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lozzo··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
+1. Reading your answer made me think you were talking about me. Except I had a TI99/4A, and "Daaaad" was my real google. My circles were probably slower and more pixelated
lozzo··on Show HN: Invoking web APIs as if they were JavaScript methods
ok, makes more sense now. well done.
lozzo··on Show HN: Invoking web APIs as if they were JavaScript methods
Could you put an example of a real web API (maybe the github API) and show how you would call it with your library ?
lozzo··on Show HN: Timestamp Microservice
Simple and nice. More than useful per se, I think it's a clever example on how to use glitch well done
lozzo··on Show HN: A Chrome Extension that blocks Facebook completely
timely
lozzo··on FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says
You made your point very clear. Thanks. I concur.
lozzo··on Show HN: Ever wish HN could be sorted by upvotes?
very good. If I were you I would add a few bits of explanation in the comments about its usage. e.g.

// go to http://news.ycombinator.com/show // copy this script in chrome console // execute it // see the result

// also say when it was last time that it was tested (e.g March 2018) // it might not work in a month or two

lozzo··on Show HN: Slidewriter.io – Create presentations as fast as you type
Well done. That looks such obvious evolution of those many online markup editors such as dillinger, https://stackedit.io/, https://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/ )

Well, not so obvious, after all because it never occurred to me up until I saw your site.

Again, very well done. I like also the catchy title "Create presentations as fast as you type"

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lozzo··on Show HN: I'm working on an easy way to add data to files. Thoughts?
my thoughts: I was looking for the way you handle exceptions. And found none. For me any enrichment API needs to be designed to handle exceptional case and make it easy to deal with them.

Say that during enrichment I might want to do some lookups what if one of them is not working...

lozzo··on Show HN: Summary Brew – Summaries for Top 300 HN Stories and Books
why not just a long long page (300 does not really need paging) ?
lozzo··on Show HN: GDXM (Global Digital Exchanges Monitor) Has Officially Launched
this looks interesting (although I am not to keen about cryptocurrencies myself) however I navigated your site and eventually I ended up to a link that says "Read More on Medium". I wanted to do so. but it did not send me there.
lozzo··on Show HN: Investment Calculator – A simple retirement calculator
Impressive. I imagine lots effort has been put into making the user interface as clean as possible. It's a pleasure to fiddle with the parameters and see the impact on the curves.

The only downside (for me at least) is that I live in UK. And my pension plan is not in $$$.

lozzo··on Ask HN: What foods do you eat to optimise brain function/problem solving skills?
dark chocolate (I recommend 85% cocoa or more)
lozzo··on Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
skype for business
lozzo··on Show HN: Jumprock.co – HTML Forms for Static Sites
It looks real good. but I don't get the catch: is it free service ? is there a guarantee on the time between the user posting the form and me receiving the email ? what if your site is down ?
lozzo··on Show HN: ThymeBox – Buy Time to Work on Your Open Source Project
Can you provide an example how you envisage this to work ? For example say I (mr lozzo) have an open source project on github. What would I do then ? Do I offer a 10$ to a developer who fixes a bug on my behalf through your service ?

very curious about your project but frankly there is not enough in your site to explain what's cooking

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lozzo··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
He was also a fascist to say the least of him. I would refrain from using any quote of him
lozzo··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
this is really brilliant. But is there a reason you sort the list from the oldest to the newest ? I think it would make sense to have it the other way around.

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lozzo··on Show HN: Check who, when and how is viewing your PDF
I could not find an explanation on how it works. How could you possibly know when I am opening your PDF file ? I presume opening your PDF file will trigger some kind of http / socket request to a site that you control. so how would you control companies'firewall ? and/or any other settings that could prevent my pdf reader to go online
lozzo··on OneLang – A tool to help writing code in multiple languages at the same time
it does not work on my first test:

My program is i=1 and the Java program it produces is:

class Program { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { i = 1; } }

which is wrong because "i" must be defined in java as in "int i;"

lozzo··on Show HN: Spendbook, a web app to track your expenses
my feedback: there is not enough explanation on how you would access my finances and hence I would be very wary on using it...
lozzo··on Show HN: I wrote “Cracking the UX interview” v0.1
Hi there, I followed the link and saw this on your web site:

How much time will it take me to read this book? The book has 158 pages, so it should take you about 3-4 hours. I value your time, so I worked hard to keep the noise-to-signal ratio high to make sure you can finish it over a weekend.

Well, unless I am getting this wrong, I think you mean the opposite. You want to keep the noise-to-signal ratio low !!!

you see, errors like those, discourage me from going any further with your book.

that said. Good luck with it.

lozzo··on Show HN: Web scraping page analyzer
why ? and how would you envisage authentication support to work ? (p.s. awesome tool guy...the clever part is to allow user the ability to describe their process via JavaScript. Hence a perfect DSL (domain specific language))
lozzo··on Show HN: My Weekend Project – Automatically determine date format string
just a suggestion but can we get a bit more than one page with a couple of fields ? It's okay to get straight to the point and being minimalistic but a few infos about the author and whether there is a github repo for the code... those things would help
lozzo··on Nocode: The best way to write secure and reliable applications
5 days later and this project has more than 1,000 stars. This is not funny anymore.
lozzo··on Show HN: Remote Desktop from any browser
yet another site which asks for your email before showing you anything. Just one page telling how incredible this is. But not even a page about the authors/makers and how the magic (not plugin required) works.
lozzo··on Show HN: Hacker101 – A Free Web Security Class
Very neat and straight to the point. I have bookmarked it.
lozzo··on Show HN: CorrelatePro – Visualize your investments
the end of your page says: '© 2017 CorrelatePro. All rights reserved.'

but it is 2018 now... and those litl things might matter to some... they do to me

lozzo··on Show HN: TechInterview.Club Hack Interviews by Studying Recently Asked Questions
Yet another site that you have to put your details before you can get a sense of what it is, what it does and whether it is worth it or not.
lozzo··on Show HN: Datasette Publish – Turn CSVs into a SQLite-Backed JSON API
this was a key answer to a good question. I think you should emphasize that part (handling large data sets) as a key aspect of datasette
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