darinpantley's comments

On: Billion-Dollar Idea Generator

[darinpantley]

>I'm building Cursor for Manufacturing

It's the natural next step after software. Imagine the token costs though...

The little GitHub icon on the main page adds some useful context:

>A satirical startup idea generator that combines trending business models with industry verticals (both sourced from the most recent 10 YC batches).

On: CVC acquires majority stake in Namecheap for $1.5B

[darinpantley]

For anyone wondering: "the deal covers both Namecheap and its sister platform, Spaceship."

On: Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly

[darinpantley]

Case in point: "Is there a educational discount?" I believe this should say "an educational discount". I wonder if the tool would have caught it.

[itslennysfault → darinpantley]

Did the website originally say this? I just checked and it says "an" now... Perhaps they didn't use their own tool when writing the web copy.

On: Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts

[darinpantley]

I changed my email address in ~200 accounts and only had trouble updating a few: BuiltIn, CPUID, Flickr, Kakao, JCrew, Nord, and Steiger.

After I contacted Kakao support, they asked for some documents. Then they called me to verify the details. A day or two later, they updated my online profile with an editable email field, so I was finally able to update my email address.

When I contacted JCrew chat support, they performed the update immediately and emailed me a temporary password from noreply@demandware.net.

Flickr and Steiger were also happy to help. TBD on the others.

So I can't think of any accounts that don't allow an email change either. But you might have to jump through some hoops.

On: Where do fonts come from? Monotype, mostly

[darinpantley]

I saw the same behavior in iOS, but switching to the desktop version of the site worked normally.

On: Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find

[darinpantley]

It's interesting to see where that originated. I can only imagine how many office workers have run into it.

If you press it once then Outlook will forward, but if you press it again then Outlook will find text inside of the email you're forwarding.

On: Ask HN: Browser Address Bar is my text formatting remover, What's yours?

[darinpantley]

I used Win+R for many years until I read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28598474

Now I use Notepad or Ctrl+Shift+v.

One advantage to using Notepad is that it reveals newlines in your paste data very clearly, so you can select a substring if needed.

[LocalH → darinpantley]

The Run box is safe, although not useful for multi-line content. That tweet (now deleted) was referring to the Start menu search box.

“You are correct. This traffic was not generated by typing text into the "run box", it was generated by typing text into the "start menu box". We are very sorry for the confusion this has caused.”

On: Fastmail Labels Beta

[darinpantley]

I enabled the new rules that support labels and opted into the beta. If you create a new rule that automatically applies a label, you can choose to apply it to "All matching conversations now" or "New matching messages on arrival."

On: Show HN: Neutron Academy, Google Assistant Powered Learning

[darinpantley]

I'm seeing the same behavior in Chrome on OSX.

On: How LinkedIn Drove a Wedge Between Microsoft and Salesforce

[darinpantley]

If their editor uses a 3440x1440 screen it will look fine to them.