pioul

I realize crypto winters aren't the times when there's the most attention directed to crypto. However I'd argue that it is when things are calm that it pays the most to analyze the situation, review one's strategy, get familiar with tools that allow to better understand your portfolio and overall markets – tools like Unspent.

I'm launching Unspent after starting working on it full time in 2018, and I'd love to hear what you think!

During 48 hours after posting this comment, I'll be offering a free year of Unspent Pro to everyone posting a comment here, so that you can try Unspent in its entirety. Note that even Free users have access to all features, since Unspent's goal is to help everyone in the ecosystem as much as possible, but Pro users unlock more advanced facets of some interesting features :)

Looking forward to your thoughts!

Location: Grenoble, France

Remote: Would prefer relocation, but ask anyway

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Full LAMP stack, and even larger affection for front-end tech (JS, HTML, CSS); will pick up the latest framework/library quickly

Particular interest for: Simplicity, UX, UI, design, performance, web standards

Résumé/CV: http://pioul.fr/up/CV-en.html

Email: In CV (+ GitHub + personal site)

Looking for: Interesting project with skilled and driven team to share with and learn from, on the web and ideally front side of things.

The mobile web app works great on desktop as well: https://m.timeline.com

Location: Grenoble, France

Remote: Would prefer relocation, but ask anyway

Willing to relocate: Yes, in France and English-speaking countries (preference for UK, US, Canada)

Technologies: Full LAMP stack, and even larger affection for front-end tech (JS, HTML, CSS); will pick up the latest framework/library quickly

Particular interest for: Simplicity, UX, UI, design, performance, web standards

Résumé/CV: http://pioul.fr/up/CV-en.html

Email: In CV (+ GitHub + personal site)

Looking for: Interesting project with skilled and driven team to share with and learn from, on the web and ideally front side of things.

> then at one point the cloud storage solutions truly become interchangeable

I remember one famous Steve saying to Drew Houston that Dropbox was a feature rather than a product. I'd say the need for such a thing as Dropbox made "Dropbox as a standalone product" possible, but in a world where every service starts having its own integrated "cloud" backup service, storage and sync do start looking like a feature.

That's kind of what I've found myself doing with multiple Chrome users.

Each project I'm working on is a different user, with a different set of open tabs, and separated cookies, allowing multiple sessions (e.g., Gmail accounts) to be open at the same time, one in each "project".

It looks definitely better than most proprietary car manufacturer software out there, but now that we're talking about extending smartphones' screens and features inside cars, something more interoperable would have been appreciated. It'll probably come later, just not from Apple.

    Also, putting the emphasis on voice control is great, but I'm really not sure Siri is up to the task.

    If I had to express my first opinion on Carplay, it'd be "new and shiny but probably not functional enough for it to *really* work as advertised".

Another related issue I've been having with the WP Store as a developer:

I made a WP7 app a while back to give a try, based on a site's API that has since been discontinued. Obviously, the app doesn't work anymore, since it was focused on content consumption from that API.

But since then, my developer license has expired. Even though I need to remove the app (somehow new users keep coming), the WP Store won't allow me to do so without an active developer license.

Too bad for the fooled users, I guess.

I believe most users seem to value simplicity over privacy, but actually do care about privacy. What's sad is that they don't get vocal enough about it until private information gets exposed.

Asking for SMS (read/send) permissions is a growing trend among mobile apps (Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Google Hangouts…).

Most of the time, they're here to make the app slightly more useful to the end user. But at the same time, you're potentially saying "yes" to a company who might, one day, use your most personal info for bleaker purposes.

It's thus something I've always been fighting against (at least at a personal level): I've stuck to the older, non-requiring-SMS-permissions version of these apps until I could upgrade to a version of Android with App Ops, then Cyanogen.

If SMS permissions is where you draw the line regarding your privacy, either run a version of Android with App Ops, or Cyanogen with Privacy Guard.

I find it sad that companies still think most users value simplicity over privacy.

I like how it can help dive into interesting open source code, as well as the look and feel of the app, but two things are holding me back:

- Like @padolsey, I do need some time to understand what I'm typing; I'm not sure practicing typing and learning from someone else's code are compatible

- More than code formatting, which has already been talked about, programming environments also have a direct impact on what characters need to be typed

So even though that tool stems from a blending of two great ideas (increasing code output, and learning from the best), I'm still pondering whether these two would be best left apart:

- Reading (and contributing to) someone else's code to learn from it

- Optimizing your coding environment to increase your output: great IDE/editor, clever shortcuts and auto-completion, custom snippets…

If you're going to play the "nice guy" card, don't offer the "scholarship" plan only to cheaters, while trying to guilt trip them along the way.

