chrisallick

When you tap the header status bar on mobile safari this site doesn’t scroll back to top. Why?

That website needs to adjust its ux. If on an iPhone, swiping down, the thumb or finger does change on the y axis, but also a little on the x axis.

While trying to read this it kept opening some gutter menu. Really annoying.

yeah im not sure how deep i want to go. i already have a side self-education project but i keep getting sucked into blockchain stuff and find myself reading white papers. i don't know... seems like it could become an obsession.

the thing i really want to try making is take a sinatra/redis/crud app and rebuild the database as a distributed database on a blockchain. or at least i think thats what i want to do.

I wanted to try re-writing in Ruby to warm up today. Can someone confirm this is correct? https://gist.github.com/chrisallick/cb196b13555c86f9193f3ec4...

I don't see why it's counterintuitive. If we know that "random" distribution will place values on a curve, then why would it not follow that the money would distribute this way and lead to inequality.

But I like the article! Excited to share to students.

This is what I'm saying. There is complex and there is complicated.

Someone explain cryptocurrency!

mmmmm little impractical. before I explored that option I explored arbitrage efforts like finding web server location and hosting my bots close by.

again, minimal sophistication is required to dominate. most of the developers are not doing deep exploration. you just need to be faster than someone moving a mouse or using an auto-fill script.

I was interviewed for a similar article.

tldr; smart young people who happen to discover a very Luddite community and applied tech to buy up product and re-sell.

Can't be shut down cause brands will lose face if they "care."

Most scripts are either headless chrome instances using phantom is or selenium.

The one I built years ago was just a chrome extension with some options.

Some are iOS apps with a web view and objected JavaScript.

Great article. Slamming android and talking about Russian software. Click bait to boot? Sold.

My only issue is with his comment on swift. Which also sucks. Objective-C is wonderful and delightful. I'm sad to see it losing favor.

Oh well, off to try Kotlin. Maybe I'll finally make an android app... no.

This seems like a really fun project to try and reproduce!

Hi, as someone who worked on this, let me say, that's not the point.

Consumers are in fact treated like shit, either knowingly/actively or not, and that is an abuse of power and trust. Power and trust that should be dissolved and then earned back.

This chrome extension, created in a couple of hours, illustrates a simple fact: be evil, be ignored. That's it. The power is in the hands of the consumer. We all have the right to voice our opinion with how we spend our dollars.

Too bad if your company gets caught up in someone's else's bullshit. Be evil. Be associated with evil. Ignore evil. Be ignored yourself. The internet is not a free advertising platform. The rules of infinite reach apply to big money and just someone willing to slap a few lines of code together.

too corrupt didn't read.

burn them all down and bathe in their ashes.

Well, they had unlimited bullets and needed just one to hit. We needed to block everyone. But how can people follow a story let alone a lobbying effort with our current ADHD news cycle...

Can someone give people like me a "5 things to fight back" list?

Before I ask my question, let me ask a "am i right or wrong."

WebSockets is a small layer on top of HTTP. And HTTP is a protocol on top of TCP. Right or wrong?

So then why would do this? To get TCP running over port 80 to get through a firewall? Why not just do TCP over port 80?

Like this project https://github.com/jpillora/chisel

Edit: above project is also using websockets. okay, i think i understand why you would do this.

Wow. So cool. I love offering a solution that could ultimate inform a change in their product in the form of a Chrome Extension.

In principle, however, I am not comfortable giving over control of a site that has financial information, and thus potential financial ramifications, to a chrome extension.

To echo other comments. If you made this for AWS though, id have no choice but to adopt. That site is too fucked not to accept any solution to clean it up

I really don't understand how this product can be called Sketch in good conscience. Sketch is already a disruptive gorgeous product that has changed ux and digital design. It should be respected and given room to breathe. Change the name of your product.

"The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user." is going on the wall in the office. And I'm mailing one to Android development team.

Getting in a taxi with a $250K medallion and the city of New York behind it is much different than getting in someone's car...

Without someone vetting these drivers and taking a risk and responsibility for people's safety, this seems like a terribly dangerous way for anyone to get around.

that is correct. just a goof.

If you like this, a student at SFPC in New York built a kinetic sculpture about this problem.

Haha, great port number.

I wonder if they did something like use a HackRF or BladeRF to spoof the GPS signal to make the car believe it hadn't moved?

That's a lot of books! I wish there were a top 5.

Has this been tested against a broad user base? It seems rather involved.

It was made a little while ago by myself and 2 other people :)

Didn't read, but this offends me.

If you love gradients and randomness: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/random-gradient/ga...

Currently reading Rainbows End.

it's also one the greatest digital publishing platforms ever invented... sooooo sorry that every once in awhile they enforce some rules to keep it so. The alternative is Android. Which, if you ever tried to program for, is literally worse than going to the dentist.