ibudiallo

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by ibudiallo 7y ago
I write stories. https://idiallo.com Real stories about my work experience in Tech. Sometimes technical, but these days it's more about the social impact of code in the real world.
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I learned to charge my customers(idiallo.com)
3 points by ibudiallo 7y ago|0 comments
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
I've read the entire post and I still don't know how he did it. And his books are incredibly well written. The day after I announced publicly I'm writing a book, my wife announced she was pregnant. I still continued writing b
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Simple and fast to make fitting mask(ragmask.com)
43 points by ibudiallo 7y ago|3 comments
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
In 2017 big blue had decided enough is enough. Let's move to those hip new technologies like, php and MySQl. Let's do angular too! It was a small simple application. It took no longer than a week to migrate to mysql. Unfortunately
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
I wrote an article here, and the traffic I got was 1.3 million web requests. All I did was use memcache, and have all my static assets served with nginx. Just like the article implies, if it requires any tweaking and configuration, most peo
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
This is a really cool idea. In fact, I was thinking about it but in the form of a PC [1]. Most desktop computers today are a magnitude more powerful then the small VMs we rent on the cloud. While you go on with your day, your desktop comput
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
The most disappointing thing in this story is that glaciermd.com doesn't even resolve anymore. He started a business in 2017, and closed the doors in 2018. What? Recently, I was contacted by a person who told me he saw one of my videos
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Most people I know with small websites will not pay $15/month for analytics. The privacy part of it is also not really the concern of small website owners. This is not to dismiss Fathom entirely. But there are free alternative (with se
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Not that you can't learn a language with it, if you are persistent, but Duolingo is a Game first before being a learning tool. It employs all the mobile gaming tricks that get you addicted.
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
It's hard enough to estimate accurately when you are building your own project with no one breathing down your neck. But be a contractor, where your estimate becomes your salary, and you'll find that you tend to give longer estima
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
There is a case to be made about how good the AI behind emotional detection is. When you take the test, it will be accurate for some, and blissfully wrong for others. More so wrong for most. I took the test (or unknowingly took it) and it w
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We Never Paid for Journalism(idiallo.com)
7 points by ibudiallo 7y ago|0 comments
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
This is a text book example from Winners Take all, by Anand Ghidharadas. They use philanthropy to look noble in the effort of creating a greener planet through recycling. And note that this effort is voluntary, from the kindness of their he
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
2017, due to a misconfiguration or lack thereof, the system that manages 250k employees marked me as terminated. Security came to my desk and escorted me out of the building like a criminal. I was hired back 3 weeks later, with a small apol
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
I see a lot of people publicly quiting facebook, then quietly rejoining because... well that one person they know only communicates via messenger. When I finally stopped using Facebook, I didn't close the account. It's just there.
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Since I read Perfume by Patrick Süskind, I smell everything. And the sense I had associated with good or bad smells is disappearing. Now I just smell things and etch the moment in my memory. At night, I lay down and replay my day. I can s
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
From 2007 to 2017, I read zero books. Before that, I only read self help books. I didn't find any use for fiction or novels for that matter. Self help books were actionable to me. But then I stopped. The most I did during that decade w
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Flagging doesn't mean deleting. It brings those non answers to attention. I spent an hour looking through them today and I've only seen one false positive and of course someone reported it instantly. It's pretty useful. One o
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I Got Back to Reading(idiallo.com)
2 points by ibudiallo 7y ago|0 comments
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Side note: this reminds me of a passage in The Machine Stops, by E M Forster (1909). > “In the air-ship —” He broke off, and she fancied that he looked sad. She could not be sure, for the Machine did not transmit nuances of expression .
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Only to have a reusable header and footer.
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
This may not be for everyone but here is what I did. I wrote 5 articles that I thought were interesting. Then I bought a domain name, wrote a php script to serve them. (If url1 do x, if url2 do y) nothing fancy. Only when I saw that I could
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
As a Fulani, when I was growing up there weren't any official alphabet. Some people wrote in Arabic, other's in the latin letters using french phonetics and agreed upon combinations for those new sounds. (ie Bhe, dhe, etc.) I only
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
I have a particular page on my blog that mostly appear as the answer to a question "Can you do X with Y tool". Before Google started displaying it as a snippet, the post was getting decent traffic, and the comments were more somew
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
The one place I thought ads were relevant was on google search. After all, I was searching for the product they are advertising. But the line started to blur when they decided to remove that yellow background that tells me the result is an
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Last year, I was interviewed for a public radio show in Europe. There was nothing more exciting for me to be in the spotlight. A week later they ran the interview and it was eerie to hear myself say things I didn't remember saying. I m
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
I recently started recording some articles I wrote as audio. For the few I have tested, it made a significant difference. Some readers went out of their way to tell me how much they enjoyed the audio version. Most people get distracted too
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Show HN: GadLight – Highlight Google search ads(github.com)
2 points by ibudiallo 7y ago|0 comments
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
> I use the “clever hacks” because I’m afraid of one of my blog articles getting linked to on Reddit. Even if there are no ads on my site, I want it to stay up and readable, and I don’t want to suddenly get an egress-bandwidth bill! I us

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