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zbuttram··on Linux Market Share on Desktop
I use it pretty much every day and it's very nice, especially for free. They've had their fair share of bugs, but patches come out pretty quick. Still interested in looking at Tower's new Windows version at some point, but I have a feeling I might stick with GitKraken on all platforms.
zbuttram··on Show HN: A Hacker News demo in NX, with real-time updates and animations
Definitely still a problem here on the US west coast. Also: https://www.dynstatus.com/
zbuttram··on Search Ads
So instead of ads you want a system where random relevant apps are floated to the top of searches? How is that helpful for anyone?

Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like Apple is only doing what every other search system with embedded ads at the top does.

zbuttram··on Search Ads
I wouldn't think so, not if they're saying a percentage of all downloads come from search, as opposed to a percentage of all searches lead to a download.
zbuttram··on AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go
Same here. I recommend making friends with some designers or looking around at pre-customized versions of Bootstrap. I also spent some time looking for this: http://jgthms.com/web-design-in-4-minutes/ One of my favorite sites for this type of conversation.
zbuttram··on AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go
Wappalyzer (https://wappalyzer.com/) tells me they're using Bootstrap (http://getbootstrap.com/) (probably customized a bit). HTML isn't very difficult (just another markup language) and if you're not inclined toward design (I am also not) there are a plethora of CSS frameworks to choose from (like Bootstrap) that will get you up and running with something not completely ugly. Personally I like Bulma (http://bulma.io/) right now which showed up (I think as a Show HN) on here a while back. Currently using it for a project and I'm enjoying it.
zbuttram··on Jumpsuit – React/Redux made simple
Of course I find out about this right after deciding on MobX for our latest project since my coworker was having trouble with Redux. I think this would have saved it, looks great.
zbuttram··on Sophos – Forward Secure Searchable Encryption
Same name as a fairly well-known security company in the IT channel (e.g. Symantec). https://www.sophos.com/en-us.aspx
zbuttram··on Tell HN: New features and a moderator
Looks like this means HN's JavaScript is no longer just a single short script tag's worth. Definitely welcome changes, and thanks to those involved.
zbuttram··on SSD Failures in Datacenters
That link seems equally dead. You might have it in cache still?
zbuttram··on Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands
Seems like he means the Google app on iOS, so this would be the Google app telling him to use the Google Calendar app in theory.
zbuttram··on Show HN: “OK Google” – Explore Google Now voice commands
Siri does kind of do a similar thing, to her a reminder is in the reminders app, you have to actually say alarm or timer if you want an alarm or a timer in the clock app, might be something similar with Google Now?
zbuttram··on Dwarf Fortress Development
True enough, and if you're into watching interesting people play games on video there's a lot of content to be had and DF is usually a fairly interesting watch since it can be relatively unpredictable at a certain point. There was one excellent guy I had bookmarked a long time ago, but I lost that set of bookmarks a while back.
zbuttram··on Harvey OS – A Fresh Take on Plan 9
That's pretty much what people do with containers.
zbuttram··on Pastejacking
The problem being that with this particular vulnerability, you do get the correct text in your clipboard initially, it's just overridden less than a second later.
zbuttram··on Pastejacking
I have seen sites that have pages where you're placed in a queue (for whatever reason) and if you leave the page you will be dropped from the queue, so it's nice to have something preventing you from accidentally leaving, but that's the only legitimate use I can think of.
zbuttram··on Pastejacking
The author noted that iTerm on MacOS notifies when a paste that's about to happen contains a newline. Cmder on Windows does this as well, it's a nice feature even outside of the security concerns.
zbuttram··on Ask HN: What is wrong with Twitter?
Lists are still my favorite part of Twitter, but you're right, they have it hidden away. I prefer to use Twitter clients that let me view and edit my lists easily like TweetDeck and Tweetbot. I hardly ever load up twitter.com anymore.
zbuttram··on Ask HN: What is wrong with Twitter?
Twitter's list creation feature seems to be underutilized by most people also.

Having lists of people I follow (or even some that I don't, but are still in one of my lists) categorized by things like 'Tech News' and 'Video Games' and keeping them relatively small and focused is exactly the way I prefer to use Twitter, especially with clients that make viewing and editing lists easy like TweetDeck and Tweetbot.

zbuttram··on Nikola Motor Company
That feels a bit low, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's under 10%.
zbuttram··on Two Years Open Source
Curious what problems you have with the autocomplete. I haven't had any serious issues with it (yet).
zbuttram··on Two-factor authentication for Apple ID
Seems like this is Apple's current explanation:

> Yes. Two-factor authentication is a new service built directly into iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. It uses different methods to trust devices and deliver verification codes, and offers a more streamlined user experience. The current two-step verification feature will continue to work separately for users who are already enrolled.

Wish they would expound a bit more...

zbuttram··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
Someone mentioned below that lodash had some breaking changes related to the padding functions a couple times, which could be a totally valid reason to avoid using those. I was under the impression that the lodash API was more stable than to have that kind of thing happening.
zbuttram··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
Damn, yeah, that's a totally valid reason. I was under the impression that lodash was more stable than to have that kind of stuff happen.
zbuttram··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
Some of the libraries people were mentioning broke yesterday already have lodash as dependencies, I have no idea why they wouldn't have just been using this...
zbuttram··on NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
So many people use lodash as a drop-in standard addon library that I'm surprised people aren't just using the padding functions that are right in there... Some of the packages that broke yesterday even have lodash included as dependencies already!
zbuttram··on CoreUtils implemented in pure JavaScript
I believe they are doing code analysis, at least that's what the README for Rollup says:

> Rollup statically analyses your code, and your dependencies, and includes the bare minimum in your bundle.

zbuttram··on Show HN: Zube 1.0 – Powerful project management for GitHub Issues
>> Zube’s GitHub integration allows you to fully manage your issues, labels, and milestones, whereas Waffle’s less complete integration does not.

Meaning labels and milestones can be created from Zube instead of being limited to just applying already existing labels and milestones like Waffle? Can multiple repos be combined into a single board like Waffle?

zbuttram··on Free React.js Fundamentals Course
Tyler's course on egghead.io was amazing, can't recommend his content enough.
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