Letting people use your product for free if they can't afford it is certainly a nice thought, but then you should give that opportunity to everybody.

I meant the article I shared on HN, I didn't write it – so props to its author!

Hey, I actually just heard about CurrencyFair today (through the article I posted), and was surprised it didn't have a lot of news coverage thus far.

As a marketplace, reaching a critical number of users must be something to look forward to, even though I'd understand if you wanted to expand to select markets first (the article says 37% of your current users are in the UK, and 20% in Australia).

Since we're dropping links here and there, here's the also free and open source Markdown editor I created. It's also minimalist, and unflavored: http://markdown.pioul.fr/

The source is on GitHub: https://github.com/pioul/MinimalistOnlineMarkdownEditor

Yes, Ghost is, at least to me, superior in numerous ways, and especially for that awesome editor, but I also believe it depends on usage.

The concept and simplicity make me think of Ghost's (http://ghost.org/features/): free, open source, near-minimalist, and self-hosted.

The seemingly only advantage is that Dropplets doesn't require a database, and its landing page is amazingly beautiful, clear, and to the point (though Ghost's "features" page is slick as well).

On a more technical note, click events seem to be propagated up the player on the landing page, closing it when toggling HD for example.

A precedent has already been set a while ago with Google's calculator [1], Knowledge Graph [2] and whatnot.

Search engines' goal is to deliver information and services to their users as fast as possible. If they can provide those themselves, it's a win both for them and their users.

I wrote about it here: http://pioul.fr/dont-trust-search-engines-with-your-traffic

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=1%2B1

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=banana

Interesting analysis. This shift in the number of flagship products might also give a fresh start to the brand in the mind of iPhone users. Now that everybody has an iPhone, "Think different" might regain some credibility if you start using the new, more than good enough iPhone 5S.

You could alternatively use an online markdown editor (such as http://markdown.pioul.fr/). It'll wrap your paragraphs in <p> tags.

Additionally, since it uses the Markdown syntax, it might give you more than paragraphs if you use more than line breaks. (Have a look at the quick reference for more about the syntax.)

Edit: Didn't see your answer to @kybernetikos. I still think this could help you out. Also note that in HTML (what you'll get by adding <p> tags to your text), whitespace is collapsed (except inside <pre> tags)

I expect the Adwords ecosystem to auto-regulate itself instead of just deteriorating over time: the more people like you realize they have to pay more for less, the less they'll do so, leading to a decrease in prices until they're acceptable (profitable) again. Supply and demand, like you said.

I switched from Firefox to Chrome at about the same time as op.

But I can't relate to how he feels:

- Chrome still has better dev tools than Firefox

- Chrome doesn't freeze at all (while Firefox does when handling a lot of tabs)

- Chrome doesn't require to restart when installing an extension (even if Firefox starts moving to this too)

- I still prefer Chrome's UI

- Even though I didn't try syncing with Firefox, Chrome does that very nicely

That'd be nice. Is there a way to be notified when such a thing goes live (mailing list)? That'd be a shame if you didn't, seeing all the coverage you're having!

This definitely looks like a great piece of software.

However, I believe different services, hence different types of information, should have their own way of being displayed.

For example, seeing a one-line summary of an email doesn't appeal to me that much.

That's why I always prefer using the web app itself (or a dedicated extension in the case of Gmail).

Quite an old issue (2011), did anybody run the script to see if as many sites still publicly expose these files?

It surely looks beautiful, but how is that different (feature-wise) from Gmail?

That's a great idea, and I really like how it looks (and how usable it actually is for a first release).

The only flaw I see is that the most popular questions on SO are those with the most views and upvotes, thus those everyone can understand and appreciate the value of.

This is fine, but it also means that they're the ones most people already know the answer to.

That means I might not use your tool to learn more on subjects I already know a lot about, but it definitely looks like a good way to start learning a new one.

Would be interesting to get a statement from PG on that one, at least to explain what's so great about this company.

This might be what you're talking about https://www.gramicon.com/pages/howto, it was posted on HN a while ago

They talk about it here but it looks like Analytics isn't blocked anymore as of this morning: http://www.numerama.com/magazine/24672-free-ne-bloque-pas-qu... I updated the title consequently.