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by avip 7y ago
I'm gonna be publicly ridiculed for this one and I'm good with that. I've been trying to get the show desktop gesture on my mac right for years. You know, the one that "windows-D" was doing so loyaly for ages. My
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by avip 7y ago
Good ol' "temporary permanent" solution. https://stackoverflow.com/a/778275
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by avip 7y ago
This post ain't about "Canada". It's about Metro Vancouver. I think to say it has "a large Chinese immigrant population" would probably be an understatement? None-Chinese would be a minority in Richmond for exa
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by avip 7y ago
I put everything in trello. It’s terrible as trello’s search sucks. But I still do it.
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by avip 7y ago
It's very important to think about objects lifecycle management. It's also important to... use pytest fixtures instead of arbitrarily patching around in tests.
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by avip 7y ago
First, developers rarely become tech fluent in 6-12 months. Second, startups don't have 6-12 months.
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by avip 7y ago
Spoiler: the problem this tool tries to solve is developers are too lazy to put a working docker-compose.yml on their repo.
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by avip 7y ago
There are as many hackathons as one could possibly attend out there. They're just not YC related.
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by avip 7y ago
What's the rejection rate of your poor ideas?
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by avip 7y ago
Epic comment :) If it makes anyone feel better wrt their religion of choice, Mac users have been using scripts in this spirit to force WiFi reconnection on wakeup. Sent from my iPhone
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by avip 7y ago
Wonderful feature also used by Trello https://trello.com/b/rq2mYJNn/public-trello-boards.json
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by avip 7y ago
I have one word to tell you: timezone
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by avip 7y ago
Thanks!!
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by avip 7y ago
Be conservative in what will be delivered, and liberal with when it'll be delivered.
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by avip 7y ago
Mandatory string theory introduction for the novice https://xkcd.com/171/
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by avip 7y ago
As we speak I need a file upload widget that will reject some images based on exif. What’s your recommendation for client side js exif extraction?
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by avip 7y ago
That’s what my first numeric mentor taught me. You have to look at raw data . The first q he’d ask any programmer was “did you look at the data, the actual data?”. He was a PhD in Physics and his approach really sticked with me. But it’s n
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by avip 7y ago
Sounds like you didn’t focus on essence. You could restructure the problem space and just read it.
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by avip 7y ago
Spice in some report-bias as well. NSO is doing great PR work. Others may prefer less public exposure.
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by avip 7y ago
On the contrary. The less predictable a future is, fear creeps in and the oxygen-deprived managers develope an urge to be surrounded with more Astrologers. Or the more socially plausible option - Mathematicians.
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by avip 7y ago
Like spark has? personally I found it just confusing. Why would I need a "no sql" syntax, when sql has such a perfect syntax for what it does? I generally dislike having multiple ways to achieve the same end result.
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by avip 7y ago
I was with you up until picking crops . Have you ever actually picked a crop? It's an extremely complex problem. For the bulky crops (s.a corn) we've had machines for decades. For fruits... we're decades away from automation
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by avip 7y ago
How about Christians, Jews, or... miscellaneous
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by avip 7y ago
There are multiple companies building and selling window cleaning robots. Drones are... terrible for this use case.
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by avip 7y ago
There's good business in forecasting staff. Get a CTO to solve the mundane technical details and call SoftBank. Consider replacing "silverware" with "climate" or "markets" in your deck.
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by avip 7y ago
In case you're lacking context (not all readers here are US basketball fans) - John Oliver has an excellent take on NCAA salaries issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8BXH3SJn0
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by avip 7y ago
I think what OP argues (and I agree with), is there’s no solution, or even partial mitigation, to climate crisis, wherein we keep the party going and due to some magic science in Alaska things are suddenly ok. This is a lie. If this lie is
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by avip 7y ago
Orthogonally, claiming and getting paid to provide service X while not in fact providing it, would usually come across as fraud.
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by avip 7y ago
It doesn't matter now. It'll matter next time. Change your title to DevOps, SRE, or team lead. I also don't like titles, I'm sharing my experience with you.
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by avip 7y ago
@mods pls change title

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