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by jones1618 6y ago
Everyone is concentrating on the wrong thing. There are two possible kinds of voter fraud (both extremely rare), "retail fraud" (i.e. individual voters) and "wholesale fraud" (i.e. bulk fraud). Voter ID laws mostly &quot
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by jones1618 6y ago
It looks like an interesting and useful project but the API is strange and the documentation confusing at best (compared to other JSON stores I've used). * Why "packs" and "items" when there are so many more common
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by jones1618 6y ago
For mainstream users, the function of blogs and feeds were subsumed by Facebook. For techies, self-curated feeds were dropped in favor of canned feeds from Reddit and Hacker News, sadly. The result is that as content consumers, we mostly ab
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by jones1618 6y ago
Yes. When blogs were at their peak, non-techy people could hop from blog to blog through each blog's "logroll" which were headlines pulled automatically from other blogs selected by the author of the one you were viewing. The
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by jones1618 6y ago
Forbes - 30+ Examples of Blockchain in Practice https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2018/05/14/30-real-... The biggest use "in the wild" right now is in multi-party smart contracts wh
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by jones1618 6y ago
It's not explained well but this allows you to own the "original" photo/painting/document, etc. in a provable way. An artist could offer a limited edition digital "print" and you could collect it, exhibit
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by jones1618 7y ago
Vue.js is my personal favorite, especially for personal projects because of its clarity and lightweight feel. However, during my recent job search, it seemed like React was the most in demand. Angular seems the "safe" choice of bi
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by jones1618 7y ago
That's the same advice I've heard from multiple established authors. They commit to writing 500 words or 2 pages or whatever every day, no matter what. It doesn't matter if you are inspired or hate the result or throw it all
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by jones1618 7y ago
My previous answer was more about tech in the broad sense. Here are software tech trends that I thought were going to be HUGE but kind of fizzled. Some I strongly believe are ripe for a comeback: 1. (As before) I thought Java and Java Apple
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by jones1618 7y ago
In 1994, I believed Java and Java Applets would replace Flash, desktop apps and even operating systems. I knew we'd all have fiber to the home by 2005, at the latest. I was sure that we'd all be using 360 panorama cameras and ster
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by jones1618 7y ago
Using a safe word to unlock is brilliant. Why require iCloud or web access at all, though? Hide a configuration page behind the safe word as well. You could also have another secret word to instantly trigger your silent alarms. Also, if the
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by jones1618 7y ago
It's memorable and could be a plausibly "cute" name for an actual hang man game. Still, it might set off alarms of the abuser who's already constantly on the lookout for emotional/physical defection by their victim.
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by jones1618 7y ago
Create a web page w/ your links and then use one of these services to convert it into an RSS feed: * http://fetchrss.com/ * https://rss.app/rss-feed/webpage-to-rss * https://feed43.co
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by jones1618 7y ago
Maybe he could find out if a less extreme version of your idea works for him. People are motivated by different things. I like Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies as a key to unlock what motivates you. Some people are motivated by being t
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by jones1618 7y ago
Fair enough but another factor is that Europe in the 1980s was the height of techno/rave culture and the demoscene fed off of that. Also, PCs didn't catch on so fast and 8-bit machines (C-64s, Atari STs) and the Amiga stayed popul
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by jones1618 7y ago
It looks very useful and feature-filled but a free or low-cost trial version would be better. That would attract people in the startup/side-hustle phase who might earn enough business to pay for the full version.
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by jones1618 7y ago
TechCrunch said Digg shut down in March, 2018: https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/14/alas-digg-reader-is-shutti... At that time Digg was purchased by BuySellAds, an advertising company.
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by jones1618 7y ago
The free version of Repl.it allows two simultaneous coders. https://repl.it/site/multiplayer
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by jones1618 7y ago
I'm not sure what "powerful tools ... in the browser" means for you, but here are some pure front-end JavaScript projects that I find to be powerful: 1. "Live" documents/notebooks like: * Tangle - http:&#
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by jones1618 7y ago
Cool idea. I don't see why you couldn't do this. First, run seam carving at a few sample aspect ratios but modify the algorithm to keep track of what regions are carved. Create a kind of heatmap that records the "disposibilit
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by jones1618 7y ago
Family and maturity change your perspective. While younger developers are chasing the next "shiny new thing", you just want to put your time in and go home. That's nothing to be ashamed of. To satisfy "getting home faste
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by jones1618 7y ago
I was going to say I was surprised that someone could be so narrowly specialized to not know "online learning" is a common term. On second thought, I'd say it is darn near impossible that the author of the paper never Googled
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by jones1618 7y ago
I stumbled on this accidentally when I started to dial information (411) and meant to hang up with my finger before the last '1'. Instead, the switch hook "bounced" (making the click signifying the last '1') an
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by jones1618 7y ago
All the fees were kind of B.S. especially as technology made providing the switching, call-forwarding and caller ID ring services easier and cheaper to provide. Besides, remember that they used to charge _rent_ for your phone and wouldn&#x2
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by jones1618 7y ago
I have a few YouTube channels for that (these aren't tracks but 2 or 3 hours of music, each): * Space Ambient Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbgpt4Dp6kA&list=PLaOqCSda1v... * Upbeat Instrumental Work Music:
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by jones1618 7y ago
What3Words is free to use for individuals. People complaining of "rent-seeking" must believe that every SAAS should be free. Even if you think that the amount of code and effort involved was less than Google search or Bitcoin, why
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by jones1618 7y ago
Traffic Jam is a physical sliding puzzle that teaches sequential and recursive thinking: https://tinyurl.com/yxav6zx4 There's also a 1-dimensional version you can play in a classroom with people or on a table w/ c
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by jones1618 7y ago
True for a lot of industries. Unfortunately, there are two corporate responses to this: 1) Software is a strategic competitive advantage and market differentiator and 2) Software is a cheap commodity that can be outsourced and cobbled toget
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by jones1618 7y ago
USD couldn't be more different than X3D. It's an industrial-strength standard for sharing massive movie-scale assets between commercial editing suites and production tools. X3D is lighter weight markup for defining simple 3D scene
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by jones1618 7y ago
It's odd that he incidentally refers to "architecture" a couple of times but doesn't include that in the hierarchy. I'd put architecture above models because it defines not just how your models are partitioned and c

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