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iDemonix

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iDemonix··on Ask HN: Why do many developers use laptops like desktops?
I'm DevOps. I travel to data centres, meetings, India, London, etc - it's handy to have my exact machine with me at all times. My desk at work replicates my desk at home, twin monitors on an arm setup, where my laptop sits central underneath them, with a keyboard in front of it. Works perfect for me and I've never found myself wanting a desktop. I have a v. powerful gaming PC but rarely use it other than to play Rocket League...
iDemonix··on Ask HN: How do I come up with a name for programming language?
It depends what your end goal is. To me, Anarchy reminds me of something like Brainfuck - a hobby project that'll never see serious use. If that's your end goal, call it what you want as there'll never be that many users anyway.
iDemonix··on Ask HN: MacOS open source word processor-- what are you using in 2018?
MacDown
iDemonix··on Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Confluence?
You haven't stated why you need a good alternative? I recently integrated Confluence at my company and it's one of the most popular things I've ever done, it's transformed our department.
iDemonix··on Ask HN: Modern, ideally hosted wiki engine for small-ish community?
Confluence isn't complex at all. My company has an antiquated piece-of-shit knowledge system that's been doing nothing but causing headaches and issues for the last 5 years. The company wouldn't let us investigate a new system, so I just setup Confluence on a VM and moved about 600 articles to it in a week, manually. I then just released it on the trial and everyone immediately abandoned the old one, forcing the company to pay for it - forgiveness is easier than permission etc.

Anyway, if you think Confluence is complex, that just means you haven't tried it yet, or you spent too long looking at the admin panel options. Cars are complicated if you start doing gearbox changes, but if you're just sat driving then it's a piece of cake.

I tried tons of software for this before I settled on Confluence, tbh nothing came close.

iDemonix··on Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
Nice product!

Could I ask what tech you're using for the graph data? I'm working on a similar SaaS (not analytics) which requires graphs. I'm a DevOps engineer for an ISP, and I do a lot of work with things like Graphite/Carbon, Prometheus and so on - but I can't seem to settle on what to use for personal projects. Do you use a TSDB at all? Or are you just storing it in SQL for now?

iDemonix··on Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
GDPR bores the hole off of me so I haven't done much reading, but I do remember a court dismissing a piracy case recently because 'IP addresses alone are not enough to identify an individual' - how would this play in to this scenario?
iDemonix··on Show HN: Snipper – Lets you collaborate on the same code in real time
TIL Opera for Mac still exists.
iDemonix··on Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data
I live in the UK and enjoy my free health service every time I use it, but thanks for the concern.
iDemonix··on The mysterious case of missing URLs and Google's AMP
This article, and the one it references about AMP, all throw the word 'force' around a lot. No one is 'forcing' you to do anything with your website, wanting to be top of Google SERP is optional.
iDemonix··on Fitbit's 150B hours of heart data
Heaven forbid a foreign company knew about my heart rate and age.
iDemonix··on EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services
I'm amazed something this poorly thought out is about to be 'signed off'.

I foresee shrinking catalogues and a massive increase in piracy. Go EU!

iDemonix··on EU to move ahead with cultural quotas for streaming services
The EU make a lot of stupid decisions, this is definitely one of them. All that happen is streaming providers will just shrink the catalogues massively for non-US customers. 30% is easy to achieve when the subscribers only get about 50 items to choose from in total.
iDemonix··on Ask HN: Do you think Temple OS will have a future without Terry?
> Do you think Temple OS will have a future

No.

iDemonix··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
Also, let's not get started on the travesty that is the loss of MagSafe...
iDemonix··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
I don't want the answer to everything to be "Buy a dongle". I have a similar setup at home to my work setup, almost identical - do I need another dongle/hub for home?

I also work from my parents house if I'm visiting, they have a monitor I use, and my girlfriends parents (again if we're visiting) has a dual screen setup in their office I can use.

Do I buy a Hub/dongle for each location? Do I carry one with me at all times? (Good job they made the laptop light as I'll now need 38kg of adapters).

Oh wait, I don't have any of these problems, I just take my 2015 MBP and it plugs in to whatever is there. Nice.

iDemonix··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
I use a MacBook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015, and it's amazing. I hope it lasts forever.

