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by croshan 4y ago
Haha, now that part is just sleight-of-hand. When you click (technically, mousedown) on the google doc link, we copy a new item to the pasteboard, so now instead of {"html": joker_image, "plaintext": card_you_picked}, it
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by croshan 4y ago
Agh. Turns out Firefox doesn't support it, my bad! Safari and Chrome work fine, but I'm guessing that's not an option for many Linux users. Sorry!
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by croshan 4y ago
Thank you! Had to implement something related to this at work, and thought "huh... what else can I do with this?" :P I think the real magic is in the last step, when you're on a generally-trusted 3rd party website (Google doc
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by croshan 4y ago
Fair enough! If you have a Mac, you can try the TextEdit tool (which also supports rich text), as an alternative to Google Docs.
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by croshan 4y ago
Fair point! The way it work is this: you can copy multiple filetypes to the clipboard. So here, I copy a "text/html" and a "text/plain". When you paste to Google docs, it reads "text/html", and o
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by croshan 4y ago
Hmm. Guessing you're trying it on Android? It's relying on the navigator.clipboard API, and generally the experience is not good on mobile
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by croshan 4y ago
Hi HN! This weekend, I made a magic trick that you can try out in your browser. Works best on desktop. Also, for those who don't like it, Google Docs not required--JIRA comments or most other WYSIWYG editors will also work. Hope you en
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Show HN: I Made a Magic Trick(cyrusroshan.com)
165 points by croshan 4y ago|81 comments
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by croshan 4y ago
I love it--realistic example of working with the production codebase, and a chance for the interviewee to see the actual code quality + practices they'd be dealing with.
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by croshan 5y ago
Right? The problem is articles could potentially have early media content, specifically a fat youtube iframe, in the case of the DIY 3d scanner article. I'm glad for this feedback, though. I'll play around with slightly dropping i
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by croshan 5y ago
Thank you for mentioning that, I'll add it soon!
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by croshan 5y ago
Thanks! At first they were rendered HTML of the entire article (because nextjs makes that easy), but that caused performance issues, especially on mobile Safari. So now they're auto-generated screenshots. Glad you like them!
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by croshan 5y ago
https://blog.cyrusroshan.com Recently redesigned my blog to show previews of the posts before you read them. Though I can't say I thought of the idea on my own--it's inspired by the way Dan Luu screenshots the beginnin
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by croshan 5y ago
> FB/IG is down, browse Twitter > Twitter starts to fail under load I think it's only natural, given they're the biggest social networks. I'd guess they have significant overlap.
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by croshan 5y ago
I love that quote. To get where you want to be, it may be helpful to build the skills you want, before you need them. At this point, an organization like Apple is too cemented to easily change. I think you can't learn _everything_ on t
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by croshan 5y ago
I think this is possible to do with JS + WASM/Service workers? And even with many background threads, in WASM: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/wasm-threa...
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by croshan 5y ago
You don't? I don't think activists only use TOR, I'd imagine they layer a VPN on as well, they're not mutually exclusive.
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by croshan 5y ago
I think a big portion actually comes from image-hosting for other websites. Stack exchange, for example, uses Imgur for image hosting when you attach an image with your answer.
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by croshan 5y ago
And why would a company need to have a decentralized token?
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by croshan 5y ago
So critical. So some parsing is done off the device due to performance constraints. You'll need internet access anyway to pull down the RSS feeds, and a middleman Lambda/CF worker won't add much latency. I think it's a p
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by croshan 6y ago
> How would you feel if the government regulated how much sugar or salt you can eat, how many hours of video games you can play, or maybe even forced you to exercise (400 hours / year)? That's actually an interesting idea... No
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by croshan 6y ago
"The constitutional questions are tricky, but this is good neutral tax policy from the IRS. In a nice touch, income from stolen property is offset with deductibility of many classes of stolen property." And from the inline link to
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by croshan 6y ago
I can't find the article saying that the most recent common ancestor between humans and octopi doesn't dream. I think that'd be quite hard to prove, since that species is likely extinct.
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by croshan 6y ago
That’s a great approach! It reminds me of a similar approach I did when I still commuted to work: putting the sticky notes directly on the laptop. At the end of the day, I’d put the laptop in my backpack, and the sticky notes would get crum
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The harmful assumptions we make about tasks(blog.cyrusroshan.com)
56 points by croshan 6y ago|11 comments
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by croshan 6y ago
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. IC means “individual contributor” here, like an engineer that doesn’t manage a team.
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Task managers aren't built for ICs(blog.cyrusroshan.com)
5 points by croshan 6y ago|4 comments
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by croshan 6y ago
Hey, looks interesting, kind of like you're building your own chromium-based browser. What's been the hardest part so far?
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by croshan 6y ago
How can you cancel (without cc chargebacks) if you typed in the wrong email address?
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by croshan 7y ago
The general public doesn't have great trading strategies, but Senators may be more well informed. I wonder how a bot based off of their trades would do.

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