Hacker News: Morphling

New comment by Morphling in "Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox"

Morphling — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:54:53 +0000

I do work with web projects, but I hardly live in github, sure it's an important tool and I tend to visit the site quite often especially if I'm working, but I see no need to keep it open all the time, but maybe I'm not solving hard enough problems for that to matter.

New comment by Morphling in "Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox"

Morphling — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:52:27 +0000

See that "you don't remember to close them down" part gets me, or rather doesn't. I mean I have a lot of tabs open when I'm working, but at the end of the day I close my browser and I don't have any fixed set of pages that it opens or last session, it just opens on the new tab page and asks for commands.

I just can't stand if my browser has so many tabs open I can't read the what the hell it is from the header and since I always use browser only on half of my screen with editor on the other side (actually since I have 21:9 screen I've split it in 3 so I can have project | editor | docs) that gives me at most like 15+-5 tabs to work with.

But maybe I'm just the weirdo out of everyone.

New comment by Morphling in "YouTube: 1B Viewers, No Profit"

Morphling — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:19:16 +0000

"to read a full story" and I didn't actually even care...

New comment by Morphling in "Bunnyhopping from the Programmer's Perspective"

Morphling — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 07:55:56 +0000

Not bunnyhopping, but similar idea a game called Gunz: The Duel had many animation glitches where you could cancel animation lock with higher priority move. The action would execute, but the animation would be cut in short with a shorter animation which allowed you to perform a new longer animation move.

Commonly it was called kStyle or "korean style" in west since the game was korean and koreans came up with the bug. It made the game everyone was doing it flying through the map with swords swinging wildly it was a lot of fun and definitely raised the skill ceiling and someone how it didn't seem nearly as cheaty as the bunnyhopper in articles video.

New comment by Morphling in "Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox"

Morphling — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:16:09 +0000

I hear quite a few people talking how they have 30-50 tabs open, how do people manage something like that? And why would anyone need so many simultaneous tabs open?

New comment by Morphling in "Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox"

Morphling — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 19:13:55 +0000

Unless Firefox opens sites instantly (instead of 1-2 sec wait) then I don't see any speed benefit.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the author probably has a lot of heavy addons that do stuff that is not needed. Biggest example probably is AdBlock Plus which bogs down any browser considerably and poking around with family's and friends' Chromes I see that a lot of them have several ad blocking extensions as well as couple privacy extensions is it any wonder Safari or Firefox with no addons is faster?

New comment by Morphling in "Luna – Hack your sleep"

Morphling — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 21:35:23 +0000

I like the idea and the price isn't too bad either on it's own, but then I would have to get wifi lamps and a wifi coffee machine and a wifi door lock... I think I'll pass for now

New comment by Morphling in "Purism Aims to Build a Philosophically Pure Laptop"

Morphling — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 11:37:02 +0000

They talk about ensuring that open source works on the machine, anyone else concerned if they will try to inhibit close source software? Like this whole shitstorm around GCC?

New comment by Morphling in "Rapere Intercept Drone"

Morphling — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 08:52:00 +0000

Yeah, I'm not aerospace engineer, but couldn't you just put the roof like 10 cm above the rotors so it has enough air flow?

New comment by Morphling in "Rapere Intercept Drone"

Morphling — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:49:25 +0000

I wonder if you could just create some kind of roof over the rotors, thus negating the "attack".

New comment by Morphling in "“It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture..encryption products” (1997)"

Morphling — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 08:04:04 +0000

This might be a bit of a stretch, but if you were to send in plain text just something meta-ish like datetime and the actual message would be sent as image for example, could we get around this?

E.g. when your-favorite-three-letter-agency comes asking for decryption you just decrypt the plaintext portion for them?

New comment by Morphling in "Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers"

Morphling — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:29:28 +0000

Also there doesn't seem to be anything that is actually "countering" anything at the moment

New comment by Morphling in "Azure is now bigger, faster, more open, and more secure"

Morphling — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 12:34:47 +0000

I actually think Azure is nice platform, but they've effectively priced me out.

What I mean is that if I want a basic VPS on Azure it costs ~10€/mo to run the server for the month, but there are many VPS providers who offer a lot better hardware for same price.

I guess Azure is meant for bigger needs than mine where you can run 100-200€/mo by default and then scale up when needed, but since my little blog + test/dev server won't need to be scaled it just seems too expensive.

New comment by Morphling in "What is going to happen in 2015"

Morphling — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:52:05 +0000

At first Oculus seemed like a cool idea, but you can really only play "simulator" games with it, games where you sit in a vehicle otherwise it ruins the VR feel and you might as well just play on a monitor.

Only other thing I've seen was some sort of sculpting thing, but I'd imagine the novelty would wear out there pretty fast.

More I think about whole VR thing the less I think it will actually be a thing. I'm sure when Oculus Rift comes out for reals a lot of people are going to buy them, but I don't really see a lot of value for developers supporting them in most games, but someone comes up with killer app/game for it.

New comment by Morphling in "Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven"

Morphling — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:55:15 +0000

"But they are ugly and now everyone is teasing me about them. I want a refund"

New comment by Morphling in "Look, no hands"

Morphling — Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:01:18 +0000

I just wonder if she could've easily fixed all the issues by changing her mouse or how she hold it instead of opting for this nose-touch-pad.

If she is still doing thous 11-15 hour work days and her neck doesn't get tiered, I really think she might have had too hard of a grip on her mouse or just a bad mouse in general.

New comment by Morphling in "“I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port of Metaphone 3”"

Morphling — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 12:38:59 +0000

Am I missing something obvious here? What would change if this piece of software/algorithm was ported to Ruby? I mean Rubyists would get to use it, but what else would change? This whole thing seems very strange, like if someone would create a cure for a disease and give it out for free and tell everyone how it was made but insit that he be the one who injects every single patient personally.

New comment by Morphling in "USBdriveby – Exploiting USB in Style"

Morphling — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:17:52 +0000

This isn't really a new concept, but previously I've seen this attack used from USB memory sticks which modified firmware. The idea being that you could use them as sort of dead drop and the target would still be able to see that it's fully functional storage device and it would still act like HID (e.g. keyboard) and execute the commands.

But since Teensy is a different beast, maybe there could be some new neat things you could do with it.

New comment by Morphling in "You Don't Need JQuery"

Morphling — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:10:23 +0000

I guess if you are super optimizing your website then getting rid of all the useless stuff is fine, but at least I don't notice big enough performance increase to get rid of jQuery even if it's just for the $('selector').

New comment by Morphling in "Farewell, Dr. Dobb's"

Morphling — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 07:01:16 +0000

As I said I have no idea what they did and maybe I'm just being naive, but $1 million per year seems like plenty to keep a website online.