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rhubarbquid··on Facebook's PR feels broken
I've worked in media, and I can confirm the "packages" that sponsors buy as described are totally normal in media.

There's a reason editorial departments are totally separate from ad sales.

FTC disclosure of paid content is extremely important and taken very seriously (at least where I worked and by the FTC).

IMHO Facebook doesn't have any reputation left to tarnish, but Teen Vogue screwed themselves here, badly.

rhubarbquid··on Facebook's PR feels broken
It's almost like there's a reason the FTC requires disclosure of paid content...
rhubarbquid··on Ask HN: Why not to use passwordless login?
> Just use the GMail to avoid the delay with fetching third party accounts.

"Don't use the email client you prefer" isn't really a great argument against it being bad UX...

rhubarbquid··on Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?
You've probably built up a decent skillset that would be valuable to a growing startup, if you're interested in working for someone else for a change. Don't be discouraged that you're not an "expert" in any one field... being able to wear a lot of hats is a good thing for startups and small companies. If, for example, you joined a company as an engineer, your experience in other areas like product design will help you work with and understand the product designers there.

Joining a larger company than the one's you've founded might help round out your skills, too.

Most tech startups fail... yours failing doesn't make you a failure. Your other option is to take what you've learned along the way and try again. I've you've previously founded solo, it may be worth thinking about trying again with a partner or two, if there are some candidates to do that with that you've met along the way. They can help with skills and experience you don't have, and can help keep you motivated when you're feeling down.

rhubarbquid··on Making Music with Code – Intro to the Web Audio API (screencast)
Is something messed up for me, or does nothing much happen until the 1:30 mark?
rhubarbquid··on Show HN: fman – file manager for programmers
I have no problem with them charging for their software, but it's kind of lame that you have to download and run it before they even tell you it requires buying a license...
rhubarbquid··on Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
I'm curious why you'd be opposed to throttling background tabs. I could see it being a problem if it interfered with, for example, playback from things like soundcloud, but I'd also consider that a bug. Other than that, it seems like it would be a win in battery life for people on laptops. Maybe there's some use case I'm not thinking of or not aware of though.

Hasn't Safari been doing something like throttling background tabs for a while? I don't really know the details of how Safari and Chrome's new feature compares, but you may be equally unhappy with Safari in that respect.

I'm with you on the other stuff though, I always disable Flash, NaCl and DRM plugins. I also hate the forced Material Design UI. Having a Mac native app look like Android is visually jarring.

I tried switching to Safari, Firefox, and Brave a few months ago because I was unhappy with the direction Chrome was going, but ultimately ended up coming back to Chrome. The big things that brought me back: Safari isn't supported by Privacy Badger. With Brave, it was that if you open a new window and start typing immediately, it would lose the first few keystrokes... though I just downloaded the latest, and that seems to be fixed now. I don't remember off hand what stopped me from using Firefox

rhubarbquid··on Ask HN: What's the value proposition of RISC-V?
> I would have made a very strange push for developing a simple RISC-V core

I assume that's just a typo/autocorrect, but it makes for a hilarious mental image

rhubarbquid··on Jq – Work with JSON on the command line
I would guess: a policy against installing unapproved software on production servers, systems that don't have compilers installed (for security, jq appears to be C code), or debugging on client/customer machines
rhubarbquid··on Jq – Work with JSON on the command line
It might be interesting to try... but switching operating systems is kind of a big step just to try another shell.

Or is there some OO shell that works on Mac or Linux that I don't know about?

rhubarbquid··on FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
Linux was the only OS on my desktop in 1994...
rhubarbquid··on FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
It's been there since 10.10: https://developer.apple.com/reference/hypervisor
rhubarbquid··on FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro
and 2 sentences after describing themselves as someone "whose definition of "fun" includes spending 6 hours in the middle of the night figuring how to get dual boot working with UEFI."

So the author really enjoys debugging boot problems, but a custom kernel in a VM is just too tricky? Is there something I'm missing that makes that way harder than debugging dual boot?

rhubarbquid··on Show HN: ContactOut – Find Anyone's Email and Phone#
Wow, that's super creepy

This looks like dream tool for stalkers

rhubarbquid··on HP Unveils Mini Workstation
It has 6 usb ports, 2 of them type-c
rhubarbquid··on Solid metallic hydrogen has been produced in the laboratory
Metallic hydrogen was theorized to be a superconductor in a 1968 paper: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.21....
rhubarbquid··on Ask HN: Will you really move away from Apple hardware?
Not yet, the new Macbook Pro meets all my needs (assuming I can stand the keyboard)
rhubarbquid··on Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365
> None of the data in chat is really a "system of record" and the switching costs are minimal.

That's not true where I work. Slack's history is full of valuable information that we use all the time.

rhubarbquid··on Burning Ship Fractal
I started working on a web based renderer for the burning ship fractal a little while ago. It's far from perfect, I still consider it a WIP, but it works well enough to play around with: http://stevenmcdonald.github.io/fractals/burning_ship/
rhubarbquid··on The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.
$35 sounds a bit high to me...
rhubarbquid··on The SEC has temporarily halted trading of Neuromama Ltd.
It looks like the crap they used to put in spam emails to get past the early spam filters
rhubarbquid··on No Man's Sky: Update 1.03
I think we agree, I meant "more than we could" not "more than there used to be" ;-)
rhubarbquid··on No Man's Sky: Update 1.03
a) It never hurts to let the developers know you want it

b) In theory, you should be able to hibernate Linux and boot in to Windows

> I'd need to share monitors/keyboard for practical reasons, which is a ton of setup I don't really have time to get right

I use a fairly cheap KVM, which isn't problem free, but is less hassle than swapping cables between my macbook and my PC (used for nothing but games). Even swapping the cables between 2 computers isn't that huge of a hassle ;-)

rhubarbquid··on No Man's Sky: Update 1.03
> Mac used to be the same story, but now I would bet that at least 10% of indie game sales are on Mac.

One of the big things that changed was that Macs got a lot more popular and became a bigger market.

I think the main reason we don't see more games for Linux is that it's just not a big enough market (yet?)

rhubarbquid··on It’s hard work printing nothing
Printing those warnings to every end user isn't particularly useful though...
rhubarbquid··on Stalking your Facebook friends on Tinder
> That's kind of scary that you can get that information just by (if I read this right) having the user ID of someone you "matched" with.

Not quite... the API returns the Tinder user ID of all your Facebook friends that use Tinder. You can see who uses it, when they last used it, what picture they use there, etc.

You can also "swipe right" or "swipe left" using the API on anyone you have the Tinder user ID of, even if Tinder never matched them with you.

So it's scary in a "creep on your friends" way not in a "creep on strangers" way.

rhubarbquid··on Ask HN: How do you view large JSON files?
I'd suggest either use your browser with a good JSON viewing extension or a code editor.

> I want to be able to easily collapse and expand elements

That feature is often called "code folding", many programming oriented text editors do it.

rhubarbquid··on Synthesizing a Plucked String Sound with the Karplus-Strong Algorithm
That's FM synthesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2612
rhubarbquid··on New phenomenon breaks inbound TCP policing
It's also not Windows 10 specific, the post also mentions Office updates
rhubarbquid··on Bideo.js – Easy Background HTML5 Videos
Like other background videos I've seen, this prevents the computer from sleeping in Mac OS with Chrome (but not Safari).
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