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New comment by poops in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

poops — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:34:17 +0000

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New comment by poops in "You'll regret using natural keys"

poops — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 02:33:02 +0000

I work across multiple machines with different pointing devices (regular mouse, vertical mouse, touchpad), and have no issues double clicking to select a word. Dragging from the start of a word to the end can sometimes take multiple tries. I may miss the first letter. I may drag too far. The vertical mouse isn't great at holding a selection. It's not a huge deal, but it's an annoyance that I don't run into working with Stripe IDs.

New comment by poops in "Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?"

poops — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:23:48 +0000

https://html5zombo.com

New comment by poops in "Make your website a black hole to big tech"

poops — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:46:44 +0000

Google knows what's going on w/ 70% of your visitors, as opposed to 100%

New comment by poops in "Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?"

poops — Mon, 07 May 2018 14:14:02 +0000

Since iTunes has been getting buggier and buggier for me (and I'm trying to switch to programs that run on all platforms), I've replaced with...

beets http://beets.io/ for library management

mpd https://www.musicpd.org/ for serving music &

ncmpcpp https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/ for playing music (which I alias to `music`)

New comment by poops in "Show HN: A workout logger written using React/Redux"

poops — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 01:01:54 +0000

I actually built something similar using React/Redux, but I've been moving away in favor of plain old Javascript. Usually I'm working out at home and using my laptop, but if I'm out at a friend's house, I'm using an old iPad. There was a noticeable lag, doing certain things on the React/Redux stack, that disappeared when switching to plain JS.

https://getsore.com

New comment by poops in "Ask HN: Tabs or Spaces?"

poops — Mon, 30 May 2016 14:29:30 +0000

I prefer tabs because it doesn't force all devs to have the same level of indentation.

New comment by poops in "Upgrade or die: Apple's re-invention of the version ratchet"

poops — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 12:33:15 +0000

How about when iTunes randomly starts moving music off your local drive and onto the cloud. This has happened to me for songs not purchased through iTunes, and without me knowingly enabling this "feature".

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6475923?tstart=0

New comment by poops in "Ask HN: What is your favorite tech prank?"

poops — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 17:06:02 +0000

There was a dirty mouse program that would get installed anytime someone had their computer unlocked. Every few minutes you'd hear someone get pissed off and banging their mouse on the desk.

Another one we did was take a screenshot of a 404 page, and then randomly show that instead of the site that they were working on, but only for their IP.

A quick and easy one was to just crank someone's speakers all the way up, for the next time they play music.

Ask HN: Have you ever changed your DBMS for a site running in production?

poops — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 16:53:59 +0000

I've worked for places that write straight SQL & places that use an ORM for all the things. I know one benefit of using an ORM is being able to switch to a different DBMS, but I'm wondering how often that's happened. I've been writing web apps for almost 20 years, and have yet to see it happen.

I'm just wondering if anyone has actually done it, and what the reasons were?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10910454

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by poops in "Coca-Cola figured out how to make more money by selling less soda"

poops — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:40:41 +0000

tldr; they make more $ off their smaller sizes

New comment by poops in "Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming"

poops — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:29:57 +0000

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884616

Ask HN: Freelancers in the US: How do you succeed in getting a mortgage?

poops — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 14:22:13 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9891373

Points: 11

# Comments: 10

New comment by poops in "Firefox OS"

poops — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:49:31 +0000

https://www.google.com/search?q=javascript+parallax+librarie...

Show HN: Workout tracker

poops — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:58:38 +0000

Article URL: http://w.getsore.com/?ref=hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5461051

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by poops in "Remember twich.me (node.js realtime chat)? Here is the source as promised."

poops — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:12:11 +0000

I made a site just like this http://yamr.net to be able to group chat with friends/family/co-workers and not have them install anything (can go to yamr.net/any-room-name)

It's pretty cool seeing your site and what you decided to do differently. I'll be checking out your source later when I have time.

Mine is also built with php/node and I added socket.io so I could take advantage of websockets. I auto-log in users and keep chat history (although right now it only shows the latest 30 messages)

If you're looking to implement any features I have (like chat history) PM me and I'll share how I did it

New comment by poops in "Find Big Mail: Have you run out of space for your Gmail account?"

poops — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:19:46 +0000

So they send you an email with a report, yet your mailbox is full and you can't receive emails?

New comment by poops in "PHP Fat-Free Framework"

poops — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:35:10 +0000

They advertise as "fat-free" but i think theres still fat that could be trimmed, that wouldn't be needed in a base framework.

I don't really understand why they call some of these plugins through the F3 class instead of using them separately.

Wouldn't it be better to separate db class, and do Db::query() or Db::sql() instead of F3::sql(), which uses a __callStatic() magic method and loops through all the files in the autoload dir and checking each class to see if it has a sql() method. Just seems like it's doing a lot of extra un-needed work, even if it is caching it

New comment by poops in "Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk"

poops — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:58:10 +0000

it would help if microsoft allowed browser upgrading without checking for a valid installation of windows. i don't know if things changed, as i'm on a mac now, but when i had XP, i was stuck with an older version of IE cause i bought a computer with an invalid copy of the OS

New comment by poops in "First Things To Do on a New Django Project"

poops — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:13:22 +0000

i've had to build a custom auth system because i needed to support existing username/passwords that didn't fit the django mold