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by cpbotha 10y ago
I hope to release TableTops next year. It's a non-linear graphical (in two senses of the word) knowledge management software that stores universal links to all of your stuff, local and in the cloud. It also does notes, tags, and script
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by cpbotha 10y ago
Very cool that you've shipped! Are you doing this fulltime? (re pinboard: I'm using pocket as my over-powered bookmark list. It reformats all pages for easier reading, also on mobile, and you get to tag everything. With the pro ve
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by cpbotha 10y ago
Author of the post reporting for duty! That was written before TCG Opal arrived and greatly improved the situation. In any case, the post turned out to be a meeting point for SSD full disk encryption fans, so there's a whole lot of gre
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ThunderBird support of RFC 3676 format=flowed is half-broken(cpbotha.net)
2 points by cpbotha 10y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 10y ago
In this case it was less about gov tracking, and more about the depth of the machine learning profile GOOG builds of its users. That being said, decentralising a bit to providers that don't specialise in user profiling but more in emai
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Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail(cpbotha.net)
649 points by cpbotha 10y ago|365 comments
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by cpbotha 10y ago
Thanks for writing this post. I was happily using cloudflare on two of my sites on webfaction mostly for the easy SSL (I did this before let's encrypt). Your post motivated me to try out let's encrypt via the acme.sh script in web
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by cpbotha 10y ago
... but can it cure the apostrophe?
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by cpbotha 10y ago
I find it interesting that nobody yet has mentioned TCG Opal with any of the latest popular consumer self-encrypting SSDs such as the Samsung EVOs and PROs. You get full speed disk access and SSD friendly encryption (the disk is always encr
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by cpbotha 11y ago
Author of blog post compared random insertion / random deletion speed with vectors and lists of up to 100k elements, based on a talk by Bjarne Stroustroup: https://youtu.be/YQs6IC-vgmo The surprising result is that vec
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by cpbotha 11y ago
The link is indeed down. Here's the Google Cache version for your reading pleasure: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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Up and Running with Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) and Emacs SLIME in Four Steps(vxlabs.com)
3 points by cpbotha 11y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 11y ago
Probably the most important innovation of d3 is the idea of the DOM - data join. Mike Bostock, handsome father of d3.js and maker of all that is pure and wonderful (I have the good fortune to spend lots of work time using d3), mentioned thi
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by cpbotha 11y ago
Both you and comment parent might find this interesting: A few years back a friend and I designed a web-app that had as its core difference the ability to automatically schedule all of your tasks (based on estimated workunits / pomodor
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Closure expressions (anonymous functions) in Swift(cpbotha.net)
1 points by cpbotha 11y ago|0 comments
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Gunicorn and DJ-Static as your Django development server(vxlabs.com)
1 points by cpbotha 11y ago|0 comments
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by cpbotha 11y ago
You could send an email to the work address on my personal website (see HN profile). I can't promise that I'll be able to answer everything. :)
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by cpbotha 11y ago
I have first-hand experience with a BI-ish system, squarely targeted at the enterprise and doing quite well there, that we wrote using Django and a whole list of open source components. We did run into some resistance initially, because our
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by cpbotha 11y ago
The large number of high quality scientific and computational libraries that are easily available for Python (most things are a "conda install" or "pip install" away) plus the Jupyter (literate programming) notebook (alt
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by cpbotha 11y ago
Inspiring example, thank you! I had a look at the source to your aiotg package for writing such Telegram bots. IIUC, you run a single Python process using asyncio, and that uses coroutines to handle all requests (in and out). What is your e
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Screenshot-sharing performance comparison (Dropbox is the slowest)(peterbe.com)
3 points by cpbotha 11y ago|1 comments
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by cpbotha 11y ago
So the author proposes to replace REST with "JSON-pure APIs": Just stuff all of your data (errors, warnings, data, domain-specific stuff; he really does not propose any structure) into JSON, and then send and receive that via anyt
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by cpbotha 11y ago
Similar to the tool written about here, FASD is also awesome! https://github.com/clvv/fasd It remembers where you go and which files you open. These days I just do "z gn" (for example) and it'll go to th
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by cpbotha 11y ago
Gracipe was made by two students from my Data Vis course at the TU Delft: http://www.gracipe.com/ (it only started during my course, their app is far more extensive now) They parse and show recipes as icon-oriented graphica
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by cpbotha 12y ago
cyphertite looks more like a backup solution than a syncing solution. Does it also do syncing?
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by cpbotha 12y ago
Yes, unison does require that you have matching versions on both ends of the synchronisation. Fortunately, installing unison can be done quite easily without root access. On my synology, I simply downloaded the arch linux arm packages and e
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Notes on my full-time testing of 7 Dropbox alternatives(vxlabs.com)
26 points by cpbotha 12y ago|5 comments
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by cpbotha 12y ago
I bought that desk in 2013 and have been using it ever since, would not be able to go back to a normal desk. The secret is definitely that it should be adjustable, that is you should be able to vary between sitting and standing. I switch ab
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by cpbotha 12y ago
On Ubuntu this problem is caused by the gpu-manager that keeps on rewriting xorg.conf incorrectly for the Optimus NVIDIA / Intel setup. I analyse the problem and present a hacky work-around in this post: http://vxlabs.com&#x
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MyTomatoes, great pomodoro technique web-app, down due to server cost(mytomatoes.com)
1 points by cpbotha 12y ago|0 comments

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