I've tried a friends new MBP and I can't stand the keyboard, or the dongles. When I sit at my work desk, I have 2x DisplayPorts to my monitors, a USB 3.0 hub, and often a USB thumb drive. Swapping to USB-C would be a pain.

My biggest gripe with Apple's current MBP line up is the insulting specs you get for the price. I can buy a 128GB SSD delivered for £24, I imagine at bulk wholesale Apple is barely paying £10 - yet that's what they put in their 'entry level' £1,250 13" MBP. Absolute madness.

iDemonix··on I inspected the mastodon.social website
I hope this person never reviews one of my MVPs...
iDemonix··on Ask HN: Someone ripped off my website and is making money off it. What can I do?
Ha, wow! Almost everyone in my office has brought up hackertyper.com at some point, I'd never heard of the .net one. I do recall once noticing that the 'ad shortcuts' weren't there and thought nothing of it, maybe I'd stumbled upon the .net version that time.

Was there a reason you didn't buy the .com if it was available? I'd personally see it as a lesson learned and move on.

iDemonix··on Potato paradox
I bet you're a blast to be around.
iDemonix··on Pi-Hole: Why You Need a Network-Wide Ad-Blocker
> * By a huge margin the nosiest device is my Android Phone. >40% traffic is coming from just my phone (which is crazy!)

I work for a small ISP-for-schools. We had an issue which eventually turned out to be related to a specific version of Snapchat on Android, when its connection back to Snapchat was blocked, it'd try and send a mixture of GET/POST at a rate of 1000s a minute. When you've got thousands of devices doing that, it's like an internal DDoS.

We've had a few problems like this and it always appears to be Android apps...

iDemonix··on CO2 shortage: Lessons learned from a storm in a pint glass?
Speaking of unrealistic forecasts...
iDemonix··on Show HN: GraphCMS – A GraphQL-based Headless CMS
Do people really care about the library used to build their CMS? Surely this will only appeal to those that already use GraphQL...
iDemonix··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
I've got a 2012 MBP which doesn't have much in the specs department, so it never gets used. I use my early 2015 MBP from work for my work and personal stuff, I check MacRumours regularly praying that Apple will have come to their senses and make a proper MBP again.

When I leave this job I'll have the choice between using my 2012 MBP or buying a 2015 model off of eBay, it's a sad state of affairs, and every power user that uses a Mac laptop is in the same boat.

iDemonix··on Canada legalises recreational cannabis use
> He was quickly shut down by Theresa May, who categorically ruled out legalisation or even decriminalisation [1].

Britain is the biggest exporter of Cannabis in the world. The 90-acre farm in the UK is owned by British Sugar, which is owned by the husband of the UK's Drugs Minister (facepalm). Second to that, Theresa May's husband works at a firm that is the largest investor in... you guessed it, British Sugar.

Why would Theresa May and the Tory co want to legalise it? That'd mean competition, admitting you've been lying for years, and a big dent in your profits.

I have no doubt that as soon as the Tory government is out, we'll see actual progress (in many other areas too).

iDemonix··on What's the best keyboard and mouse you owned?
I contacted Logitech twice when it was discontinued, claiming mine was faulty, just to see if they'd let on they had spare stock - they didn't.
iDemonix··on What's the best keyboard and mouse you owned?
Logitech MX518 (mouse).

I bought it for gaming as I was using a 400DPI free Dell mouse I had, I didn't realise what a difference it could make. They sadly stopped making it, I emailed Logitech pretending mine had broken to see if they had any internal stock but I got nowhere. I bought a Logitech G400S for work which is pretty close, but it's not the same.

iDemonix··on Ask HN: What is the one quote that you carry around in your head all the time?
"You're not here for a long time, you're here for a good time"
iDemonix··on Ask HN: Have you seen godaddy's latest dark pattern?
I've used NameCheap for 10 years and never had any real problems apart from some API features missing.
iDemonix··on Playing battleships over BGP
I was only annoyed by 'interger' in one of the diagrams, but other than that a great article - I'll admit I didn't know the proper title of the game!
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