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by chrisa 7y ago
Has anyone gone through any of these? Any standouts?
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by chrisa 7y ago
Was down; back up (for me)
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by chrisa 7y ago
As the first comment there points out, a 96% accuracy doesn't mean much without knowing the false positive and false negative rates. I have no doubt that this is good work in the right direction - but the headline alone doesn't m
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by chrisa 7y ago
I wonder how coronavirus will impact the census? Given the circumstances, sending a bunch of people to knock on a bunch of doors doesn't seem like a great idea...
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by chrisa 7y ago
I've written multiple PWAs and native apps for a variety of clients, and they're basically two different things at this point. As the author points out, iOS especially lags behind. Right now, PWAs will not replace native apps in
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by chrisa 7y ago
It's a neat idea to write the entire book as notebooks - so you can have run-able code right in line. Definitely excited to check this out; thanks Jeremy and Sylvain!
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by chrisa 7y ago
It’s probably worth learning some AI so you know what “AI” really is (it’s not magic) even if you don’t use it - it can help cut some of the hype you hear. I recommend fast.ai for that. If you know JavaScript and want to make mobile apps, g
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by chrisa 7y ago
Multiple mentions of "How not to Die" by Dr. Michael Greger which is great and extensively researched - and he just came out with a new book "How not to Diet" which looks like the same quality. Also, if you like videos b
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by chrisa 7y ago
It also depends on what type of fasting you're talking about; Here's a video about "alternate day fasting" that shows it can mostly be good, unless you already have high cholesterol or are diabetic: https://w
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by chrisa 7y ago
Hi HN! I started MeetingPlace 2 months ago after Meetup's $2 RSVP pricing test announcement, which didn't sit well with me at all as a group organizer: https://www.meetup.com/lp/payment-test-20191016 In just
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Show HN: Meetingplace.io – An Alternative to Meetup(meetingplace.io)
2 points by chrisa 7y ago|1 comments
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by chrisa 7y ago
It only works until those pictures are used to counter-train the AI, right? So is this the high-tech arms race of the future?
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by chrisa 7y ago
Yes - most of the people who ask me this are new to consulting/freelancing, so this is meant to be an intro for them. Once you're established, I find that people don't think about "finding new clients" so much as &q
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How to Find Consulting Clients(chrisachard.com)
501 points by chrisa 7y ago|94 comments
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by chrisa 7y ago
The one thing I keep thinking about is turbulence... Generally, small airplanes are moved around a lot more by wind gusts - which means some people get really motion sick in smaller airplanes. That could be quite a shock for people who are
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by chrisa 7y ago
Thanks! And yes - some people like the twitter thread, and some people like it all as one post - so I like to post both!
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DNS Record Crash Course for Web Developers(dev.to)
82 points by chrisa 7y ago|2 comments
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React Conf 2019 Day 2 Livestream(youtube.com)
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React Conf 2019 Livestream(youtube.com)
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by chrisa 7y ago
The original course videos are on youtube too! I found them a bit easier to watch than reading the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J_xL4IGhJA&list=PLE18841CAB...
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by chrisa 7y ago
Yes, I worry about that too - any ideas about how to fix it? One of the things I liked about meetup was that many (most?) groups were hosted on it, but I think what this has shown is that meetup had a kind of monopoly in that way (which was
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by chrisa 7y ago
I co-organize a React meetup, and seeing the price change update last night made me so... upset and confused - that I decided to build an alternative. My plan is to charge organizers (like meetup does today) to cover costs - but never to ch
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by chrisa 7y ago
Part of the point (from a React perspective) is that everything in a React UI is driven by the data - so your data (state) should always control the UI. If you store some state in JS variables, and some in the DOM (forms), then that's
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by chrisa 7y ago
> "I don't particularly love studying" > "I have no desire to become a professor/researcher" I don't have a PhD, but my take is that if you don't like/want those things, then a PhD will be
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by chrisa 7y ago
There's a great youtube video called "Darker Than Vantablack" that has a cool demo of light reflecting off of different paints, etc; and at the end he revels how he got such a pure black without vantablack or a darker substan
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by chrisa 7y ago
You've hit on a very confusing and debated topic :) I tried to do some research into this awhile ago. What I found is that you (generally, kind of) are able to use copyrighted work to make another work as a "transformative work&q
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by chrisa 7y ago
I love React Native! That said - if you're not familiar with the JS ecosystem (node_modules, etc), then it can seem a bit overwhelming at first, especially when you encounter configuration or build errors. I don't have any great
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How to Quit Your Job and Start Freelancing as a Software Developer(chrisachard.com)
3 points by chrisa 7y ago|1 comments
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by chrisa 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not familiar enough with Mercurial to really say how they are similar or different, so I'm not much help there. Sorry! I can still try to answer the staging question though: So - once you create a commit, it's in t
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by chrisa 7y ago
Thanks for the comment; hopefully I can clear a few things up: - Mercurial is similar to git in that way, but "fully featured" is supposed to contrast to other systems like SVN; the point is that there is a full git repo on every

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