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i0nutzbon Penn Jillette on Bob Dylan (YouTube at 36:25) Aug 2, 2016

http://i.imgur.com/YsbKHg1.gif

Joke aside, very nice interview, even I'm not an US citizen. Considering that all political discussions (on TV) in my country are about throwing as much shit as possible to the other side, this Penn interview feels pretty much like poetry :)

i0nutzbon How to negociate (with a big corp) to be allowed to keep a side-project?

> they are not very tolerant for side-projects.

So... they have control over your _personal_ life/time? And you agree with this? Hopefully they pay you a LOT of money...

If your project doesn't compete with E-corp in any way, probably is not even worth mentioning it?

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Incredible! Apple steal a feature from Samsung! ^_^

i0nutzbon A $40 adapter can charge the iPhone 7 with your headphones plugged in

How Apple impact environmental other than negatively?

- Need to replace battery? Poof, new phone.

- Need to replace screen? Poof, new phone.

- Need to replace... ANYTHING? You guess it, a new frackin phone!

How the hell is this environmental friendly? (obviously enough, I'm talking about the _official_ solution of these issues; I'm aware that you can change mostly anything)

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PS: long time iPhone user here; next phone(s) will surely be another iPhone.

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Do you still believe in Santa?™

i0nutzbon Upwork freezes accounts after misreading a QUOTED conversation about a 3rd party

I assume that the first step was to contact upwork, not to post on HN, right?

i0nutzbon Ask HN: How to learn electrical engineering?

It's fairly hard to give a list of links and tell you „here is how you'd learn”. If that's the approach you're looking for, most likely there are some books for absolute beginners (take a look on "For Dummies" series)

But in very vague terms, you will do it exactly like you'd learn to code:

- start reading why/how electricity works[1];

- start making basic circuits with light bulbs or small motors (light bulbs NOT leds) with various switches and try to understand how/why is (not) working;

- start reading to see what basic components are doing: resistors, transistors, diodes, capacitors, transformators/coils; what they do, why they do.

- start combining basic components with the above light bulb. See what happens if you add a resistor or a diode, what a capacitor do and stuff like that.

Jumping from the very begining to arduino boat will only leads to major frustration overtime.

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[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/Electronics-for-Absolute-Beg...

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If you want to also practice, make this as step 1:

- get a soldering iron and some old boards (from an old TV, old radio, stuff that are not build only by integrated circuits) and start exercising (de)sorldering.

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Usually everything that's marketed as „X killer” or „Z done right” is just crap...

i0nutzbon Free private Git, Subversion and Mercurial repositories from cloud

>I hope the bullet points were enough for a TLDR?

Absolutely, but unless you're planning to link this thread on the site, it won't be useful for EVERY user ;)

> more feedback from you after you have tried the product.

I'll create an account for my next project; there are some stuff that I would like to try.

i0nutzbon Free private Git, Subversion and Mercurial repositories from cloud

> Here's a blog post worth of comparison

I'd suggest you a nice and simple table comparision. Some kind of TL;DR version ;)

> projects that contain repos rather than just repos

This one sounds interesting

> In addition our servers are running in Europe

I understand the server location is more like a marketing thingy; I live in Europe, but frankly, I don't give a damn about the location of the server.

I don't push/pull code every second, so the whatever latency is present is perfectly acceptable. Even if the server would be in the exact oposite point of the Earth, I could live with few seconds delay :)

i0nutzbon Free private Git, Subversion and Mercurial repositories from cloud

Probably a comparision between deveo vs gitlab vs github vs bitbucket would be useful?

Because in your feature list you have everything that at least on of you competition already do.

PS: SVN is still a thing? :D

i0nutzbon Dark side of a Valley software engineer

So basically the place that everybody knows that is _the_ place where you have to work 170h/week gets now negative feedback for working that much?

Oh well...

i0nutzbon Should I continue to work for a company that MITM all my web traffic

You don't log in on very sensitive services (i.e. mail). You log in on not so sensitive services (i.e. github, if you don't have any private repos) and you ALWAYS use two factor auth. Always.

For very sensitive services you're either staying away for 8h/day or use your phone, connected via 3G/4G (not wifi).

You know the saying, my house, my rules :) It's _their_ pc, their internet connection.

Depending on your country, there might be some laws that will prevent them to scan your traffic. Or not.

i0nutzbon Should I continue to work for a company that MITM all my web traffic

Then don't access any _personal_ accounts from work?

i0nutzbon Is Bootstrap dies?

Fingers crossed, I guess?

i0nutzbon Spotify's new ad format

Simple! Because they don't want to take my money.

Let me explain: I'm living in a country where Spotify isn't present just yet. So I have to use a VPN every now and then to „trick” Spotify that I'm an US user traveling abroad.

