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joao··on Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
Congratulations! From time to time I visit your website and consider applying when between jobs but never did. Might try this year :)
joao··on OS9Map
Laptop wise: it's a PowerBook G4 1Ghz 15', Titanium model. Desktop: PowerMac G4 Tower, MDD version.
joao··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
I'm among the first 6000 users of Instagram and my first name username was stolen a few years ago. Support for verified accounts acknowledged the issue, but couldn't do anything about it.

This turn was an AI exploit, in my case was an outsourcing support 'exploit', where someone paid for my username to be manually changed and given to another user. There will always be a way to get access to accounts if human accountable support doesn't exist, with criminal consequences for employees that violate it.

joao··on Download responsibly
At a previous job, I was downloading daily legal torrent data when IT flagged me. The IT admin, eager to catch me doing something wrong, burst into the room shouting with management in tow. I had to calmly explain the situation, as management assumed all torrenting was illegal and there had been previous legal issues with an intern pirating movies. Fortunately, other colleagues backed me up.
joao··on macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]
Reminded of the origin story of making Mac OS X Unix certified: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...
joao··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
Understood, thank you!
joao··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
Customer here, from previous versions. Could you expand on the reasoning of not offering an upgrade price? Is it just to messy nowadays on the technical side, especially with the Mac App Store?

Will be upgrading in the future, congratulations on the launch!

joao··on Launch HN: Resend (YC W23) – Email API for developers using React
Resend is, or at least at launch was, using SES as their email provider.
joao··on Migrating from AWS to Fly.io
Would love this also.

The best option I could find was using Digital Ocean Managed Databases. The cheapest costs $15, but you can host multiple databases with good insights and backups. You can choose where you host it, and place it close to the region where youre Fly.io apps are, with low latency.

Only caveat is there isn't an easy way to automatically update the IPs whitelist of the database, to support the Fly builder and deployed app(s).

joao··on I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard
This requirement is weird. Not everyone upgrades to the latest macOS version and lots of people still prefer to run macOS 10.x.
joao··on DALL·E 2 and The Origin of Vibe Shifts
This change was more due to the iOS 7 flat redesign, than to what the author proposes.

A design trend, where it became fashionable to have a flat design supported by illustration/iconography, further away from skeumorphism, which photography was more close to.

joao··on Apple announces 27-inch 5K Studio Display
Fine print: only compatible with macOS Monterey 12.3 or later.

Perhaps only spatial audio and some camera features won't be compatible with older macOS versions. Waiting for the first reviews.

joao··on Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Workers Sites for 2x Performance (2020)
One of the few grips I have with the more recent Cloudflare Pages is that the build times sometimes are 10x slower than Netlify.

If you need to perform a fast update or rollback, it does take its time.

joao··on Ask HN: Which abandoned proprietary software would you resurrect?
Macromedia/Adobe Director
joao··on “Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design
A video trailer for the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkskY9bL9Bk
joao··on A Review of the Amazon Books Store
bookdepository.com is also owned by Amazon, since 2011. It's hard to escape their grasp on the market.
joao··on Apple Delays Release of WatchOS 2 Due to Bug
I believe you are referring to 10.5 (Leopard), but you are correct. 10.4 (Tiger) was released in 2005.
joao··on OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation
Do happen to have Adobe software installed? Perhaps something from Creative Cloud. It usually checks for updates at 2am, might be what its turning on your Mac from sleep.

You will have to disabling automatic updates for that not to occur.

joao··on Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X
Another person here willing to contribute. SequelPro is really the best database client I've used, even though it might be considered 'spartan'/simple.

Panic (http://panic.com) gave the app a new icon, as they are using the source-code in their Coda application (http://panic.com/coda) MySQL client.

joao··on Apple’s Mac App Store to Open on January 6
Curious that instead of saying 'desktop apps' Steve Jobs refers to them as 'PC apps'. Twice in the same sentence.
joao··on Gitbox 1.0 released: a version control app for Mac
There seems to be also another git client coming out this month: http://www.git-tower.com/ — Git Tower

The UI seems a little bit more confusing, not something simple. I still use GitX.

joao··on Joyent's Node SmartMachine Rollout This Morning - Announced on JSConf
The best answer I could find, along with instruction to do some things, was at the Joyent wiki: http://wiki.joyent.com/node:faq

Regarding specs of the service offered, it just says: I need more memory or disk! "As part of our beta service we have one size Node Smart Machine available. In our tests so far, few developers have hit those limits. If you are running out of disk or memory send a message to support@joyent.com or try running Node on a standard SmartOS Smart Machine."

joao··on Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
Here's a photo of Steve Jobs using Concurrence when he returned to Apple, in the late 90s: http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/life/5-1995-1999/08-pr...

Notice that even if he was at a keynote, selling to the world Mac OS 9 and new iMacs, he personally used a PC laptop running a version of NeXT/OpenStep and the software that was sold to Sun. They eventually hired the same developers to build Keynote.

joao··on Foursquare.com now all on Lift, in Scala
PHP
joao··on Introducing Atlas: A Visual Development Tool for Creating Web Apps
I believe the $20 fee is only for access to the beta program. My understanding is that you will have to buy Atlas when the final version comes out, and they haven't disclosed the price of it.
joao··on Daytum: beautifully-designed site for tracking personal statistics
This type of applications reminds me a bit of the Moodstats — http://moodstats.com , from way back in 2001 (if I recall correctly).

Built by the Cuban Council - http://cubancouncil.com - in Macromedia Director.

joao··on Why I think Apple's Launching a Record Label
Apple already allows you, if you are an artist, to submit yourself for consideration to be featured in the iTunes Music Store.

Many, not label signed, indie bands alreay do this. They go through a similar process as the app store aproval, and yes, many are refused.

Not mentioning this process in his post, the author shows how he doesn't know what he is writing about really well.

joao··on Apple said to be building $1 billion server farm
Apple is already in the CDN business, they invested in Akamai in 1999.
joao··on Cuil on Business Week list of most successful companies of 2008
This is what spending money on marketing people with connections gets you.

But not saying this how it should be done, I would probably invest that money in getting a better product and thus users - a better strategy in the long haul.

joao··on Ask HN: slicehost-like providers outside the US?
http://gandi.net - totally recomended, located in France
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