chris_st

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by chris_st 6y ago
Fungy McFungusface.
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by chris_st 6y ago
In the "two people walking towards each other" case, I've battled that my whole life. I typically stare right at the other person, anxiously waiting for them to pick a direction so I can go the other way. My wife pointed out
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by chris_st 6y ago
For whatever it's worth, I think your service (A) looks great! and (B) looks a lot like Heroku in a lot of ways. One thing Heroku learned was that people kind of abused their free service. It used to work like this: You could create a
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by chris_st 6y ago
I think I see what you're saying, and I agree about supporting older platforms. But wow, when the ES6 features hit, and I could use them NOW, in spite of having to support IE? That was huge, and made the code so much nicer in so many
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by chris_st 6y ago
Sorry for the stupid question, but what is a "memory-safe SSH server"? Thanks!
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by chris_st 6y ago
Well, no, he wasn't that much of a jerk, thankfully.
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by chris_st 6y ago
I had a kind of... manipulative co-worker who often tried to work around the Product Owner. He'd come into my office and ask, "Can we do <some feature>?", hoping to trigger my inner engineer to be interested in how to
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by chris_st 7y ago
That's reasonable. Alternatively, I'm using Arq[0] (locally encrypted before upload, uploads to tons of different services, I'm using AWS S3 and Google Storage) so I'm paying ~$7/month for about 40G stored. And I
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by chris_st 7y ago
If you'd like to be adventurous, I highly recommend the Nief-Norf folks[0] who are streaming live music in support of modern chamber music, and having old streams available. Some really great music here. They're raising money th
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by chris_st 7y ago
Well, yeah, the idea of individual drives is great, but in practice I've had a lot of drives die.
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by chris_st 7y ago
PopClip is fantastic... all kinds of useful extensions for it you can download.
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by chris_st 7y ago
I use PopClip[0] (recommended above). One of the extensions you can download sends whatever you've selected to Google Translate. Don't need it often, but it's fantastic when I do. 0: https://pilotmoon.com/po
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by chris_st 7y ago
AWESOME! Thanks so much, I'll look into that. I think it was the Instapaper service I was using back in the day.
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by chris_st 7y ago
Cool, thanks! I'm doing a lot with AWS serverless, it's a great way to go (and similarly cheap). Any chance you could open-source your scraping code?
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by chris_st 7y ago
Well, he's continuing to do new music, rather than relying on just playing "My Bologna" a million times. He's done Lady Gaga at least, so I think he'll last longer than you might guess (hope so!).
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by chris_st 7y ago
He once said in an interview, "I'm doing a poke in the ribs, not a kick in the butt".
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by chris_st 7y ago
Wow, what a great idea, and largely fantastic implementation! It really looks good. Do RSS feeds have "just" text that you pull to get the article content, or are you parsing the webpage somehow? If so, how? I've done someth
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by chris_st 7y ago
#EBABEC is now "Pink Hork" in honor of Janelle Shane[0]. 0: https://aiweirdness.com
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by chris_st 7y ago
You may be right... alas, I seem to be able to parse his sentence either way. Stupid NLP :-)
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by chris_st 7y ago
Ah, thanks for the update. Glad they're using such a secure, unhackable technique /s
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by chris_st 7y ago
I'm doing an application backed by AWS's Amplify, and so I have to have a service that gets the email with the confirmation code. I'm using Guerrilla Mail[0] for that, and it works, but it's slow to receive the email a
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by chris_st 7y ago
Came here to mention Guerrilla Mail as well -- I'm using it with end-to-end tests successfully, but it can be slow (~30 seconds for an email to be available). I believe it's slow because it's popular, so I imagine this will
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by chris_st 7y ago
It appears to be down now -- death by HN?
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by chris_st 7y ago
Are you hosting your own Postgres, or using a db-as-a-service? If so, which one?
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by chris_st 7y ago
The efficiency argument is appropriate for things like real-time games, where response time should be as fast as possible. For the other 99% of apps, a clean, clear mental model for the developer is pretty nice to have, and this looks lik
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by chris_st 7y ago
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21232209
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by chris_st 7y ago
Thanks to another bread discussion on HN, I'm a very happy user of Peter Reinhart's Whole Wheat breads and Bread Baker's Apprentice books. He does something similar with the overnight soaker/poolish/biga recipes, wh
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by chris_st 7y ago
Awesome! You might consider using colors from Janelle's famous color names experiment[0]. [0] https://tmblr.co/ZP7VLs2LxVDcI -- part 2!
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by chris_st 7y ago
I don't see either Tuck or iClip listed... I'll reach out to the developer[0] and let him know he should get in on this. Tuck is REALLY fantastic. Really recommend it, and iClip is one of the many remember-all-your-clipboard thin
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by chris_st 7y ago
Okay, you're clearly not a marketer, but maybe try to think like one for a moment. What you've said, in effect, is, "Gee, someone came to the site with some interest (say, from a Hacker News link) but no idea what this secret

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