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dhruvtvon Ask HN: What are your favorite tech podcasts?

Hi Rajath, Dhruv here :) SE daily (mentioned above) is just what you're looking for. https://overcast.fm/itunes1019576853/software-engineering-da...

dhruvtvon Ask HN: How to effectively learn PowerShell?

Definitely recommend the Manning book "PowerShell in Action" by Bruce Payette. The second edition is on Amazon but looks like a third edition is coming out in the Spring and you can pick up the EAP.

https://www.manning.com/books/windows-powershell-in-action-t...

dhruvtvon Ask HN: Is Dell XPS Developer Edition a Good Replacement of Macbook Pro?

Quite interesting that no one has mentioned the Microsoft Surface Book here. Anybody has any thoughts on it?

dhruvtvon Instapaper is joining Pinterest

Haha, yes - a link to Tumblr with a comment 'Up next' by the username 'overcast' in a discussion about Instapaper.

dhruvtvon Android N developer preview 2 is out

How does one invoke these launcher shortcuts? Long pressing an app icon?

dhruvtvon React Native for OS X

React != reactive programming.

dhruvtvon How Apple got widgets right on iOS

>> Apple made it so easy that all your widgets are just a swipe away from anywhere even if you are inside an app.

This, to me, is the best part.

dhruvtvon Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel

580 pounds per sq. inch seems a lot for household applications. Say a human were to stand on a Graphene TV, it would be ~250 pounds on ~100 sq. inches, i.e. 2.5 psi.

dhruvtvon Chromecast URL Player

Does Chromecast support mkv? If not, why?

dhruvtvon No offense HN

You realize HN

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22you+realize...

dhruvtvon How To Create Your Own Chrome Extensions

Here's mine. If you need to copy link addresses more than once, you know how annoying it is. You need to right-click, find the "Copy Link Address" menu item, and click it. With the extension, you can simply do Ctrl-C/Cmd-C :)

https://github.com/dhruvvemula/copylinkaddress

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-link-address/...

dhruvtvon How to Convince Investors

"Why do founders persist in trying to convince investors of things they're not convinced of themselves?"

This line hit home with me. Applies perfectly to job interviews.

dhruvtvon How does Trello access the user's clipboard?

(Copy-pasting my answer from the same Stackoverflow thread)

I actually built a Chrome extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/copy%20link%20addr... that does exactly this, and for all web pages. GitHub source https://github.com/dhruvvemula/copylinkaddress/blob/master/c...

I find three bugs with Trello's approach, which I know because I've faced them myself :)

The copy doesn't work in these scenarios:

1. If you already have Ctrl pressed and then hover a link and hit C, the copy doesn't work.

2. If your cursor is in some other text field in the page, the copy doesn't work.

3. If your cursor is in the address bar, the copy doesn't work.

I solved #1 by always having a hidden span, rather than creating one when user hits Ctrl/Cmd.

I solved #2 by temporarily clearing the zero-length selection, saving caret position, doing the copy and restoring caret position.

I haven't found a fix for #3 yet :) (For info, check the open issue in my Github project - https://github.com/dhruvvemula/copylinkaddress/issues/1).

dhruvtvon Lorem Ipsum translated by Google

Nailed it.

dhruvtvon Pickadate.js

Why am I not able to pick today's date? (November 20, 2012)

dhruvtvon OSX password script for everyone to know

How is this command line method any different/better than opening Keychain Access, clicking on each entry and checking 'Show Password'?