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sfaruqueon Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list

The web view looks great, with a "week planner" feel to it. I instantly got it and started adding some items to it.

But with the mobile and Mac app (haven't tried the iPad app yet), it shows a "list type" view (not sure if that's the correct term).

Are you considering adding a "week planner" view to at least the Mac app?

sfaruqueon EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024

Thinking out loud if Apple would resort to making 2 versions of their iPhones? And then exclusively selling the USB-C version in the EU, and everywhere else giving the customers a choice.

sfaruqueon Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner

Any chance you’ll be releasing this on SetApp too (like TaskPaper)?

sfaruqueon Why build another website builder?

> what we desperately need is not more no-code builders, but a robust, DB-backed builder with an object-based workflow, and with code-behind for custom workflow logic

Have you looked at PHPMaker?

https://phpmaker.dev/features.php

sfaruqueon What is the best dumb TV?

I find the microwaves with dials just last longer, and they are usually cheaper. In my experience, the touch pads on the digital ones breakdown faster.

sfaruqueon Scraping Roger Ebert’s reviews and finding his favorite movies on Amazon Prime

There used to be a site call ClerkDogs.com that probably had the best movie recommendation system I've used. You started off naming a few movies you liked, and it would provide a list of movies you'd also probably like, and it was very accurate.

From what I remember, the database was cataloged and maintained by actual humans, and not some algorithm following behavior patterns.

sfaruqueon Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

Idea for the developer to consider: Pro version generates a long list and checks if the domain name is available.

sfaruqueon Ask HN: Paid app to free and Patreon?

Have you considered contacting the people behind Setapp (https://setapp.com/developers)

sfaruqueon Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking

Just an observation: Why aren't Lyft's employees using Lyft's ride-sharing service to get to work?

I know that's not the point of the article, but if your company owns ~25% of the market share [1], wouldn't it make more sense to instead give your employees "Lyft credits" (or whatever it's called), and have them use the service on a near-daily basis.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/06/13/uber-mar...

sfaruqueon Backblaze B2 Drops Download Pricing by 60%

Hi Gleb,

I'm about to sign up for the B2 Cloud Storage, just noticed a tiny typo in the "Keep costs down" section on https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html:

"...the fist 1 GB of downloads per day are free."

sfaruqueon Ask HN: Do you still use UML?

If I must use UML, I prefer using Yuml (http://yuml.me) to generate them.

Easy to use, allows you to "code" the UML structure in a simple template language, and the output looks rather nice.

sfaruqueon Maps Connect

It seems like it's only for the United States at the moment.

sfaruqueon OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

I'm curious, why should I delete /usr/local/Cellars?

sfaruqueon Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries

Any suggestions for something similar with CodeIgniter or even native PHP?

sfaruqueon Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

I'm getting transfer speeds of ~970KB/s (checking using iStat). Averaging nearly 1MB/s isn't bad, but I'm curious, could this go faster?

sfaruqueon Virtual Reality is going to change the world

New word learned -

Strident stri·dent strīdnt/Submit adjective 1. loud and harsh; grating. "his voice had become increasingly sharp, almost strident"

synonyms: harsh, raucous, rough, grating, rasping, jarring, loud, shrill, screeching, piercing, ear-piercing

sfaruqueon The complete guide to centering a div

I'm curious, why did they remove the <center> tag? What was wrong with it?

sfaruqueon Being Ridden by the Witch: Sleep Paralysis Is the Greatest Nightmare

I've found that attempting to roll your tongue while this occurs tends to lift the sleep paralysis. No idea why this works though.

sfaruqueon Tell-all telephone – Six months of phone metadata visualized

Slight off-topic question: I want to collect my own metadata at this level (for just calls and SMS)?

From what I can tell I need to collect:

- List of all incoming and outgoing calls and SMS

- Get my location data and match them to the timestamp (?) of the calls and SMS's

- Display this on a map.

Any suggestions on how to do this?

sfaruqueon Zynga Shuts Down OMGPOP One Year After Acquiring It For $200M

Are you referencing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760583

sfaruqueon Vim Adventures

First of all, awesome concept. This might just force me to stop using nano all the time.

I'm curious though as to why the developer chose to limit the license to 6 months when charging a flat ~$5 per month might be easier to sell?

sfaruqueon Augmented Reality in a Contact Lens

This reminds me of a Futurama episode: http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/EyePhone

sfaruqueon Physicists Build World’s First “Magnetic Hose” For Transmitting Magnetic Fields

Could this mean that a "magentic hose" built really tall, be used to launch objects into space?

sfaruqueon Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Generator

The About page, http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php, doesn't say much on how this was done. So far, I see a pattern in the writing style with a lot of:

An interesting thought occurred to me today—what if X_Profession sat down with ordinary people like you and me and ironed out some real solutions to our Y_Issue crisis?

But does anyone know how the rest of it was generated?

sfaruqueon Show HN: Webflow - Design responsive websites visually

Really interesting work. What about offering a hosted version, similar to what SqaureSpace offers?

sfaruqueon npm install firebase

Would it be possible to use both in tandem? Meteor for the app, Firebase for the data storage?

sfaruqueon Is TSA serious about letting people carry knives?

If the search for knives truly is the culprit that's clogging up screening lanes, maybe those who bring them should be fined.

This single sentence could potentially solve the entire problem. By having a financial penalty, instead of just confiscating the problematic item, would force people to reconsider what is and isn't allowed.

sfaruqueon HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks

I'm working on writing a guide on how to use localStorage to publish on www.localstorage.org.

Should I include a part about the possible abuses?

sfaruqueon Google Flights

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support Asia yet.

sfaruqueon Letter to TEDx India Licensees

I was going to make the same comment. The 100 attendee limit is very hard to do in a country where 1,000s would be willing to attend. Maybe, and this is really just back-of-napkin-math, if the limit was 0.00001 of the total population?