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by hallman76 4y ago
A few years ago there was a news story about a guy from Boston who died from eating a bag of licorice every day. Google: "Boston man dies licorice" for various news sources reporting on it. https://www.nbcboston.com&#x2
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by hallman76 4y ago
Most parents aren't willing to subject their baby to a scientific study so there are a lot of areas where there just isn't enough data to make advice data-driven. We found Harvey Karp's Happiest Baby on the Block really helpf
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by hallman76 4y ago
There's a subreddit devoted to the topic of working multiple jobs: https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/ . It has 101k members.
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by hallman76 4y ago
A solid movie with a solid soundtrack that isn't available on Spotify. There's a long tail out there that streaming services don't have and it's a bummer.
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by hallman76 4y ago
CCPA provides a handful of reasons that allow a business to maintain data even after you request to be deleted: https://cdp.cooley.com/ccpa-2018/#section-1798-105
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by hallman76 6y ago
> You've made me curious to ask, what programming environments don't have a significant learning curve when you get to the hosting portion, short of a "no-code" hosting solution? With java you can deploy a "fat j
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by hallman76 6y ago
re: best practices. I inherited an API that always responds with 200s, even when there's an error condition. When a document can't be found it returns a 200 OK with a response body "NOT_FOUND". By ignoring existing stand
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by hallman76 6y ago
We're getting closer and closer to this commercial from the late 90s for Quest Communications https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno
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by hallman76 6y ago
If this hits you in the nostalgia, check out this project[1]. It uses raspberry pis to broadcast content over "channels" using existing coax to simplify finding something good to watch. [1] https://hackaday.com/202
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by hallman76 6y ago
Breaktime Media | http://breaktimemedia.com/ | Developer, QA | ONSITE in Boston, MA Breaktime focuses on the 180-second pauses we take throughout our day. We do this by harnessing a state of the art interactive content deli
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by hallman76 6y ago
FTA > “We’ll go to the Attorney Grievance Commission on some cases, where we know for a fact that there were intentional misrepresentations that were made, the kind where there is no question of the facts,” she said, according to The New
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by hallman76 6y ago
Shoutout to django-background-tasks[1] which also uses your existing database to manage the task queue. It worked really well for me. [1] https://github.com/arteria/django-background-tasks
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by hallman76 6y ago
Fast enough depends on your needs. I work on a Gatsby site that builds ~9k pages in ~9 minutes in AWS CodeBuild. We're looking forward to implementing incremental builds at some point, but our current build time is acceptable. I see Ga
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by hallman76 6y ago
Also somewhat related https://twitter.com/americasquared , which I think I found here on HN.
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by hallman76 7y ago
Possible explanation from a thread[0] on reddit: > I am wagering an educated guess here that the technical difficulties on the plane were transponder related. If the defense missile systems the Iranian use were set up with auto interroga
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by hallman76 7y ago
We developed a web-based tool that described water quality based on your location. We generated screenshots of every outcome so the results could be shared to FB/titter. It was something on the order of 40k screenshots. Our process use
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by hallman76 7y ago
> I've hacked a few lambdas together but never dug deep Then why comment? You clearly don't understand the use-case that AWS fits. I've had jobs that took 18 hours to run on single machine finish in 12 minutes on Lambda. I
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by hallman76 7y ago
You're trying to take off while still building the plane. So is AWS.
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by hallman76 7y ago
Two obvious location-based things that could benefit from NFC: - event registration - punching a time clock I'd argue that Apple's lack of NFC support effectively stifled any would-be innovators from even exploring the possibiliti
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Work Like the Client Is You in Two Years(raptitude.com)
2 points by hallman76 7y ago|0 comments
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by hallman76 7y ago
Couldn't take the time to park legally then went out of her way to launch a lawsuit against the city. This is not community behavior. It's toxic.
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by hallman76 7y ago
> My webpage might need to load 1000 images eventually. It's kinda inefficient to try and load them all at the start, especially if the user is never going to scroll through all of them. That's a fair concern, but this library
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by hallman76 8y ago
Tangent: This is a side-effect to how Facebook exposes Facebook ids. They expose system-wide identifiers. LinkedIn's API exposes user ids that are transformed based on whoever is interacting with the API. My network graph could overlap
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by hallman76 8y ago
Would someone mind explaining how ML models are used in the real world? In this case Lyft has users, trips, points of interest (destinations). What would they create a model for? How would it improve driver/rider experience? I've
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by hallman76 8y ago
It's incredible how much this still holds true today. Thanks @spolsky!
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by hallman76 8y ago
Hey HN! Long time listener, first time caller. I just recently launched a SaaS product that allows anyone to publish audio news updates using the Amazon Alexa's built-in flash briefing capability. I think flash briefings are an under-a
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Show HN: Briefing Manager – Publish Audio News Updates to Amazon Alexa(briefingmanager.com)
4 points by hallman76 8y ago|2 comments
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by hallman76 8y ago
Obligatory link to the Onion's Blockbuster Living Museum video: https://entertainment.theonion.com/historic-blockbuster-stor...
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by hallman76 8y ago
At work I maintain a running txt file that acts as a journal, a time tracker to help with timesheets, and a scratchpad for real-time notes (meeting notes, action items, email drafts, code/config). I start a new txt file each year. Each
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by hallman76 8y ago
oof. Their getting started doc[0] has you create a virtualenv called "skill" then asks you to create your project in a folder called "skill". I can't imagine the confusion that's going to ensue. [0] https:&#x2

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