Geeflow

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by Geeflow 6y ago
I would see it more like a conversation in a public place / at a convention. Sure, anyone can join the conversation and listen in. I would still be unpleasantly surprised if someone posted a recording on a website.
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by Geeflow 6y ago
My first programming projects were scripts and modules for eggdrop. Every now and then I get a nostalgia flash. :) Surprisingly, some of those are still being used... 20 years after the last release.
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by Geeflow 6y ago
I would have shared the same sentiment. I never came across a logger, though, when I was still active on IRC. Are loggers a more recent (as in this millenium) development?
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by Geeflow 6y ago
A nice example of "ensurers will ensure everything" is the Ansari X Prize (space competition). They ensured against someone actually winning the competition: > The funding for the US $10,000,000 prize was unconventional in bein
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by Geeflow 6y ago
I use tcomb-validation[1] to validate incoming data. The downside is that it cannot use TypeScript types so you have to define the schema twice. For me, the duplicated types turned out to be less of a hassle than initially anticipated. In m
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by Geeflow 6y ago
My speculation (I have no data) as to why it works: Showing this to everybody shows it more reliably to those who actually will sign up. It is hard to target the right people reliably (maybe they deleted their cookies, maybe they use a diff
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I recently stumbled upon Airmeet[1]. It's not really for birthday parties, more like networking events. Still, I find the concept intriguing. They offer a kind of socializing space. It is organized by virtual tables. Each table holds u
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by Geeflow 7y ago
You can develop for iOS without actually owning Apple hardware. I develop an app and use MacinCloud[1] to build the iOS version. Costs $1/hour on demand. The hardest part was getting a two-factor enabled apple id. I actually had to bor
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SSC Journal Club: MacIntyre on Cloth Masks(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by Geeflow 7y ago|0 comments
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by Geeflow 7y ago
To me, the most exciting aspect of this project is the common language. I would love to have a kind of dictionary of UI components where I can easily look up the correct (and widely accepted) name for a type of component. No more carousels
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I used this trick, and it did indeed work as intended. It was a little scary ("You want me to draw on my CPU?!?"), though.
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I also think internal blogs are a great tool. But I also share your experience of how few people are actually using them. At my current company, it is the same thing: I wrote the majority of posts and a handful of people contributed a handf
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by Geeflow 7y ago
After reading the title I was really looking forward to some musical discussions on HN... :)
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I took "Become a Product Manager" ( https://www.udemy.com/course/become-a-product-manager-learn-... ) and was quite happy with it. The title is a bit tacky - it is not instantly going to turn you into a product
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by Geeflow 7y ago
Not removing old labels before entering something into (partially) automated systems is just asking for trouble. A friend of mine once returned an item to amazon but forgot to remove the original shipping label. The shipping company picked
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I always explain serverless as "Instead of one server you have countless servers, but they are managed by someone else". Yes, a better word would be great. I think that ship is sailed though...
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I often drive a Renault Zoe which also isn't a sports car. I frequently leave sports cars behind at the traffic light. From 0-30 kph even the small/cheap electric cars are sport cars. And it is terribly tempting to develop a pedal
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by Geeflow 7y ago
Google translation: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https... tl;dr: Backup to their customer database was accessible without authentification. Data includes names, addresses, phone numbers, bo
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Data of 3M customers exposed at Buchbinder car rental (German)(heise.de)
1 points by Geeflow 7y ago|1 comments
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I once had a legal use for my location history that wasn't quite as dramatic. Someone damaged our car while it was parked. When the police asked at what time we arrived, I just pulled up my location history. I was a bit frustrated when
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by Geeflow 7y ago
Second that. I have several long-running albums for different people to which I just add photos that might interest them. That way it takes very little effort on my part and they have all photos that I sent them neatly collected in one albu
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by Geeflow 7y ago
Here's one: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Labor-Illusion%3A-...
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by Geeflow 7y ago
This is such a great example of "less is more". The product is basically a landing page generator. It probably can do less than most landing page generators. But it is tightly focused on the Instagram bio link which helps tremendo
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by Geeflow 7y ago
Given that the current solutions (just vibrate the sensor) work pretty well in most cases and that the proposed solution adds quite a layer of complexity I doubt that this will find widespread adoption. I still love that this would actually
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by Geeflow 7y ago
At a glance, I read the title as "IRC for Dungeon Masters". Would have been a great union of nerdiness. I have no clue what a DM would do with IRC though. Has anyone ever tried playing DnD over IRC? It would probably feel like a t
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I once aimlessly drove around using public transportation in Freiburg, Germany, when I was new in town. "Let's see where that line will take me". It was a fun way of exploring the city.
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I once discovered and fixed a bug in a commercial ordering system which prevented one of the addon-products to be ordered. I checked version control - the bug must have been there for months. Nobody noticed that the product could not be ord
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I actually have a little more trust in AmazonBasics batteries than others. I once bought a AmazonBasics power bank which got recalled quite some time later due to a possible fire hazard. They refunded me the money and told me to dispose of
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by Geeflow 7y ago
I am wondering which of these alternatives has a similar audience like meetup.com. The audience is the real killer feature of meetup.com. I know of no other place where it is so easy to gather people. Just post a new event and people will n
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by Geeflow 7y ago
Thanks to all the people posting alternative / open source solutions! What is often missed, though, is that Meetup provides more than the software. The real killer feature of Meetup is the audience. I know of no other place where it is

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