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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Help with Cloudflare/Google Catch-22 hell

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pippinbarr.github.io 6y ago

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Twine

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medium.com 8y ago

Real Time Human Pose Estimation in the Browser with Tensorflow JS

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vectordash.com 8y ago

The world's simplest cloud GPU provider for deep learning

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Industrial (durable) laptops with matte screen and without manufacturer malware?

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Game of Drones – Detecting Streamed POI from Encrypted FPV Channel

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Voice.Google.com insecure connection

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

It's Just Emulation – The Challenge of Selling Old Games

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Narrative Dungeon Design

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

If a Hacker can edit download link, they can edit your SHA256 hash

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Admob Payments Site Down, Unable to Contact Support

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Help, Google Admob can't create payments

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

How American Game Companpies Avoid Paying Income Tax

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Do upvoted subcomments push their Parent up?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Macbook Pro Light Just Came on in Gmail.com

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chinafilminsider.com 9y ago

Foreignes Barred from Live Streaming on Chinese Apps

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

CCCen YouTube account terminated

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

iOS Games Now Require Government License in China

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starbase.jpl.nasa.gov 10y ago

Planetary Data Backup System

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quantumproductions.github.io 10y ago

2 Ships Shooting in HTML5

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

HN Feature Request: Add Comment header has link to home page

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Great personal portfolios on GitHub Pages?

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www.ny1.com 10y ago

Hotel Gives Guests a Serving of Virtual Reality with ‘VRoom Service’

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www.reddit.com 10y ago

How to scam Amazon customers out of 100k a year

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Is it possible to overwhelm a web-crawler with infinite links?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: I'm looking for the self-proclaimed “last private web hosting” site

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Tool for giving feedback on websites?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Why does OS X Preview have print protection?

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dcentproject.eu 11y ago

D4.4 Technical Design of Social Currency [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: How can I trust a site's .asc key to not be compromised?

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Touch screens are awful for operating while you focus elsewhere. I miss touch typing and I sure like adjusting car controls without looking away. What's that, trust driverless cars you say? Never, and the basilisk be damned.

That's mostly it. Personally I find Elixir's syntax confusing. For example:

Losing the ; and . function endings from Erlang you can put same-named functions throughout your module. I tried doing

def create def handle(:create)

def update def handle(:update)

But the compiler warns. So that loss isn't helpful.

Atoms require a : because variable names are lowercase.

Uppercase variable names and lowercase module names is easier to read in Erlang.

The syntactic sugar is too clever for readability imo.

The package management through mix is decent. I used to use an erlang.mk file, looking at hex it looks like the Erlang ecosystem is quite evolved.

Phoenix + Ecto seem to be very actively maintained, useful if you're writing web apps.

When I tried Cowboy a few years ago some of the documentation was out of date, so that's a point in Elixir's favor.

Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.

I pointed out that a couple of the phrases in the contract, when combined, indicated they would have IP rights to EVERYTHING I did not just work they paid me for.

They moved on to another candidate.

Looped in with IP Infringement, regulated or illegal products and services > Adult content and services Pornography and other obscene materials (including literature, imagery and other media); sites offering any sexually-related services such as prostitution, escorts, pay-per view, adult live chat features > Products or services that are otherwise prohibited by our financial partners Video game or virtual world credits Sale of in-game currency unless the merchant is the operator of the virtual world

I would believe this, were it not that the google voice app continues to break in new ways version to version. The latest loads a little faster and isn't freezing as much (still a 10 second load, better than a 40 seconds of nothing). But now when I reply to messages? 19/20 messages I've tried to send through GV show "Message failed to send".

Their UX continues to g et worse. Google Voice on iOS has had 10-20 second lag (no joke) on older versions of iOS (used to be jus fine!) for 1-2 years now. One previous version of GV in particular froze for 10 seconds on your first key press, now I can't rely on it to open properly, or send messages. It seems intentionally sabotaged.

I heard employees quit when G merged the YT with "real name" accounts.

Personally I've had a real pain getting support for android development. Wrong and misleading documentation, rude forum moderators, no way to report a bug (they have a bug where Payments page will show errors -- in Incognito Chrome) -- on the admob site. Solution was to sign up for Adwords (how could I tell?) and check the page in Safari or sign into Adwords on Chrome. Shit documentation. Help your developers earn you money better, Google. And stop changing your UI. It looks like they have low-tier coders who get hired with not enough power to rock the boat so they roll out a UI re-vamp no one wants without bothering to fix systemic problems that repeatedly kill products, break products and have a completely INSULTING policy towards their developers. Admob: "You can't even complain to us without earning enough money.. here's a phone number.. it literally never connects." Why even bother? I interpret that they hate me. The feeling is mutual.

Yep. And Google Voice runs horribly on iOS.. 20 second lag time to check messages, no joke. Earlier versions would freeze at the beginning of each character you type.

Makes me wonder if companies aren't just slowing down their competitors..