hisyam's comments

On: Pop_OS by System76

[hisyam]

That webpage made my Chrome crawled to a halt. Had to use Safari instead.

On: Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly

[hisyam]

Some devs want to develop js apps without paying/maintaining a server.

[Vinnl → hisyam]

Since they're just static files, that should be pretty easy to do :)

[hisyam → Vinnl]

Some js apps need to work with database.

eg: I'd like to build an expense tracker with html/css/js/sqlite but I want it to be offline and the user can choose to save their db file in their dropbox/gdrive folder.

On: I’m a freelance copywriter

[hisyam]

Second one looks like a spam.

[Method-X → hisyam]

It's more hard sell. HN responds better to soft sell.

[oferzelig → Method-X]

The second one links to the very same URL (and actually came first). What's also interesting is that HN didn't block the 2nd one at all; they should've kept the first one only.

On: Apple’s Devices Lose Luster in American Classrooms

[hisyam]

> 5 years ago it would be taking a minute or two for windows to wake up and log in

OS boot time depends mostly on storage speed, not just the OS itself. My 2012 MBP takes 90s to boot before I upgraded it to SSD.

[askvictor → hisyam]

I'm not talking about boot time - I'm talking opening the lid of a suspended-state laptop. Which is something a highschool student has to do at least 5 (but probably more) times a day. Windows is better now (my shiny new Windows laptop takes around 5 or 10 seconds) but Mac is pretty much instant.

On: Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365

[hisyam]

Excel is still superior to Google Sheets.

[shostack → hisyam]

In many ways comically so, even over the Mac version of excel which is arguably worse than the Windows version.

On: Radar – A new set of integrated tools to help prevent fraud

[hisyam]

The webpage automatically loads a 206MB video http://imgur.com/a/Xyie6

That's insane.

[badmon → hisyam]

Mind sharing what chrome extension you're using ?

[hisyam → badmon]

Download Shuttle

On: Bitwarden – Free and Open Source Password Manager

[hisyam]

1Password doesn't upload stuff to the cloud (except for Team/Family sync). You can choose which folder you can store your vault.

[lucb1e → hisyam]

1Password is closed source. And I don't want it to not upload anything, I want it to upload to my own server.

[jbmorgado → lucb1e]

Yes, and you can do exactly that and upload where you like.

Seems like you are making a fuss about a piece of software that you didn't really bother learning how it actually works.

[lucb1e → jbmorgado]

That still doesn't make it open source?

I want to use a password manager, I just can't find any that work everywhere and don't depend on third party services (and I want to inspect the source code). I'm not making a fuss on purpose.

On: Shaarli – Personal, minimalist, database-free, bookmarking service

[hisyam]

Yeah, and it doesn't exactly look minimalist either.

[mulle_nat → hisyam]

Yeah 30K lines of code in about 100 files is a strange use of the term minimalist.

[bigbugbag → mulle_nat]

Seems at some point you got lost, what the page says is "the user interface is minimalist design". it says no such thing about code.

On: Trump’s brigade took over Reddit. Now Reddit is changing its rules to stop them

[hisyam]

r/s4p might be little annoying but they didn't:

- post dozens of pictures of Hillary kissing the KKK in a single day

- post a bunch of cropped centipede pictures that can be combined when browsing r/all

- etc

If they want to promote their favorite politician, I understand but populating 40% of r/all with meme shitposts will make the admins take actions.

On: Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” (2011)

[hisyam]

I love inifinite scrolling in Pinterest but hate it in an ecommerce site with more than 200 items on a page.