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Feeling like contacting me?

email - hn (at) femto (dot) host discord - Codefined#8017

I'm pretty open to talking about anything.

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codefined··on Show HN: Rqlite v4.0 – With node-to-node encryption
Not related to this project, but have done projects in Go. In terms of CI runs, AppVeyor[0] is the most popular one, it allows a similar setup to Travis and has most of the functionality too.

Build compatability is also great with Go. The only issues I've run into so far are graphical applications which often require different libraries for different platforms. Nothing I've done that's not graphical has ever had compatability issues (except file stat).

[0] https://www.appveyor.com/

codefined··on Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
I don't seem to get this?

Windows, Chrome, bookmarking seems to work fine?

codefined··on Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
Has this been updated recently? I remember an older version (that I actually enjoy more with the difficulty selection!). Is that still hosted anywhere?
codefined··on Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1
Chrome still isn't perfect for web sockets. They don't even allow you to see the raw content for binary web sockets and considering how prevalent they are becoming, this really puts me off using them.
codefined··on Ask HN: What are the most popular libraries with the crappiest documentation?
I remember when their server documentation was down and
codefined··on Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go
Not for me, not even on the first page; Py Music, PyPy, Python all come before it.
codefined··on Updates for older platforms to protect against potential nation-state activity
I'd say yes, especially if they're not getting security updates and are connected to the rest of the network.

Honestly, the cost of it getting broken into seems to be significantly higher than the cost of upgrading the systems.

codefined··on IP over Avian Carriers
Am I missing a reference?
codefined··on Please Make Google AMP Optional
A website still functions without Google Analytics.

99% of websites won't function if they lose a key library.

codefined··on Please Make Google AMP Optional
I was under the impression that WebAssembly had reached cross-browser consensus and isn't a service from any individual multinational.

How would using WebAssembly make the web less free any more than using other new features like Async/Await?

codefined··on Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?
I'm talking about regulation, not control.

Companies are regulated already to stop monopolies and we're not living in North Korea.

codefined··on Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?
It does concern me when people say that the internet should be unregulated, especially given the recent vote in the US and the likely upcoming votes in the UK.

Monopolies are very easy to form on the internet, and in the interest of improving everyone's use, we need to try to avoid them. Walled gardens currently trap people into one service and limit the ability to swap between them, similar to "forcing" you to use just one company for your construction work, no matter the price.

I haven't heard a great answer to this problem yet, if one even exists. Is there a way to attempt to prevent these from forming which can be practically implemented?

codefined··on Ask HN: How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?
Legality issues spring to mind.
codefined··on Show HN: A Browser-based Blockchain
Interestingly, I'm getting a significantly higher hash rate in Chrome than in Firefox (12,000 vs. 600). This is despite the fact that Firefox has a higher priority on my OS (High vs. Normal) and they're both using the same amount of CPU.

What hash rates are you seeing on your machine/browser?

codefined··on Convert a markdown manuscript to pdf/epub/mobi e-books
Ah, excellent! Indeed it did work.

I wonder what causes Github to mess up on just the verification messages, probably something to do with the character set.

codefined··on Convert a markdown manuscript to pdf/epub/mobi e-books
Your example repo appears to contain some weird characters for me:

https://puu.sh/waX9G/3d54abf030.png

https://puu.sh/waXy2/7106b4768d.png

This is on Chrome Stable, Windows. Looking in the Github rendered.

codefined··on Introducing temporary interaction limits
You mention systemd getting a lot of hate, but I've never had any problems myself with it or know anyone who has. What sort of things do people dislike about it?
codefined··on Hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier
This doesn't seem to give me a single clue on what it does past the initial change of:

    hub clone rtomayko/tilt
Am I missing something?
codefined··on Npm v5.0.0 released
Does uninstall default to --save too? Because if so, then your workflow doesn't even have to change gear. You just install it to check it out, you like it then do nothing, you don't like it then you can just `npm uninstall`, something you'd hopefully do anyway.
codefined··on Ask HN: What is your most impressive hackathon project?
We actually used Node.JS' request module, combined with some NLP (using natural) in order to pick out the main content. This worked pretty well, but for our purposes we didn't need it to be perfect because anything like headers would be removed when we processed the content (not being full sentences).
codefined··on Ask HN: What is your most impressive hackathon project?
My team (5 others) and I built an application that would help you revise or learn a subject by testing you about it, where that subject could be anything, from mathematics to Shakespeare.

It worked by scraping the top 1000 Bing results and then scraping several levels deep from each of the results to generate a "map" of knowledge. This in turn could be used to ask the user questions, generated fill-in-the-blanks, matchups & whatever else you could think up.

It worked after the five-day hackathon, which was truly surprising, but unfortunately, it used too much computing power so we never released it to the world.

codefined··on 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
As most encryption takes place at the software level, not the hardware level, wouldn't it be difficult to infect all hard drives with some virus targeting encryption?

Also, not to mention most of my hard drives are made by China, whom seem not to like the NSA very much. This leads me to believe that they may struggle with the mass infection part.

codefined··on GitHub announcements: Marketplace, Apps and GraphQL API
Just hiding bugs isn't a good practice! It'll ruin responsiveness with lower resolutions where that content is required.

Actually fix the underlying cause, not just add a quick hack to make it go away.

codefined··on Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt
Live in the UK, we get taught that sort of stuff in high school. Every term we'd have one morning for PSHE (personal, social, health and economic education) where we'd learn things like how to fill in taxes, how to create a CV and also some more varied ones like how to play poker.

Although occasionally they were hit and miss (pornography is as bad as cocaine was a memorable one), I really valued them as useful life skills. The Wikipedia article gives an excellent definition [0]:

> Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education has in various forms been part of the National Curriculum for schools in UK since 2000 ... PSHE education is defined by the schools inspectorate Ofsted as a planned programme to help children and young people develop fully as individuals and as members of families and social and economic communities. Its goal is to equip young people with the knowledge, understanding, attitudes and practical skills to live healthily, safely, productively and responsibly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal,_Social_and_Health_Ed...

codefined··on Ask HN: Is Digital Ocean safe enough for production?
Also, for lots of things there is really no need to host your own servers. It's going to cost more and be less reliable unless you get to a much larger stage or have a lot of computational requirements.
codefined··on Show HN: Howmanypeoplearearound – Use wifi to calculate number of people around
Really? From what I've seen they turn it off as soon as they can to save battery life.
codefined··on Ask HN: What do you use in your New Tab window?
I enjoy Surge[0] which automatically picks high-ranking backgrounds from /r/wallpapers and includes a nice time/weather feature. When I'm not on Chrome, I usually use Ricain's OwnPage[1]

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/surge-material-new... [1] http://ricain.github.io/ownpage/

codefined··on Treble: A modular base for Android
Some of them are actually rather nice, I really enjoy OxygenOS for example (the vendor OS for OnePlus phones). It just seems that a lot of the awful OS' are delivered by the larger companies.
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I feel hate speech is an offense against free speech, but I still don't think it should be allowed. Honestly, things like being racist to someone on the street shouldn't be allowed in any country.

I guess it just comes down to the lesser of two evils.

codefined··on Noun Project – Icons for Everything
I can just imagine some over-worked scribe attempting to draw one of the more complex shapes like:

https://thenounproject.com/browse/?i=1037952 https://thenounproject.com/term/keyboard/1018886/

I think there was a reason Chinese wasn't based upon the images of the things they were writing about!

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