Hacker News: quaz3l

New comment by quaz3l in "Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker"

quaz3l — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:44:23 +0000

Just followed you! Online now: dat://d9ab6634eda283a21c774fe3be8d2860ab9ce826a7d62d0dc33c3d152578efbc/

New comment by quaz3l in "Introducing Atom-IDE"

quaz3l — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 17:35:48 +0000

Same! This really is the only reason I don't use atom as of now

New comment by quaz3l in "Internet Draft: Let 'localhost' be localhost"

quaz3l — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:38:10 +0000

If people use this in production services, he will have much more power over their services.

New comment by quaz3l in "If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?"

quaz3l — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 19:41:47 +0000

I think that was their biggest mistake. They grew too fast and took too much money before they had any clear way to make money. If it was ran as a sustainable business, maybe it would be around for the next 5 years.

New comment by quaz3l in "Seed funding slows in Silicon Valley"

quaz3l — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 18:26:10 +0000

Why is that? There is less money in circulation, so less chance you'll get any. Are they making wiser choices? So if you're company is a wise choice you'll get funding?

New comment by quaz3l in "If SoundCloud Disappears, What Happens to Its Music Culture?"

quaz3l — Wed, 02 Aug 2017 04:59:06 +0000

Its actually more on the creative side. SoundCloud has such a low barrier to posting and acts more as a sort of Twitter or YouTube than a playlist maker. It allows culture to form around the community of SoundCloud, not just fans that you advertise directly.

New comment by quaz3l in "Ask HN: How do you manage your daily non-work related tasks?"

quaz3l — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:06:46 +0000

I like how this thread is supposed to be for good advice, but you just described 90% of the people here.

New comment by quaz3l in "China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives"

quaz3l — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:05:05 +0000

Pretty much all of his stuff is amazing. He did Dumb Starbucks awhile back if you're familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo_deCOd1HU

One of my favorites is Souvenir Shop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBzW1xUjwew

New comment by quaz3l in "Quirks of the arXiv"

quaz3l — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:01:19 +0000

I really enjoy how most of the abstracts in these papers are more like ELI5s, or just plain understandable. I think having an understandable abstract would be valuable for many papers to have to make large complex sciences understandable for people not in the field. Would there be any downside? The only one I can think of is that conclusions could sound more convicting in a simplified summary.

New comment by quaz3l in "China mall introduces 'husband storage' pods for shopping wives"

quaz3l — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:43:07 +0000

Or Nathan for You? Pretty much the exact same thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-3eRMpOC4

New comment by quaz3l in "$80k/month App Store Scam"

quaz3l — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:47:12 +0000

I can see that by using Microsoft CodePush or similar. But you can't change the description, in app purchases or title without going through the approval process again.

New comment by quaz3l in "The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet"

quaz3l — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:02:42 +0000

This is what I was going to ask. It looks very similar and operates (to user at least) the same way. I wonder if they could support each other by making the sites accessible from either service.

New comment by quaz3l in "Experimental implementation of interactable views in React Native"

quaz3l — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 04:47:24 +0000

I got so excited for a minute! This is still pretty cool though.

New comment by quaz3l in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2017)"

quaz3l — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:21:40 +0000

SEEKING WORK - Denver, Colorado or Remote

We are a designer and a fullstack developer (you can hire either or both). Design portfolio: https://meredithgee.com. A recent project we've launched: https://wanderlift.com. Some client work: https://inwardlabs.com, https://airdna.co.

We are competent and like to work with: Web and mobile design, Responsive marketing websites, UI/UX, Node.js, React Native, JavaScript(ES6), HTML5, CSS3, MongoDB, Swift, AWS, Java. We prefer to do fixed cost projects, but we also offer hourly rates. Contact: sam@wanderlift.com (Developer) or meredith@wanderlift.com (Designer).

New comment by quaz3l in "Build a serverless app with a serverless database"

quaz3l — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 20:28:34 +0000

Serverless apps run in reaction to an event such as a web request or a file upload. In the serverless model your app has functions that run in response to these events. The classic cloud model is you pay for a server or container that is constantly running.

Its kinda equivalent to a timeshare condo vs renting a condo. Your functions only run when they are called.

New comment by quaz3l in "Parse is shutting down today"

quaz3l — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 17:24:53 +0000

I used it for a new project I started 6 months ago. We've since transferred to AWS and a Express/Node.js project. However the Parse Server open source project is very well maintained and supported. I would recommend it for any quick prototype project you need a backend, but don't need it to do anything fancy.

New comment by quaz3l in "Ask HN: Online Security Tips for Newbie Freedom Activists?"

quaz3l — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:14:26 +0000

This is true. It is most commonly used to decrypt backups and allows developer to install personally signed apps on the device for development.

New comment by quaz3l in "Testing Ads in Facebook Messenger"

quaz3l — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 18:00:41 +0000

Ahh I see that now, it still does take up a lot of real estate, and looks like a regular website ad link.

New comment by quaz3l in "Testing Ads in Facebook Messenger"

quaz3l — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 07:13:17 +0000

I really don't like ads just like most everyone else, but I can't help but feel there is a missed opportunity here. Facebook just put classic mobile letterbox ads in a side scrolling container.

In such a unique platform such as Messenger you could get a bit more creative. One such example: Suggested pages to message. This would get companies leads and keep people on the Messenger platform. This might not be the best use, but with this product, Facebook can do better than just a re-skin of mobile banners.

New comment by quaz3l in "Stealing passwords from McDonald's users"

quaz3l — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:17:35 +0000

This is a real cool way to explain XSS in an easy concrete way. Love the thought process and actual code examples.