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dabberon Ask HN: What is your password management solution?

What do you use to read the DB files on your phone? I'm new to iPhone and looking for an app I trust right now.

Hmm, ieee.org still has Flash ads

[Edit]

Sorry maybe not a flash ad. Upon further inspection it was an iframe whose contents were blocked by my ad blocker, presenting me with that grey box in chrome. I'm not going to disable it to check what it actually is.

dabberon Show HN: Ancap News, a Chrome/FF extension to bring out HN's true colors

Not sure if it's because I've recently accumulated enough karma but I have a "topcolor" field in my settings page where I can pop in a hex code and change the banner color. Mine has been #C0ffee ever since that "hex codes that make words" articles was on the front page here.

So an extension seems like overkill. But I get it's about the statement so, whatever floats your boat I guess.

dabberon Microsoft eBook Giveaway

No it's different. It's from the top comment in the reddit post[0]. Seems like others in that thread have had the same issue with the one from the article. The issue seems to be the script doesn't create the directory for you[1] so you need to make it first.

However, I'm more of a Bash guy so please take my words/links with a grain of salt.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/6mtqdq/a_tonne_of_...

dabberon Microsoft eBook Giveaway

And Powershell script here:

https://pastebin.com/S81DGVg9

[Edit]

In total everything comes in around 3.4GiB. I found this in /r/homelabs and they've got all the files up on their US and EU FTP servers. Details here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/wiki/resources/ftp

dabberon Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

Right but it's DRM free, multi format and all the proceeds go directly to the publisher.

dabberon Half-price Ebooks for Day Against DRM

Packet Publishing has 50% off as well:

https://www.packtpub.com/

dabberon How Brian Eno managed to piss in Marcel Duchamp’s famous urinal

>>he mass produced his art"--so did Warhol, so do most modern artists on some level

Not sure how far back "modern" goes but Florence was full of workshops[0] during the renaissance. A lot of the good stuff (David IIRC) was produced by teams of professional artists to some degree.

[0] http://matthewgream.net/Professional/HistoryOfArt/workshops_...

dabberon You don't need a grid framework on top of the CSS grid layout

That's a very modern approach for someone 1,500 years old ;D

crumbles[1] into[2] neatly[3] stacked dust[4]

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/crumbles

[2] https://github.com/sindresorhus/into-stream

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/package/neatly

[4] https://github.com/linkedin/dustjs

dabberon The .feedback scam

The fine folks at .feedback seem to be Kurt Vonnegut fans.

cdn.feedback serves up this on an otherwise empty html doc:

    <!-- There's only one rule that I know of, babies - God damn it, you've got to be kind -->

dabberon Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

The point appears to be: FB has, in the past, done "a lot of attempting to influence".

dabberon Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one

That can't be true can it?

dabberon Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it out of business

I've never heard a good thing said about Comcast. It's a shame they are the only option in so many places.

dabberon Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on over 50K items

>In order to quality, the item must be one of the new, unopened items sold daily through eBay Deals, for starters.

I think they meant qualify but still, looks like it's only on select new items.

dabberon Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

I wish I could do this with my phone number.

dabberon The Calibre Content Server

I'm not on messenger but that's pretty cool. Is it one at a time? What's the upload limit?

dabberon Launch HN: Py (YC S17) – Learn to Code on the Go

Hey! I got a chance to play around with the app a bit and thought I'd leave my first impressions here (for whatever it's worth.)

- I love the fact that I'm not forced to make an account but given the option; though not sure what benefits that offers. Picking up in the same spot across devices I guess.

- didn't realize i could skip modules at first, once I did I liked it a lot more.

- I've only played with the JS stuff so far. It's pretty basic for me right now but I'd imagine (and hope) you'll be adding some heavier stuff.

- Beautiful UI.

- The correct/wrong notifications are very similar to other apps like this (not a criticism), is there a common library for that? I never really thought about it.

- I personally would like and make use of a "give us feedback" item.

- I'd like to be able to take some short tests or flash cards. Maybe for built in methods, design patterns, "what would this evaluate to", etc..

- No weird permissions!!

I'll keep my eye on this. Good luck with it!

dabberon Please Make Google AMP Optional

I think you meant DuckDuckGo

;)

dabberon Please Make Google AMP Optional

I haven't read through the comments here yet but my initial impression of the article is 'ha, I was literally thinking this today'; because I was. AMP is a little heavy handed for my tasteS. Another instance of HN being on the same wave length I guess.

dabberon 245 Days Later; Still Live Control Robots in Some Guys House

Just found this and was surprised it's been live for so long. It was posted here almost a year ago. Here's the original Show HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12665069

dabberon How we grew ThemeIsle into a $50k per month business

They had a really popular freemium theme that didn't meet some of the requirements the WP.org imposed. Some changes were nontrivial and so they weren't made (at least in time) and this very popular theme was suspended. More here if you're interested:

https://wptavern.com/zerif-lite-suspended-from-wordpress-the...

dabberon Little Alchemy

Earth looks like it's in the "C" field because you have very few elements. The more elects you create starting with "C" the less it looks like that.

Also it's possible the searching with "/" is part of your browser. I'm pretty sure Firefox does that, less sure about others.

dabberon Ask HN: What happened to hn.algolia.com? UPD: problem was on my side now fixed

Working for me as well, quick too.

dabberon Making Photos Smaller Without Quality Loss

Hmm, I'm behind a popular VPN and get greeted with:

"Sorry, you’re not allowed to access this page."

"Contact Yelp if you keep experiencing issues."

Oh well

dabberon Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals

I downloaded two. One had no watermark at all the other has the manualslib URL on the bottom left not blocking any content.

dabberon [dead]

Dupe, currently #1 on front page

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482132

dabberon Ask HN: How to Hire a Designer from Dribble?

Have you looked on UpWork?

I don't have any experience hiring there but it may be worth a shot.

dabberon Special HTTP Protocol for Brewing Coffee(Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol)

Thanks but no thanks. After hours wasted trying to setup an HTCPCP server at home I still can't get it to return anything but 418s.

I'm waiting until RFC 7168 [0] gains more traction and there is better support for HTCPCP-TEA.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168

dabberon Ask HN: My web app is better than my competitor´s, how do I pull traffic?

TL;DR: I didn't set it up but it's worked well for physical products my clients sell.

I haven't gotten my hands dirty with it but I freelance all types of web stuff so I have (and work closely with) a few people that handle the SEO/Ad stuff. Usually we are promoting physical products (think event tickets, used computers, ect..) with FB and have had a pretty good success rate. FB lets you target with a level of specificity that is kind of creepy IMO but useful.

I'd say it's worth a shot. It's not too expensive and you can run a short campaign to see if it makes a dent. Maybe start with a wider scope and narrow that as you see what's hitting.

I guess the tricky part would be having users on it to talk to when the first timers click through. Also a lot of FB traffic is mobile so that's something to consider. Maybe you can exclude them from your target? Idk.

Hope this helps!

dabberon Ask HN: My web app is better than my competitor´s, how do I pull traffic?

Hey, I really like the design of the site!

Have you tried any targeted ad campaigns on FB/G?

I'm not really a marketing guy so sorry if that's not as helpful or original as you're looking for but it's something.