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rschmitty··on LastPass Now Checks If Your Sites Are Affected by Heartbleed
You are likely not to see a clear victor in this thread either. People who use/like LastPass will say so, and those who use others will throw in the vote there. You can also google 'Option 1 vs Option 2' and get a bunch of results. Best you try them yourself and see which one you like!

I use LastPass Premium

rschmitty··on Please remove StartCom Certification Authority root certificate
Seems unlikely to happen based on what was said in the thread.

> Whatever you and I think of this pricing structure, people free to chose any provider of certificates that matches their pricing interest and that people are knowingly or should be knowlingly buying a product that has a certain price structure when they get the certificates in the first place.

> Revoking a certificate is generally primarily in the interest of the owner of said certificate so there is incentive to actually pay this fee.

> I do not believe it is Debian's place to pass judgement on which pricing scheme people should prefer, even if you and I personally rather pay up front and have no costs on revocation.

rschmitty··on The Decline of the Mobile Web
Am I in the minority that I don't want an app for every. bloody. webpage. I visit?
rschmitty··on A veteran programmer explains how the stock market became “rigged”
I forget if it was on The Daily Show or 60 minutes, but the "solution" the new exchange came up with was to actually slow down his trades by fractions of a second such they all arrived at the same time. Once he did that his order fill rate went up and the HFT got cut out. He did this while a 60km fiber optic spool

So "super slowly" isnt exactly what he was doing

rschmitty··on Show HN: iOS Touch Visualizer
Perhaps record user interaction and playback later for analysis?
rschmitty··on Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014
Benefit to them, doubt we'll ever see the savings in the case of Dropbox
rschmitty··on The Creator of 'Doom' Is Now A Facebook Employee
April 1st is still many days away... "Teh Carmack" is up there with the least likely people I'd imaging being employed by Facebook.
rschmitty··on CSS Diner
This is very cool. I found you can cheat though depending on the table and task. For example level 17 is trying to show you :last-child but you can 'cheat' and just do `apple, pickle` and it let's you move on to the next phase

Anyways, very awesome way to teach, I'm sharing it with all my friends but would be cool to force the solution and prevent "hacks" :P

rschmitty··on Digital Ocean’s journey from TechStars reject to cloud-hosting darling
For #2 vote for this https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

and

https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocea...

I don't think the time behind the scenes will ever be zero so I'd rather 100% be guaranteed not to lose my IP address. Spin up a new VM and assign prod-new the IP of prod-old similar to how you might do it with AWS Elastic IP

rschmitty··on Sergey Brin's Home Page
Did/could Stanford claim any IP on Google?
rschmitty··on Show HN: Visit tracking for Rails
Any stats on how much of a load this puts on the existing app?

Could this send to redis or a delayed job and be eventually consistent to database for non-logged in users?

rschmitty··on Custom Colors of HN
Well that beats me trying to click on a color in that list... I'm like: "What an odd UI to select a color and this crap is broke anyways, nothing changes!"
rschmitty··on Mailgun Down – SSL cert is expired
They also are located in Israel which can add a few days to verification if you can't do it online or via phone.
rschmitty··on 2048 in 4D
DHH would probably ping-pong some code on this!
rschmitty··on Show HN: March Madness for Hackers
Using this for Buffet's Billion Dollar Bracket Challenge (because no one is going to win that anyways!)
rschmitty··on No Need for RVM or Rbenv on OpenBSD
I find using bundler and "vendor everything" a cleaner way than gemsets
rschmitty··on Free Fonts for 2014
There is so much crap like this on the internet that I use Multifox to simultaneously stay logged in to my personal fb/twitter and my fake fb/twitter for crap like this.

http://br.mozdev.org/multifox/

It's only 1 additional step of 'open in new identity profile' then these people can access my precious fake emails and non-existent friend lists :)

rschmitty··on DHH Ping Pong
As DHH offered to literally do some "code ping pong" I don't see that it is.

"If this is a poor example, pick a good example. I'll be happy to code ping pong you whatever example you choose." -DHH

HN comments are not exactly the best place to review code side by side. I'm glad he is participating and I'm looking forward to the comparisons

rschmitty··on Fucking Shell Scripts
Yes but current or future users want reliability, features, and speed. If you care about your users in the long term you should care about the project's maintainers.
rschmitty··on Amazon Accused of Cheating Customers Through Shipping Costs
I've had it happen as well.

My wife and I were comparison shopping around and she saw something on amazon (she wasnt logged in) but when I loaded that item on my computer (I was logged in) the price jumped up $10 and was available with prime shipping

It was still the cheapest we found, so we bought it anyways. But now we comparison shop more.

Such a PITA of a dance to compare Amazon, Costco, and local grocery/big box

rschmitty··on Ask HN: Which CRM for a solo-freelancer in 2014?
Trello or Asana is pretty easy to use

https://asana.com/guide/explore/videos/crm

Plus you can use those for your projects/tickets/personal todos too.

I hate having <Dr Evil>one million</Dr Evil> webapps to do <Dr Evil>one million</Dr Evil> things. Even if they aren't best in class for _everything_ there is something to be said for _good enough_ in a single location

rschmitty··on Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours
Hey man what are you doing! We can finally use our devices during take off and now you hint at keeping them off permanently! Eek! :P

I'm sure the first battery meltdown/fire on a plane is going to cause a riot in the news but the odds...

rschmitty··on IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 RC Introduces Sublime Text Style Multiple Selections
That is exactly what sublime could do, in your case you would enter the following (in sublime)

    CTRL-A  
    CTRL-L  
    list.add("  
    END  
    ");
I havent checked out intellij's shortcuts to do this yet
rschmitty··on Introducing HelloSign for Google Docs
Man.. not having been on OSX long discovering little things like this always puts a smile on my face, thank you!
rschmitty··on Incubators are Bullshit
Their age! Or at least the time when the term was coined, code monkey being the oldest
rschmitty··on Incubators are Bullshit
To be fair AppFog doesnt make claims of auto scaling like AWS :P
rschmitty··on Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
Would also be interested in some examples, just for curiosity sake. COBOL maybe? Wild guess at something specialized/scarce.

Personally, the only people I know in the 200+ club are in some form of management and rarely, if ever, code anymore. But then we are back into the anecdotal realm..

rschmitty··on Vagrant 1.5 and Vagrant Cloud
Hah yes! Exactly what we did
rschmitty··on Ask HN: What happens to older developers?
Congrats on the pay grade! but you need to look at averages not anomalies like yourself

300k is definitely not the tract most programmers are on

rschmitty··on Vagrant 1.5 and Vagrant Cloud
Excited for these new sync options like rsync and smb. I had been using smb shares on my VM in the past to get better performance
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