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somenewaccount1··on Shopify Is Down
Not anymore
somenewaccount1··on Stash: A self-hosted organizer for your porn, written in Go
Why is it marketed specifically for watching porn? What features are specific to that?
somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
Primarily just want the same app, but cheaper, and cross platform. A ui designed by a professional ux person would be nice too.
somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
This is the app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/proloquo2go-aac/id308368164
somenewaccount1··on Show HN: The Bitcoin Note – Secure, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Wallets in Cash Form
You missed the part where the private company 'authenticates the bill being cut in half' in order for them to surrender the private key.

So, in theory, the bill has the printed Satoshi value and doesn't need a smart phone to verify. Rotlmao.

In practice, the company gets hacked, loses all the keys, and now all these bills in the wild look legit but have no value. Also, they will be counterfeited like all other bills, except easier because thier not a government mint.

somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
Oh, yes, he has therapy - but therapist can't do everything either - a lot of reinforcement has to happen at home. Also, is been known that using apps like this (in addition to the therapy) can make a difference in when they learn to talk. It also gives them a voice while speaking is under development, and that in turn presents a lot more interaction and learning. The app would be just one of the tools in use though.
somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
I had this idea as I was filling in my kids doctors forms for the 10th time. If has to capture the paper page, read the text, and at the min let me drag a drop down menu of my own and families info.

Storing the info isn't enough, and forcing every business to adopt the same specification is unrealistic. I think only my high tech dentist has anything digital.

somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
And ideally, what isle it's in for an optimized shopping path. No, I don't want someone to pull it from the shelf and deliver, I just want to find it fast.
somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: What Is Your Problem?
Help my autistic kid Learn to speak. The closest app is $200 just to show him flashcards and says an audio clip.
somenewaccount1··on The Last Cigarette: Cinema’s most seductive prop
Cancer is a minority of cigarette smokers death. Heart disease and stroke happen way way earlier, and more universally, and more often.
somenewaccount1··on Show HN: An Ephemeral Microblogging App
Onboarding is weird, but I love the concept. Wish discovery was your landing page. Pay stub me fivr contractors to get real sample pieces of content a day.
somenewaccount1··on Nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium
Title is extremely misleading.

> "Right now, the tritium used in fusion experiments like ITER, and the smaller JET tokamak in the UK, comes from a very specific type of nuclear fission reactor called a heavy-water moderated reactor."

You litterally just need to make more of these heavy-water moderated reactors, which are rare and approaching end of life, but certainly you can build more of them if it was the difference between having endless energy or not.

somenewaccount1··on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
Sounds like you just need to redefine what "working" for the company is.

If your exhausting yourself at a desk for 8 hours x5 until complete burn out...well...then you go from writing 80% to 0%. How does that help the company? It really doesn't, and your overall average drops real fast (even though your not there).

Others maybe already get this (or live like it anyway) and spend less time typing code. Taking care of yourself so you can continue to contribute 4-5x of others is far more beneficial for the company in the long run.

Think about the "10x" companies - FANNG if you will - they have bicycles for people to go between campusus's, entire gyms, foosball, etc, etc. They seem like insane perks to the outside world, but it's what give balance to the 10x'ers whom work there - and they do it on company time.

Good luck!

somenewaccount1··on Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer
- Become a serious mentor. Not just in passing code review, but actually spend time teaching.

- Try documenting your processes and thinking to get to the right code answer. Like a company coding manual. This way it scales your knowledge rather than being stuck as the 'doer'.

- Consider taking on different challenges, like management, either at your company or another company.

- Reflect on what it would be like to really be in a room with other 10x developers - you will all think you have the right answer which is different from each other. Does that really sound like fun to work through on the daily? It was fun when you weren't so sure you were right, it gets less fun the more sure you are.

- Most round B/C startups have ~50 developers. If you have 350, you're in a massive machine. You may think your 10x everywhere, but it's possible your only 10x in your locality, where you know the entire code base. It may simply be time for new challenges at a new company.

- Ask if you can start writing for some open source project you like (new or existing) as "developer relations" for the company in some way. Yes, you will need to reduce your in house tickets - but it will keep you happy and working and contributing and still probably doing 50% of the work. And the company gets other benefits from it.

- Along the same lines, you can start writing technical articles to publish as dev relations/marketing. Theres a lot of value in those seo posts for a lot of companies.

