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gianpaj··on Ask HN: How can I pick a side project and stick with it?
Are you working alone or with other people? Doing anything alone can be very demotivated. Regular calls, chats are important for motivation and a sense of progress
gianpaj··on Ask HN: Low-latency, ensemble-oriented video conferencing?
so it's "physically" impossible, even with only audio?
gianpaj··on NoSnoop – Find out if your HTTPS traffic is being monitored
100 MB for the Windows for Mac OONI Probe Desktop? Electron face palm
gianpaj··on Is Start Up School Down?
There's an update

> You may have gotten an email a few minutes ago saying we're missing your update for this week. That was totally my bad, we do have your update, I just pulled an over-broad email list for Kevin to send his reminder. Sorry about that, won't happen again! :(

gianpaj··on Use mmap with care
I believe the correct link for SublimeMerge GH issues is: https://github.com/sublimehq/sublime_merge
gianpaj··on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
Components.utils is undefined (Firefox 67.0b16 macOS)
gianpaj··on Pinterest S-1
> As of December 31, 2018, we had 1,797 full-time employees, an increase of 32% compared to December 31, 2017.

Why do you need so many people? A breakdown for each department would be interesting

gianpaj··on Zoom S-1
> Since our founding in 2011, we have experienced rapid growth. For example, our headcount has grown to 1,702 full-time employees as of January 31, 2019,

WOW. That's a lot of people

gianpaj··on How to Be Successful
how many people would you say try and fail 50 times? of course, failure can be defined in many ways. But I wouldn't think you end up in a bad place without having learnt a lot.
gianpaj··on Python in Visual Studio Code
out of curiosity. Have you added features or fixes to VSCode?
gianpaj··on Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome
If you're on v68 and want to stop Chrome from upgrading add this on /etc/hosts: 0.0.0.0 tools.google.com

H/T: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36183372/728287

gianpaj··on Red Wallet: best alternative for MetaMask
Some feedback if you don't mind on the impression I get _before installing_. I would remove/replace the 2nd picture of the guy smiling at his laptop. Stock photos don't evoke trust (in my opinion). Also, I would say people who are going to install a Cryptocurrency Google Extension wallet will know what it is, a tech-savvy, so no need to dump it down.

Other: - what's the difference with MetaMask? - "Blocks your browser from visiting phishing websites" How does it know which one is a legit website and which one is not? - Since it's beta, write beta in the title and possibly the first image. - You claim "The world's safest & simplest wallet". How did you arrive at that assessment? There is no link to a website, Github, etc. Also, it is released by "alex.mashtalir2018". Not exactly something that elicits trust.

Hope that feedback is useful and constructive. All the best

gianpaj··on Website Feedback
yeah. how much tagging, etc. would 5 hours give for example. And how much does it cost per hour?
gianpaj··on Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
In Ukraine, there is a big French supermarket chain called Ашан (auchan.ua), in which people can buy liquid cleaning products by the volume. For example, if you need a litre for dishwashing cleaning soap, you can go and pull a lever and fill an appropriate size plastic bottle. It's their own brand and it's very cheap. I'm not 100% sure if you can bring and use any plastic bottle, or you have first get it from them.

They also have huge crates of pasta and other grains where you can simply shove how much you want into a plastic bag, weight it and pay at the till.

No need to wrap those items in boxes and more containers.

While Ukraine has many environmental problems (it's not easy or common to recycle, large % of uneducated population about these issues), it has some good ideas and policies like these.

gianpaj··on Productivity
I vouch for intermittent fasting. I'm doing it for 16-hours a day for 5/6 days a week. Only for 2 weeks now. I can feel a lot less tired and able to work on the computer (coding) with more energy and feel a higher threshold to giving up on simple coding errors or issues. Sometimes I get too focused on a problem that's not worth fixing, like some shadow or something wrong by few pixels in the UI. So Sam's first tip on focusing on the right thing is essential.
gianpaj··on “Pinterest needs to be removed from Google IMO”
I don't think any founder that wants to fix a problem is going to talk about and saying 'making a clone'.

I agree with 90% with you, but a founder will never say the word 'clone' in a conversation with a candidate or VC. If you could buy directly ala Instagram shop button but for the web, you could have a chance. E-commerce can help a lot to bring people to your platform. But Pinterest is already doing Buyable Pins

gianpaj··on Codeship Acquired by CloudBees
Congrats! I'm sure you folks are celebrating :)

My question: Why the partnership and keeping the 2 brands? Owning a bigger chunk of the market? Higher and lower end? I know it's a private company. But some 2000-mile high info would be interesting to understand if the incentives have shifted.

Thanks, Codeship user

gianpaj··on GitHub and BitBucket's SSL Provider's Cert has expired
step tutorial http://gianpaj.com/post/93100630815/cant-access-github-on-ch...
gianpaj··on PyPI Notifier: Watches your requirements.txt files
While it's a good idea. Some times if something is not broken, there is no need to fix/upgrade it
gianpaj··on MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Them
I believe you mean 'sharding' not 'sharing': "Unique indexes and sharing"

And

"Process Limits in Linux" If you experience segfaults under load with MongoDB, you may find it’s beacuse of low or default open files / process limits

gianpaj··on MongoDB Gotchas and How To Avoid Them
How would you use CloudWatch to monitor MongoDB? Or do you mean that you can get statistics from the Amazon EC2 mongo instance(s) with Munin and a cloudwatch plugin?
gianpaj··on Show HN: MemStash - Commit things to memory
Any tips on making a bookmarklet work this well? I mean code-wise and ease of testing
gianpaj··on Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
Where is the music coming from? Blogs? or Mixest is hosting the mp3?
gianpaj··on All Apple stores could close for 30 days in Italy over warranty case
In 2013 Italy will be one of the first countries to have more Android users than iPhone ! Awesome
gianpaj··on Clever (YC S12) Launches A Twilio For Educational Data
the doc page is beautiful!!
gianpaj··on Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
i am i the only one who's reading Torvald's comments with David Mitchell's voice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqSZEGj-SuI
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