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New comment by rodion_89 in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

rodion_89 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:07:10 +0000

I threw it at Fable with the prompt "What does the message say?" and it also figured out without issue. Thought process is interesting https://imgur.com/a/GToXs6W

New comment by rodion_89 in "Shouldibuytwitter.com – A tiny takeover arbitrage model for TWTR"

rodion_89 — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 01:53:29 +0000

Elon is a unique-enough identifier whereas Jeff and Bill aren’t

New comment by rodion_89 in "It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All"

rodion_89 — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 14:25:54 +0000

Page 17 of the appendix: https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSu...

New comment by rodion_89 in "WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash"

rodion_89 — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:20:16 +0000

> No amount of turd polishing with unlimited money and PR talent was able to make people to like him

I don't rule it out. Gates managed to pull it off when I didn't think it was possible

New comment by rodion_89 in "Google made plans to target the EU official in charge of digital policy updates"

rodion_89 — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:57:42 +0000

> I can choose to drop Google any second

> failed to produce any viable alternative to Google

These two statements seem to be in conflict

New comment by rodion_89 in "Senate leadership pushing a surveillance bill as Americans focused on Covid-19"

rodion_89 — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:20:12 +0000

They instead extended it for 77 days due to COVID-19. Basically punting for now

New comment by rodion_89 in "Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet (2010) [pdf]"

rodion_89 — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:58:49 +0000

It's an avenue for social coordination. The benefit of having a hive mind is that you get to have a hive.

New comment by rodion_89 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)"

rodion_89 — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:03:54 +0000

Substack (W18) | Full stack engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | https://substack.com

Substack lets writers start their own subscription publication - think paid blog/newsletter - where writers' and readers' incentives are aligned.

Over 50k people pay to subscribe to publications, and top writers are making six figures.

We use Node, Express, and Postgres on top of Heroku. React for frontend. Simple & effective so we can focus on solving problems for users.

We are 4 people. We raised a series A from a16z this summer and are thoughtfully building our early team. Two of our three founders are technical (the other is a writer) and we're looking for folks to work along side us, shipping things that touch thousands of writers and millions of readers.

Come join us! https://careers.substack.com

New comment by rodion_89 in "AMA with Substack and Matt Taibbi about a new business model for journalism"

rodion_89 — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 17:43:56 +0000

His wiki[1] says "Women portrayed in the book have gone on record to defend Taibbi, stating that none of the sexual harassment portrayed in the book ever happened."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Taibbi

[2] https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/12/the-destructi...

New comment by rodion_89 in "The Kik Bot Platform"

rodion_89 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 23:12:11 +0000

http://kik.me/leftpad.bot

New comment by rodion_89 in "That awkward moment when Apple mocked good hardware and poor people"

rodion_89 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:21:20 +0000

Reflects more on him than Apple

New comment by rodion_89 in "Google’s growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile"

rodion_89 — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:20:53 +0000

Are his quoted 1.4bn Android devices all outside of China? If not then the numbers for mobile and desktop come out pretty similar:

    1.3bn non-China Android users = 1.4bn Android users - 0.386bn China Android users [1]
    1.28 searches/user/day = 50bn searches / (1.3bn users * 30 days)

That 1.28 for mobile is pretty close to the 1.23 quoted for desktop

[1] https://www.techinasia.com/china-386-million-active-android-...

New comment by rodion_89 in "Ad Blocking, Ad Networks, and Your IP Address"

rodion_89 — Sat, 19 Sep 2015 22:43:05 +0000

> "don't watch my video unless you pay $5"

This is an explicit agreement between the customer and content provider. YouTube, Google search, etc don't have any explicit agreement with users in this regard -- the ads just show up.

The TOS says it, your understanding of their business model conveys it, but at the end of the day they just shove the ads in there without directly claiming to their customers, "you must see ads and be tracked to get free content".

I think usage would change dramatically if they actually claimed this when a user first uses their service.

New comment by rodion_89 in "Apple TV – A World Without Webviews – BPXL Craft"

rodion_89 — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 23:36:25 +0000

For anyone who has ever navigated websites on a "smart TV", thanks goodness. If Apple can deliver on apps bringing all the functionality and content I want, I'd much prefer the native apps interfacing effectively with the device's remote

New comment by rodion_89 in "Google Hangouts"

rodion_89 — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 23:59:31 +0000

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hangouts/nckgahada...

New comment by rodion_89 in "MacDown: Open-source Markdown editor for OS X"

rodion_89 — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 04:43:25 +0000

Kinda surprised by the rise in markdown editors whose selling point is the live preview mode. I always felt that the best feature of markdown was that the raw text made it somewhat obvious how it should be rendered. If a preview mode is need I almost want to jump straight to a WYSIWYG editor

New comment by rodion_89 in "App.js: Mobile webapps made easy"

rodion_89 — Tue, 27 May 2014 16:33:21 +0000

Like the others said, this is written by Kik Interactive (http://kik.com/) which is well-funded.

The idea is that Kik's browser has the PhoneGap-like utilities that you described built-in, while this is a library for building the UI of an application. http://dev.kik.com/

New comment by rodion_89 in "App.js: Mobile webapps made easy"

rodion_89 — Tue, 27 May 2014 16:13:14 +0000

It'll continue I work in webview with panning (bounce) turned off. In fact that's usually the most optimal experience

New comment by rodion_89 in "App.js: Mobile webapps made easy"

rodion_89 — Tue, 27 May 2014 16:11:16 +0000

Thanks for the feedback!

* Fixed the scrolling issue. Ios safari doesn't let you disable the bounce so there is a workaround now.

* Ios back gesture works fine... Except in mobile safari, again because there is no way to disable apples back gesture. This would work best in phonegap or Kik where you can control these kinds of things

* Will fix subject bug in demo soon..

New comment by rodion_89 in "App.js: Mobile webapps made easy"

rodion_89 — Tue, 27 May 2014 14:12:18 +0000

It's actually just using the browsers scrolling mechanism. Android 4+, iOS 5+ ship with touch-scrolling that you can enable on an element so it's as close to native scrolling as you can get.

Just add this CSS:

    overflow: scroll;
    -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;