I want to buy a subscription, I really want, but I can't use Paypal nor a credit card (because of the country restriction) so the only way of getting a valid subscription is to buy an overpriced gift card (i.e. $16+ for a $10 card).

i0nutzbon What's the lowest cost in $$$/year for EV SSL certs?

I guess that's globessl, for $50/year.

i0nutzbon Can an ISP do this? I'm no security expert, but this looks like a MITM attack

Not really MITM; this looks more like a DNS hijacking.

Some providers put this kind of stuff in one of the following cases:

- you didn't paid your bills;

- they have new offers to show you;

- they are just jerks.

i0nutzbon Ask HN: Is Let's Encrypt for CPanel Trustworthy?

Official support should coming soon...ish. A week ago:

> We are still working internally on getting this out for you, and we're just as excited about it as you are! Currently we're hoping to see this hit with v58, which should be ready for production around 12-16 weeks from now.

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/provide-support-for-lets-e...

So probably around august-september we will have official support.

i0nutzbon Ask HN: How do you manage complexity in large JavaScript applications

Let's add another layer of complexity, this will solve everything!

i0nutzbon Sublimetext new build

Other news: Will Bond - the author of Package Control (and few other awesome plugins) - joined Sublime HQ.

Also, the blog post: http://www.sublimetext.com/blog/articles/sublime-text-3-buil...

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So this means that sublime isn't dead afterall?

i0nutzbon Ask HN: Should I mention this during Job interviews?

You should never be ashamed of your work, good or bad. Most likely, ten years in the future, you'll be ashamed about today self. Afterall, we all started somewhere, didn't we?

Now, specifically on the question: Is that freelancing work still relevant today? Because if is not, probably you shouldn't do more than a very quick mention and not very detailed.

Another approach is to think about what you're putting in your Resume: are you mentioning kindergarden? Primary school? Or only the last and the most relevant education?

i0nutzbon Show HN: Search Engine That Pays Your Student Loans for FREE. Over 1000 Users

> The only reason companies like Google make as much money as they do is because so many people use their search engine and continue to generate those ads

I'm not very into this advertising mumbo jumbo, but you might be wrong here, since Google have AdWords/AdSense on couple more sites than the search pages. :)

Long story short, there were these companies that either had a browser add-on or a stand alone app that filled 10-30% of your screen with ads, for which you were paid by hour.

Some networks were so successful they even give free PCs :)

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_to_surf - http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/17/free.pc.reut/ - http://www.angelfire.com/pe/home4u/cl204.html

i0nutzbon Show HN: Search Engine That Pays Your Student Loans for FREE. Over 1000 Users

Isn't this similar to late '90s browser add-ons that used to pay you to have their ads always displayed?

i0nutzbon Ask HN: Easiest way to record finances?

+1 for YNAB, but with a couple of notes:

- if you're using Windows Phone, then you're kind of out of luck, since there is no support for this platform;

- keep an eye on steam sales; you can find a pretty serious discount (I bought it for $20-30 or so);

i0nutzbon Move to iOS- Submitted by Apple on PlayStore

Finally, a reasonable useful Android app!

i0nutzbon BitTorrent backups – BTsync and Syncthing

I don't know about Syncthing, but BTsync can hardly be used as a backup solution since it's more suitable for syncing stuff (hence the name)

E.g: How do you recover after a file deletion? Because it will also be deleted from BTsync...

i0nutzbon Show HN: I self-published a book

Let's say that I'm that guy you see in movies that want to write a book for ages and always postpone it... -_-

i0nutzbon Show HN: I self-published a book

Nice insights. Couple of questions:

1. Did you also considered Leanpub?(I think they have a smaller fee) If yes, why did you pick Amazon over Leanpub?

2. Why didn't you used an easy to convert format? I mean instead of Word-like processors (be it Docs, Libre, Office or whatever) you could use Markdown, LaTeX or something similar, so you could convert into... anything: html, epub (so you could publish on iBooks as well), mobi, azw, pdf, word etc.

i0nutzbon Ask HN: Is a Macbook battery consumed when plugged in?

I'm not sure what kind of adapter is on which kind of Macs, but if you're asking because you want to use a larger brick, then it might be just fine. Let me tell you a little story:

I have a 13" MBP since 2008 (or 2009?) on which I replaced the power brick at two times, just a few weeks after the warranty was gone. Every time with another Apple charger, the same model, despite the fact that rating on their store was one star. All this time, the charger was so hot that i could barely touch it.

I was somehow disparate because it was ridiculous to take the charger as a consumable that needs to be replaced every year, so I started to do some research and I found that I could just use a larger charger (from the 15" model). I bought one back in 2013 and it runs ever since, with no issue at all. The brick is also barely warm, so that's nice :)

If you want to use a smaller charger, it will also work. Somehow. It will wear out the charger very quickly and it will take a lot of time to charge the battery.