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rodrigocoelhoon Ask HN: Has anyone got a job by contributing to open source projects?

Yes. I believe I have stood out and have been hired in some job applications relating to PHP/Yii because of a popular extension I contributed to the framework.

rodrigocoelhoon A legend reborn: Microsoft brings back the iconic Classic IntelliMouse

Wanted to buy new a Microsoft Wireless Laser Desktop 5000 Keyboard, but no luck. Best keyboard I have ever used. The mouse was also very good.

rodrigocoelhoon Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)

Also, this video: Can you spot the drowning child?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/69540825/can-yo...

rodrigocoelhoon E-Stop and Fuel, software that keeps you awake at night

Can relate. I 'stayed awake at night' when I had to write a program to calculate salaries.

rodrigocoelhoon Windows 10 could have synced email, contacts, calendars with all major providers

And you can download everything from Google with Takeout:

https://takeout.google.com

rodrigocoelhoon Show HN: HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics

You can subset the font with Fontello.

http://fontello.com

rodrigocoelhoon Improbably Frequent Lottery Winners

Never forget João Alves, the Brazilian politician who had won part of 200 lotteries, because, as he said, "God helped me, and I made money".

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/30/world/new-government-corru...

rodrigocoelhoon North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe Says

Someone posted this on Twitter: "Alarm from JP Gov. 'A missile was fired from North Korea. Please evacuate to a sturdy building or basement.'"

https://twitter.com/Chihokomoriya/status/902276766705664000

rodrigocoelhoon The Deal on the Table (1994)

[OT] And since you're there, try their "yoursky" tool:

https://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/

rodrigocoelhoon A day without JavaScript

uncss[0] works well for me. It removes the unused styles and then I run the css through a minifier to finish the job. The css filesize is greatly reduced.

[0] https://github.com/giakki/uncss

rodrigocoelhoon US quits Paris climate pact

This is The Weather Channel website (https://weather.com/) right now (reportedly, I can't see it due to my location):

https://twitter.com/johncheese/status/870372600693895170

rodrigocoelhoon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2017)

SEEKING WORK - Remote - Android developer.

My email is on my profile.

rodrigocoelhoon Brazil political crisis deepens as President Temer taped arranging bribe

Also at Bloomberg: Brazil Plunges Back Into Crisis as President Accused https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-18/brazi...

rodrigocoelhoon Show HN: See if a movie is happy or sad with sentiment analysis

Also interesting: Character-to-Character Sentiment Analysis in Shakespeare’s Plays (PDF)

http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P13-2085

rodrigocoelhoon Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors

Virtual desktops + Pomodoro work wonders for me, focus wise.

I still to have a secondary monitor again, though.

rodrigocoelhoon Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors

Virtual desktops + Pomodoro work wonders for me, focus wise.

I still want to go back to having a secondary monitor, though.

rodrigocoelhoon Ask HN: Please AWS team, make links work with control-click

Yeah, I saw that too. But I used Segment's analytics.js [0] several years ago and they solved this problem. Other companies should take a look at analytics.js and fix their scripts.

[0] https://segment.com/docs/sources/website/analytics.js/

rodrigocoelhoon Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounder?

I met a cofounder while interviewing potential customers during the early validation, pre MVP. His questions were smart, he knew the market and has been a founder before. Right after the meeting, I called my other cofounder and told her we should setup a meeting and get him onboard.

rodrigocoelhoon Unplanned Freefall? Some Survival Tips

How easy is it to control your body's attitude during a free fall?

rodrigocoelhoon CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked

What really reduces css filesize for me is uncss[0]. It removes the unused styles and then I run the css through a minifier to finish the job.

[0] https://github.com/giakki/uncss

rodrigocoelhoon The Weird World of Expensive Wine (2016)

I just watched Red Obsession. The documentary gives you some perspective about the recent price hike of the wines of Bordeaux, the Chinese and the expensive wine markets.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2419284/

rodrigocoelhoon Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?

I read Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming by Jeffrey Richter a few years ago and felt that that's how technical books shold be written. I felt happy every time I got to read it.

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft%C2%AE-Framework-Programming...

rodrigocoelhoon Why observatories shoot lasers at the Universe

With a bonus video: Paranal telescopes with Laser Guide star (Unique 360º night time lapse)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g77CxWquJEU

rodrigocoelhoon Program your next server in Go

Relevant: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/go-performance-tales/

rodrigocoelhoon State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions

Reddit Paris Shootings Live Thread: "We will no longer be reporting what's happening at the Bataclan. This is due to a gag request by French Police"

Source: https://www.reddit.com/live/vwwnkuplwr9y

rodrigocoelhoon State of emergency declared across France after Paris shootings and explosions

Reuters just reported: "French President Hollande decides state of emergency for all of France, borders closed."

Source: http://live.reuters.com/Event/Paris_attacks_2?utm_source=twi...

rodrigocoelhoon 7 Rejections

Reminds me of BVP's anti-portfolio: http://www.bvp.com/portfolio/antiportfolio

rodrigocoelhoon Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff

There's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPHkDc-CwoQ

rodrigocoelhoon How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username

Namecheap posted a tweet[1] with an offer to move domains out of GoDaddy:

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[1] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/428555697882935296