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I've been working a combination recipe inspiration / meal planning application [1]. The idea is that you have: - chef personalities generating interesting recipes every couple days…

I had the same thought - got some results for "GAK" https://www.alltext.nyc/?search=gak&page=1

Still not great, but do you know about the spacebar trick? Anywhere the keyboard is open in iOS or iPadOS, press and hold the spacebar. The keyboard is now a trackpad and you can e…

HyperComply | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | New York, Toronto, REMOTE (US or Canada) | https://hypercomply.com At HyperComply we're working to eliminate friction during the…

HyperComply | Senior Full Stack Software Engineer | New York, Toronto, REMOTE (US or Canada) | https://hypercomply.com At HyperComply we're working to eliminate friction during the…

The author didn't specify whether the donated iPads had LTE connectivity but did say that they very much enjoyed LTE on theirs. This is an edge for the iPad I think? Not sure how t…

This is an issue I've seen with programmers that hop around companies every year or two - they rarely get to see how their software choices play out in the long term and so never r…

Once you've logged into facebook from the device, they likely created a device fingerprint for your device: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint . This would allow them…

Has anyone here had experience with this type of "decision automation" platform? Bryter looks very well put together, I haven't worked anywhere that was using software like this be…

This you can actually fix - check out Settings -> Advanced -> Input Options for enter behaviour in code blocks.

Agreed! The ORM I'm currently using has been setting text for all my `string` columns by default and I was feeling the need to go fix a few, so this is one of those magical times w…

A large portion of the cost of high performance hearing aids today is not not the hearing aids themselves, its the overheads of the local office which are amortized over very few l…

I also do this, but I'm not sure that it's unique to hacker news. The immediate example that comes to mind is that while one might not watch something like a Presidential Address, …

We played with this a bit using both cloudfront and other cdns. While we did see some small improvements, it wasn't nearly as good as we were expecting on the upload side. It may b…

Possibly referring to jQuery 2 dropping support for IE 8 and down?

Agreed! I've been trying to put a list like this together for Big Data use cases (hadoop, storm... ??) and have had trouble finding up to date resources as the space moves so quick…

This may be naive, but would it be possible for the voltage booster to only start 'boosting' after the battery falls under a certain voltage threshold? That would be seem to solve …

Was surprised by this so just did a little research. It appears ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18578439/using-requests-... , http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/commun…

The SNI stuff ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication ) helps with this if you can do without XP support.

For my previous use cases, it's ideal for dynamically created subdomains of a web application. If I know ahead of time, it's easy to grab a cert for any subdomain. However if a use…

I haven't personally used the product yet, but it looks like they have a desktop client to sync code to local repositories (dropbox style). That way you could at least code when of…

Was surprised not to see God ( http://godrb.com/ ) here, has it fallen from grace?

Fair but sometimes it's unavoidable when you're trying to use third party APIs such as Facebook or Google. The only option is to allow some sort of external login (be it oauth or s…

Great article! Why is it that the encoded string needs to be divisible by four before you can decode it?

I find this happening more and more often, quite often I'll have to pay as much as a $5 premium for the digital version.