dougk16

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Ask HN: Verify email by user emailing me?
1 points by dougk16 6y ago|4 comments
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by dougk16 6y ago
Hello fellow seeker! Seriously it's always refreshing to find people who don't KNOW things. And despair not, this crisis is making our numbers grow faster than any virus. We will soon take back the world. :)
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by dougk16 6y ago
Of all the "facts" flying around, this one is not only one of the most powerful by itself, but is also (even if it is in some way false) a great distilled example of all the unimaginably strong incentives pulling at the world righ
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by dougk16 7y ago
Not to be too self-promoty, but I spent a ton of time thinking about the schema for my site, and have gotten some compliments on the detail and documentation: https://aytwit.com/sql I hope that helps spark some ideas for yo
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by dougk16 7y ago
Profiting 70% of the time is pretty exceptional. Even with insider info like that I can't imagine anyone being able to consistently do much better. The few trading strategies I'm familiar with, you have an expectation that you pro
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by dougk16 7y ago
"...they've developed a way of writing maintainable code, but the language knows nothing about it, and is not expressive enough to describe it succintly." Good quote. I used to struggle with this feeling when I got to roughly
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by dougk16 7y ago
I agree SQL is way too hardcore for the average person, but the CLI wrapper makes it a little more approachable. Still a little too hardcore for most people but one cool part is that I can generate spreadsheets easily as well. Anyway no I d
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by dougk16 7y ago
I know a lot of people use spreadsheets, but I figure why not take it to the next level? So I'm starting to use a SQLite database with a simple bash CLI front-end for prompting new entries, generating reports, and simplifying some SQL
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by dougk16 7y ago
If anyone's interested, I wrote a blog post on some purely technical reasons that Comic Sans is probably not a good idea, at least for a website. This is coming from someone who really tried to make it work, but my hand was finally f
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by dougk16 7y ago
Nice little idea and implementation. Since privacy/security is a goal, it might make sense to dive into one or more of the following, even if they're not on the main page: - The tech behind the encryption/privacy. One thing i
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by dougk16 7y ago
Nice! I do the same thing with custom aliases in my .bash_profile for all kinds of things, including opening various webpages, opening meditation videos on youtube and such to certain timestamps, so I think the idea has some legs. One thing
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by dougk16 7y ago
I didn't even really consider holes since my goal was to prove an idea I had of using "lincoln log joints" with "impact-tightened constrictor knot lashing". I'm put quotes around those terms since I made them u
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by dougk16 7y ago
Wow nice links, thank you! No I didn't run across those. I was attempting it mainly with AutoCAD and its SDK since that's what I knew best. Will definitely be using OpenSCAD now for...something!
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by dougk16 7y ago
Sort of related tool I made a year or two ago: http://dougkoellmer.com/front_rack I used this tool to make a PVC front rack for my bike: http://dougkoellmer.com/front_rack/attached_side.jpg I tried to
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by dougk16 7y ago
Yup I gotcha, I wasn't really disagreeing with you, just adding the obligatory "well actually it depends" comment. ;)
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by dougk16 7y ago
> It doesn't really cost anything... Depending on context, sure this could be true. Like if you're comparing the cost of releasing some small OSS module of Uber's to Uber's annual revenue, sure, it's going to be
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by dougk16 7y ago
Second this. I've never binge watched anything on Youtube like Sadhguru videos. You can search for "Sadhguru <just about any kind of difficult life problem>" and he has a take on it that brings you deeper than the one d
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by dougk16 7y ago
Xamarin is indeed the closest there is to the holy grail of cross-mobile development. I too had some success with it for a small project at first, but just like the theme of the blog post, the challenge is in the long-term maintenance being
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by dougk16 7y ago
Ha beat me to it!
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by dougk16 7y ago
Basically the same process as when you first started. Implement the changes on Platform A, get it stable, port it over to Platform B, get it stable, port back any refinements to platform A. Platform changes themselves should ideally be quar
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by dougk16 7y ago
I have come to this same conclusion after many years. It's not cost-effective to have any bespoke business logic (models, controllers, etc.) shared between the two mobile platforms (don't get me started on sharing UI code). If you
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by dougk16 7y ago
I've done several huge rewrites over my sordid career, and a strategy that works well is to abstract your bad data design behind a good one. This involves some kind of transformer layer between your bad data design spec and your abstra
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Goodbye Comic Sans(aytwit.com)
2 points by dougk16 7y ago|0 comments
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by dougk16 7y ago
Probably made from basically just olive oil, something like https://www.amazon.com/Pack-Pure-Traditional-Olive-Soap/dp/B...
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by dougk16 7y ago
Not sure what you mean. Emergency Stop? I know it's bumped/tripped my kids on a few occasions, but they were asking for it. :)
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by dougk16 7y ago
We have one in our local Stop and Shop. It has a creepy smiley face plastered on it. It's easy to say that it's super weird and suspicious, gets in your way, likely not cost-effective (at least for its ostensible purposes, who kno
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by dougk16 7y ago
I spent a ton of time on making my site's privacy policy easy to read, while also discussing philosophy and some technical aspects, meant to be read by anyone who can understand simple English. https://aytwit.com/about#
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by dougk16 7y ago
Typically you have a separate database just for analytics, exactly for the reason you described. You don't want to hold up actual business logic. And yes typically you also have a job queue for the same reason. So e.g. API calls don&#x
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by dougk16 7y ago
I haven't decided if it really matters to me (if it would really affect the decision to purchase a review), but one thing I was looking for on the page was the background/qualifications/experience/etc. of the reviewer(s)
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by dougk16 7y ago
Wow, ambitious! Your sheer nerve is enough to click on the link and check it out. :) As a potential early adopter that has seen countless would-be world-changing technology efforts come and go, in order to personally get me on the bandwagon

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