Hacker News: hrvbr

New comment by hrvbr in "Visual Studio Code 1.2 released"

hrvbr — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:08:56 +0000

It's Ctrl+ù on French keyboards. Maybe they customized it for Portuguese keyboards too.

New comment by hrvbr in "A New Origin Story for Dogs"

hrvbr — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:22:14 +0000

Same story from the CNRS:

https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/rethinking-the-origin-of-dogs

New comment by hrvbr in "Engineers Shouldn’t Write ETL"

hrvbr — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 16:33:15 +0000

Cheers for the beautiful website that doesn't require javascript.

New comment by hrvbr in "UBlock vs. ABP: efficiency compared"

hrvbr — Sun, 13 Mar 2016 15:49:18 +0000

And reversely uBlock Origin doesn't block ads on Twitter and Tumblr, which makes it much less useful to me than Adblock Plus.

New comment by hrvbr in "A Unicorn Is the Last Thing This Web 2.0 Survivor Wants"

hrvbr — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:34:55 +0000

For this kind of anti-adblocking that loads the full page before hiding it, we can just display and read the full page with the "article view" feature. I use the Clearly extention for that because Firefox's native version is rarely available.

But yes, it's a very bad business practice to give the middle finger to those interested in your products, even if you can't monetize their presence yet.

New comment by hrvbr in "A Battery Revolution in Motion"

hrvbr — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:02:20 +0000

The main point is that lithium is hard to get for European companies. Sodium is abundant in saltwater, which is good for European companies and good for a more massive use of batteries (electric cars and home storage).

New comment by hrvbr in "Ad Blockers Will Change How Ads Are Sold"

hrvbr — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 11:41:05 +0000

Yes, as an example of excessive advertising, the biggest concert hall in Paris, which people just call Bercy because it's the landmark building of this neighbourhood, has been renovated and is now named Accorhotel Arena. Stupid marketing people believe they can be perceived as the benevolent pygmalions of arts and sports but they so obiously want free advertising whenever journalists will refer to this place. It only makes me want to boycott their hotels.

New comment by hrvbr in "Beyond ad blocking – the biggest boycott in human history"

hrvbr — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 14:57:29 +0000

It's the boycott of a business model, more than of the companies who use it.

New comment by hrvbr in "Spotify apologizes for new terms and conditions roll-out"

hrvbr — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:26:07 +0000

Too late, I've just unsubscribed. This issue was a last-drop motivator, the primary reason being that I don't like paying artists I don't listen while the lesser known artists I do listen only get a few cents if anything of my monthly fee.

New comment by hrvbr in "The Battle of Waterloo, as it happened on June 18, 1815"

hrvbr — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:40:09 +0000

10 episodes per season is indeed too little for a show. Especially when you have like 20 main characters.

New comment by hrvbr in "Twitter Needs New Leadership"

hrvbr — Thu, 07 May 2015 14:05:06 +0000

Twitter's website has so many annoyances it is no more a pleasure for me to check it. For example:

- Photos are very badly cropped and clicking on the tweet does not diplay them full size anymore. We have to click a second time on the photo.

- Photos are now displayed above the text which somehow makes the bad cropping even worse.

- People who want to post photos have all moved to Instagram anyway. Twitter is an actor, not a victim, of this move. They seem to consider photos as a feature for advertisers, not for users.

- Embedded tweets (retweets with a comment) don't have functionnal links. Clicking them opens the tweet's page in a way that ruins the auto-scrolling of the main stream. The trick against that is to right-click on the embedding tweet's time and open the link in a new tab. WTF, designers?

- If one wants to post a longer text, Twitter leads them to create an account elsewhere. Twitter could easily just display the title and hide the longer text behind a click. WTF, strategists?

Twitter definitely needs a new leadership.

New comment by hrvbr in "Australia outlaws warrant canaries"

hrvbr — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:44:47 +0000

I think it's no one and for no reason. We're living in a hierarchist society (as opposed to an anarchist one). This hierarchy is naturally establishing itself in the greatest invention of our time: the internet and our computers.

New comment by hrvbr in "First C# 7 Design Meeting Notes"

hrvbr — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:12:01 +0000

Just yesterday there was this article illustrating how C# fundamentally can't catch-up with F# on some important characteristics:

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/is-your-language-unre...

New comment by hrvbr in "Google Loses Most US Search Share Since 2009 While Yahoo Gains"

hrvbr — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 09:37:27 +0000

Considering Microsoft's efforts on Cortana and AI in general, I don't see them closing Bing.

New comment by hrvbr in "Show HN: A simple “stateless” password manager for Chrome"

hrvbr — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:59:07 +0000

http://passwordmaker.org does the same thing and already has extensions for all browsers.

New comment by hrvbr in "Firefox 34 Launches with Yahoo as Its Default Search Engine"

hrvbr — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:14:13 +0000

I don't like the French version of Bing. One of the reasons is that it assumes I'm monolingual. Like, if I search for a film, I'll get the result for Allociné instead of IMDb. I much prefer IMDb.

New comment by hrvbr in "The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers"

hrvbr — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 11:09:21 +0000

It's a traditional way of singing in Mongolia I think.

New comment by hrvbr in "Nokia N1 Android Tablet Revealed"

hrvbr — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 10:30:48 +0000

This is from the independent Nokia that makes HERE Maps, not from the division acquired by Microsoft.

New comment by hrvbr in "Big things to expect from Emacs 25"

hrvbr — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:23:57 +0000

It depends on the quality of your screen. On my previous laptop I had a high-quality WLED screen and ST3 looked clearly better than everything else on Windows. On my current cheap laptop however, everything looks quite pixelated anyways and I actually prefer the rendering of gVim or Notepad++.

New comment by hrvbr in "Creepy visitor tracking using Linkedin"

hrvbr — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:03:49 +0000

Viadeo is more popular in France.