrastructure for you. * Use APIs as easily as if they were functions. * Remove the deployment step entirely.

Quite ambitious I must say

MarkyC4··on Scrcpy – An app to display and control Android devices
Wireless ADB exists, but the initial APK upload is still pretty slow (compared to wired)
MarkyC4··on Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages
Firefox Developer Edition 59.0b9 here on latest High Sierra. Opening the link doesn't crash anything, but highlighting the paste did. I would have expected the tab at most to crash, but it took out the whole browser
MarkyC4··on Many packages suddenly disappeared
create a mirror registry containing the packages you depend on
MarkyC4··on Apple acquires Buddybuild
Bitrise has been great for us at work as well, but we're beginning to investigate Microsoft's CI platform since we build web/desktop apps as well, which aren't a first class citizen in Bitrise.

Fwiw: We also wish there was a way to publish test/linting results (you can make it an artifact, but it won't load assets, so you're stuck zipping and downloading or publishing to your own managed Web server)

MarkyC4··on Cavium Is an Arm Server Contender
See also: Microsoft Continuum, Motorola Atrix (probably the first Android that turned into a laptop)
MarkyC4··on VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks
nowadays I just use 'https://...' instead of '//...' because

* security * I will immediately know if a server doesn't support https, because the image won't load

MarkyC4··on USB power supply puts 220 Mains power out on USB jack
I buy those little 3-inch extension cables to get around this problem.
MarkyC4··on Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Deliveries
This is the "click and collect" model. For example: http://shop.loblaws.ca
MarkyC4··on Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year
Squirrel
MarkyC4··on Apple’s declining software quality
9 women combined can't make a baby in 1 month
MarkyC4··on Use Atom to edit in Chrome
I use the Firefox version. You /can/ convert back to Markdown. Should be Control + Alt + M (or whatever the toggle key combination is)
MarkyC4··on Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones
The Motorola Atrix had an optional attachment that turned it into a "webtop" (basically a laptop case that used your phone as the CPU): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G
MarkyC4··on Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends on January 12, 2016
> I picked Chrome because it is, as far as I know, the most standards-compliant browser in wide use at the moment

you sure? Firefox is ahead in at least 2 of the 3 categories on caniuse (though I will admit, they are _very_ close).

Look under "Summary" on these pages:

* http://caniuse.com/#cats=JS%20API

* http://caniuse.com/#cats=Other

* http://caniuse.com/#cats=CSS

MarkyC4··on Booting Linux in One Second [pdf]
This is fixed in newer Android phones: https://source.android.com/devices/audio/latency_measurement...
MarkyC4··on Microsoft’s Very Good Day
> the vast number of SKUs

In their defence, we did that to them. They had to make all the N versions of Windows to appease EU courts. What's troubling is that no such restriction is placed on Apple or Google

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