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illektr1k

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illektr1k··on Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
You guys might enjoy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-default_theory
illektr1k··on Tesla’s big battery in South Australia may prove the viability of renewables
I, for one, can't wait for SI Units and their prefixes (Kilo / Mega / Giga / etc) to be adopted globally.

129MWh / 10GWh / 1M people / 12.5G people

illektr1k··on Libor: the bankers who fixed the world’s most important number
I use SMS Backup + [1] which saves all my text messages to my Google account allowing me to easily search and archive. It's followed me through android phones for many years, automagically installing as I sign-in for the first time on each 'new' device.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zegoggles....

illektr1k··on Flow vs. Typescript
Sublime TS support is top notch https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin
illektr1k··on Programmer's Nightmare – Ruby Prank
Along the same vein: Things to commit just before leaving your job - https://gist.github.com/aras-p/6224951
illektr1k··on A FAT32 fragmenter
Sometimes SysAdmins need relax time too!

https://xkcd.com/303/

illektr1k··on Show HN: Artful for Mac
Not the OP, but as a dev I can not thank you enough for your post/feedback. Highlighting areas where the project can be improved is infinitely more useful than getting told the project is "awesome" or even worse "somebody else, who is not me, would buy this" - neither of which improve my project or give me cashflow.
illektr1k··on Show HN: QKSMS, an SMS replacement app for Android
Any plans for Pushbullet integration? EvolveSMS is pretty fragile but the only one that supports it at the moment.

https://www.pushbullet.com/

http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/06/10/pushbullet-and-evolv...

illektr1k··on DMCA Takedown Notice for Popcorn Time and Time4Popcorn
If only git were good at that already...

>> Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency

illektr1k··on [dead]
No such thing as bad publicity. You've got tamber.com, time to start getting your product out there and leverage off Rdio's less-than-friendly choice of product name.
illektr1k··on Servo – A parallel browser engine in Rust by Mozilla
I will be the first to admit to having a soft-spot for any program that will quote H.P. Lovecraft on abort/error.

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/libstd/rt/ut...

illektr1k··on Ask HN: What are you using as an Angular backend?
NodeJS + Express.

I've had some good mileage out of SailsJS ( http://sailsjs.com/ ) recently, essentially it is a NodeJS + Express stack with Socket.io and prebuilt ORM/blueprints. Up and running in a matter of minutes and behind the scenes it is still just NodeJS/Express

illektr1k··on Why do you do open source?
Because I can fix bugs.

Years ago, I found a replicatable bug in Adobe Photoshop (CS2?) that required me to delete my config everytime and set PS up how I liked it. Adobe's acknowledgement took two weeks, then a month of triage, followed by a "Yes, we'll have it fixed in the new version when it ships. You can pre-order an upgrade for only $lots" and new version shipped 6 months later.

Yesterday I found a bug in a framework I use. Within 2 hours I'd found the line of source code responsible, fixed it and was on my way again.

illektr1k··on How To Hire Me (or any other programmer)
If you give me a few seconds of your time to say thanks, I probably won't mind spending a few minutes staying late to get a task completed.
illektr1k··on Ask HN: Any advice for someone getting out of prison after 18 years?
Step 1) Get a laptop

Step 2) Start a GitHub account

Step 3) Write code

I care a lot more about what people have created than what they have done in their past lives.

illektr1k··on Crazy investment offers
"I have a great idea for an iPhone app. You'd develop it and we'll go 50/50"

<cue communal groans>

illektr1k··on Visualization of Flask Commit History (vid)
Any info about who made the visualisation?