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by davidgu 4y ago
Super cool product, congrats on the launch Maitham :) Good to hear that all the data is encrypted & anonymised, since that would be my #1 concern with health data. (Evervault also looks interesting, I didn't know there was a plug-a
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The domain for the Python Requests library is expired(docs.python-requests.org)
170 points by davidgu 4y ago|79 comments
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by davidgu 4y ago
I think it heavily depends on the kind of work you're doing. I've used i3wm for the last 4 years, and it's very helpful for when you have a bunch of short-lived windows (like terminals) or you frequently switch between two di
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by davidgu 5y ago
Perfect Recall | Full Stack Engineer (first hire) | Full Time | Onsite Waterloo, Canada | https://www.perfectrecall.app We let you share key highlights from your Zoom calls, replacing written notes. Our software records and tran
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Perfect Recall (YC W20) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer(ycombinator.com)
1 points by davidgu 5y ago
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by davidgu 6y ago
> and maintains really good performance even with large documents Out of curiosity how large were these documents, and were they completely text or did they contain a fair number of images? I'm asking since I once ran into a situati
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by davidgu 6y ago
I am very seldom in a situation where I must download my IDE while traveling in a rural area, run it with Photoshop simultaneously, or use it for the entirety of a 3-hour plane ride. While multi-hundred-megabyte text editors consuming doubl
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by davidgu 7y ago
Hi HN, After our last post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22415714 ), we listened to your feedback and made a ton of changes to the UI to make it more intuitive. Copying the description of the project from our last po
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Show HN: Hyperdoc – Code Walkthrough for Socket.io(demo4.gethyperdoc.com)
4 points by davidgu 7y ago|1 comments
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The C++ “Most vexing parse”(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by davidgu 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Thesaurus-cli(github.com)
1 points by davidgu 8y ago|0 comments
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by davidgu 9y ago
Gmail is using their influence to modify email standards[0]. This is exactly how it works in reality. If a certain service provider holds most of the user base, they can implement breaking changes without fracturing the community. In some c
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by davidgu 9y ago
>I question the methodology behind this figure. The nature of the decentralized network makes it difficult to get good estimates. All I have are anecdotes. Yes, the overwhelming majority of users are on Mastodon. However, I personally in
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by davidgu 9y ago
>But not federation. No one can talk to people on other servers. Such forks already exist, none of them are successful. They are not successful because Signal has not yet done anything particularly egregious. If they do, I believe that a
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by davidgu 9y ago
Moxie toes the line so that Signal's strengths always outweigh its faults for most people, which prevents an alternative from reaching a critical mass. Signal is released under the GPL, meaning that if something did happen to shake u
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by davidgu 9y ago
I wonder how this affects pattern recognition. Would people more readily recognize that say, "Large Spiky Orange Fish" strategies lead to greater returns, compared to if the strategies were presented as "Short | Value Investm
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by davidgu 9y ago
Another _problem_ with these suggestions is that they suggest +5 services to replace one. It's difficult enough to have a coordinated migration to a single new service. This just compounds the problem. To have a good chance at becoming
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by davidgu 9y ago
I feel that it's unlikely that ulterior motives are in place, given that Signal's core user base consists of privacy conscious folks, thereby preventing an easy pivot towards a closed ecosystem once critical mass is reached. It&#x
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by davidgu 9y ago
He was absolutely right. It's just that the benefits of written language massively outweigh the small loss in memory performance we experience. If your computer's OS and all your files were stored on a 64gb ramdisk, it would be fa
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by davidgu 9y ago
It seems that almost every technological development will cause us to become "weak as a species," for the simple reason that these developments remove difficulties we have faced in the past. Cars and bicycles damaged our endurance