Theres like a million ways to go with this, but hopefully these ideas help a bit. Best of luck and I hope you find some meaningful company to hang out with.

somenewaccount1··on The Crypto Crash Feels Amazing
Crypto opinions aside, I think this is a gifted author. He captures the experience of 'missing out' quite well.
somenewaccount1··on Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds
Officers of a company are held to a different standard when it comes to public statement.

Declaring it as personal opinion would not likely absolve him. 'Funding Secured' was also a personal believe, from the SEC standard it had to be substantiated in a meaningful way though, or gets fined.

somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?
It took decades because people couldn't afford computers, nor could they manufacture at today's modem scale, that's what took long.

In terms of adaptation, once someone had access to a computer, with few exception people found some utility in their daily lives for it.

IMHO, folks who have access to crypto are not finding any immediate use for it in their daily lives. And further, it doesn't seem to scale very well. Sure, enough coins exist, but they can't be transacted without massive fees. Ergo, doesn't scale currently.

If some breakthrough solves the scaling problem while retaining it's decentralized nature, it may gain some utility.

somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?
It was boring when you experienced it the first time, and also was going in a terrible direction.

The difference is, old people are the only one who knew it at the time. And now you are old. Congrats!

somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: Why has Facebook stopped improving?
Meta is the new Yahoo, just give it 5 more years.
somenewaccount1··on A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
For one, because his home server provides multiple utilities, not just this one project, and without docker he starts to have dependency conflicts.

He also like to upgrade that server close to edge, and if that goes south, he want to rebuild and bring his static site up quickly, along with his other projects.

somenewaccount1··on A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
You forgot the step where you had to provision that server to run the software and maintain all the systems security updates on the live running server, and that server requires all the same maintenance, with or without docker. And if you fuck it up, better call the wife and cancell Sunday plans because you forgot how it all gets installed and ......yeah, just use docker :p
somenewaccount1··on A tiny Docker image to serve static websites
I'm confused how the author considers thttpd more 'battle tested' if it doesn't resolve https.

Either way though, it's a great article I'm glad the author took to write. His docker practices are wonderful, wish more engineers would use them.

somenewaccount1··on What Le Corbusier got right about office space
You have to read to the last line where he points out the takeaway for managers:

"Life is always right;it's the architect that is wrong" -Le Corbusier

Ergo, make sure employees retain some control.

somenewaccount1··on Ask HN: Do you still monitor your SSL certificate validity?
If it's not AWS managed, yes.
somenewaccount1··on Mistakes I've made (2011) [slides]
She's been called a 'serual entrepeneuer' the same way I've been called 'good in bed' and 'a catch'...... but also 'complete asshole' and 'selfish'. I just leave the last two off my wiki :)
somenewaccount1··on Tell HN: 1Password6 is dead on Chrome 99. Indefinite license is finite
Couldn't it be argued that working in the browser is indeed a relative security update, specifically since it relates to a signing certificate?
somenewaccount1··on Tell HN: 1Password6 is dead on Chrome 99. Indefinite license is finite
happy to pay a little, that's whey we bought the lifetime license.

We got hosed when they started charging "a lot", and then not sharing the product that we helped finance to build when we bought our indefinite license.

somenewaccount1··on Tell HN: 1Password6 is dead on Chrome 99. Indefinite license is finite
switched to bitwarden 3-4 years ago and I never looked back. I voluntarily pay $10 yr so I can access the OTP feature. Over 20-30 years, if I pay $200-$300 for secure password management with no lock in, I am very happy.

For people thinking that they shouldn't have to support new OS's, I think that's bullshit. they are still in business. they have ample product that can work in modern os's. they have a business because we early adopters were made a promise and we agreed, that's why we paid $60-$100 to begin with. Then less than a couple years into we got fucked and told "we're no longer building that product that has been upgraded 6 times, just this identical one over here that cost a monthly subscription".

They are thiefs, and they should go bankrupt imho.

somenewaccount1··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
This is why the suicide rates will continue to climb.

They voted to keep the clock still, but used the wrong time.

I just wish the movie Idiocracy would stop turning into a f*&cking documentary. Is that so much to ask?!?!?!

somenewaccount1··on US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
does this make the clock flip-flopping permanent, or that we will stop doing it?

personally, i just want to punch the moving clock in the face. it nearly killed me last year when I was just starting to get an exercise routine at the end of winter, and then it sent me back into the dark by an hour, completely fucking up my schedule. i absolutely blame many of my problems on these flip flopping clocks, and I do not think i am alone.

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