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gry··on iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
iTerm2 is full of surprises. Double click the tab and you can rename the session.
gry··on iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta
Why are you concerned with Sparkle? Is it because it's a third party library or whether or not iTerm2 makes HTTPS updates?

It seems a little debugging with LittleSnitch/Charles would glean an answer how the requests are made and what, if anything else is. Perhaps a ticket https://iterm2.com/bugs is warranted.

gry··on Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”
Jan Koum is a WhatsApp co-founder. WhatsApp is notable, I think, in this debate specifically because WhatsApp partnered with Moxie's Open Whisper Systems for end-to-end encryption.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8624212

gry··on Ask HN: What are your favorite paid online services for non-programming use?
Pinboard [https://pinboard.in/], Moo.do [https://www.moo.do/], Instapaper [https://www.instapaper.com/].
gry··on As REI thrives, does it have members or merely shoppers?
The ballots come with your dividend notice, which I'm sure you remember. ;)

http://www.rei.com/shared/help/membership_join.html?storeId=...

gry··on The Website Obesity Crisis
HTML is 23KB gzipped (served that way).

Uncompressed, it's 67KB. This does not account for the remainder of the resources.

gry··on The Website Obesity Crisis
104 of 138 resources are images, over 97% of the weight. Spot checking, they're almost all thumbnails for the slides.

Not bloated in the least. Pure content.

gry··on Why WeWork.com uses a static generator
So is Daring Fireball.

https://daringfireball.net/colophon/

gry··on The Forgotten Midwest Craze for Palaces Made Out of Grain
Not sure how you get by, friend. There's a long Internet story to tell…
gry··on REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside
“The owner, the employees, and the buying public are all one and the same, and unless an industry can so manage itself as to keep wages high and prices low it destroys itself, for otherwise it limits the number of its customers. One’s own employees ought to be one’s own best customers.”

-- Henry Ford

gry··on A Man in India Is Selling States Illegally Imported Execution Drugs
The BuzzFeed News division is solid. There is a surprising amount of investigative journalism.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/news

gry··on On Bullshit (1986) [pdf]
This version is even better. :) http://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Harry-G-Frankfurt/dp/06911229...

EDIT: no Amazon referral

gry··on Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
Yes it is. Everything you've described of my two brothers can't do.
gry··on Firefox Tweaks – An attempt to make Firefox suck less
A critique and a follow-up. Better than almost everyone.
gry··on Fish shell 2.2
Alternatively, you may want to look into z.

    https://github.com/rupa/z (bash, zsh)
    https://github.com/sjl/z-fish
gry··on Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9
You may hold down `option` while clicking the green button to get the previous behavior.
gry··on Debugging memory leaks in Ruby
I'm of the mindset from 1995-2005, computer science and software engineering didn't exist while the web matured. PHP was major player in this time, as was Perl. Perl could have "won" just the same as ColdFusion, or VBScript.

It took a decade for these web programming communities to introduce and/or build on ideas from 1958. Long before the web.

PHP is better, however Rasmus' philosophy (while ok at the time) permeates PHP's design and it hurts. It hurts a lot.

gry··on Debugging memory leaks in Ruby
Lipstick on a pig. Exactly what the author calls out:

"Sadly, most Ruby devs out there simply employ monit , inspeqtor or unicorn worker killers. This allows you to move along and do more important work, tidily sweeping the problem snugly under the carpet."

The author describes a mindset to solve the underlying problem. Endemic to any language.

gry··on Backblaze Storage Pod 4.5 – Tweaking a Proven Design
What is your backup solution?
gry··on NextDoor raises $110M at a $1.1B valuation
At a Hack for Change, we started something along these lines. Ideally there would be your predefined neighborhoods and your trusted neighbors. This is an exercise to move towards that idea.

https://github.com/unsay/vicini

gry··on Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation
> Test and measure. If you can't measure the difference, it doesn't matter. If you don't measure the difference, the rule you are following probably isn't helping you.

/Yes/.

gry··on AWS CodeCommit
Both GitHub and BitBucket wikis are already managed by the respective SCMs.

    git clone https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow.wiki.git
    hg clone ssh://hg@bitbucket.org/BruceEckel/python-3-patterns-idioms/wiki
Also, a project atop git does issues: https://github.com/jeffWelling/ticgit

The idea is interesting to me.

gry··on Show HN: Taskulu, Next-gen role based project management platform
There is also https://huboard.com/.
gry··on Music that upsets expectations is what makes your gray matter sing
The piece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSQzUx3QW2Y

Too right, too right.

gry··on The city is a big brain that can solve big problems
I'll bite. It has a storied history...good stuff.

http://www.unmuseum.org/lightbulb.htm

gry··on Show HN: Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia
Charles Minard [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard] contributed amazing work to several fields, information graphics most notably.

  Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812. 
  The graphic is notable for its representation in two dimensions of six types of 
  data: the number of Napoleon's troops; distance; temperature; the latitude 
  and longitude; direction of travel; and location relative to specific dates.
Fantastic work. Thank you. It's great to see in-situ.
gry··on Show HN: Self destructing, encrypted messaging with file upload
Thanks, you're right. I've misused the word for ages.
gry··on Show HN: Self destructing, encrypted messaging with file upload
Also, there are numerous discussions about how to ensure a build/binary is what it purports to be. I'm trying to find those…

EDIT:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8023035

gry··on Show HN: Self destructing, encrypted messaging with file upload
I'll check out. Browser and command line crypto are two different beasts; it is where trust is placed.
gry··on Show HN: Self destructing, encrypted messaging with file upload
1. I think the best option is for the client to encrypt using a local library, like NaCl before sending anything to the server. The server should not provide the encryption algorithm. The client and server must agree in the algorithm, but neither provide it.

2. Yes, it defers trust and responsibility. Now Mozilla, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Opera are on the lam for issuing a competent browser encryption.

The messed up thing is, all it does is defer trust. What I'm trying to say about the current state of client-side web crypto as far as I understand it, deferring trust doesn't do a damned thing. It's still the source of the crypto lib, which is you.

EDIT: clarity

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