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CD1212··on Ask HN: DigitalOcean IPs added to UCEPROTECTL3 Spam list and they want money?
I've just been alerted to this same issue. I have a site hosted with DigitalOcean (ie. the domain A records resolve there) and use G-Suite for my emails. Would this affect the reputation of my emails, simply because the domain is associated with the blacklist. Surely unless I was trying to send emails from the DigitalOcean server itself, it wouldn't make any difference?
CD1212··on Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions
Oh dear. That's a shame.

I came here to post a comment asking if it was an Electron app. Hopefully Electron's overhead can become lighter in the future making useful applications like this less bloated.

CD1212··on Things to know before using AWS’s Elasticsearch Service
Does anyone have any experience of Compose.io's hosted Elasticsearch offering?

I have been using it on a new project the last couple of weeks and it seems to be working well.

CD1212··on The Macintosh in 1984
Having been born 9 years after 1984, I look at this and think how little desktop operating system GUI's have changed in 32 years. The same menus, windows, icons are all still very familiar, albeit with more visual 'eye candy' nowadays.
CD1212··on Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible'
I thought the latest Visual Studio was built with WPF and therefore C#. Is that not correct?
CD1212··on Show HN: A ReactJS Grid Component with infinite scroll, customization, and more
I have used Reactable (https://github.com/glittershark/reactable) in a recent project and was extremely happy with it. The design was very customizable and the sorting / search functionality I needed was available.
CD1212··on Mailchimp's pricing
Yes, for a new project setting up a custom delivery infrastructure seemed pointless. This is something I would like to remedy in the future though.

Thank you for signing up! I hope you find it useful.

CD1212··on Mailchimp's pricing
Sorry for the shameless plug: I have been developing my own email marketing platform, primarily because I felt that the editor to create emails of some large providers was not easy enough for many people to use.

I haven't posted it to HN before, and so far have only shown it to friends and clients. Please sign up (free trial) and see what you think?

https://emailhamster.com/

CD1212··on Python trademark at risk in Europe
Since anyfoo suggested contacting Google, it may be worthwhile contacting GCHQ [1] (they are the UK intelligence / code breaking agency). It is a very possible that they use Python internally. Since they are public sector rather than private sector it may not be of much help, but it is just an idea. Hope it helps!

[1]: http://www.gchq.gov.uk/

CD1212··on A month after switching to Macs
I have found there to be positives of each although I love my mac for 99.9% of daily usage.

The straw that broke the camel's back in my switch was Rails development, which I just found impossible on windows. I had a mess of msys, msysgit, cygwin, and the default ruby installed which meant a simple bundle install took more than 3 mins.

You have to be open minded when switching to be able to fully appreciate the differences.

CD1212··on You can now create files on GitHub
I think it is a great decision on where to place the create new file button, it seems obvious when you see it but is such a simple solution. Or is it just me?

When I read their tweet I was interested to see how they had integrated it with everything else. Off the top of my head I couldn't think of an ideal place without the whole UX feeling clunky. Well done Github!

CD1212··on PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe
I am from the UK and just finished integrating Spreedly Core with a site I developed on Friday. It was a painless process and made interfacing with the traditional merchant account much easier. I would highly recommend it!
CD1212··on GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
I just got an email from GoDaddy beginning: 'Todays Lesson -...'. I thought this might go into their service being down, backups or failover protection.

But no, it carried on to: 'Today's Lesson - SAVINGS! 20% OFF*'

CD1212··on Lessons in website security anti-patterns by Tesco
I think this is a common trait of many large businesses. Recently I reset my Virgin Media password, only to receive an email with my password in plaintext right there.

I considered writing / emailing but didn't think it would do much good.

CD1212··on Gnome: Staring into the abyss
In my opinion Gnome needs a completely new start, from the ground up.

1. When I last used GTK (about 2 years ago) it felt too big, old and bloated. If GTK were simplified and followed Qt's lead into scripting and easier interfaces (eg. Qt Quick), plus a MIT or LGPL license, this would encourage a new culture of apps.

2. I hated Gnome 3 and Unity for that matter. Gnome 4 needs to take a step back and get out of the way. You don't use the computer just for Gnome, but you use Gnome as a stepping stone. All common apps should be one click away and everything should be as customizable and flexible as possible.

As kljin said, some Gnome apps are redundant and the workforce could do a much better job focusing on the core issues, that could bring more people back to Gnome and hence possibly continue these projects again in the future.

CD1212··on Twitter Completely Down
One great thing about this for me: it exposed a bug in my app which relied on twitter being up.