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fredguth··on Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace every year (2013)
Thanks for pointing this work out. Great design.
fredguth··on Show HN: I built a fun video meeting app with 2D physics and proximity chat
I was going to write the same. Around.co seems to have been able to monetize well and secure funding.

Well done OP, I wish you lots of success. I know from experience that as a solo dev this flat.social is an amazing outcome.

fredguth··on Show HN: Unreal Speech – Text-to-Speech API
Your synthetic voice hears like Jordan Peterson.
fredguth··on Apple’s hidden flight tracker app
Same in Brazil. Maybe it only works with flights in US.
fredguth··on WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
I couldn’t find the link of the repo in the site. Thanks for checking.
fredguth··on WeekToDo – Free Minimalist Weekly Planner App
What is the stack?
fredguth··on /tap – Powerful and customizable note-taking system
Signup asked for email/password and complained of invalid phone number.
fredguth··on FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
Jacktrip is really hard do set up in your non-tech musician friend's computer.
fredguth··on Show HN: Plain Org – A new org mode app for iOS
The only problem is that it lives inside emacs. I have tried many times using org-mode but I have never succeeded because of Emacs. I guess it is an incredible editor but not for me. I wish there was a beautiful sublime like orgmode app for macos. Or a good vscode extension. I haven’t found yet.
fredguth··on Sosumi Snap – Download and Install macOS in Ubuntu
It was. But now there is Apple Music.
fredguth··on Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
The problem is that a lot of times they act like they are the trademarked brand in the ad to trick the user. This is unethical and should be illegal.
fredguth··on Dasung just released a 25 inch eInk monitor
I am no fan of the patent system, but what you propose is worse. Companies can get a license but by a price defined by the market. Giving this power to some burocrat seems odd.
fredguth··on The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil
The comparison with USSR is naive. The question is not capitalism vs communism. Is the kind of capitalism we have.

We have one where when the banks and people make bad decisions and get bankrupted with valueless contracts, the government save the banks, and the corporations and let common people go bankrupt.

fredguth··on The Essex Boys: how nine traders hit a gusher with negative oil
But there is a cap on how much an individual consume. The same amount distributed among thousands would reallocate the money more efficiently.
fredguth··on Diego Maradona has died
Lots of respect for someone so worshiped by his geniality in the pitch that there is literally a Maradonian church.
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
The Biden campaign nor Hunter Biden have never discredit the material. The fact that I really do want Biden to win does not make Glenn’s piece factually incorrect. I prefer Biden despite this shady story. Still, I commend Glenn for taking a very hard decision for the sake of his integrity.
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
Ironically, he co-founded TheIntercept by fear of being censored by editors in big media. TheIntercept sells Greenwald’s reputation to fund the editors who are politely censoring him. His resignation speaks volume of his integrity.
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
After he resigned!
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
Well. If so, they made it easy for him. TheIntercept is over. People seem to forget who Greenwald is and why he co-founded TheIntercept. He has more credibility than all these editors combined. Good luck for them.
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
I don’t believe you have read even Greenwald’s side. If you read, you will understand his opinion even if you disagree with it.
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
Long live the freaks of the world. We need them more than ever.
fredguth··on My Resignation from the Intercept
If you read Greenwald’s piece, you will understand why he disagrees with you. I, personally, credit his ethics more than I credit TheIntercept’s editor and this is why I immediately subscribed his substack.
fredguth··on Show HN: I built a Rotten Tomatoes-style platform for durable products
It reminds me a little of epinions.com ... a long forgotten startup that I liked very much.
fredguth··on Using Microsoft Word with Git
The anecdotes told here suggest that most think their work is sequential, while because a lot can happen asynchronously, hell situations happen all the time. Do you agree?
fredguth··on Using Microsoft Word with Git
But the workflow only "looks" sequential, isn't it? In many stories told here a user may have inadvertently revert clauses to old versions and this can be missed. This happens because it is also an asynchronous work.
fredguth··on Using Microsoft Word with Git
I didn't understand the "customizable unidirectional document workflow". What does it mean?
fredguth··on Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
This is the argument all monopolies use. If they open up, they cannot warrant the quality. The telecom operators could say the same thing not to open their networks. But at that time there was no consumers defending the telecoms.

There are ways to open up, they already do for Macs. The argument is weak.

fredguth··on Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account
It would be fare if it wasn’t a monopoly. Only if other companies could create their own app stores that worked on iPhone the customers would be optioning. In the current state of affairs there is no option.

Remember there was a time you could only phone people in the network you were a subscriber. It is not the same, but a similar situation here.

fredguth··on My kid can’t handle a virtual education, and neither can I
As a parent of a 5-year old myself, it strikes me the lack of empathy in the HN community. The pandemic is a challenging situation for all parents as there is not enough information to decide on the best course of action.

IMO, the OP article intention was only to share the pain, so that other parents know they are not alone in this challenge.

fredguth··on Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal
The same can be said about US companies as well, or not?
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