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fraXis

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fraXis··on Show HN: Sell.app – A simple way to sell digital goods
>> "It's completely free to start selling on SellApp, with no fees being taken (though we'll introduce a 3% fee per sale in a couple months)"

Are you using Stripe to process your payments?

fraXis··on The agony and the ecstasy of deep brain stimulation surgery
Did your seizures stop after the surgery? Has the tumor or seizures returned at all?
fraXis··on How to Start a Novel
This sounds fun! Can you please reply with the name of the game?
fraXis··on When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage
+1 for Wardrobe. I have been using it for a couple of months now and it works great. Vlad also offers excellent support and if you come across a problem, he is very quick at getting it fixed.
fraXis··on Google disabled my husband's account
Thanks for this. My list of sites that I have used my Google account to sign in instead of creating a dedicated account is over 4 pages long! I didn't realize that I use "sign in with Google" for so many sites. :-(
fraXis··on Google disabled my husband's account
If someone wants to move away from a Google free account, is there a way to see of list of all sites/apps that they have previously granted OAuth access to?

I found a way to view this if you have a paid admin account for your organization, but I don't see a way to view a list of previous OAuth granted requests for a free Google account.

fraXis··on Ask HN: When an iPhone is released how far off are Apple in the next gen iPhone?
Not sure about now, but when Steve Jobs passed in October 2011, the iPhone 4s was about to be released, and CNET published an article saying that Steve Jobs had already been involved with the final design of the iPhone 5, which didn't launch until September 2012.

https://www.cnet.com/news/steve-jobs-last-big-project-the-ne...

fraXis··on Show HN: HN Mail – Topic-based HN newsletter service
Very nice. Would be even better if I could just click on the topics to select the ones I wanted to view in the newsletter, instead of having to type them by hand separated by commas.
fraXis··on Another 1.3M Americans File for Unemployment
My daughter has been waiting since March 19th for her EDD benefits. When EDD sent her the initial paperwork (after she signed up online), it had a different social security number listed for her (she typed in her correct social security number online).

The letter stated that she needed to provide proof of her social security number.

She has tried to do that for four months now. She has called them, written them snail mail letters along with proof that they have the wrong social security number, and numerous faxes. They keep telling her that the ID fraud department will eventually reach out to her. It has not happened yet after all this time. We have even reached out to the California Governor's office for help. Nothing has worked.

If she did not currently live with me and have me financially support her through all of this, she would be broke and possibly homeless.

fraXis··on I Made My First Sale and Made It to #7 on the App Store
Great job! Just bought it too. At $1.99 it's a steal considering how much I am on HN on a hourly basis. :-)

I've been using the "Hacker News (YC)" app on iOS written by Dharmesh Patel, and it works good, but it hasn't been updated in over 2 years, and unfortunately it has occasional display formatting issues on the iPhone 11 Max Pro.

fraXis··on Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
What is the name of the extension that you use to see your tab history as a big tree?
fraXis··on Show HN: I built a tool to send you daily digest of your saved bookmarks
I just installed your app. Works great. Been looking for something like this for a long time now. So easy to share myself a link and have it automatically emailed to me. Great job!
fraXis··on Ask HN: Does anyone record themselves while programmming?
This makes me think back to the times that Notch used to record/stream himself when he would program. I used to love watching those because it helped me become a better programmer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3811332

fraXis··on Ask HN: Best ways to volunteer?
>>Libraries are a beautiful place. They don't discriminate against anyone regardless of social status, race, gender, etc.

This is a great idea! Thanks for doing this. Have you had your first session yet? How did it go?

Do you use the library computers for your coding bootcamp?

fraXis··on Let Children Get Bored Again
I heard an interview with Steven Spielberg years ago. I wish I could find it for reference.

He said in the interview that anytime he drives in his car, he would not talk on his phone or listen to the radio. It was complete silence for the duration of the drive. And most of his best work and ideas came from these "silent drives" because he was forced to be creative and use his imagination to keep himself entertained.

fraXis··on Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager
This looks great. Something I have been looking for since upgrading to a 49-inch Ultra-wide, where I now prefer to keep my application windows floating around the center on this giant monitor.

Do you still actively develop it? The digital signature in your .exe says 2017 and your website footer says 2015.

fraXis··on CamelCamelCamel: $44.6k disk failure, down until Feb 3
They didn't have a backup?!? Look how much they are paying for data recovery!
fraXis··on Epic Games banked a $3B profit in 2018
Not just drawn development away, but they are no longer developing it.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/development-stopped-unr...

fraXis··on Ask HN: Does your Amazon Echo talk to you without being asked?
I just had it happen to me. She all of a sudden started talking about a Halloween song that I had asked her to play weeks ago (she acted like she just finished playing the song).

I checked the app, and the last query was when I asked her the weather from earlier this morning.

Must be a bug in the latest update they pushed out.

fraXis··on Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?
What did you like and not like about Hostgator?

I was with Rackspace for years, but Liquid Web bought their cloud site service and I am not too fond of the support I have been getting from Liquid Web and am looking to make a change.

fraXis··on Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
Why do you want to switch from Crashplan to Backblaze?
fraXis··on Ask HN: What's your backup solution?
I also use Crashplan. For the price it can't be beat. Plus the upload speeds are very fast when compared to someone like iDrive.

However be warned, their client is a Java application and the more files and terabytes you want to backup, the more ram it takes.

For example, I backup about 3 terabytes on a server and it takes 3+ GB of constant ram usage to do this.

https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/Adjus...

fraXis··on Instapaper Premium is now free for everyone
I have been using raindrop.io for the past 6 months. I have nothing but good things to say about it.

Was a heavy Pocket user before that but their iPhone app was buggy in the sense that when I saved something from Safari to Pocket, sometimes it would save, other times it would not. It was literally hit or miss. Not sure if they have fixed that in a recent release or not.

fraXis··on Instapaper is joining Pinterest
I second raindrop.io.

I have been using it for three months now, and it works flawlessly. I was using Pocket, but sometimes after I would save links with their iPhone app, I would go into their web interface to view them at a later time, and those links would be gone.

But I have not had one single link disappear from raindrop.io since I have been using it.

fraXis··on “Oh By” Is the Universal Shortener
What language / framework is the backend programmed in?
fraXis··on The Massive Wildfire Burning in Alberta
This is a video of the fire actually overtaking the inside of a fleeing resident's house. It was caught on his home security camera.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-man-wat...

fraXis··on OnHub
This method seems really cumbersome compared to the Airport Extreme and their wireless bridging method.
fraXis··on OnHub
I see no mention of being able to use 2 or 3 of these things in an Wi-Fi extender type of scenario that I can do with my current Airport Extreme routers.
fraXis··on Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
My kids are currently learning Phaser. I highly recommend this for learning:

https://www.discoverphaser.com/

(Not affiliated with them in anyway, just a customer who purchased it for my kids to learn).

fraXis··on Homejoy says goodbye
I used Homejoy and I liked it's ease of use. But after the cleaning lady they sent me was done, she offered me her direct phone # and told me I could contact her directly for any future cleaning needs.

I always wondered how this business model was going to work if Homejoy's contractors could just give out their phone # at the end of their first service and the customer could just contact them directly for any future needs, instead of going back through Homejoy for any future bookings.

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