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csharp··on What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
Very true. For me, it is the feeling of 100 small 2-minute things. I find myself looking how to get out of as many as possible.
csharp··on What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour?
It isn't a "practical" thing, it is a mental thing. "flossing my whole mouth feels overwhelming, so I'm not going to do any of it", vs "I just need to floss a single tooth, that is easy". Sure "just grow up and do it" sounds nice, but learning to build habits that generally feel unrewarding when starting out (e.g. working out, learning instrument), is extremely difficult for some people (e.g. me).
csharp··on Brave launches 1.0
Thanks for the verbose feedback. We seriously appreciate it. Wanted to respond to your items:

1. You are Comparing DuckDuckGo and Google suggestions (search engine), not Safari and Brave (browser). Change your Brave search engine to DDG, and results will be the same.

2. You can turn off the tab bar thing in settings. Safari offers this, just defaults to off.

3. We do have a lot of icons, you can hide the BAT icon if you don't use rewards (see settings).

4/5. Yes, those are bad bugs, we are currently rebuilding our syncing system.

I will raise this ticket and see if we can get some movement on it.

csharp··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
There was already a setting for this with markdown:

>When typing code with ```, Enter should not send the message.

>With this checked use ShiftEnter to send.

So they didn't really provide anything new here, just changed the default behavior.

edit: formatting

csharp··on Brave launches 1.0
We don't collect your browsing data, and it isn't proxied through Brave. I am unsure what preloading information you found. All of our configurations are open source, so if there is something particular you are looking for, it is visible. We are also comparing browser defaults here. However, our adblocking approach is built directly into the browser using a Rust library and can function faster than a Chrome extension.
csharp··on Brave launches 1.0
What do you like about Safari that iOS Brave is missing? We are quite a bit faster than Safari, and our private mode is more aggressive against things like cookies and writing data to disk.
csharp··on Wikipedia Is Now a Brave Verified Publisher
(iOS engineer at Brave here) All iOS browsers are based on webkit. WKWebView, which is what we use, does have full access to content blockers. This is how we do ad-blocking, HTTPSE upgrades, and script blocking.
csharp··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
It won't effect Brave. Brave is a Chromium fork, not an extension, so have full control over the browser/APIs.
csharp··on Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin
Apples rules are a huge pain. Exception handling gets extremely complex (block all urls matching regex R, on domain B and C but not on subdomain D.B). I have not seen anyone yet able to handle the full breathe of the EasyList format.

To get around the 50k limit added by Apple, you must use multiple lists, however domain exceptions must be included in the same subset as the parent rules, since rules do not combine once compiled.

Also, dynamically whitelisting a domain is annoying since you must remove all of the lists form the webview before loading the page. HTTPS-Everywhere is even worse to get operational using Apple's content blocking lists.

(edited grammar mistakes)

csharp··on When Sears Flourished, So Did Workers. At Amazon, It’s More Complicated
I think OP meant that it will hopefully cause other employers to follow lead and raise wages (e.g. fast food, other retailers, etc).
csharp··on What if people were paid for their data?
Brave definitely does not sell your browsing history. In fact, they don't even have the ability to access it...
csharp··on Vivaldi browser v1.8 released, with calendar-style browsing history
This isn't actually true. Brave intends to do this at some point with user opt-in. But currently it just blocks all 3rd party ads, HTTPSE, finger print protection, and is OS. Additionally, ad-replacement will be opt-in to allow people to support content providers with anonymous financial support.

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csharp··on I Tracked Myself With $170 Smartphone Spyware that Anyone Can Buy
Apps can be distributed outside of the app store, but you need to know specific device information. Not very difficult though if you have physical access to the phone.
csharp··on Show HN: Fluor a macOS app to switch Fn keys depending on active application
Take a look at USB Overdrive. I have been able to map most of my peripherals there, even odd macro keys that random keyboards have. From there you can always combine it with BetterTouchTool (or something similar), to remap the now findable keys, if you want different behavior than the default.
csharp··on I returned my 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar
I am surprised more people haven't pointed this out. It is actually pretty nice, since I can slam in so many more macro keys to my touch bar for actions than the fn keys allowed me to have. Not saying the laptop is the best (I have many annoyances with it too), but I have been able to customize the touch bar for my workflow pretty well. Especially with BetterTouchTool.
csharp··on MacBook Pro
As others have mentioned. I just remapped my function keys for common tasks or launching applications (e.g. f1 = Xcode, f2 = Slack, f3 = Terminal). Using something like Keyboard Maestro (which you use), you can also contextualize the functionality based on certain applications.
csharp··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3124
Just an FYI, Atom does these things too. Tracks all of your open windows, tabs, which tabs you were on, keeps unsaved changes, etc...
csharp··on How Dropbox securely stores your passwords
It would still make a significant difference since someone could still compromise your Dropbox account... Having a password manager doesn't all of the sudden make all of your passwords secure on all of your different accounts.
csharp··on iPhone Nonsensus: Apple's Debt to Bloggers
Google has had extremely impressive _software_ capabilities for this for awhile [0], and the results in person are extremely impressive. The field can even be chosen by the user. Given the camera quality, I doubt much (any?) of a difference could be detected.

[0] https://research.googleblog.com/2014/04/lens-blur-in-new-goo...

csharp··on Microsoft is using Minecraft to vie for kids’ brain space and schools’ dollars
These are all sales numbers, not market share.
csharp··on Show HN: OverThrown – A multiplayer turn based strategy game
I was also thinking a 24 hour turn game would be nice. Then I can just check in every day at the same time, no way I will find a good 12 hour routine for a few weeks. Probably would work if you just allocated more resources per turn with more initial resources. Regardless, looks fun.
csharp··on Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row escalates
I suspect information exchange and debating, was not meant to be enforced on private property during the constitution's writing. If I owned a tavern, I do not suspect the founding father's intent was for me to allow whatever kind of debate/information exchange to take place in my establishment. If anything, I suspect the opposite to be true.

If I own a coffeeshop today, I would have the right to restrict what is hung on my walls (e.g. advertisements, local events), and what is announced (i.e. someone loudly giving an announcement) to my patrons. I may not be able to control small group conversation though.

That being said, posting something publicly to Facebook is greatly different than DMing a person / group of friends. If Facebook deleted the image sent from one friend to the other, this would be a different conversation. I think your analogy and inspection of the constitution's intent, even further justifies that Facebook has right to do what they did.

csharp··on Hit Reply – Episode 0: Yet Another Startup Podcast? [audio]
Just start by create an RSS feed, that should only take a few hours. It is so much more universally friendly anyway.