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New comment by shimonamit in "Rails 7.1 Released"

shimonamit — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 08:03:44 +0000

For security.

New comment by shimonamit in "ZincSearch – lightweight alternative to Elasticsearch written in Go"

shimonamit — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 13:43:43 +0000

Or https://github.com/typesense/typesense

New comment by shimonamit in "SQLite is not a toy database (2021)"

shimonamit — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:22:12 +0000

Note the difference between "lots of writes" and "lots of concurrent writes". "Lots of writes" in succession without heavy concurrency support is just fine for desktop/mobile apps. It is not okay for busy webapps.

New comment by shimonamit in "Gambling and Adult content DNS blocking using Mullvad VPN"

shimonamit — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:47:11 +0000

I use SafeDNS which filters adult content (plus many more categories), without forcing YouTube Restricted Mode. But, you can opt into YouTube Restricted Mode if you choose.

New comment by shimonamit in "Railway lines once connected the Middle East"

shimonamit — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:40:13 +0000

They did, at least in Israel. The Jerusalem-Beit Shemesh route was restored and it is a beautiful commute.

New comment by shimonamit in "Google classroom and Google docs can not be used when YouTube is blocked"

shimonamit — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:14:05 +0000

With age comes responsibility, so with time and coaching we remove restrictions. But it takes time, and I'm not willing to sacrifice my child's education in the meantime for YouTube and gaming distractions. I've grown to recognize there are certain distractions that are simply too difficult for young children to refuse.

New comment by shimonamit in "Google classroom and Google docs can not be used when YouTube is blocked"

shimonamit — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 08:36:09 +0000

Practical tip for parents here struggling with the problem of 'distractions during school hours': use a DNS filtering service.

I use the Family package from SafeDNS and I'm generally happy. It is also cheap at $20/year. I like SafeDNS because they provide a Desktop client that prevents tampering.

You can configure different profiles such as 'Education', 'Creative' and 'Default' for different modes you want to put your child's computer on - remotely. So during schooling hours I configure their computers to be on 'Education' mode, but if they want to just do Scratch or some other brain-stimulating activity, I put it on 'Creative' mode. For free time I'll put it on Default which I've configure to allow YouTube.

I configure each profile to block preconfigured vendor-supplied site archetypes such as Videos, Gaming, Advertising, Shopping, Chat etc. I have full control over each profile type. I can also whitelist a domain if they get in a snag.

I'm sure there are other good DNS filtering service providers, but this one is the one that worked best for me.

New comment by shimonamit in "Ask HN: How to do cross platform GUI?"

shimonamit — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:11:36 +0000

I was examining Zoom's bin directory looking for a cross-platform GUI library they might be using, and found a library called DirectUI, also duilib. DirectUI was originally developed by Bjarke Viksoe. Looks like this here: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/372559/DirectUI. Maybe someone else can add some insight?

New comment by shimonamit in "Microsoft's latest Windows 10 updates come with nasty printer bugs"

shimonamit — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:56:22 +0000

Printing in Windows is an unsolved problem. It never was.

To print in Windows I have a checklist: 1. Print 2. Restart printer 3. Cancel print job, try to print again. 4. Restart print spooler, try to print again. 5. Restart computer, try to print.

Usually works with #4 or #5. Having a family member print is a major tech support undertaking.

New comment by shimonamit in "“Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser”"

shimonamit — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 04:59:06 +0000

I haven't tried it recently (as in the past month), but I like to fire up the browser, press Ctrl+L, type an address and press Enter in a few seconds. That seems to take forever on Firefox compared to Chrome.

New comment by shimonamit in "After the coup, Turkey turns against America"

shimonamit — Wed, 20 Jul 2016 12:57:38 +0000

The U.S. stores nukes in Turkey as part of the NATO deterrence strategy. During the coup the Turkish authorities were quick to siege the military base supposedly hosting the nukes. From CNN:

  > Turkish authorities encircled the base, cut off the power
  > supply and temporary closed the airspace around Incirlik 
  > as they fought off the coup launched on Friday.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/us-nuclear-weapon...

New comment by shimonamit in "Rails 5.0.0.beta1: Action Cable, API Mode, Rails Command"

shimonamit — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 11:39:31 +0000

An interesting tweet by Sam Saffron:

"@dhh this is just a bit too much https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/rails.gemspec#L28 … now every Rails install requires redis, eventmacine, celluloid and faye"

https://twitter.com/samsaffron/status/678701348297158657

The Struggles of Publishing a JavaScript Library

shimonamit — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:32:54 +0000

Article URL: http://nolanlawson.com/2015/10/19/the-struggles-of-publishing-a-javascript-library

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10424278

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shimonamit in "Microsoft nixes ActiveX add-on technology in new Edge browser"

shimonamit — Sun, 10 May 2015 16:36:31 +0000

HTML5 is an excellent alternative to ActiveX, particularly in the area of mime type handling, but it does not facilitate native desktop interaction. There is still a basic need for certain websites to interact with pre-installed native/legacy applications using a secure method such as Google Native Messaging, but Microsoft hasn't committed to anything similar.

New comment by shimonamit in "Render HTML via WebGL"

shimonamit — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:59:45 +0000

Not necessarily. Looks like it is an immediate mode, HTML-like syntax but without the DOM.

New comment by shimonamit in "PHP 7's new hashtable implementation"

shimonamit — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 08:43:50 +0000

Javascript's arrays cannot be used as maps or associative arrays. Arrays require numeric, consecutive keys. Otherwise it's an Object.

Clarification edit: Creating a new key on an array using arr['key']=1 creates a property on the arr Object but does not add an element to the standard array.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8630471/strings-as-keys-o...