juanuys

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   by juanuys 8y ago

   The bit in the article about extending children's attention spans: > explains that Rogers deliberately lengthened scenes as the theme week progressed, so that the children would get used to an environment that extended their attenti
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   Prior discussions: 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7537674 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725564
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   I would love it if you could elaborate on how the book saved you from decades of game playing. (If not here, email in profile.) I've started this book now, but also an avid gamer and hobbyist game maker.
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   Check out https://www.neuralink.com
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   It'd be nice to see a follow-up post on how to keep this setup up-to-date with the latest security fixes without service disruption.
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   Yes, this is why I try and get WFH gigs over winter so I can do a lunch-time run. Getting up at 6AM in winter for a run isn't going to happen ;-)
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   Excellent write-up. And when I was done I had -67 lives :-)
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   Nicky is also involved in this: https://explorabl.es
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   by juanuys 8y ago

   Thanks for this. I'm very much looking forward to an algorithmic music API/SDK for gaming, to suit mood, etc. PS "less controls" => "fewer controls" or "hide controls"?
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    by juanuys 8y ago

    Demis alluded to this at the Cheltenham Science festival last Saturday when someone asked about rats in mazes and how spatial neural connections are formed. https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science/whats-on/2018
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    I use Potassium Alum (by Salt Of The Earth) and haven't had problems. Technically a deo, I guess.
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    Reminds me of a book I read a while ago: 'Debt: the first 5000 years' [0] [0]: http://dbpedia.org/page/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    I usually come here from Hacker Newsletter, i.e. a few days late and leave a comment that no-one will ever read.
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    Sitting in my man cave [1] working on my projects [2]. [1] https://opyate.com/posts/2016/10/17/my-new-home-office.html [2] See my profile
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    https://pdfcrun.ch Part time, and now working on the V2 table detection algorithm.
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    I've been interested in a household finance visualiser recently, but also don't want to upload my bank statements to some random website. This uses IndexedDB, and is pre-alpha and very buggy and feature-less still: https:/&#
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    A gadget to hook you into using their ML cloud?
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    Check out Gibson Les Paul Robot :)
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    > It's quite unanswered how are they dealing with styling. There are ways to deal with this in a large organisation. E.g. at GOV.UK we had a frontend toolkit: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk_frontend_toolkit
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    > At one point, software should stop changing so often. Save for security fixes, but I agree. Sometimes software is "done".
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    I definitely automate locally by way of Makefiles, running tests then using the GCloud/aws CLI to deploy from local. Things like TravisCI, webhooks, etc come much later if at all.
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - London - Remote OK I'm a full-stack web developer, with most of my time spent on JVM/JS/Python platforms over the past 15 years. https://uys.io/cv Please email me at juan@uys.io
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    My mum's number was 32, which meant early on (age 3) I learnt binary halving to know if I was a quarter done, halfway done, etc.
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    SEEKING WORK - London - Remote OK I'm a full-stack web developer, with most of my time spent on JVM/JS/Python platforms over the past 15 years. https://uys.io/cv Please email me at juan@uys.io
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    by juanuys 9y ago

    The article is behind a sign-up page. Alternative?
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    by juanuys 10y ago

    I've sold two phones now and only realised after that I had valuable voice recordings on there (e.g. my little one saying something cute; guitar riffs; those million dollar ideas) and I plan on fixing it once and for all with https:&#
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    by juanuys 10y ago

    Uncanny - I just whipped this up: https://getvoicecapsule.com Not a social network, but private audio, selective sharing, etc.
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    by juanuys 10y ago

    SEEKING WORK - London, Remote * 15 years full stack experience * JVM/JavaScript -based languages and Python/Julia * specialisation in scalability and quick starts * winner of Startup Weekend 2012 * employee #5 at a startup acquire
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    by juanuys 10y ago

    Heh, I made something similar for a dashboard a while ago to show how many business days remain until a specified event, e.g.: http://bizdaysuntil.herokuapp.com/?year=2016&month=12&day=25... Code: https:/&#x2F
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    by juanuys 10y ago

    I've been trying to find some opinions on the "first rule", i.e. "Centering". Phones and tablets are already a book-like viewport. Desktop browsers are a different matter, for these presumed reasons: - most monitors