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by belfalas 4y ago
Thank you!
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by belfalas 4y ago
Wonderful idea, thank you :)
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by belfalas 4y ago
Thank you :)
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by belfalas 4y ago
Nice, thank you!
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by belfalas 4y ago
That's amazing and exactly the spirit I was thinking of - thank you for sharing!
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Ask HN: Unconventional Use of MIDI?
10 points by belfalas 4y ago|17 comments
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by belfalas 4y ago
In the past what has helped me is exploring the 'techy' area of something I see all the time but never stopped to consider how it works under the hood. A great example is music and music software. If you begin exploring sound, syn
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by belfalas 4y ago
Exactly - information is power. And what is 'political' is always in the eye of the beholder (read: folks currently in power).
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by belfalas 4y ago
This is my slightly-conspiracy guess: Apple has oodles of old hardware lying around that they would like to keep using but is either too old for macOS or they want to use it for backend services (prod or non-prod, doesn't matter). Thin
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by belfalas 4y ago
I am one of the 200 tab people but it's not all in one browser window. I use a Firefox extension called 'Simple Tab Groups' that let me categorize the tabs to get back to them later. I use it as a mini-knowledge base (I'
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by belfalas 4y ago
You truly wonder at this? Look at the state of the world the last few years. If you’re lucky or brazen enough they may even let you run a whole country! Qualifications make the people suffer less but historically have never been required fo
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by belfalas 4y ago
In my mind an iPad is really just a "laptop lite," especially when it comes to lay people using it. If a student has an iPad in a lot of cases they may not need a laptop. For many studies having a computer is also pretty much a re
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The Seeds of Mechanical Orchard(mechanical-orchard.com)
1 points by belfalas 4y ago|0 comments
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by belfalas 4y ago
Have you read "Righting Software" by Juval Lowy? You might really enjoy it based on your feedback above and here. There is a project design aspect that goes into this kind of planning (or at least reminds me of what you wrote).
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by belfalas 4y ago
> LocalStorage is easy to use but too limited at 50Mb. Asking sincerely: to me it seems that 50Mb is quite a bit of storage if you are only persisting simple numbers/strings or small JSON documents?
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by belfalas 4y ago
Self-hosted and On-Premise are both great ways to get uptake (and money, eventually) so it's great to plan/architect ahead for it if you can. But be super careful about offering support for any On-Premise offering, it is effective
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by belfalas 4y ago
Kim Jung Gi (the artist) once said that the question he got most often was: what kind of brush pen do you use?
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by belfalas 4y ago
Centering text in any technology. :)
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by belfalas 4y ago
> how is the programmer responsibility to produce code It is about mindset. Of course I do not mean that a programmer should suddenly be responsible for "doing everything." What I mean is, the programmer should have as their
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Code May Be Elegant(omniti.com)
2 points by belfalas 4y ago|2 comments
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by belfalas 4y ago
Why do software engineers insist on being paid when they never deliver any working software? Imagine a world in which programmers were only paid once their code hit production. My hypothesis is that estimation skills would improve at a geom
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by belfalas 4y ago
> Maybe these could merge with security software to allow us to navigate whatever future prisons we build. In my mind our goal should be to imagine a future in which the need for prisons becomes obviated.
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by belfalas 4y ago
Thank you for pointing that out - yes, Pullman is one of the most famous examples but the issue was rampant during the Industrial Revolution. In a sense we are now re-living that past, call it the "Digital Industrial Revolution."
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by belfalas 4y ago
It definitely seems very believable given the founders and where FB/Meta ended up eventually. My view is simply that even if the slander is believable, I don't wish to perpetuate it if it's simply not true. (Yes, I realize th
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by belfalas 4y ago
Amazon Panopticon would be my submission. If you're going to go evil, lean in all the way.
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by belfalas 4y ago
You jest, but most likely someone at Amazon will read this and think to themselves: "you know...the for-profit private prison industry is ripe for disruption. This could be a good lead." Also, what you describe has been done befor
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by belfalas 4y ago
This is a thoughtful and helpful answer. The key is to find out about yourself first, and only then decide what you want to do. If you have not found your inner peace yet, it is very difficult to make good life decisions. My own background:
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by belfalas 4y ago
IMHO that is just slander started from the movie.
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by belfalas 4y ago
The founder said it himself almost two decades ago: "you can be unethical while still being legal. That's how I live my life." He was telling the truth!
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by belfalas 4y ago
Reminds me of the 2000s dot com bust, there was a funny meme that got shared in a chainmail (remember those?). It was one of those "Top Ways You Know You're From the Bay Area" lists, maybe twenty or thirty bullet points. The

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