Hacker News: amoeba

New comment by amoeba in "uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari"

amoeba — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:04:47 +0000

Same issue on macOS with Safari 18.5. I think it might require a newer version (18.6), see https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/405.

New comment by amoeba in "Show HN: TerminusHub, Distributed Revision Control for Structured Data"

amoeba — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 06:42:18 +0000

Not OP but good question. The diffs end up being semantic and not merely a difference of triples. This is due at least in part to the open world nature of RDF and concepts such as reasoning and materialization.

New comment by amoeba in "Apple acquires Dark Sky"

amoeba — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:16:30 +0000

Opposite experience here. Services like Dark Sky and Wunderground are so inaccurate up here in Alaska that it's dangerous. NWS is also often pretty wrong but way less wrong than anything else. Interesting to hear your

New comment by amoeba in "Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities"

amoeba — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 09:41:39 +0000

Does turning off "Correct Spelling Automatically" help for your use case? Check it out in the Edit menu.

New comment by amoeba in "A used 2015 Retina MacBook Pro might be the best MacBook you can buy today"

amoeba — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 08:31:48 +0000

My 2012 Air feels, in many ways, a lot more performant than my 2016 Pro. The Air is the best computer Apple has made in over a decade.

New comment by amoeba in "Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server"

amoeba — Mon, 06 May 2019 08:48:28 +0000

Interesting, thanks for the response!

New comment by amoeba in "Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server"

amoeba — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 19:47:46 +0000

What was the reasoning?

New comment by amoeba in "Lua-Based Mac OS X Window Manager"

amoeba — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:23:45 +0000

Great, thanks for the explanation!

New comment by amoeba in "Lua-Based Mac OS X Window Manager"

amoeba — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 23:59:29 +0000

It's an interesting project for sure. I especially like being able to manipulate Finder menus with this.

For someone using Slate (js) that has also read your docs, I'm not sure what you mean by more integrated. Could you elaborate on the use of that word?

New comment by amoeba in "XeTeX: A modern LaTeX with proper OpenType and Unicode support"

amoeba — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:20:01 +0000

Not XeTeX but MacTex-2009 is great on SL. http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/

New comment by amoeba in "[Ask HN]: Best RoR references."

amoeba — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:38:53 +0000

You might take a look at http://railsapi.com. Click "build your custom package" to see what they provide.

New comment by amoeba in "PDFs in Pure Ruby"

amoeba — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:55:58 +0000

The PDF spec is rather long but the basic format is simple enough. Check out http://yob.id.au/2009/11/12/intro-to-the-pdf-file-structure.... for a short intro.

New comment by amoeba in "Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All"

amoeba — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:57:51 +0000

Statistics will save us all.

And for the HN folks that like to Lisp it up:

http://incanter.org/

New comment by amoeba in "Poll: Excel or Numbers"

amoeba — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:44:38 +0000

New comment by amoeba in "An unobtrusive registration and login form"

amoeba — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:56:49 +0000

I found this too.

New comment by amoeba in "The Ink Efficiency of Common Typefaces"

amoeba — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:06:15 +0000

While his approach is unlikely to be close to the true ink efficiency I give it points for a being a creative way of representing the relation.

New comment by amoeba in "Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX"

amoeba — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:03:30 +0000

This is immensely useful. Would love to see support for custom drop-zones with custom actions. For example, allow the user to change the width from 1/2 screen to 1/3 or 1/4. Or even 1/2 width and 1/2 height instead of 1/2 width and full height.

New comment by amoeba in "Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX"

amoeba — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:01:32 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I've been using TwoUp for a while and have found it useful. This is even better.

New comment by amoeba in "Latest Chromium builds for Mac OS X support Chrome Extensions"

amoeba — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:27:32 +0000

They took extensions away from Chromium for a few days and re-enabled them a bit ago.

New comment by amoeba in "Ask HN: Where do you get your scientific papers from?"

amoeba — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:58:16 +0000

I use this, mixed with Google Scholar, even though I have access to Web of Science through my university. Google's doing a good job.