Hacker News: rasapetter

New comment by rasapetter in "IMG_0416"

rasapetter — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 06:33:40 +0000

And before that, there was Bambuser which was very similar to Periscope but launched some 8 years earlier. It never gained the popularity of Periscope, likely at least partly due to its Nordic rather than Bay Area roots - but, oh boy, was it fun!

At any time of the day you could go to the website and watch normal people around the globe doing random stuff. And chat with them!There weren't any real influencers at the time (at least not on the platform) and monetization wasn't possible, so people's motivations for live streaming stuff was not to make money but rather the joy of sharing a moment or just experiencing new cool technology. It got a bit less joyful when the Arabic Spring started and the platform got used by many in very dire situations but it remained incredibly interesting to follow.

The company still exists, though they stopped offering free-to-use consumer services long ago.

New comment by rasapetter in "Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on"

rasapetter — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 07:37:38 +0000

Or simply ignore clicks on elements that haven't been visible for longer than a few hundred milliseconds. I'd be happy to click again.

New comment by rasapetter in "Firefox 94"

rasapetter — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:49:56 +0000

Then simply enable the warnings after you upgrade to 94.

New comment by rasapetter in "Poor parents receiving universal payments increase spending on kids"

rasapetter — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:34:01 +0000

>The findings contradict a common argument in the U.S. that poor parents cannot be trusted to receive cash to use however they want, said Amorim.

How utterly depressing if this truly is a common belief.

New comment by rasapetter in "Show HN: Built a timeline component for React with multiple layout modes"

rasapetter — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:00:53 +0000

Why so negative?

Show HN: Bambuser – Ultra low latency live streaming SDK

rasapetter — Wed, 08 May 2019 14:48:24 +0000

Article URL: https://bambuser.com/developer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19859298

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Bambuser – Live Streaming Platform/SDKs for iOS and Android

rasapetter — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:44:11 +0000

Article URL: https://bambuser.com/developer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18599327

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Bambuser – Mobile Live Streaming SaaS

rasapetter — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:44:27 +0000

Article URL: https://bambuser.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065435

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rasapetter in "Show HN: I made a tool that made me faster at Git"

rasapetter — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 13:03:28 +0000

It can, if you first do: git add --intent-to-add

New comment by rasapetter in "As Our Jobs Are Automated, Some Say We'll Need a Guaranteed Basic Income"

rasapetter — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 05:18:15 +0000

It isn't all or nothing. For farms, factories and hospitals, full automation would be desirable but we might not achieve that in a very long time. But what if we reach, say, 20% in ten years, 50% in twenty and 80% in thirty. At some point we are going to have to figure out what the increasing number of unemployed people are going to live of. Why not start early?

New comment by rasapetter in "Insomnia 3.0 – A simple and beautiful REST API client"

rasapetter — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 08:17:48 +0000

This seems great. I used Postman for a while but I never got along with the UI, found it poorly structured and cluttered. While this is obviously still very young, it shows a lot of promise.

Using environment variables in headers or request params was a bit disappointing though. The UI keeps replacing the reference with a copy of the current value when input field is moved out of view. Is this the intended behavior?

New comment by rasapetter in "Proposed JavaScript Standard Style"

rasapetter — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:31:14 +0000

https://github.com/Flet/semistandard

New comment by rasapetter in "Hidden motors in cycling: Van den Dreissche banned for 6 years, titles stripped"

rasapetter — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 17:43:49 +0000

Are you sure you didn't mean to write yyyy-mm-dd?

New comment by rasapetter in "One in every 600 websites has .git exposed"

rasapetter — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 07:48:56 +0000

There's a service called Detectify that might fit the bill. https://detectify.com