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The Case for Self Hosting Your Blog(blog.aidanbreen.com)
1 points by almostarockstar 8y ago|0 comments
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
This was a nice read and a good introduction to text processing with unix commands. I agree with the other user re python usage - that you may as well use it for the whole task if you're going to use it at all - but I don't think
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
What a great example of someone so quick to hear themselves talk that they don't even realise it's a joke.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Ah yes, in fact, why don't we go one step further and add a new button for every letter!
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Yeah. I need to call my dad.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Well maybe another Mozilla? The point is the ecosystem needs variety and there are people who could afford to create that.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
How many billionaires have made their fortunes through the web? Surely some of them care enough about preventing a monoculture to foot the bill for an independent browser development team - if not for profit, for the greater good. Consider
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What I've learned by analysing 9 years of side-projects(medium.com)
2 points by almostarockstar 8y ago|0 comments
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Agreed - a well mixed track will use stereo panning as an artistic feature. These tracks, at least in my opinion are gimmicky at best and actively detract from the original at worst.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
I don't know. But medium do a terrible job at sharing their own content between users.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Ah ok. Fair enough. I don't think medium works for that.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
>That being said, I would be interested in how you reached the conclusion that people are more trusting of medium articles? Really just from my own experience. I've been writing and posting content for a few years and usually I get
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
This topic comes up fairly often. I think about it a lot - as a Medium user and as a person who has managed multiple wordpress blogs. ##Here's my thoughts on why Medium is so popular: 1. It's easy. We are all techies here. We ofte
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Are you referring to platform generated content? The thing is, Medium doesn't do very well at that either. I have a medium blog. I've had a few posts got >10k reads within a month. Almost none of those reads came from Medium it
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Staten Island could be seen as between two ends of the Hudson.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
I have also been here too many times to count. My take on it is that it's not a failure as long as you've learned something. In my case, for the first number of projects I built that nobody bought/wanted, I didn't learn
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
That is what the article is about.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
As far as I know, there are a few of these already in existence. IMO, the two main challenges are subscribing to content and discovering new content, the icing on the cake is interaction. Atom/RSS already "fixed" the issue of
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Also, the website linked in the repo seems to be down.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
It's an interesting game we are playing. Take websites as an example. We have to build websites using CSS and HTML and JS because that is what works in browsers. But browsers have to build DOMs, layout engines and JS engines this way b
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Yeah, it was interesting for about 20 seconds and then I got to the first code block and my brow furrowed.
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
A couple weeks ago I was asked to meet with two actuaries. Their company (a big one, I'm working for them on contract) is trying to promote the use of Machine Learning and when they heard I had just completed post-grad in ML, they were
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
I imagine the first step would be to use standard marine anti-foul paint on the exchangers. But that only works for a few months at best. After that, I'm not so sure. Perhaps a slow, continuous movement of an exchange surface past a ha
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Just submitted my PhD in ML (waiting to defend) and started working as a contractor in an exciting enough arm of a boring enough company. So far it's all boring CRUD - but there may be interesting problems to solve as our team and prod
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
I have a very similar experience. My parents weren't heavily into music, but my mother always played a Simon and Garfunkel tape in the car which lead me to the rest of Simon's discography once I was old enough to find it. My peers
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by almostarockstar 8y ago
Following on from the recent discussion [0,1] on zero-width characters and how they might be used to fingerprint messages. chpmrc built an extension [2] to detect these characters, but as some people mentioned, the way the extension worked
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Show HN: A Chrome extension to detect zero-width characters(github.com)
5 points by almostarockstar 8y ago|1 comments
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by almostarockstar 9y ago
I’ve just finished a 4 year PhD, working alone. Now, I’m building my company building software, but I’m currently a one man show, and again, working alone. Do you reckon 3 people in a mob is more productive in the short term than 3 people w
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by almostarockstar 9y ago
I would say that "blockchain", as a concept, isn't a suitable category, in the same way that "mobile application" or "website" isn't. Blockchain is a tool. The applications are varied. There are poten
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by almostarockstar 9y ago
Never read the book(s?) and I don't know the characters, nor the author, but that article was really engaging to read.

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