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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricky-notaro/
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rnotaro··on Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sunsetting science research platform meta.org
I don't know how much you sold shotput.com but it's still in sale.
rnotaro··on Why doesn't the web version of ycom have a downvote for mobile?
You need at least 501 karma to get the priviledge to downvote other items.

You also can't downvote if the thread is older than 24 hours and you can't downvote any direct response to your comments.

Therefore, even on your MAC you couldn't downvote either since you are below that threshold.

Furthermore, there's not any official Ycom/HN apps on mobile platforms.

rnotaro··on Show HN: I built a fake VS Code to browse live cricket score in office
It should be at the top. We both know the reason why you've hidden it at the bottom of the page.
rnotaro··on I deleted data from production
> Create a good wheel environment, ask for help and *do hide stuff from colleagues*

Quoi? Do *not* hide stuff from colleagues.

That's probably what ended up causing `terraform destroy`.

Do not hide stuff from your coworkers. It's toxic in a workplace. Hopefully it's a typo.

rnotaro··on Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
Yeah, that was basically most of the bug template we were filling when I used to work QA at Warner Bros. Games.

    Summary :
    Steps to reproduce :
    Expected result :
    Actual result : 
    Build/Version :
    And a few more fields about platform, severity, etc. on Jira.
rnotaro··on Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
I went from :

  Iphone 5 (New but not most recent) | Screen broke from the inside after 3 years \
  -> 
  Samsung Galaxy S7 (New but not most recent) | Friend made me great offer for 2XL 
  ->
  Google Pixel 2XL (Used, 200 CAD) | gave the Galaxy S7 to my mother. She never had a Cellphone before.
I'm heavily thinking about upgrading from 2XL to Pixel 6 (Not Pro) and giving my 2XL to my mother since the Galaxy is rebooting randomly even after a fresh reset.

The Google Pixel 2 XL is the best phone i've ever owned and I've personally never had any issue with it.

rnotaro··on Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
>they want to go to google to perform a search from a dedicated "search" box rather than a URL input - essentially, they want what the firefox UI gave them.

I would not even be surprised if that kind of user would search "Google" on the dedicated "Search box" because they are more confortable performing the search on the actual Google website than on a UI element inside the browser toolbar.

rnotaro··on The Microsoft MFA system almost brought me to a nervous breakdown
In reality, the non-tech population don't really care about that issue.
rnotaro··on VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry?
It used the most restrictive setting. [1]

> @john-aws It does respect your prior settings. If you disabled telemetry before it will still be disabled even though telemetryLevel is set to "on" by default. We always take the most restrictive of the two settings. You can confirm this by setting Log level to trace and seeing no telemetry is flowing in the output channel. The old setting will never be completely removed to prevent enablement of people who previously disabled telemetry but it is deprecated so we recommend setting this new setting to "off" and removing the older settings from your settings.json

So the truth table would look like this :

  telemetryLevel  newTelemetryLevel  result
  off             off                no telemetry sent
  on              off                no telemetry sent
  off             on                 no telemetry sent
  on              on                 telemetry sent
The new telemetry level can be set to Off, Error, On.

The actual code is on github[2] and looks like this :

   const newConfig = configurationService.getValue<TelemetryConfiguration>(TELEMETRY_SETTING_ID);
   const oldConfig = configurationService.getValue(TELEMETRY_OLD_SETTING_ID);
  
   // Check old config for disablement
   if (oldConfig !== undefined && oldConfig === false) {
    return TelemetryLevel.NONE;
   }
  
   switch (newConfig ?? TelemetryConfiguration.ON) {
    case TelemetryConfiguration.ON:
     return TelemetryLevel.USAGE;
    case TelemetryConfiguration.ERROR:
     return TelemetryLevel.ERROR;
    case TelemetryConfiguration.OFF:
     return TelemetryLevel.NONE;
   }
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/134660#issuecomme...

[2] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/be75065e817ebd7b625...

rnotaro··on Things I’ve learned in my 20 years as a software engineer
Sounds like a toxic workplace environnement. I'm grateful that my bank/employer cares about our work/life balance. A burnout employee is not a productive employee.

I've stopped applying to place where they are not upfront with their PTO / Salary brackets. It sounds like you don't want people to take their PTO.

rnotaro··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
> The only way to make profit on bitcoin is to make someone else poorer by that amount. That's what makes it a ponzi - anything with this property that pretends to be an investment is one. Implementation details are irrelevant.

