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maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Were people as skeptical in the early Internet days as of blockchain?
>What average person has a need for blockchain?

What average person had a need for internet in 1994 ? People don't used and don't use Internet as it, average joe use internet because of the applications running on it.

Pretty much the same things with blockchain tech

>I seriously don't get the comparison.

A blockchain is a public distributed database, internet was a decentralized public network

The trustlessness linked to the use of public blockchain is a major novelty in the tech world.

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Were people as skeptical in the early Internet days as of blockchain?
>The Internet was very clearly useful in many ways, from very early on.

I don't agree, take a look at this video from 1994:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVKRSsrIqpA

It's anecdotal, but people clearly had no idea of a use-case for internet, i.e a billboard ?

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Why is Stripe API documentation lacking so badly?
>it is lacking so much.

Stripe API documentation is the best i've ever seen, I really don't see what could be improved

Do you have any exemples in mind ?

maxencecornet··on Ask HN: As a dev (not investor) which crypto$$$ are you most enthusiastic about?
OmiseGo, can't wait to try out the wallet SDK
maxencecornet··on Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
Amazing read
maxencecornet··on Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk
mmm Yeah, it was true like 5 years ago

Tech moves fast, you know ?

maxencecornet··on Starbucks cafe's wi-fi made computers mine crypto-currency
HTTPS or not, the mining script will work
maxencecornet··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
Wow those guys are fast

They're pretty good at scaling to meet that crazy demand

maxencecornet··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
Nothing new, markets are never rational
maxencecornet··on Litecoin and Ethereum buys and sells are temporarily disabled
So what ? It's not the first time it happened with Coinbase, and probably not the last
maxencecornet··on What was your best passive income in 2017?
My cryptocurrency information website is finally taking off the ground, after months of netting $30-40/month, it's going to reach 500$ this month. Weirdly enough,I'm not even adding content right now, as I am working on a freelance project
maxencecornet··on How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
Have you tried exodus wallet ? It's UX/UI is really good, I mean for a crypto wallet

>UX on cryptocurrency software seems absolutely terrible even today

I still have nightmares about multibit UX, it was horrible

maxencecornet··on How I recovered cryptocurrency from a broken laptop
>I remember lively discussions with friends circa 2012. None of us bought. We'd be centi-millionaires?

Most people talked about it, few did buy. But the feeling when you've bought and lost the ability to recover your wallet is even worse then not having bought some !

I actually did buy some, but lost my wallet, like so many

I know my adress, and the coins are still there, but I can't do anything about it, not idea where my backup wallet.dat is..

I mean, it's pretty tough to keep track of your digital assets for years, while your mind in thinking about work, friends ect..

maxencecornet··on Show HN: Merchant.js, a state framework for creating idle games
The live example is broken right now
maxencecornet··on Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts
I was looking for something like this

Thanks !

maxencecornet··on Show HN: No Coin – A browser extension to block coin miners
>How long until porn sites start doing mining in the background?

How long have porn sites being doing mining in the background ?

Remember that porn sites are always the front line of innovation on the web, some are probably already doing it

maxencecornet··on Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner
>And post / re-post: "I tried that crypto-coin ad alternative thing and you won't believe these results!" ;-)

Haha, according to what I've gathered for the few past hours, it seems that ads are still way more viable. But I'll write my conclusions in 3 days

maxencecornet··on Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner
It's actually using webassembly if available, otherwise it fallbacks on asm.js

>If true, the miner will always use the asm.js implementation of the hashing algorithm. If false, the miner will use the faster WebAssembly version if supported and otherwise fall back to asm.js. The default is false.

Source : https://coin-hive.com/documentation/miner

maxencecornet··on Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner
I will !
maxencecornet··on Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner
I'll try it right now on a website with 1k visits per day, with 40 seconds session average.

I will report back in a few days

maxencecornet··on Some publishers are fighting AMP with “View Full Experience” link
>If there is one thing that is reliant on JS it is AMP.

...? AMP literally remove JS scripts from the served page..

maxencecornet··on AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
>and my self hosted, non evil, non JS ads were blocked again.

It's crazy that ad blockers would block self-hosted, non-js images ads, I mean, there's no tracking associated with it, it doesn't make any sense IMO

What kind of traffic allowed you to live of Adsense? Millions hits a day? Or very targeted traffic with high CPC maybe?

maxencecornet··on AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don't Have To
AdNauseam is just not a good approach to malware/ads/surveillance blocking.

The creators clearly haven't been on both side of the ads spectrum: As content creators and intrusive ads blockers

They don't know the inside of this market enough, they don't know what happens when a website get it's ads clickbombed

Some websites really have no other way to finance themselves other then using ads, and use not intrusive ads network and AdNauseam will just get them banned

AdNauseam is just about wrecking avok publishers revenues by getting them banned from ads networks, so like always, it's the small publishers that will get punished, and not the big shit ads companies.

Buzzfeed-like companies will find a way to counter AdNauseam,they have the ressources for it, but not the smaller tech blogger that you like reading

I wrote something about it a few months ago:

https://medium.com/@MaxenceCornet/please-consider-carefully-...

I'll stick to ublock.

If you hate ads but like some content, stick to ads blockers as well

maxencecornet··on Mailgun Becomes an Independent Company
>We were having some deliveribilty issues with Office365 just putting everything in the Junk Mail no matter what we were trying. I found a write up on the issue from someone else who had the same issue and the solution (for them) was basically, pay Mailgun for a dedicated IP. It was going to be a tough pill to swallow because we send, MAYBE, 200 emails a month (they're basically for password resets and such, not mailing list blasts). Their support basically refused to take my money and switched us to a different sending server that day and our emails were no longer hitting the junk folder within possibly less than two hours of first contact with their support.

I literally went through the same problem, and they did the same thing for me, they didn't accept money for a dedicated IP

It seems that spammers are using their free tier to send spam emails, and because of that, some of their non-dedicated IP range are listed as spam by Office365/google

maxencecornet··on Sweden proposes ban on ride-sharing services that make profits
That's insane, when you know that this is exactly the buisness model of one of France's largest, if not the largest, tech company Blablacar
maxencecornet··on Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
Meteor made me way productive
maxencecornet··on Adblock Plus now sells ads
I though uBlock point was to be CPU/ram efficient ?

That's even what they show in the chrome/firefox store images, it doesn't make much sense to me that it adds several seconds to Firefox startup time

Am I missing something ?

maxencecornet··on Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications
Congrats it looks great ! I'll give it a try !

When do you think mysql integration will be added ? Anytime soon ?

maxencecornet··on Show HN: Materia – A modern dev environment to build mobile and web applications
Wow, that's weird
maxencecornet··on Ask HN: Suggest Some Websites Related to Internet Privacy and Net Neutrality
If you can speak/read french,

La quadrature du Net are amazing, it's a non profit fighting for net neutrality. They're pretty huge and very active

https://www.laquadrature.net/fr

EDIT : I actually just discovered that the website is also translated in english :

https://www.laquadrature.net/en

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