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Show HN: Monte Carlo simulator for March Madness bracket pools(madness.imranh.org)
2 points by imran3740 6mo ago|0 comments
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Moby Dick Workout(hogbaysoftware.com)
3 points by imran3740 3y ago|0 comments
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by imran3740 5y ago
The $10/mo is for a subscription to Setapp, which bundles a bunch of apps into one subscription service.
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Punycode(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by imran3740 6y ago|0 comments
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Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor(kakoune.org)
3 points by imran3740 6y ago|0 comments
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Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)(stokely.com)
57 points by imran3740 6y ago|15 comments
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by imran3740 6y ago
I'd also recommend Neovim[0], a community-led fork of Vim. One of the focuses of Neovim is exposing an API that lets other apps embed a headless instance in their UIs. This lets you use your Neovim editor along with all its configurat
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Our Chrome Extension Is Safe(blog.pushbullet.com)
328 points by imran3740 6y ago|197 comments
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by imran3740 7y ago
I feel like the keyboard issue is the prime example of why companies shouldn't have monopolies on who runs their OS. Sure on the one hand, they control everything and when things work, they Just Work (TM). On the other hand, they contr
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by imran3740 7y ago
It's essentially encrypted text, which Git handles just fine.
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by imran3740 7y ago
I actually do this with the subkeys I put on my Yubikey, and thanks to the NFC capability, I can use it on Android. I've been wanting to switch to a Yubikey with USB-C, since both my laptop and phone have that port and I don't hav
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by imran3740 7y ago
I use pass[0], which is essentially just a wrapper on top of Git and GPG. All your secrets are stored in text files that are then encrypted by your GPG key, which is then tracked in a Git repo that you can store anywhere. I use the PassFF e
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by imran3740 7y ago
Same with Notion. If you read their privacy policy, data is not stored encrypted at rest, so I wouldn't view them as privacy-friendly.
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by imran3740 7y ago
> Press a button and the screen would push back and/or buzz What do you mean by "press"? "Pressing" a button (ie. pressing down on it) requires a bit more force than just touching it, so this seems like bad UX to
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Cloudfall: Rethinking how technology uses our personal data(thecloudfall.com)
1 points by imran3740 7y ago|0 comments
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Slack (2017)(thezvi.wordpress.com)
1 points by imran3740 7y ago|0 comments
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by imran3740 7y ago
Zvi Mowshowitz put the concept of "slack" well: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/slack/
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by imran3740 7y ago
No, this does not preserve the history of the repo, just gives a single commit with the existing files. You might also think of this as cloning, then squashing down the entire history (well, everything in master anyways) to a single (root)
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by imran3740 7y ago
I find it funny that Apple themselves mentions that for "Reader" apps users can make purchases outside of the iOS environment, but developers are expressly forbidden from even mentioning this in their app.
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Project Mainline: Android Security Updates Through the Play Store(theverge.com)
2 points by imran3740 7y ago|0 comments
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The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf](web.mit.edu)
284 points by imran3740 8y ago|157 comments
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by imran3740 8y ago
What about a physical killswitch goes against Apple's design? The iPhone has always had a ringer/vibrate switch on its side since it was introduced. Obviously it doesn't do anything hardware-wise, but it's still a switch
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by imran3740 8y ago
Relevant article from the socialist Current Affairs magazine: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/everyones-a-leftist-o...
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by imran3740 8y ago
Just checked, calc fails at 11^0.41703 (curiously not at 41703, but 41704, maybe a floating point thing). Maybe it changes base to e and uses the Taylor series for e^x, but fails if x is too precise for what it expects?
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Apple bans on-device cryptocurrency mining(theverge.com)
1 points by imran3740 8y ago|0 comments
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by imran3740 8y ago
I mean, USB-C seems to be the direction we're going anyways, plus it offers a lot more flexibility for audio eg. allows for active components like a higher-end DAC or amp on the headphones. Most people probably wouldn't really car
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by imran3740 8y ago
Right, which is why you could argue that downtick was orchestrated. In that article you linked Pai cited research claiming investments went down, but Free Press found otherwise.
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by imran3740 8y ago
I'm really not sure, that's Pai's argument. It seems to be a mixed bag [1][2]. Some ISPs don't mind the regulatory burden, and some don't really notice it. Bigger ISPs (like Verizon) also claim that this regulation
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by imran3740 8y ago
> Port shortages Would it hurt anyone to put two USB-C ports on a smartphone? Thank goodness my phone still has a 3.5mm jack, but some people would like to charge their phone and listen to (wired) audio without having to buy an adapter
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by imran3740 8y ago
By virtue of this state being regulated, smaller businesses have to spend a non-trivial percentage of their money ensuring compliance with regulation.

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