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Raphael

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Web developer in Seattle.

http://hackdash.com/

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Raphael··on Goodbye Google plus photos
Google Photos is awesome for lazy people like me. Everything auto-uploads. I can publish or not. I can edit or not. Convenient, free, and useful.
Raphael··on FastMail under DDoS Attack
Couldn't you just use a generic email client?
Raphael··on Side Project Launch Checklist
By "uppercase", did you mean "all capitals"?
Raphael··on Thank HN: for helping me get traction with DuckDuckGo and Traction book – AMA
So you should ramp up marketing. Or it sounds like you want to improve the quality and rely on word-of-mouth.
Raphael··on Thank HN: for helping me get traction with DuckDuckGo and Traction book – AMA
Does Bing output good results for Greek queries? DDG had drawn from Bing in the past.
Raphael··on Thank HN: for helping me get traction with DuckDuckGo and Traction book – AMA
Instant answers are brilliant, and the community contributions really flesh it out. The text even changes color with the theme. I'm wondering if something like this could be ported to JavaScript and made available in NPM or Bower.
Raphael··on Accelerated Mobile Pages Project
The problem with mobile is the ping.
Raphael··on Show HN: Bort.io – Web application for website bookmarks and search
For navigation within the app, consider using links with URL fragments and listening for the hashChange event. This will allow back and forward navigation, as well as the ability to bookmark or link to a tag.
Raphael··on Show HN: Bort.io – Web application for website bookmarks and search
We need more Bort license plates in the gift shop. Repeat, we are sold out of Bort license plates.
Raphael··on Google Nexus 5x and 6P
That's really necessary with pentile displays, which amounts to about 2/3 of an RGB subpixel scheme. 345 equivalent PPI isn't that crazy.
Raphael··on New Chromecast 2015
Well, hopefully you have an audio receiver. You don't really expect to run speakers just by themselves.
Raphael··on 5000 Years of Interest Rates
Don't the years start at one?
Raphael··on How new 'white space' rules could lead to an urban super-Wi-Fi
So there will be a market for Wi-Fi microphones.
Raphael··on Some analysis of the 1M most popular sites on the web
Well, the @import itself only works if it precedes other statements.
Raphael··on Amazon crowns winner of first warehouse robot challenge
Perhaps all the books are shrink-wrapped to hold them shut.
Raphael··on Lily – Drone camera
Perhaps an airbag underneath could deploy faster.
Raphael··on Flickr redesigns web and mobile apps to create a powerhouse in photo storage
Do they now prevent manual albums? Google+ seems to support both automatic and manual photo albums.
Raphael··on Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship
Canada is a rad place for internships.
Raphael··on Project Fi by Google
Satellite photography appears in Google Maps, so rockets are needed at some point.
Raphael··on Zop
It's similar to SameGame, which traces back to a Japanese game from 1985. The only difference with Dots is that you have to trace a path through the connected blocks, so you can't disappear quite as many.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SameGame

Raphael··on Strengthening JavaScript
Perhaps new developers shouldn't transpile at all, or may use a single transpiler. It certainly could get confusing working with multiple transpilation layers.
Raphael··on The Other Mile-High Club
Taking advantage of pricing errors provides an incentive to reduce the incidence of pricing errors.
Raphael··on Live Sails.js Course
Why are they bothering to teach a class on it before writing the documentation?
Raphael··on Apple closes trading with $700B+ market cap
Sounds like a great way to pay $3 million in sales tax.
Raphael··on FCC Chairman: This Is How We Will Ensure Net Neutrality
It depends on the relative predictions of the profitability of neutrality vs. of non-neutrality.
Raphael··on Microsoft Acquires Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M
I would have made a calendar app if I had known it would be worth that much.

Edit: It features the JQueryUI date picker. Funny how such value can come from free software.

Raphael··on CoreCLR is now open source
Could/Does Visual Studio run in Linux?
Raphael··on Replacing Middle Management with APIs
I wonder if Marx considered that labour could shift to serve new markets.
Raphael··on Replacing Middle Management with APIs
> But what if the algorithm hired the person to write the algorithms, updates, and performance tweaks?

The "person" may hijack the algorithm. So it could only hire a trustworthy person, which is a tough if not impossible to distinguish.

Raphael··on Single-Tag Website
Expected a custom element.

<x-website></x-website>

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