Tommah

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by Tommah 3y ago
Which browser and OS are you using? I notice that behavior in Firefox on Mac, but not in Chrome on Mac. When I tested years ago in Chrome and Firefox on Linux, that definitely wasn't happening. In general, I've found a few inco
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by Tommah 3y ago
If you don't want to drag, you can click the piece and then click the target square. > Is this book out of copyright now? I think so. The copyright term back then was 28 years, and AFAIK the copyright wasn't renewed.
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by Tommah 3y ago
I started my board game site back in 2010 as a set of CGI scripts that sent the games to people in HTML emails. Then I turned it into a proper website, then I got it running as a persistent process, then I added this trainer, then I moved
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by Tommah 3y ago
IIRC, Reinfeld's book groups the positions by theme. If you click the dice, it will show you a random position from the set, so that should give you a different theme most of the time.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Ah, I hadn't seen Adler's comment before. I did most of my work on this before he posted that comment. His scheme is probably more efficient than mine (he is Mark Adler, after all), but I'd have to run it on the same set of
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Show HN: Checkmate Champ – a training tool for chess tactics(checkmatechamp.net)
192 points by Tommah 3y ago|39 comments
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by Tommah 3y ago
> There is not a lot of history of laziness being rewarded with success. A lot of inventions come about because of laziness. Some guy somewhere got tired of carrying his things around, so he invented the wheel. Of course, I don't
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by Tommah 3y ago
I used this effect in my chess trainer (the link is in my profile). I have a file with 800 compressed chess positions, and I used a lot of tricks to get the file as small as I could. One trick was to invert the color of every piece on Whi
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by Tommah 3y ago
There are certain aspects of computing that will probably always be around. We'll always need fast compilers that generate fast code -- people don't want slow programs, and programmers don't want to wait for compiles to fini
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by Tommah 3y ago
I think AI will still be important, but the AI of the future won't look like the AI that we have today. People have a tendency to redefine "AI" to mean whatever the new hotness is -- LLMs today, deep neural nets a few years
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by Tommah 3y ago
I would be really interested to hear about what you do. If you don't want to share it in public, you can email me at the address in my profile. I'm always looking for a niche, but I haven't found one that has stuck.
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by Tommah 3y ago
Poor old Lenore "Nore" Ply is wondering why nobody ever emails her.
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by Tommah 3y ago
I once stayed at work really late, and I was surprised to see my boss still there. I asked him how long he typically stayed, and he told me till 7 PM or so. He was there at 9 AM every day, so I started thinking, how does this guy work for
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by Tommah 3y ago
It is important to understand asymptotic complexity, but the places where it's useful in the real world are very different from textbook examples or Leetcode problems. You'll rarely have a triple loop in your code that makes you
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by Tommah 3y ago
HN should allow comments on job posts. Even if you don't want those comments to be publicly visible, they should go in the database somewhere so that admins can see them. You will see people's many complaints if you look at the
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by Tommah 3y ago
Maybe they've hired 18 people and each one has only lasted a month! It doesn't get much more dynamic than that.
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by Tommah 3y ago
If your company can't find someone after years of looking, the problem isn't with the candidates.
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by Tommah 3y ago
I was always surprised that a bunch of people looked at Facebook's website and said, yeah, I want their code to be the next big JS framework. Facebook has behaved for me for the past year or so, but for years prior to that, visiting t
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by Tommah 3y ago
The newest form of money laundering.
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by Tommah 3y ago
God made the world in six days, not seven, so try to be a little faster next time.
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by Tommah 3y ago
> we weren't allowed to just invent new math Someone let the mathematicians know!
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by Tommah 3y ago
I'm starting to wonder. I got a rejection message when I replied that said, in part, "our decision was based on matching the specific needs for this role with the background of the candidates in the final pool." If they are
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by Tommah 3y ago
You think you did. But if you were using Juniper's AI-Native Networking, you'd know for sure.
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by Tommah 3y ago
I wonder how reliable this will be. Back in the summer, my mom plugged her iPhone in to charge, and it gave a warning saying that it couldn't charge because there was liquid in the charging port. However, the port was bone-dry, and t
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by Tommah 3y ago
My grandfather used to say that he was "35 and a few months."
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by Tommah 3y ago
Reposting my comment from a couple of months ago: At one of my jobs, they used Asana when I started. It was too full of backlogged issues, so we moved over to Jira. Then Jira got too full. A month before I was laid off, one of my coworkers
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by Tommah 3y ago
I applied to Rewind on December 5, and I never heard anything back. It sounds like you folks would benefit from some sort of AI assistant that prevents information from slipping through the cracks. :)
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by Tommah 3y ago
Netscape had a feature called LiveConnect that allowed interaction between Java and JavaScript. See http://medialab.di.unipi.it/web/doc/JavaScriptGuide/livecon.... for some examples of how it worked. Even t
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by Tommah 3y ago
Yeah, me too. I'm no music expert, but this is what I thought of off the top of my head: - There is a rule for determining the order in which sharps/flats are added in key signatures, and which keys result. However, the simplest
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by Tommah 3y ago
They also had a service called Yahoo! Music that showed currently popular music videos. I thought it was cool at the time. I remember watching it during my senior year of college, in 2005-2006. Shortly after I graduated, I heard about an

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