andirk

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by andirk 3y ago
My software engineering skills are more that of a robot and if someone could make many of me, I/we could get a lot more done and that's a good thing. An actor has 1 likeness as their skill so it should be at their discretion. Plen
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by andirk 3y ago
If what I do as a seasoned software engineer becomes redundant because of "artificial intelligence", so be it. Then I'll need to learn more, which I am! I'm not in the business of stiffening technology like an oil baron.
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by andirk 3y ago
Very cool! What was your language of choice for this script? I'm guessing perl. I've only done port stuff with C though.
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by andirk 3y ago
A console is what turtle's play video games on.
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by andirk 3y ago
Whoever it is needs to convince the miners the world around to bend the knee. As you mentioned, even a larger block size was not accepted by the consensus. Then again again, there are a small handful of Bitcoin mining pools that do most of
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by andirk 3y ago
Other products that do search results filtering seem to often use Pinterest as an example haha! My fave filter is w3schools . Brave Search Goggles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31837986 Filter via Chrome https:&#x2F
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by andirk 3y ago
This is a good example of just doing what's popular instead of A/B testing. Or a good example of the analytics showing the ridiculous wins out over the reasonable. I too avoid clicking links with Youtube Face. Why would someone be
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by andirk 3y ago
I recently made an entire WebRTC p2p video player that worked seamlessly everywhere! Except iPhone Safari. And all iPhone (but not iPad!) browsers are Safari under the hood that couldn't do a few of the fundamentals needed.
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by andirk 3y ago
Or: we as users can wish for the days of 90's web design and bring it back! The main content was so much more up front. Forms, buttons, and general layout were all the same. And Progressive Enhancement has it that our bells and whistle
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by andirk 3y ago
Probably! It was literally putting radio broadcasts on the internet. Tuning in to a radio frequency of a sporting event far away was avant garde and wanted by many. No idea why Yahoo needed to buy someone's janky website with an idea I
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by andirk 3y ago
People need to stop paying for a service and then also paying with their time via ads. Desperate moves like this make me wonder if these companies are regular greedy/shitty or if they're reading from the playbooks of cable TV earl
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by andirk 3y ago
That broadcast.com to Yahoo and Tom selling Myspace to Murdoch are 2 of my favorite flop acquisitions. Honorable mention: Digg selling its soul to their own sales team. However, Geocities to Yahoo is one of my least fave.
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by andirk 3y ago
I think it changes your user agent string to something that doesn't say "mobile", and the device "inner resolution" or something like that to make it zoom out. https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is
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by andirk 3y ago
And w3schools!
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by andirk 3y ago
Duolingo should be seen as an "instead of scrolling Instagram", not instead of formal education. Change your browser's default language to your new language https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W
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by andirk 3y ago
Can we get a benchmark on this?
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by andirk 3y ago
Existing is such an unlikely chance that it's more likely we don't.
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by andirk 3y ago
I agree somewhat, but when I separated from my first and only iPhone, iPhone 4, I did miss the ecosystem but that's also why I didn't want another one. From my Macbooks, iCloud, iPhone, the syncing and backing up and all that was
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by andirk 3y ago
My taxes are kind of complicated. I'm happy to do them. It's a little walk down memory road of the past year. Most people do 1040-EZ, and the "EZ" stands for "easy" because it takes 5 seconds to do. Turbotax is
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by andirk 3y ago
Dropping in is the new thing now. Vue and other Javascript frameworks utilize "web components" https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone... which are supported all over now.
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by andirk 3y ago
There's always made up Tethers. This recent run is supposedly people and institutions adding to their bag before the spot ETF coming up some time in January.
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by andirk 3y ago
I was being productive until I started playing DOOM and now my Macbook sounds like a jet engine.
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by andirk 3y ago
That's me. I've been my friends' glue to some extent since we moved away from high school. I like to think they appreciate it, as I appreciate when they reach out. Happy New Year all HN!
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by andirk 3y ago
Almost every hijacking of keyboard and other default behaviors of our peripherals is lazy and arrogant UI. One exception is auto focusing on a search input element where that view is only used for that search box. Even then it's annoyi
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by andirk 3y ago
I'm currently working on a website search for e-commerce and wow there really is no end to what website search can and should do. The ANDs and the ORs are kind of confusing too. Is it AND between category selections, and OR within? And
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by andirk 3y ago
Their input search works fine, but clicking through the categories seems to surface all the dogshit Netflix-created content first. It's like digging through trash. My main issue with the input search is the TV keyboard. There was a Net
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Object-oriented programming is kind of a graph too, what with all the inheriting.
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Whether the user is aware and opt _in_ is the issue, right? But all of the network signals that are triggered by web applications, phone apps, OS, isn't it almost always possible to get SOME information about a user's geo location
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by andirk 3y ago
I was expecting some malicious code like "knock 3 times on this door to enter, otherwise the door locks for good". No. Instead it was "if you're geographically parked at our competitor's lat/long then we'l
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Coinbase is famously expensive at ~5-10%. I use them but not for transferring much. Bitpay and Cash App are some 1-3%. When I could use Bitcoin with Overstock.com it was also minimal. But whenever bitcoin is trading heavily, it's not w

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