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pagadeon Still no consensus on testing private methods

One alternative/compromise not mentioned is to make the method 'protected'. This is usually a reasonable compromise in languages like Java. The test can access such method since it follow the same package hierarchy as the src.

pagadeon Firefox 94

Waiting for tab groups and/or multi line tabs (current add-ons suck).

pagadeon Ask HN: Best way to organize 100-200 emails/day in Outlook?

I had built a system that worked very well for me while I was using Outlook and of course I blogged about it: https://www.rockoder.com/2013/10/19/how-to-manage-emails-in-...

pagadeon Disappearing Bicyclist – Sam Loyd (1906)

Counting clockwise from A, 5th bicyclist head disappears into hand.

pagadeon Israeli camouflage tech makes soldiers ‘invisible’

More interesting details on the company's 'catalogue': https://polarisolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rajug...

pagadeon Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

Nice gif showing the ship movement on FleetMon: https://twitter.com/yukihilog/status/1376377678626844676

pagadeon Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper

This is the reason why it drives me nuts when Apple Book randomly chooses to shift the content of the pages of the eBook. Content that was on odd page number starts appearing on even page number. This is also the reason why I never change the font size.

(Please let me know if there is a way to disable this.)

pagadeon Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default

Did anyone else thought: I want to be able to draw that kind of animation for architecture diagrams. No complex sequence diagrams, no numbering of the arrows, no confusion of arrow directions.

Sorry for the off-topic

pagadeon AARD Code, or how Bill Gates finished off the competition

You might also find 'Embrace, extend, and extinguish' interesting.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

pagadeon Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?

I am surprised no one has posted this Stackoverflow link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/what-is-the-best-...

These are programming jokes 'in action'.

pagadeon Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

Mainly disposophobia.

pagadeon Design flaws of password managers

Why the down vote (honest question)? I would be eager to know if there are issues with this approach.

pagadeon Design flaws of password managers

I came up with what I call Passformula.

The idea is to create a one-time, well-defined formula to create a password from the name for the service/website domain you’re trying to log in. You would apply this formula each time you create an account on any website and later use the same formula to get the password at the time of the login.

No need to store passwords (for the majority of the cases) and works like a charm for me.

More details: http://www.rockoder.com/2020/04/26/passformula/

pagadeon Show HN: After 10 years my side project has hit $8k/mo in revenue

I need this but for mobile. Is there something already?

pagadeon Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?

SICP and umb-scheme is how I learned as part of the university course with fairly advanced exercises.

pagadeon Show HN: Life Calendar – Your Life in Weeks

Something is not right. First week says:

  1 years and 1 weeks old. Week 1 of your life

pagadeon Perseverance Toward Life Goals Can Fend Off Depression, Anxiety, Panic Disorders

Nice analogy. Goals are important. But don't forget to enjoy the journey.

pagadeon Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app

I installed the SyntaxFold package and customized the key binding. There needs to be 2 empty lines between sub/headings for folding to work.

It's not the prefect solution but good enough.

pagadeon Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app

I tried the latest alpha. It works as expected. Thanks!

pagadeon Notable – A Markdown-based note-taking app

For me, ability to quickly expand/collapse headings/sub-headings is essential when I am working with markdown. After some effort got it working in Sublime Text.

Notable looks good, but not sure if it can be made to do this.

pagadeon Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Elon Musk again - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1283520825782566912

pagadeon Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?

First thing that came into mind:

Is It Worth the Time? https://xkcd.com/1205/

pagadeon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Any poor sole here using Google Jamboard? Half cooked product released out ever!

pagadeon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

iTunes, Google Sites.

pagadeon Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?

Google Chat (enterprise G Suite offering):

- No way to set status (essential in current remote work situation)

- No way to reorder the rooms

- No nested comments.

- Cannot mark conversation unread or have some way to remember to come back to the conversation later.

- If you lose your notification you are lost. Cannot figure out which room you were tagged in.

- Cannot message to self. This is not a big problem but a good to have.

pagadeon Notion for everyone

I use it for personal purpose. By data removable, I guess you mean right to be forgotten. Their https://zenkit.com/en/gdpr/ page provides the details.

pagadeon Notion for everyone

I am really surprised no one has mentioned https://zenkit.com/. Kanban - Wiki - Calendar - List - Mindmap - Hierarchy etc. It does those things very well.

pagadeon Ask HN: Name one idea that changed your life

You don't HAVE to finish reading a book.

pagadeon A captcha that requires your computer to solve equations in the background

Could you share the extension name?

pagadeon Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know about Their Lives? [pdf]

Your are the bullshitter in somebody else's story.

I mean nobody is 100% bullshitter 100% of the time. How do you know when and about what they are.

(I am genuinely interested in knowing)