Hacker News: flamtap

New comment by flamtap in ".NET 5.0"

flamtap — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:48:31 +0000

Wow! Hot take. What Azure services were you using?

New comment by flamtap in ".NET 5.0"

flamtap — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:43:53 +0000

>I expect our migration from 3.1=>5.0 will be a total non-event, but we don't want to risk any regressions during our current crunch phase

FWIW, I just did a find/replace across 66 projects for `netcoreapp3.1` => `net5.0` and it build and passed tests first try. There were a fair few new nullable reference type warnings though!

New comment by flamtap in ".NET 5.0"

flamtap — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 22:39:30 +0000

I just did a straight up find-replace for `netcoreapp3.1` -> `net5.0` across 66 projects, built and passed tests without a hitch. Zero issues so far outside of the warnings resulting from enhanced nullable reference type smarts .

New comment by flamtap in "About iSH’s pending removal from the App Store"

flamtap — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 20:58:11 +0000

Oh, rats. I was just wondering if a-Shell would get hit with this too. I get a lot of mileage out of that app.

New comment by flamtap in "Ask HN: Why is Reddit on mobile so obsessed with making me use their app?"

flamtap — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 16:45:45 +0000

> My guess would be it's meant to annoy you into submission

No reason to believe that this is not considered to be optimal by the company.

New comment by flamtap in "Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack"

flamtap — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 04:29:51 +0000

I find myself confused by this as well, surely people who are sufficiently technically sophisticated to own bitcoin won’t fall for “I’ll send you bitcoin if you send me yours first”?

New comment by flamtap in "Ask HN: Are YouTube ads getting worse?"

flamtap — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 14:19:53 +0000

If there’s one ad I get the most, it’s the God damned YouTube premium ads. I don’t know how many times I have to say no to the prompts. I wish there were a way to say “I will delete the app before I buy this”.

New comment by flamtap in "Ask HN: What makes a good technical leader – any recommended books?"

flamtap — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:50:30 +0000

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a perennial classic, though not tech focused. But that's probably okay in combination with more tech-industry focused literature.

New comment by flamtap in "My dad got scammed for $3k worth of gift cards"

flamtap — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 19:54:29 +0000

About the purchase of large amounts of gift cards; it’s not as uncommon as you’d think. I worked at a grocery store customer service office and it wasn’t uncommon to have people buy thousands of dollars in gift cards as giveaways or prizes for events. No questions asked, really. The store was very eager to pocket that money.

There should certainly be more checks and balances around that. Perhaps a personal limit, and requiring a registered business to be the purchaser above that. Or perhaps a redemption system.

But the incentive is not there for the stores. It’s of course better to sell gift cards than the equal amount of merchandise for them

New comment by flamtap in "A more efficient matching engine for HTTPS Everywhere"

flamtap — Sun, 31 May 2020 05:34:04 +0000

almost

New comment by flamtap in "I bought netflix.soy"

flamtap — Tue, 26 May 2020 04:45:53 +0000

Yes, the popular story about the 30-odd bystanders was broadly unfounded. In fact there were two calls to the police.

New comment by flamtap in "Shirt Without Stripes"

flamtap — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:00:29 +0000

In the Amazon app, a search for “shirt without stripes” now get corrected to “shirt without strips”.

New comment by flamtap in "Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls"

flamtap — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 23:28:00 +0000

Lexus also has a touchpad, and an interesting "tactile joystick" type of solution. Takes some getting used to but the tactile feedback goes a long way to reducing the need to look at the screen.

New comment by flamtap in "Gitlab's Guide to All-Remote"

flamtap — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:23:58 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

New comment by flamtap in "Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?"

flamtap — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:59:56 +0000

You can also set up 1PW to use a OTP itself. I use 1PW for OTP generation and for passwords (naturally), but my 1Password account itself is protected by my password + secret key, as well as an authenticator/OTP app that is not 1PW.

New comment by flamtap in "Ask HN: What's the best corporate password manager?"

flamtap — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:58:05 +0000

I don't use 1PW for teams, but I do use it personally and use it to store all my OTPs except my OTP credential to access 1Password itself. I use a different authenticator app for that (happens to be Microsoft, but that doesn't matter really).

So, while I think it storing storing your passwords beside your OTP generator isn't great, if both are locked behind another factor of authentication, you have mitigated that risk significantly.

New comment by flamtap in "Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)"

flamtap — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 14:40:40 +0000

As a Canadian, let me tell you that it gets even better when you eliminate the penny as well!

Toronto Stock Exchange Markets Incident

flamtap — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 21:33:01 +0000

Article URL: https://tsx.com/news?id=739

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438176

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by flamtap in "The $35 Raspberry Pi 4 now comes with double the RAM"

flamtap — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 19:00:14 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out. I literally bought a Pi4 yesterday to set up a Pi-Hole on, and I was choked when I read this headline!

New comment by flamtap in "Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings"

flamtap — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:40:27 +0000

Isn't that what they've been accustomed to all this time?