Hacker News: taknil

New comment by taknil in "Show HN: Atlas of Space"

taknil — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:25:13 +0000

I do not know how that would be possible with the technology used, but having a deeplink to a planet or object would be cool à la https://atlasof.space/Nix

New comment by taknil in "Show HN: FaviconHelper"

taknil — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:09:24 +0000

aditionally, I'd like to get one free favicon, as to ensure I actually get a favicon, properly formated .ico file (which are way more different from .png files than just the .ico extention)

New comment by taknil in "What PWA Can Do Today"

taknil — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:47:44 +0000

this is foreseen to come eventually, the APIs are there https://web.dev/articles/web-share?hl=en

New comment by taknil in "Display brighter-than-white color on Apple devices"

taknil — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:14:47 +0000

I found out just a few days ago our company tries to be "super bright" in its banner ads with .img_ad:hover { -webkit-filter: brightness(120%);}

New comment by taknil in "Uses for an old Android device"

taknil — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 11:30:31 +0000

a prominent example of this was the first google nexus 7 tablet, née Asus Memo Pad. Therein somehow the NAND flash became used up in some strange fashion making write speed unbearable. This also could not be fixed with a factory reset.

New comment by taknil in "Why do current graphical user interfaces not work naturally"

taknil — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:22:41 +0000

Since this article was written in 2005, multiple attempts have been made to establish non-rectangular UIs. The mentioned Daisy Disk delights in its hierarchical view. Ça. 2010 there was an initiative for an entire phone UI based on this kind of concept. This went nowhere but Android 4 tried to incorporate as slide in from the side circular menu. [1] Most recently HTC incorporated this kind of UI in their U11 phone launcher. [2]

Forgoing the entire concept of rows and columns of pixels to render a UI though is just asking for trouble as all assumptions about arrangement go out of the window. With sufficiently high resolutions screens (we've achieved that) an arbitrarily shaped UI can be displayed. Masterfully demonstrated here in Neil Sardesai s UI experiments [3]

As for having the menu separate from the content canvas, foldables are currently a great experiment platform for this, see Samsungs "flex mode" [4]

[1]https://www.androidauthority.com/is-google-aiming-for-a-ui-m... [2]https://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-u11/howto/opening-edge-la... [3] https://twitter.com/neilsardesai/status/1381241571895615491 [4] https://www.bgr.in/news/youtube-app-update-brings-improved-s...

New comment by taknil in "Ask HN: Differences between Berlin tech/startup culture and NYC culture?"

taknil — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 19:19:14 +0000

Truly sorry to hear about your experiences. If you are not explicitly a founder, just do not work for companies that doesn't actually have at lease a couple of employees doing non-managerial IT work. Otherwise the founders may be inexperienced in managing IT teams and consider it okay to pile on forever more work to a stagnant IT staff and be down-right exploitative like in your first example.

When interviewing for a position, remember that you are also interviewing the company. You already know what doesn't work for you, so ask about it. Don't be shy, you're not desperate for that job, you're a developer in Berlin, people want you! What even are "productive hours"? Only the ones where you type symbols into your IDE? Revisit this article [1] from the hn front-page a few days ago then.

https://blog.feenk.com/developers-spend-most-of-their-time-f...

New comment by taknil in "Electrick: Low-Cost Touch Sensing Using Electric Field Tomography"

taknil — Thu, 11 May 2017 11:20:36 +0000

Well I guess you have a topic for your next whitepaper. :D

New comment by taknil in "Ask HN: How much code do you write a day?"

taknil — Tue, 09 May 2017 11:53:04 +0000

As previously mentioned, that metric is not at all helpful. Recently I ended up just committing a single digit for the day and researched all day what the appropriate number would be.

New comment by taknil in "Ask HN: Does anyone here use OS X as a webserver?"

taknil — Tue, 31 May 2016 13:32:40 +0000

I did serve a company internal tool written in PHP/mysql from a white macbook. It was served to all our retail locations (under 100 DAUs). It was a "but it works on my machine" - "back up your email, your machine is going into production" situation. It ended up taking almost two years to migrate the application away because it just worked. Picture of said server macbook https://flic.kr/p/DY4k1U

New comment by taknil in "Computer Science in the DPRK [video]"

taknil — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:15:10 +0000

a probably very different person from the speaker has since released RED STAR OS 3 as a torrent.

http://pastebin.com/cHAzyTE7

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2014/12/30/red-star-3-0-deskto...

New comment by taknil in "2003 Boeing 727-223 disappearance"

taknil — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:15:33 +0000

In 2009 a boing 737 originating out of Venezuela was purposefully crashed landed in the sahara desert to transport massive amounts of cocaine. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8364383.stm It is rumored that more planes were landed in the desert for similar purposes. Maybe the 727 was used as a one-way drug plane thereafter too?