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fcanela··on Ask HN: Which book have you re-read recently?
I can not recommend enough Mark Manson work. Also, if you are into stoicism, you may love Ryan Holiday books too.
fcanela··on Show HN: Corrode – A batteries-included js-library for reading binary data
Congrats for your code.

I found it really well documented and structure. I'll probably print it to read it later.

I really love the documentation badge. It should be more common.

fcanela··on Show HN: An Open Source Tool to Combat Clickbait Links
Can be even worse. I have seen some ugly corporate services using links with GET request to perform delete operations and having serious data loss caused by crawlers like this tool.
fcanela··on Show HN: An Open Source Tool to Combat Clickbait Links
Not an issue at all but I am curious. Why "Spanish" has the Mexico flag? Was the spanish language modeled with that specific variant?
fcanela··on The Hacker's Manifesto (1986)
It showed me (when I was a teenager living away from the city in the 90s) that I was not alone in my curiosity.

I had The Mentor Manifiesto in my walls, along with prints of code or networking diagrams (i.e. TCP handshake sequence).

I found the text really inspiring then.

fcanela··on Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client
There are other out-the-box alternatives. IRCCloud was mentioned in comments.
fcanela··on Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client
I never faced this need and is the first time I saw it stated.

If it appeared in various clients and got implemented in none then it should be a reason. Examples: - It is not a need for enough people - No developer suffers your problem (you can always try to do the PR by yourself)

This feature requests got ignored or received some reply by devs? I am curious.

fcanela··on Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client
XChat doesn't seem to be maintained anymore (I do not know about gnome-xchat).

Have you considered Hexchat? I migrated to it one year ago and seems solid while keeping the same look and feel.

fcanela··on Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client
You are looking for a BNC[1]. Quassel is a superset of the features you could expect in one.

I think that there is a lot of people in your situation. They don't know about the existence of this tools or think their setup is hard or time consuming and ends using Slack.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_(software)

fcanela··on Quassel IRC: cross-platform, distributed IRC client
Probably someone just discovered it.

I think it is relevant in the Slack-oriented era. I would love IRC getting the hype instead: the protocol and software is open and easy to understand.

fcanela··on The “Internet of Things” Needs a Fix
I honestly do not understand the IoT hate. Yes, there is a lot of insecure devices: mostly the not-cloud ones which needs an open port. But IMHO they provide a lot of value, especially if you are a developer. At least it does for me.
fcanela··on Show HN: Nodal. Next-Generation Node.js Server and Framework
I honestly prefer developing the application from ground and having more control. The framework may be handy for short time to market requirements.

Anyway, I found one or two interesting things reading the source code, so even not being a Nodal user it delivered value to me.

fcanela··on How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice
I do not know why so much hate against IoT.

I have several devices which gives me useful data for quantified self proposes. I am also happy with my IP cameras and smart TV.

Like others, I would love to see these devices better secured. I would love them to be less cloud-dependant. But being like they are right now, they provide value.

fcanela··on Notie.js: A JavaScript notification plugin without dependencies
It is a pity: I consider this kind of notification really attractive but proved to be a antipattern in the projects I implemented.

Notifications are better when shown near the event source. If your user base includes some non-technical profiles they can become confused by this kind of message without context.

It can work for global announcements that can not be tied so a specific source or they are hidden and are important ("remember to activate your email").

This was just my experience. Congrats anyway for the work, it is really visually appealing.

fcanela··on Bootstrap v4-alpha
Wow! Seems like they have improved a lot the documentation since last time I checked.

Official bootstrap themes section is also interesting.

fcanela··on NSA releases open-source infosec tool
Aims to avoid duplication of effort for govt agencies.

The US National Security Agency has offered up one of its cyber security tools for government departments and the private sector to use freely to help counter threats and raise their security posture.

The systems integrity management platform - SIMP - was released to the code repository GitHub over the weekend.

SIMP helps to keep networked systems compliant with security standards, the NSA said, and should form part of a layered, "defence-in-depth" approach to information security.

NSA said it released the tool to avoid duplication after US government departments and other groups tried to replicate the product in order to meet compliance requirements set by US Defence and intelligence bodies.

