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pierre-renaux··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
Yes, of course it does, isn't it nice?

Even better if you want to automate the whole notarization thing you don't have a "nice" notarize-this-thing command that blocks until its notarized and fails if there's an issue, you send a notarization request... and wait, and then you can write a nice for/sleep/check loop in a shell script to figure out whether the notarization finished and whether it did so successfully. Of course from time to time the error/success message changes so that script will of course break every so often, have to keep things interesting.

Xcode does most of this as part of the project build - when it feels like it that is. But if you want to run this in CI its a ton a additional fun.

pierre-renaux··on Locked-out New Zealanders outraged as visa scheme for rich foreigners resumes
Doesn't that just mean that NZ outsourced taking care of the expat NZ nationals that have Covid - and the cost of part of the Covid epidemic - to other countries though?

Not allowing your own citizen to return home is something that should be unthinkable really.

pierre-renaux··on A Touchpad Embedded Keyboard
"Is the Microsoft All In One any better?"

Its even worst in my experience... both are trash. I reverted to a regular wireless keyboard & trackball for sofa use.

pierre-renaux··on Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
Git bfg should do the job, it works well for that and to remove files with secrets... or really anything you want to pretend never existed in your repo :)

https://rtyley.github.io/bfg-repo-cleaner/

pierre-renaux··on Tower for Windows
On Windows Git Extensions is the best I've found: https://gitextensions.github.io/

SourceTree is barely usable now really, I switched back to GitX on OSX...

pierre-renaux··on Ask HN: What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?
I've been in China from 2004-2014 and built a startup there that was sold to one of their internet giant.

I can confirm that the parent is on point. Imo, your best bet - if you dont want to give up the Chinese market - would be to raise from a reputable Chinese investor. Without that you wont have much pull with any partner you find in China and they will happily stall and then copy your stuff. That is completly "fair game" to them and most wont even comprehend what your trying to tell them - a bit like the guy telling you that he admires/like what you've done after you asked him why they copied your stuff as-is...

If you want to chat feel free to contact me, email in profile.

pierre-renaux··on Sharing 3D models via the browser
Shameless plug: https://talansoft.com, something similar that I build & maintain somewhat as a hobby. Its free to use, you can share, embed tag and there's a disqus based comment section.

The major difference is that you have to use the desktop app to upload, but that app allows you to do a lot more, you can build interactions, do animations, day/night cycles, custom shaders, it does physics, audio, etc...

It's been used (desktop app & publish part) for a long time in production (5+ years) by me and various companies (including Alibaba which acquired my previous company) so its decently robust.

It does lack in term of documentation/tutorials and on boarding in general, but if you're interested feel free to join the slack channel, I'm happy to help getting you started.

Oh and you can also export to desktop, android, iOS, etc... and there's an alpha build for OSX (ask on Slack if you're interested).

pierre-renaux··on A tumor stole every memory I had – what happened when they came back
it works with instapaper, or long press the reload button to open without content block
pierre-renaux··on Former Nokia CEO Elop Leaving Microsoft
Just google "Former Nokia CEO Elop Leaving Microsoft" and use the link from there.
pierre-renaux··on Cheerp – A C/C++ compiler for web applications
If anyone from Cheerp reads this, I use emscripten (https://github.com/kripken/emscripten) at the moment, is Cheerp any better ?

Specifically does it compile faster, generates a smaller final .js output, or produce "faster" code ?

pierre-renaux··on Building and modifying Linux Kernel with Visual Studio
Pretty good product too, VisualGDB is the only tool that actually works to do C/C++ debugging on Android.