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Mac's Permission Problems with PDFs

hasitseth — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:54:09 +0000

I am not sure if I am alone in experiencing severe problems with Mac's Preview and file permissions since about 6 months. The files which you yourself have created on the same machine start giving problems with permissions. This happened with Mac's own Pages too. Despite making sure that the file has full edit permission for everyone, Mac's softwares are randomly generating file permission errors. I hope Mac's reputation for user friendliness remains intact for long despite such pesky file permission problems.

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New comment by hasitseth in "Ask HN: Learn C in 2023?"

hasitseth — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:27:37 +0000

I suggest learning C for two non-usual reasons:

1. You study the wonderful Kerninghan & Richie book. It's a great work of art.

2. C's architecture is just raw computing. Try building a toy interpreter or compiler and you will know most of CS in bargain too!

Good luck my friend.

New comment by hasitseth in "Association between meatless diet and depressive episodes"

hasitseth — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 13:22:53 +0000

What the study misses is that the participants Brazilians are likely to meat-eaters who were denied meet. Try run the study in places like India with partial vegetarians. If denied meat, they are not likely to have similar outcomes.

New comment by hasitseth in "Mailtags"

hasitseth — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 09:30:59 +0000

All of them still need plugins. This is just a plain user hack to include hashtags in the mail body itself. But thanks for all the interesting information. That said, I never believed it was any novel enough. Many must have thought about it earlier was my first thought.

Mailtags

hasitseth — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:40:28 +0000

#mailtags A hack is to use hashtags in emails. I have been using it since a year and it's worked out fabulous. This is how it works: if you include custom hashtags, the emails are far more searchable. It's like poor man's Slack!

The main benefit is the flexibility of creating hashtags based on projects, people, phases of an arbitration, categories of projects, etc. The great benefit of custom mail hashtags is that it needs no plugin and no additional steps. Just type the hashtag in footer of emails and make it far more search friendly.

It's easy to mess this up if the hashtag usage is not consistent. Also, the recipients of your emails may find the hashtags to be a curiosity. Best to keep a 'Note' or a sticky to keep hashtag usage consistent across all mails.

I had thought of filing a patent on this, but felt that getting over a 35 USC 101 or 103 would be hard :-)

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New comment by hasitseth in "Prince of Persia in JavaScript"

hasitseth — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 08:01:09 +0000

Wonderful programming and the game too. Great effort. Kudos.

New comment by hasitseth in "Amaya"

hasitseth — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:09:24 +0000

Mac's iWeb was one of the best. It created slow but beautiful website's using SVG objects. Apple killed iWeb in 2011.

New comment by hasitseth in "Resources for Amateur Compiler Writers"

hasitseth — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 16:31:28 +0000

Alan Holub's 'Compiler Design in C' is not mentioned in the books. Holub's book had well-written code. I had learned a lot from his code.

New comment by hasitseth in "Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged"

hasitseth — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:16:21 +0000

While we are discussing service, I have fond memories of IBM's service for Thinkpad. I moved from US to India. Before I left, I had sent a Thinkpad for repair. They told me a repair vendor (Selectron I think) needs a replacement motherboard from Japan (no idea why so!). They promised it will be sent to India to me. I doubted that. They not only shipped it to India but also paid customs duty as Indian customs won't accept it as repair but levied duty as a new laptop! Really miss the great IBM service.

New comment by hasitseth in "Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged"

hasitseth — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:07:17 +0000

Apple only wants to use India to sell its stuff, particularly old model goods. It has avoided for longest time to provide Apple service through its own stores. It uses reseller network that is not the same as having own stores and service. Now this is amazing that Apple won't accept returns in India when Apple goods bought via Amazon can be returned in India!

Alternatives for ancient- FoxPro/Clipper coder to make a comeback?

hasitseth — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 16:56:54 +0000

I used to code in FoxPro/Clipper two decades ago. I want to hack some projects. I find setting up a database, creating entry/report forms and scripting in current RDBMS environments quite demanding. Any suggestions for a RAD tool that is similar to FoxPro for my type of coders. I am comfortable with RDBMS concepts but would like a IDE and database with plug-n-play simplicity of FoxPro.

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New comment by hasitseth in "Ask HN: Are there books for mathematics like Feynman's lectures on physics?"

hasitseth — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:49:36 +0000

Calculus And Analytic Geometry by Ross L. Finney and George B. Thomas is a good introduction to basic calculus. I understand you want something covering everything in math. Courant is the best one and others have written about it a lot.

New comment by hasitseth in "Ask HN: Good public speaking course/resources?"

hasitseth — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 07:46:50 +0000

While others are recommending platforms to practice, here are my 2 cents. Most important asset for a public speaker is "clarity". Clarity of thoughts is a magnet for audience attention. Once you have an audience "connect", anything you say is gold. Clarity of thought can be improved by these two resource books:

1. Art of Argument - Giles St.Aubyn (ISBN 0800803698) 2. Influence - Robert Cialdini (006124189X)

After that, try reading some Bertrand Russell writings. See how your argument and persuasion quality jumps from above resources.