I'm really far from an expert in economics so I could be wrong but ain't that how the stock market works for non-dividends stocks?

rnotaro··on Why web3 distributed libraries will change the world
Can't you just game the metric and do transaction with yourself? (With other fake accounts)
rnotaro··on A notable JavaScript developer shamelessly copied one of my most downloaded nod
You were probably not aware when you sent your reply but you literally replied to ai.

iskin on HN is Andrey Sitnik (ai).

rnotaro··on Google CEO allegedly sought to keep Incognito mode issues out of spotlight
It does say that your activity can still be visible by the websites you visit.
rnotaro··on Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
I guess it depends on the peers.

I have 600 down and it was still choppy on the first load.

rnotaro··on Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
They could literally create a #DeleteAccount room on the Revolt "Server" or a specific user/bot that could handle deletion request instead of using emails. (Revolt is literally a communication platform!)

I created my account from an email address that could not send emails. (Unless I manually create an alias.)

They told me "Well, did you sign up just to delete your account afterward ?, You could look at the screenshot on the homepage."

I just wanted to test the platform, I don't need a specific reason to have my account deleted.

It reminds me of theses business where you can subscribe through internet but where you need to call them over the phone to cancel the subscription.

It was simpler to create a Curl loop to get my account deleted then sending an email.

rnotaro··on Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord
‎Please delete user 01FEY4XQ988G9BYFH45JKQZF5R. Can't even delete our own account....
rnotaro··on Show HN: HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile
It also detect my Keybase signature as a bitcoin address..
rnotaro··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
On the day that this blog post was written, CockroachDB was only at beta-20170112 and didn't even had a production release yet.

v1.0 was released on May 10, 2017 [1], so I doubt it was even on their mind when they started working on the project.

[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/releases/index.html

rnotaro··on Competitive programming is useless
https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...
rnotaro··on Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers
Secondlife have a fair spread and is player to player.

They take 3.5% of fee when you are transfering it to USD. (Sellers)

Buyers are charged charged a 7.50% transaction fee with a minimum of US$ 1.49 and a maximum of US$ 9.99 per transaction

------ The current spread on Lindex (SL Forex) is :

BUY: L$242 / US$1.00 (L$14,816 Remaining) SELL: L$249 / US$1.00 (L$29,411 remaining)

rnotaro··on How we’ve built the World’s Most Experienced Urban Driver
Yes, cheaper than any EU country by a big margin.

Bloomberg have a nice visualisation tool : https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/gas-prices/#20202:United-...

rnotaro··on Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble
Replying here since the other thread is archived.

Magento is not cloud based. It's a self-hosted e-commerce platform.

Adobe is really pushing for their cloud solution since they purchased them but the core is OpenSource and still maintained.

rnotaro··on Self hosting is important
Exactly. I had to migrate a legal canadian gun business website from Shopify to Magento because Shopify changed their policies years ago.

There's still some topics that are taboo and that some businesses refuses to touch.

rnotaro··on Shameless Work Influencers Are the Bane of LinkedIn
That's the main feature.

Parent mentionned:

> All this leaves out is the leftmost side (where your number of connections are seen), and the top blue row. The feed is entirely gone.

rnotaro··on Did a weak WiFi password lead police to our door?
I believe you're over estimating the skills of the average consumer. The average consumer usually don't even know how to access their router' web interface.
rnotaro··on Show HN: Inflation-adjusted Hacker News
It's a single 5$ registration fee per account. Nothing huge.

Once you paid the fee, you can publish as many extensions as you want.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/

rnotaro··on TikTok Remix Culture
The even started to roll-out 3 minutes TikToks to some creators. But the fact that you can't go seek into the video make them quite annoying to watch. (Or when you accidentally scroll up and need to re-watch the whole thing..)
rnotaro··on A URL Lengthener
On a related note, I did a client side (really badly coded) link lengthner 5 or 6 years ago. : https://rickynotaro.github.io/B.U.R.N/

It basically just base64 encode the url to generate the link and decode the url arg to do the redirect.

I also own this email address that I made just for fun: JesuisLeProprietaireDeCeNomDeDomaineTresLongBonjourCaVaBienAller@icirickynotarodemontrealetceciestunnomdedomainebeaucouptroplong.club

rnotaro··on Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's menubar
Some negotiations probably happened behind the scenes.

BOX, INC. v. DROPBOX, INC. | United States Patent and Trademark Office [1]

[1] https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91200450&pty=OPP&eno...

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