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erichurkman

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About erichurkman

Current: engineering @ Carta (boomerang); building the operating system for venture capital.

Former CTO at SAY in NYC (acq. Robinhood); modernizing the shareholder franchise.

Former CTO @ Carta; led 60+ engineers from $0 to Series C.

My views and opinions on Hacker News are my own and not necessarily representative of the views and opinions of my employer.

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    Is that 30,000 limit per extension, or global?

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    Comment #34776529

    A bit like Numi.app for Mac. Neat.

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    Comment #33154713

    Do you mean uBlock Origin is no longer being maintained? https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases shows many recent releases?

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    Comment #33075938

    > As someone who got involved in an open-source version of the Ultima Online server, this is a fun read Ultima Online emulators were what took small interest for me and blew it up …

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    Comment #32270124

    Floods in Thailand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Thailand_floods#Damages_t...

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    Comment #32089647

    The key is in the 'congratulations' email: > Please note that, on acceptance of this employment offer, the following equipment will be deliver to you to set up your home office, th…

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    Comment #32058833

    I found myself voting against colors more than I was voting for colors. Anything wins against the harshness of chartreuse, except a somehow _worse_ chartreuse.

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    Comment #32007604

    Aside from the JIT change, those all sound like pluses to me!

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    Comment #31523727

    Most startups offer a 90 day window to exercise after you leave. Some companies have extended that to longer (caveat being they convert to NSO grants after 90 days).

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    Comment #31499816

    And still no way to un-block street view from my address. It's the only house on the block that is blurred, which makes it _less_ private. (The previous owner had it blocked.)

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    Comment #31333393

    My most recent one was Google Maps routing me off of interstates onto narrow rural roads to save a few minutes. At dusk. In the midwest. Clearly no one working on that algorithm ha…

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    Comment #31174075

    McBorker, Chaos Monkey's cousin.

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    Comment #31021296

    Google used to allow you to block individual domains right from the search UI. It was discontinued in 2011. There are numerous extensions to block domains, like uBlacklist: https:/…

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    Comment #30834592

    So was Crazy Earnie's Emporium [0] from Brave Little Toaster! [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glJgOtyM8k

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    Comment #30091273

    > I don't use my Boss with my phone or on the go which is, generally, where the AirPods experience 90% of their quirks. My experience is the opposite. When I'm not on the go, the l…

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    Comment #29772657

    Don't forget to add in the folks who technically recovered from COVID but are suffering lingering conditions like scarred lung tissue, kidney damage, atrial fibrillation, myocardit…

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    Comment #29639334

    Even better if your language supports it: use named escape sequences so you don't have to look it up. "\N{RIGHTWARDS ARROW}" vs "\u2192"

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    Comment #29099249

    > Will they remove the feature entirely or just plan to change up the colorways available? At least with this feature Mozilla told us how long it'll be before they remove it.

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    Comment #28831030

    FWIW this is how Homebrew, the most widely used package manager on macOS, does it. As an example, check out the 'formula' for installing Zoom: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-…

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    Comment #28450289

    https://agenda.com fit the bill for me. Offline use (though can only sync today through iCloud and Dropbox, I think, which sucks - but you can sync folders manually), pulls calenda…

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    Comment #28151742

    Does that new "core" prevent you from syncing via iCloud?

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    Comment #28146949

    Wow, talk about being buried. (Curmudgeon engaged) These company communications are just a few ironic emojis away from fitting in with Facebook MLM spam and don't instill much conf…

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    Comment #28145687

    Do you have a link to read more about the loss of iCloud sync? If that's accurate, goodbye 1password. I was irked (but understood) the move into a subscription model, but this step…