Hacker News: jdsampayo

New comment by jdsampayo in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

jdsampayo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:40:18 +0000

All workers are equal, but some workers are more equal than others

New comment by jdsampayo in "Infinite Mac"

jdsampayo — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:44:53 +0000

If you select Thousands of Colors it changes the resolution and everything looks like negatives, I thought it only supported 256 Colors, but unexpectedly choosing Millions of Colors is also supported. ex: https://imgur.com/a/nqo8v0e

New comment by jdsampayo in "Calling NSA to find your encryption key after a few bits were flipped (2010)"

jdsampayo — Sun, 24 Apr 2022 19:45:06 +0000

Veritasium has a video explaining cases of bit flip that maybe you find interesting:

https://youtu.be/AaZ_RSt0KP8

New comment by jdsampayo in "Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)"

jdsampayo — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:49:30 +0000

You can edit ::-webkit-scrollbar to always show it - https://codepen.io/jdsampayo/pen/zYprwao

Not a fan but could be forced if needed.

Based on - https://stackoverflow.com/a/7855592/1342097

New comment by jdsampayo in "Dracula Theme – A dark theme for many different apps"

jdsampayo — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:50:06 +0000

They have multiple countries, Mexico discount is 53% and I took it. I guess if someone wants to take advantage of this will seek the highest discount country, wonder which one is.

New comment by jdsampayo in "Internet Object – A JSON alternative data serialization format"

jdsampayo — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 15:35:25 +0000

Moderator should add (2019) to the title, as there has not been any update.

New comment by jdsampayo in "How to deliver constructive feedback in difficult situations (2019)"

jdsampayo — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:46:32 +0000

Maybe add a 2019 on the title?

Feels strange to read on the title header: PRODUCTIVITY TIPS AND APPS by PRODUCTIVITY HUB like if it was an original article from the website but at the very end there is the note 'All Rights Reserved for Dave Bailey' without any link to the original source:

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-essential-guide-to-diffic...

which is taken from Dave Bailey website (https://www.dave-bailey.com/go)

New comment by jdsampayo in "A joke about the difference between mathematicians and physicists"

jdsampayo — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 04:22:58 +0000

I remember a similar joke from a book some years ago from the school:

An engineer, a physicist and a mathematician are on a train crossing an unknown country. Suddenly, the engineer leaning out of the window says: "in this country the sheep are black!"; the physicist corrects: "in this region of the country, some sheep are black"; the mathematician limits himself saying: "at least from one of their sides."

New comment by jdsampayo in "From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love"

jdsampayo — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:31:29 +0000

It also works excellent on low quality gear, I have some Point of Sales with very old computers, they just need internet, a browser and a thermal printer.

Installed Xubuntu and forgot about those for years, the experience is still smooth, fast and the computers turn-on fast.

New comment by jdsampayo in "Consume less, create more"

jdsampayo — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 01:01:16 +0000

I Loved your article, I translated it to spanish for some friends that can not read english at all. I don't know if translating something counts as "creating", sometimes you need to change stuff in order to make sense in the new language but most of the time you don't need to think on new ideas, just different ways to express something.

Nevertheless, I do it because it helps me to relax, forget about the day-day problems, practice english and as result to make it accesible for my friends / family. It also helps me (or obligates) to understand the article deeper which makes those more memorable.

That (on my mind) helps me to consume / create at certain point in a more balanced way, as I need to spend more time on an article which makes it more valuable for me to pick responsibly the right one and not just live on the scroll-scroll-scroll-like-scroll cicle of most of social media.

New comment by jdsampayo in "Publishing Simple Books with Jekyll"

jdsampayo — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:09:23 +0000

One more "cons" can be hyphens, for a comfortable reading a book is normally justified text with hyphenation. Not sure if wkhtmltopdf will respect that

New comment by jdsampayo in "Studies Show That Pigs Are More Intelligent Than Dogs"

jdsampayo — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:36:50 +0000

"Several studies", "Other studies" which studies?

New comment by jdsampayo in "Swift is like Kotlin"

jdsampayo — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:27:18 +0000

"When you see that third dot, imagine opening the accordion slightly. Just enough to let one note from its chamber. The note is that end value. We’ll let the sky eat it." - http://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html#section2

New comment by jdsampayo in "My coffeehouse nightmare (2005)"

jdsampayo — Tue, 02 May 2017 18:48:00 +0000

It is the same? https://books.google.com.mx/books/about/Ground_Up.html?id=Pl...

New comment by jdsampayo in "Show HN: GeoScreenshot – Test your website from many locations"

jdsampayo — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 18:11:11 +0000

Tried but always got "Encountered Problem"

New comment by jdsampayo in "System Description: The Apple II (1977) [pdf]"

jdsampayo — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:49:17 +0000

woman on the kitchen 70's cliché propaganda

New comment by jdsampayo in "The boring front-end developer"

jdsampayo — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 23:35:06 +0000

I think you will like Angular.

New comment by jdsampayo in "Platforms for Freelancers to Find the Perfect Work"

jdsampayo — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:54:13 +0000

I created a profile in freelancer dot com about 3 years ago and one in nubelo dot com, never had a single job, the sites recommended me to make tests to increase my reputation, but the tests where not free, I paid like 30USD to be able to show some useless badges.

Waste of time, the best freelance projects and customers where by recommendation. Instead of these 28 sites, I suggest to focus in connecting people.

New comment by jdsampayo in "How I Grew My Company from $100 to $400M"

jdsampayo — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 06:16:05 +0000

Title should be "...from $100M to $400M"

New comment by jdsampayo in "Pure CSS3 calculator"

jdsampayo — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 14:49:17 +0000

This demo appears to date from 2012: https://plus.google.com/+NiklasvonHertzen/posts/Qo6T85W8sFQ