"By releasing SIMP, the agency seeks to reduce duplication of effort and promote greater collaboration within the community: the wheel would not have to be reinvented for every organisation," the NSA said in a release.

Currently Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.6 and 7.1 and CentOS versions 6.6 and 7.1-1503-01 are the only supported operating systems for SIMP.

The NSA, which has in recent years faced heat over its mass surveillance and bulk data collection activities as exposed by former contractor Edward Snowden, has increased its efforts to share its technology in recent months.

It recently debuted its 'technology transfer' program, which aims to further the development of new capabilities and technologies within both government and the private sector.

The program allows the NSA to offer internally-developed technology to industry and researchers. It has so far opened up a range of products in eight categories spanning networking, optics, processing, security, and microelectronics, among others [pdf].

Director of the program, Linda Burger, said the open source method of "transferring technology from the federal laboratory to the marketplace is extremely efficient".

“The open source community can leverage the work that NSA has produced, and the government can benefit from that community’s expertise and perspective. It’s a win for everyone – and for the nation itself," she said in a statement.

Despite the secrecy of its intelligence gathering work, the NSA has a history of producing and publishing security-related work, and holds annual competitions that seek to find the best cybersecurity papers.

The spy agency’s trusted systems research group has also produced a hardened, mandatory access control architecture called Security Enhanced Linux that has found its way into several distributions, as well as Google’s Android mobile operating system, FreeBSD, and Oracle’s Solaris.

fcanela··on NSA releases open-source infosec tool
Forbidden message appears to me.

Here is the google cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Iac_dvJ...

fcanela··on Pencil – Multi-platform GUI Prototyping and Wireframing
I just used pencil in my company to create a mockup for a recent web project and it was a good experience.

PRO: It gave good results to us. With Bootstrap + FontAwesome stencils we were able to create more realistic pieces and gathered better feedback.

CONS: The linked repository version had a glitch which caused FontAwesome stencil disappear forever after few minutes using the application and being unable to reimport it. Evolus Pencil version worked well.

fcanela··on Release proposal: v2.0.0 (io.js)
Any idea about which changes motivated the major version bump?
fcanela··on Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition
More mobile fragmentation. I hope Cordova stacks (phonegap, iconic) are made compatible soon.
fcanela··on Any Mockup for $5
It didn't appeared to me with NoScript defaults. Thank you.
fcanela··on Any Mockup for $5
How is the user supposed to pay? I did not found any obvious button, at least not in the page or after clicking images.
fcanela··on ES6 RC3 released
Is there any estimated time for the release of the final version?

I read somewhere AngularJS 2.0 is expected to the end of this year, so I suppose that ES6 should be closed first.

fcanela··on Joyent Node.js: Reconciliation with io.js
The io.js discussion, which provides more useful insight, is available here: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/978
fcanela··on Thousands of people are watching this guy code a search engine
I always wanted a twitch.tv for coding/intellectual work. I am sure that it would provide me a lot of good models of workflow and insight.

I searched in their site and saw nobody was doing it, then noticed that their conditions doesn't allow it.

EDIT: Just found http://coderstv.com :)

fcanela··on Apple fires anti-gay lobbyist
I do not understand why so much noise with people believes. I am open to work with everyone as long as their intimate convictions doesn't harm our work.

Are you anti-gay marriage (or just anti-gay)? Nice, I am not but I respect. We can talk about it in our spare time. Anti-abortist? Liberal? Conservative? Communist? Anti-white people? The same.

fcanela··on Ask HN: What's your website? I'll do a video review of it
I liked it and for $10 I will for sure use it in the future.

One little "problem" is that my sites are sometimes in spanish, but for I would accept a design-only review in that case.

fcanela··on Multi-User Video Conference with WebRTC
I will stay a little in this room to test if this works. BTW if you see me say "hi", I'm friendly :)
fcanela··on Show HN: TLDRify – URL Shortener for text selections
Very interesting service. I dislike adding a bottom (and I'm not going to) but I appreciate that I could have benefit from this tool more than once.
fcanela··on Show HN: 50books, a bare-bones reading list tracker
You have some great but lengthy books (Don Quixote, The Lord of the Rings triology).

If you spend a lot of time reading, it's ok. If you doesn't and you want to read all the 50, be careful: you can run out of time.

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