HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

timlyo

329 karma · joined January 16, 2015

submissionscomments
timlyo··on [dead]
Is this a competition to see how many times you can say the phrase html5?
timlyo··on Show HN: Hitman Simple Interactive Process Killer for Linux
This is an early version of a little program that I've been working on for a while. I'm just posting it here for a bit of feedback and in case anyone else finds it useful.
timlyo··on Ask HN: Who is not betting on Elixir and why not?
It is, but we still have colleagues to consider.
timlyo··on Google launches new security features to protect users from unverified apps
Might be a good thing for apps that try and looking like something else, G00GLE or FACEB00K could be missed, but having to type a zero manually instead of an O would (hopefully) eliminate that.
timlyo··on PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
What's wrong with pgAdmin4?
timlyo··on D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC
What's the use case for a garbage collector in rust?
timlyo··on Crowdsourcer – a non-money-orientated crowd sourcing alternative
Here's a link to the reddit post by the creator.

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/6gsp5i/i_...

timlyo··on Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari
I find the opposite. My phone is just in my pocket, I pull it out tap the fingerprint scanner and I'm ready. My card is tucked away in my wallet and takes a bit longer.

Admittedly being out of battery is a hard problem, but I chose my phone partly because it has decent battery life.

timlyo··on Business cancels Yelp advertising contract, negative reviews start pouring in
A link posted in that thread looks pretty interesting. Automated phone bots as a service.

http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/

timlyo··on LinkedIn’s new UI proves it doesn’t know it’s value to users
I get a lot more emails after creating an account. Makes me feel kind of popular I guess.
timlyo··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
I'm interested to see if it can fool Android's trusted voice.
timlyo··on Python, as Reviewed by a C++ Programmer
I find that within the Rust community people are amazing, it's just at the boundaries that I've found problems.
timlyo··on The glEnd of Zelda(): Automatic 3Dification of NES Games (2016)
Crt had colour bleed that blended the sprites differently and made things look better.
timlyo··on Introduction to Microsoft To-Do
Nice, it's great to hear a developer responding like this. I've pinned lanes.io in my browser I'll keep checking back.

One last thing, don't suppose you have an api? I'd really like to display my next task on my desktop status bar.

timlyo··on Introduction to Microsoft To-Do
The main one is the recurring tasks. having this would probably be enough for me to start using it full time.

Only allowing one friend seems a bit odd. A social feature without a proper social group. Although I can't see myself using this anyway so I'm not too worried.

I really like the idea of detailed insights and the goals, but these both make sense as paid features. They're the things that would make me pay if they could be proven to be useful, although I'm a sucker for statistics.

On a slightly unrelated note, it would be nice if we could click outside of a modal and have it disappear, rather than having to click X, like many other systems do.

Lanes looks really pretty, I love the design of the timer tab, and I'd really like to start using it. I've just followed you on twitter for any updates.

timlyo··on Introduction to Microsoft To-Do
Trying out lanes now. It looks really nice, but how limited the basic version is is a killer for me, especially when there are so many alternatives.
timlyo··on Rust Language Server Now Available with Rustup
Is this similar to Racer?

https://github.com/phildawes/racer

Edit:

Just found this on the github repo[1]

>The RLS gets its source data from the compiler and from Racer. Where possible it uses data from the compiler which is precise and complete. Where its not possible, (for example for code completion and where building is too slow), it uses Racer.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rls

timlyo··on ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
Kind of reminds me of the old table layouts, although it doesn't bother me personally.
timlyo··on LaTeX Tooling Guide
Although docker could be pretty handy for this these days.
timlyo··on Modern JavaScript for Ancient Web Developers
I used to use make for everything, although recently I've started using doit for some things.

http://pydoit.org/

timlyo··on Show HN: Tt – a Python library/cli for Boolean expressions
Might be worth supporting a few different table markup formats. Pandoc has some common ones in it's documentation.

http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#tables

Really interesting project though, I'll have to bookmark that web interface.

timlyo··on Show HN: Tt – a Python library/cli for Boolean expressions
Does it support outputting in LaTeX?
timlyo··on XMonad 0.13 released
Why did you switch to i3? I'm an i3 user looking at other window managers.
timlyo··on Copper is key in burning fat
That's a pretty interesting point. Never knew that.
timlyo··on Rust required to build Gecko
>recommend beginners to learn rust before C

This is one thing I've been musing over. Would a beginner see the benefits of rust without first understanding the drawbacks of C?

In my opinion they'd just see it as "this annoying borrow checker thing" and find it frustrating.

timlyo··on Lossless Web Navigation with Trails
I've considered moving back to Firefox just to have this again. It's such a great thing if you open almost everything in a new tab like I do.
timlyo··on Astronaut – YouTube videos with almost zero previous views
If you're logged in then you can go to https://www.youtube.com/feed/history and find it.
timlyo··on Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust
Copy and paste it in. For some reason the owner redirects traffic from hacker news.
timlyo··on Show HN: Castor, a live dashboard for your projects
Was I the only one who found that website really annoying? Everything animated, chat popping up when I didn't want it.
timlyo··on Markdown.css – Make HTML look like plain-text markdown
It seems to work by printing lots of `=` beneath, and then hiding the overflow. Inspecting and changing the title's width reveals more `=` and makes it possible to display half of one.
← PreviousPage 2 of 5Next →