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joeblau
3,944karma·1,828submissions·January 11, 2012
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YC also has a post for their seed deck template[1]. [1] - https://blog.ycombinator.com/intro-to-the-yc-seed-deck/ …
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Start a community for helping people ideate on side project ideas.
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While I do like the style sheet that was created, the marketing spin on this page was off-putting to me as well.
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This is a good resource to see who is being impacted[1]. [1] - https://downdetector.com
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That’s interesting. I need to spend more time and look into how this works.
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I just checked their block explorer[1] and it looks like 98% of the passports are Chinese. https://ubic.network
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I was explaining my background so someone a few days ago in an introduction and I said “I used to do crypto working on PKI infrastructure.” They responded that they had never heard of that token. Unfo…
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The article says 435 in Sept which was 8%.
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Super cool backstory. I also wondered what brought you here as well.
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Haha sorry, I'll replace that with the word Apple in the future.
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Yeah that is understandable. The data is still going to be surfaced via Duck Duck Go, but that's not the same as having an integrated experience.
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Ah yes, you are correct! the iPhone weather app data is from Yahoo.
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If shuts down the 1M+ (less than 5M) Google[1] accounts and then this weather app becomes the default system backing Siri, there will be a lot more users than the Google Play store users Dark Sky is…
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I used to use LICEcap, but for some reason it was failing me (I don’t remember what). I went on a journey (through 10 Mac gif makers) to find the “best” gif maker and I settled on GIF Brewery[1] and I…
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Google is planning on implementing part of this in 2022[1]. Not sure what they are going to do about the browser storage though. [1] - https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/14/…
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I don’t even play games but I wouldn’t expect a web game to store all of its metadata in my local storage. I would expect it to store data on their own severs and only store active gameplay informatio…
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I LOL'd. I was really wondering what was behind this link.
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My brother has one of these in his new condo. let's just say this toilet paper binge that we're on in the US isn't really impacting his life at all right now.
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Yeah — That is called guided access mode. I use an Apple API that requires you to double gesture to bring up any menus or leave the app. This has actually proved sufficient for keeping my kid kid in b…
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Unfortunalty, the only reason I was able to make this work in a day is that it uses two proprietary Apple libraries. PencilKit — which provides all of the UI for drawing and selecting drawing tools. R…
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I wrote this tool (started on Thursday) called Doodle that is designed to give kids a quick drawing canvas. It's a super simple app that I made for my son who kept drawing over all of my Apple no…
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The first time I got in that situation I was confused. They should really teach you the "two finger salute" (I'm stealing that btw) when you pick up your car.
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The MCU on my Model X has frozen a few times without visiting a website. I've had to forcefully restart my MCU at a stop sign twice since having it.