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nkristoffersen··on Shutting down CodePlex
If I follow a project link and it is hosted on SourceForge I leave very quickly. Can't win me back.
nkristoffersen··on Ask HN: Who uses computer eyewear?
Try flux (or for macOS- nightshift). I haven't felt issues with my eyes with a quality monitor and a flux-type application.
nkristoffersen··on Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO
You still pay per TB. So yes, if you pay, you can have "unlimited" storage.
nkristoffersen··on Glimmer – Fast and light-weight UI components
You shouldn't be deploying a CLI into production. While I haven't looked closely at this particular system, guaranteed you are not deploying the CLI. Just using the CLI to create deployable code.

When people say "lightweight" they mean small sizes over the wire. The final size of the production/deployment code. Not the development code.

nkristoffersen··on A map of America’s migrations using genetic data from 770K saliva samples
the idea (or name) of freedom is valued highly here in the US of A. But, for the average American, I don't think "freedom" means what they think it means...
nkristoffersen··on Amazon Delays Opening of Cashierless Store to Work Out Kinks
How is Smart Mart? Their website is quite sparse.
nkristoffersen··on Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017
That is surprising. I've tried watching many 2-3 star movies and thought to myself "yep, this movie is shit" and stop watching.
nkristoffersen··on Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
Thank you for these links. Very interesting stuff. Curious how good these systems are compared to the latest visual machine learning tech...
nkristoffersen··on Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
Curious how advanced the system is too... Does it use deep learning ML like the current state of the art?
nkristoffersen··on Facial recognition database used by FBI is out of control
Do city police departments have access to the FBI facial database or do they have their own?
nkristoffersen··on Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors
I was so happy when I found that setting. Was so frustrating before.

I'd imagine the default is meant to function more like iOS

nkristoffersen··on Ask HN: Is there room for another search engine?
never heard the term "blogspam" but that is a very good description of it. When I click a link and then notice it is just a short blog post from some company trying to "content market", I leave the page.
nkristoffersen··on Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits
the hackable 5% :-)
nkristoffersen··on Drag – Change the way you work inside Gmail
Agreed with the other comment. This crowd definitely requires HTTPS.

Perhaps move to a host that helps you with that if you are unsure how to deploy HTTPS?

nkristoffersen··on Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits
yes, time for an updated model.

backup and wipe your phone before you travel. there are several stories now of customs compelling you to unlock the phone before allowing you to leave.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/a-nas...

nkristoffersen··on Dropbox on Mac now updates itself with a process in background
That is funny to me because I assume my phone is much more secure (with strict sandboxing) compared to my desktop.
nkristoffersen··on Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers
If only it was all about speed :-)

These days it's all about the customer/user. And that user wants functionality!

nkristoffersen··on Onedrive is slow on Linux but fast with a “Windows” user-agent (2016)
If you were a web developer you'd be happy to know Edge is so much better at complying with web standards than IE ever was. Would love to know what people miss about IE.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...

nkristoffersen··on Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
Is there a better method for protecting content provided by Netflix?

Just being realistic. DRM is a necessary evil in that video studios would never ever provide content in the clear.

I am so happy to see flash go the way of the Dodo. But curious what the best alternative is for implementing DRM on the web?

nkristoffersen··on Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
Weird, the internet I know and love has plenty of issues with browser compatibility :-)
nkristoffersen··on Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix
I used the hdfury years ago. the output quality wasn't anywhere near the quality of the input signal. but it did technically give you a signal without hdcp.
nkristoffersen··on Heroku CI in public beta
I'm surprised people don't go all AWS with elastic beanstalk and cut out the expensive middleman.
nkristoffersen··on React VR
Even better, a unified skill set in the developer pool. Which is very valuable and productive.
nkristoffersen··on Goodbye Mac App Store
Apple didn't build the App Store for you... Apple built it for its users. To create safer Mac. A more reliable Mac.

The store gives the users a relatively safe place to get apps and be rather confident it's not going to screw up the entire system.

This is similar to jailbroken iPhones. Sure you can do it, but the risk is much greater for the average user.

nkristoffersen··on Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
In Texas, each microcenter has their own theme. It's actually pretty cool! One is a space station. Another is an oil field :-)
nkristoffersen··on Mac-dev-playbook – Mac setup and configuration via Ansible
Do you have your makefile on github?
nkristoffersen··on Ask HN: Resume check and critique
Thanks for the input! Yeah the logos are terrible. However, from a UX standpoint, what I was going for is an easy to skim resume. So less important content get reduced, more important content gets increased to get noticed more. This is because you only have a few seconds to catch the readers attention before going in the circular file.

This is one of those things that I have A/B tested quite a bit :-)

nkristoffersen··on Ask HN: Resume check and critique
I am actually working on web app that walks you through building a solid resume based on my own UX opinions. Then at the end you can print out the pdf. This is my resume (rather outdated now) and my opinionated design. http://resume.kristoffersen.io

Thoughts on a resume builder web app? Want to see one exist?

nkristoffersen··on A static website with React
The biggest win with building a SPA in react or angular is that you can host it on S3 and front it with Cloudfront and never ever worry about it dying. Plus, performance is amazing.
nkristoffersen··on Ask HN: Where do you host your db's for your side projects?
Agreed. Store as much as possible in S3. Store only what's necessary in a DB.
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