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Thanks! It's built with Swift, so I'll have to see how far it goes in the App Store first before porting it. Finland alone is not a huge market, so it's hard to tell.

Thanks!

Some examples might be helpful.

I'm quite familiar with assembler, but couldn't write any kind of TiASM program just with the readme's help.

Things like "(eq)(ne)" arent familiar to me, but that might just be a symptom of my ignorance.

And hmm... I would have assumed that "jmp i0" jumped to the first byte of the video memory (which sounds like a bug). Do integer jumps refer to lines of code instead?

Honestly, I don't even know. I'm not familiar with SNI.

All I know is I didn't have to do anything special to get the 2nd domain running ssl on the same box. It just worked right away as expected. I wasn't even aware that there might be complications.

So, I feel like I'm a little bit out of my league. I read the book "Surviving the App Store" and decided to follow its strategy of releasing an MVP in the App Store as early as possible.

Today, I woke up to see it at #3 in the paid apps for my country's overall Top Chart, #2 in games and #1 in its subcategory.

A publisher has now approached me about publishing the game. I have no idea about the pitfalls. If anyone here has any experience, I'd love to hear any pointers.

Hmm? I run multiple https sites from a single Linode box without any issues. Nginx + letsencrypt.

Honest question: what's wrong with PBKDF2?

Could you share the solution? I couldn't figure it out. Searching for "essentials" was the closest I got.

I guess any security tools and scripts are bound to be used for naughty stuff at some point, but I thought "real" malware writers would put more effort (at least obfuscation) into their products. Keychaindump is a crude hacky PoC, and I honestly didn't expect it to get directly copy-pasted into "serious" malware.

Wow. I'm the author of keychaindump. Didn't expect to become a malware co-author.

Quitting my day job.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886337

I originally built Radio Silence as a Cocoa practice project. This spring, I rewrote it from scratch with all the lessons learned along the way. Now it generates enough income that I was able to quit my day job a month ago. Cool beans.

Ah, sorry!

- "register a domain" or "register domains"

- "stand in the way"

- "these awesome stickers" or "this awesome sticker"

(I'm not a native speaker either, though.)

Spotted a few typos on the landing page.

- "We let you register domain"

- "we don’t stand on the way"

- "this awesome stickers"

Nope, Radio Silence only blocks whole apps/processes. Little Snitch is probably still the best choice for fine-tuning and reactive blocking.

The Jan Willem Nijman talk was excellent, thanks for posting it!

To those that haven't seen it yet, he iterates a boring game prototype into something that actually seems worthwhile. And all he does is add tiny things that seem inconsequential at first. Stuff like "make the bullets faster" and "add a muzzle flash".

I was amazed at how big of a difference the small changes made in the end. Adding enough lipstick to a pig actually worked wonderfully.

I was also annoyed to tears by it. That's why I built an alternative called Radio Silence (https://radiosilenceapp.com).

Radio Silence doesn't use popups or alerts. It's completely passive and invisible when you don't have the app's UI open. If you want to monitor connections, you can open the app and take a look at the monitor tab.

The idea of a permanent score is what inspired me to pay, though. A steadily declining score doomed to fail wouldn't have felt nearly as cool.

Thanks!

Aww, the link automatically points to the http version instead of https. No referral data in analytics.

Can we get a <meta name="referrer" content="always"> or maybe a way to edit the link?

Just paid $30 to get Radio Silence to the top, out of pure interest in how much traffic that'd bring. Well played!

If you're on Mac and just want to monitor the connections that each process makes (not the bandwidth), Radio Silence just got a built-in network monitor a few weeks ago: https://radiosilenceapp.com

Disclaimer: I'm the author

Isn't the "DNS errors causing service disruption" an old incident from April 6th?

There is something strange going on at the moment, though, but not sure it has to do with DNS. I actually tried set up my first cert about 10 hours ago with Let's Encrypt, and got a variety of ungraceful errors with the same configuration. Only one was related to DNS. Most were code 500 from the api servers.

Please stop spamming HN. It's a nofollow link anyway.

That's actually a nice implementation. It's much easier to fix errors after finishing a sentence than it is to fear every word you type. Here's my attempt to describe compilers, which ended up going a little off-track:

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If you want to make new things for a computer, you first have to write them down in a way that a computer can understand. You have to use strange computer words, not normal human words. People usually only talk to other people, so talking to a computer using only computer words is very hard.

To make it easier, there are things that take human words and then write them out as computer words so you don't have to do it yourself.

Those things were made by people who went to school for a long time. To make them, they had to know all the human words and all the computer words too. Thanks to them, you can write stuff that feels pretty normal to you, and still be able to make new things for a computer. It's still a little bit hard, but you can learn the simple stuff in a few days.

A long time ago, only a few people could build new things for computers. But today, many people like you and me build them for money or just for fun on their free time.

Just imagine: you could build a whole new thing today. A thing that no one ever had before. And if the thing you build actually helps other people, you can get a lot of money for it. That's what many of us in the "Thing Building News" place do. We go there to share stories about the things we build.

I now want to thank the people who went to school for a long time and made the things that turn human words into computer words. They help us do easy and fun stuff for money.

You might have misread the parent comment. It said "no downside to the FAA for overblowing risks" and "no drawback to the FAA for imposing a drone ban".

I think the point was that FAA does useless and harmful things because they don't have to pay the price themselves.

Just as an anecdote: I certainly don't laugh at the Tarsnap website, but it immediately turns me away as a potential customer. The instant gut feeling is "OK, this is a product made by someone who laughs at UI design. They didn't even try. The product will probably be a pain to learn."

It's most likely not an accurate description of Tarsnap, but its's a strong enough first impression that I'll immediately close the tab.

And that's a shame, a mutual loss for Tarsnap and any potential customers. Tarsnap pops up on Hacker News quite a bit, so it probably is much better than the impression it gives.

Design certainly isn't a binary choice between adopting fads and abandoning aesthetics completely. The overused styles are overused because they are viable first steps towards a decent design. The cop-out alternative--taking no step at all--isn't better.

That's a very important point. The results can't really be mapped to a one-dimensional score of some kind of nootropyness. Especially with higher doses, many of the nootropics have wildly different effects.

If one makes you giddy and bursting with creative ideas and another gives you drone-like immunity to distractions, they can't be linearly converted to equivalent doses of caffeine.

I think the survey's score chart is best understood as a "how much do you like it" ranking instead of a conversion chart.

For the network monitoring part, Private Eye is a free alternative, though not open source: http://radiosilenceapp.com/private-eye/

Disclaimer: I made it.

There seems to be a lot of interest in microdosing psychedelics, which might be a good non-scary approach. I found the Tim Ferriss podcast episode about the subject quite interesting: http://fourhourworkweek.com/2015/03/21/james-fadiman/

Is the "How to fail at almost everything" book the one about goals and systems thinking? I haven't read it, so it's hard to say just based on the title.