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by bransonf 6y ago
I've had this conversation a lot lately with a friend of mine who is a React developer. And I recall a thread on HN where someone broke it into a dichotomy. There are those who believe strongly in the web as interactive documents. I fa
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by bransonf 6y ago
I'd guess low demand as well. Compared to any other type of screen, eInk is extremely niche. E-Readers and some mass produced wearables (Pebble) made it work, but even those had a fairly small market.
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by bransonf 6y ago
There are only 61 GIFs in the entire dataset [0] What this project is most clearly missing is an attempt at web crawling for GIFs. This is how Giphy works, and frankly I think it would be trivial to scrape a few thousand GIFs in an afternoo
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by bransonf 6y ago
Fairly certain this affected Kroger. My sister called me this morning asking to troubleshoot why her laptop was warning of an unsecured connection. Perhaps a coincidence, but also likely that their cert expired.
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by bransonf 6y ago
The University of Texas System tried to do this in the late 90s/early 00s. They concluded Web-based distance education is not appropriate for every student. [0] (There also exists a long form narrative about the origins of this, but
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by bransonf 6y ago
I know you're probably being sarcastic, but Apple uses their own San Francisco Font throughout the OS [0]. It's personally one of my favorite fonts, though Apple has full rights. Some typographers allege that Roboto is fairly clos
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by bransonf 6y ago
Appreciate it. I've just been hearing the term thrown around a lot lately in context of someone who replies to every single one of someone else's tweets.
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by bransonf 6y ago
I know a few people who do Twitter bot detection as sort of a hobby, and I would say you have to be skeptic of these numbers from both directions. Obvious bots are, well, obvious. Novice or careless implementations lead to accounts that twe
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by bransonf 6y ago
Reading the title, I anticipated this was going to be something along the lines of getting Domino's delivered for less than their delivery fee. (Side note, does anyone actually order franchise pizza on an app? They all already deliver
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by bransonf 6y ago
Yep, Pearson makes MySpanishLab as well. Generally one of the most awful UX I'v ever had in a web app.
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by bransonf 6y ago
Nearly every single one. In college, I probably used close to a dozen different web applications for assignments. Math, chemistry, engineering, biology, Spanish. I can't remember the name of the web app for my calculus homework, but th
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by bransonf 6y ago
Personally, I’m a huge fan of the Gates foundation and their public health efforts. However, I recognize that not everyone shares this sentiment. The anti-vax crowd had painted Gates as the devil, and a non-insignificant number of people ju
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by bransonf 6y ago
If there are any systems that I think will change most, that would be online education and online work. Simultaneously, I think we're realizing the benefits and inadequacies of both, which mean that they'll improve, and become fur
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by bransonf 6y ago
I’m bullish on Julia. But I don’t necessarily think it’s here to replace Python. Rather, I think it has potential to replace Matlab and R, particularly in academia. I’ve only used it to fit some linear models so far, and it’s obviously perf
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by bransonf 6y ago
There was a great Twitter thread[0] on this the other day. To summarize, value has shifted from the energy sector to online services and technology dramatically. [0] https://twitter.com/calvinfo/status/1254635755671
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by bransonf 6y ago
I once thought like this too. And then I studied engineering to learn that I hated it. I ended up switching into the humanities. Once there, I began to apply a combination of statistics and computer science to address very real problems (cr
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by bransonf 6y ago
Have to say, it’s been my best experience in virtual reality yet. 3D movies feel shockingly similar to the theatre experience, if not better. There’s something comforting about partaking with a bunch of other people as well. Following the m
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by bransonf 6y ago
Bought a Vive and new RTX card the first week of realizing I’d be stuck at home for months. Almost all of the other headsets were (and still are?) sold out. I bought in with the expectation that I could have a great social experience in vir
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by bransonf 6y ago
As someone who writes R daily, I’m really excited for 4.0. That said, R still leaves a lot to be desired. Changing the default for stringsAsFactors is great, and I think it reflects a small shift in R from being an exclusively stats-based l
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by bransonf 6y ago
A Spotlight like feature is coming in the next update to Windows 10 I believe. Totally agree on PDFs though, Windows doesn’t even have a solution as decent as Preview on MacOS. The default for PDFs is internet explorer for gods sake. And cu
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by bransonf 6y ago
Curious what folks think the outlook on this technology is. Rather, will there be any significant shift towards centralized compute in the next decade? Currently, a large institution/corporation has to manage thousands of individual ma
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by bransonf 7y ago
If you like the upside down hack, consider the Fellow Prismo. You can actually do the upside down hack right side up because the valve is sealed.
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by bransonf 7y ago
As a Mac user, the best nomadic setup is a MacBook and an iPad. I can’t think of a more practical dual monitor setup to travel with.
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by bransonf 7y ago
You can draw a close parallel to mechanical keyboards. If you spend all day behind a keyboard, it makes sense to invest in a good experience. If you spend all day writing, it makes sense to have a nice pen.
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by bransonf 7y ago
I’m not old enough to have been around in the day of the original user groups, but I’m pretty active on Meetup these days, finding other developers in my city using similar languages and tools. Curious to know what the contrasts are of the
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by bransonf 7y ago
This is one of those things that I hear the security community talking about a lot, but it has very little mainstream traction. This actually surprises me because I would intuit that people would be drawn to hysterics about massive grid fai
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by bransonf 7y ago
I see where you’re going, but I think the advice still sticks. If you’re at a startup, your product is your business. The point about not hesitating to move fast is the biggest difference between startups and mature companies.
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by bransonf 7y ago
Depends on your use case. If you just need specific data from a known location, build a scraper. If you’re looking to index as much data as possible, build a crawler. The complexity of a crawler is significantly more than a scraper, so it’s
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by bransonf 7y ago
Let this be a warning, never get locked into a platform specific solution.
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by bransonf 7y ago
Thanks, I appreciate this. I didn’t really have data to support my conclusions, but echoing rhetoric I’ve heard before. Glad to know I was wrong. It’s not surprising that it’s polarizing when the end result is taking money from people. That

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