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gempir··on In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever
I feel like Apple did nothing wrong here. If they parent/daughter chose to go around every recovery mechanism Apple provided it's their own fault. Physical possesion of a device should never equal direct access to all its data.
gempir··on In which Apple destroys my daughter’s iPad forever
The site seems to be offline. Here is an archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20180523090007/https://ericasadu...
gempir··on Show HN: How to Tune a Guitar
Thanks for asking before downloading 30mb on my mobile connection. Seems this site is well thought out
gempir··on Go's New Brand
The way you express it is a bit problematic and is going to cause a lot of angry replies but I agree. Go looks a bit out place in the corporate World. Like you present your boss a new plan for your project and it's supposed to use Go. You put in the gopher and the boss is gonna take you less seriously directly.

The new logo is good and fit for enterprise

gempir··on A rundown of the new Gmail
Experiencing the same here. I'm from Germany.
gempir··on How to Stop Advertising Notifications from the Google Photo App
Do you really need a SD card when your phone has 64 or 128gb? That's so much space for stuff
gempir··on iRobot is testing software to make sense of all the rooms in a house
Not OP but I own one aswell.. I really like that thing for the price. It Cleans decently in a good amount of time.

I Italien setup is a bit hard because you have to change language from Chinese to English but other than that no complains.

In tests I always see it go either head to header or beat the 700$ more expensive roomba.

gempir··on Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world by storm but didn't?
I like the trend of adding this functionality to the fingerprint sensor.

I have a pixel 2 and I can swipe down the notifications by swiping down on the fingerprint sensor.

gempir··on Don't overuse interfaces
Didn't think that was cringy, It's kinda funny and hits the nail on the head
gempir··on TypeScript 2.3
Heard a talk about that a while ago. Here are the slides maybe you can get something from them. https://djcordhose.github.io/flow-vs-typescript/2016_hhjs.ht...
gempir··on Swift 3.1 Released
Why do you feel it's painful? I've only written a tiny desktop menu bar app with it, but I liked the clean look of it and it didn't feel so cramped like Visual Studio.

Maybe I just don't have written with it enough.

gempir··on From lunch to acquisition: How Atlassian bought Trello
I do. I love it actually. Separately they make good software but using multiple atlassian products together makes it amazing software.

Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence, Bamboo all amazing tools

gempir··on Bash and Windows Subsystem for Linux Demo [video]
Is iterating over network interfaces possible? IIRC that was causing a lot of issues with local nodejs dev servers
gempir··on Go Web Examples
This is awesome. Examples are so important when learning something and I always found it hard to get good Go web examples
gempir··on What a good commit message looks like (2011)
Great system about our commit system at work is that every commit starts with the name of a ticket of our ticket system (jira) so you can go back to that ticket whenever that commit comes up anywhere and understand the commit better
gempir··on The Steam Controller Configurator's Untapped Power
Wouldn't your Xbox controller be connected to your Steam Link?
gempir··on Caching at Reddit
They are number 19 on Alexa and are seriously understaffed for the traffic they are getting. I think they are holding up just fine. All they monetize is Reddit gold and a few small ads, which I'm not even sure are real ads or just ads for more reddit itself
gempir··on Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects
IMO it doesn't need updates. It's stable has tons of widgets and works out of the box. Loving it even though I have never touched ruby before.

In combination with graphite I can make some cool statistics and graphs

gempir··on Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now apparently a billion-dollar business
How good is the remote audio and video quality? Is it on skype level?

Skype sucks in audio and video quality and those are really important to my company.

We have a solution from Cisco which had excellent video and audio quality sadly it's just a Tv that can call another Cisco TV and share the screen including a very good webcam. No whiteboard features or something like that, no touchscreen. Except the small tablet to control the thing

gempir··on Ask HN: What text editor do you use and why is it your editor of choice?
VS Code on Node, go or random projects because I like the extension system and it's very light, simple and free. Used to use Atom but that crashed all the time and was slow.

For big PHP projects PhpStorm because it does everything

gempir··on Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
I prefer full control. I have a 10$ a month Digitalocean VPS with Nginx, PHP and whatever I want.
gempir··on A demonstration of browser events used to monitor online behaviour
I would guess IP Address is there anything else?
gempir··on Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
Not as cool as most projects here but this is mine: https://github.com/gempir/relaybroker

It is a proxy for irc bots on twitch.tv because connections can die and more than 1 connection will make things possible like going around rate limiting. Also joining a lot of channels at once is made easier so the user of our proxy needs to worry less about what he is sending when, we handle that.

Made it together with 2 friends who of mine we all 3 use it everyday for our bots. It was fun to write and learn go while doing so. I wanna improve it everyday but I'm never sure where or what.

gempir··on “Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation”
That's exactly what i was trying to say with the article :)

serving .php files directly is not security issue, but as you said nobody knows what's going on under the hood.

gempir··on “Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation”
I have edited your reply into the article with credit. I hope you don't mind otherwise I'll remove it.
gempir··on “Sites like these give PHP a bad reputation”
This says they have atleast 8 developers. https://lastpass.com/about-lastpass/
gempir··on Ask HN: Best linux laptop for developers
If only they sold those outside the US and Canada. In Germany the only Chromebooks you can buy are from Acer. I dislike Acer as a brand so I won't be buying one. I would buy a Dell one in a heartbeat :/
gempir··on The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship
Are you really that often in that situation though? I see that happen maybe like once a month or so. Sure a bit inconvenient but not a deal breaker
gempir··on How I wrote and published my novel using only open source tools
I can recommend Ghost it's a light blogging cms
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