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rickharrison

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Co-Founder @ Meadow (W15) (https://getmeadow.com)

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rickharrison··on 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers
Boycott what products? I can't boycott my electricity. There is only one provider.

Re #2) I am a tahoe resident and these data centers aren't in my towns. They are far away. I'm not blaming the data centers for these problems, I just disagree with OP that "Tahoe residents kicked the can down the road". Many of us just go to work, take care of our families, and pay our electric bill. Just not sure how this is our fault.

rickharrison··on 50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers
What exactly am I supposed to do as a resident to change how a state government regulated utility operates? Please respond with something other than "Vote", which I already do.
rickharrison··on The map that keeps Burning Man honest
This 100%. They only care about their playa. As soon as they are off, their considerations go out the window and they trash every other town they want to.
rickharrison··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
- 1Password used to support Dropbox syncing without a subscription. They allowed you to keep using the app, but they removed support for auto-filling logins from dropbox in Safari or Firefox. You could only auto-fill from vaults that you paid monthly for. Whatever, they win, I started paying monthly.

- They broke search in the past few months. I have multiple accounts with the same service (i.e. google, mercury) for personal and business. Now when searching it displays gibberish like 2FA backup codes from the notes instead of just having `${title} - ${username}` like it had for years

- They completely changed the left bar and moved around the entire UI multiple times. Credit cards used to be a simple click on the left side. Now I have to click "All Items" on the left side, then find the dropdown for "All Categories", click it, scroll down to Credit Cards and click on that.

It really comes down to the fact that it's a password manager. All it has to do is store passwords and fill them in when I need to sign in somewhere. Why has the UI fundamentally changed multiple times over the years throwing away all learned user behavior.

EDIT: There's also just the intangibles. I can't always remember specifics, but I "Feel" like 1password has been fighting me for years. I don't feel that way about many other pieces of software I use. 1Password just feels hostile in how they change/update things.

rickharrison··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
1password has progressively gotten worse every year for the past 5-10. 1password team if you are reading this, please stop making your software worse. Search which was great for years is now terrible and has jumbled results.

Some software should just be considered "done" and never changed again. 1Password is one of those things.

rickharrison··on Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout?
Hi, I'm the developer of Narwhal. I'd love to know why you think it sucks?
rickharrison··on Apollo: An iOS Reddit app built for power and speed
Creator of narwhal here! Thanks for the kind words. We are working on an all new version and hope to share something soon :)
rickharrison··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
Meadow (YC W15) | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | https://getmeadow.com/dispensary-software

Meadow builds the best software for the cannabis industry. Our modern Point of Sale helps power hundreds of dispensaries from large retailers to small mom-and-pop delivery services.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/meadow

Here are our open roles:

- Senior Full-Stack Engineer: https://getmeadow.com/jobs

Tech Stack: Node.js React PostgreSQL Swift Redis

rickharrison··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Meadow | Senior JavaScript Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Meadow (YC W15) creates products for the cannabis community. We help patients find access to the medicine they need, and we create software to help medical cannabis dispensaries run their organizations. The people at Meadow work on challenges everyday that range from crafting consumer product interfaces to back-end SaaS logic.

We are hiring our first engineer, but the fourth member of our engineering team (3 of our co-founders are engineers). Meadow is comprised of multiple React client applications alongside a Node.js back-end, and we are looking for a strong JavaScript engineer to help shape the future of these applications.

More info here: https://getmeadow.com/jobs

Email work <at> getmeadow.com to apply.

rickharrison··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Meadow | JavaScript Engineer | San Francisco, CA | Full Time | ONSITE

Meadow (YC W15) creates products for the cannabis community. We help patients find access to the medicine they need, and we create software to help medical cannabis dispensaries run their organizations. The people at Meadow work on challenges everyday that range from crafting consumer product interfaces to back-end SaaS logic.

We are hiring our first engineer, but the fourth member of our engineering team (3 of our co-founders are engineers). Meadow is comprised of multiple React client applications alongside a Node.js back-end, and we are looking for a strong JavaScript engineer to help shape the future of these applications.

More info here: https://getmeadow.com/jobs

Email work <at> getmeadow.com to apply.

rickharrison··on The Evolution of Flux Frameworks
To be fair, facebook only publishes the dispatcher. You are on your own to figure out your stores, action creators, hooking it up to components, etc.
rickharrison··on Mobile Web App Checklist
Does android support the -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; property?
rickharrison··on Show HN: Narwhal – iOS 7 app for Reddit
Yes, that is on the list of things we are planning to develop.
rickharrison··on Show HN: Narwhal – iOS 7 app for Reddit
It has only been in development for a couple months so it does not have those features yet. I wanted to get the core browsing functionality done as quickly as possible and get it out for some feedback. All of the features you mentioned are on my list and I hope to have them done soon!
rickharrison··on Why does Ember.js rock?
The advantage comes in for organization and simplicity of the code. I don't have to write any jQuery like for $("#item').html(). I just set a property on the model and it updates.
rickharrison··on Why does Ember.js rock?
I just used ember to build a side project (http://bests.com) and it turned me into a huge fan. It is great how little code you need in ember to tie an API with a UI in the browser.
rickharrison··on Parsley.js: never write a single JavaScript line to validate your forms
This library looks great! I really like the functionality and the html requirement definitions.

I don't want to hijack, but I just want to link to the form library I wrote a couple years ago. It has a little less functionality, but it is a little lighter and has no dependencies. It is here: https://github.com/rickharrison/validate.js

rickharrison··on Poll: What compiler do you use for iOS development?
I use LLVM mainly for the ability to put ivars in a class extension. I.E.

@interface MyClass() { MyNewIvar *ivar }

@end

rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
I will be adding server-side js support, so this will be a definite use case.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
Thanks :) I look forward to more pull requests coming in.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
I like this idea a lot. I chose to start out with the callback_ approach due to trying to mimic the CodeIgniter API. However, this would be much easier especially for just a regex.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
Not yet. This is just a first version that I wanted to get out to see what people thought. From here, I can start working on features like HTML5.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
I debated this for a while. In the end, I ended up going with the CodeIgniter style of piping. I may just add support for both.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
It isn't in there yet, but that is definitely something I wanted to add.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
I completely agree. I will probably add a note in the docs to remind people that you should always still perform server side checks.
rickharrison··on Show HN: validate.js - lightweight JavaScript form validation library
Thanks for letting me know. I just pushed up 1.0.1 with this renamed.
rickharrison··on Show HN: Our photo print & ship library for iOS
I believe that is only for subscription services. There are still plenty of e-commerce applications on the App Store. Also, Apple unfortunately only supports in-app purchasing for digital goods (and ours is physical).
rickharrison··on Canvas.js
Actually this is canvas.coffee. I would be much more interested if this was actual Javascript.
rickharrison··on Facebook’s Modern Messaging System: Seamless, History, And A Social Inbox
Interesting question to people in our space: When will facebook become "the internet" for non-technical people?
rickharrison··on The Day US Customs Found A Bullet In My Pocket
A bullet does not signal any form of terrorism. What can you possibly do with one bullet without any form of firing it. Also, he hardly detailed how to revoke your citizenship; it was just one sentence. I guess I can understand how these agents would not understand the intellectual curiosity of a trip to this part of the world.
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