kris-s

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   by kris-s 9y ago

   I used to work at Addgene, really enjoyed it. The nonprofit "open science" business model is awesome!
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   Thanks! Yeah probably not mainstream smash hit.
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   I've been working on Igriva little by little for the past few weeks. The core idea is imposing limits on the user: you can only post or comment five times until Igriva resets. When Igriva resets all the posts are cleared (I don't
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   Show HN: Igriva an ephemeral message board with user limits(igriva.com)

   1 points by kris-s 9y ago|3 comments
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   I wonder if we can sort of trick ourselves into more reasoned discussions. For example: before a debate have the participants (maybe the audience too) say something to the effect of "I am willing to change my position on this topic.&qu
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. I love this book.
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   Related PyCon talk about this: https://youtu.be/bx3NOoroV-M
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   I have the same feeling every time I see these types of "turn your editor into an IDE" posts. There are a lot of features of PyCharm I like, but its debugger is definitely the best and most essential for me.
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   by kris-s 9y ago

   Loving the move away from 16:9 aspect ratios. Looks like some serious competition for Apple's notebooks.
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    How a HN community post got my podcast on Amazon(krisshamloo.com)

    2 points by kris-s 9y ago|0 comments
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    I'm working on a large collection of short stories called the Daily Story Project (guess how frequently I write the stories). It's intended to be listened to as a podcast but I also publish the recordings as YouTube videos. Not re
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    Totally agree, my mantra is "The enemy of my main project is all the other projects." Starting is fun and seductive, finishing is a grind, but boy does it feel good when you do. It's how I finished a novel, a massive YouTube
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    Just to throw my two cents in here: my favorite technical book is the fairly recent Go Programming Language by Donovan & Kernighan (www.gopl.io). It's very readable and has _excellent_ exercises to do as you work through the book.
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    My strategy in those situations is to get out my phone, set a timer and say: "I'm going to work on x for five minutes, if I still feel crappy after five minutes I'll stop." That mental bargaining is bizarre in that I kno
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    Not to mention the added benefit of being able to say "Take it the Apple store".
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    For work I prefer laptops simply because they are more flexible, I can bring it into a conference room, take it to a quiet corner if my semi-open office is noisy, etc. The CPU power of any recent MacBook Pro has been more than sufficient fo
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    I made a very simple CLI util that prints a timestamp and an emoji inside a rectangle, makes separating and scrolling through repetetive terminal output easier. I use it all the time and it's stupid and I love it. https://gi
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    Developing Lab Management Software for Biology(blog.addgene.org)

    1 points by kris-s 10y ago|0 comments
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    I hope this is a fruitful endeavor but I can't help but feeling the pressure to "Not have another Py2 -> 3" situation will win out and the GIL will remain. Which, I think is completely fine. For me Python is the ultimate g
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    awesome!
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    My favorite thing about Swift is that is seems to get out of the way - and when it gets in the way it's usually with a nifty language feature (like the { $0 + $1 } closure syntax). I'm very excited for the future - between Go and
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    Maybe I'm overestimating the potential success, but it staggers me that Google only released their Pixel laptops with ChromeOS. I would absolutely buy it if it had Ubuntu pre-installed on it with working drivers (and I think a ton of
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    Sure thing, happy to :)
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    by kris-s 10y ago

    I make a youtube video every day as part of a do-a-thing-for-100-days project. I've learned a lot from it but one of the key takeaways was that I have much, much more creative energy than I thought (I was really worried I would run out
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    by kris-s 11y ago

    Stuff like this always reminds me how much room there is for making a product that makes an inconspicuous everyday activity better, but also how much staying power "good enough" has.
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    by kris-s 11y ago

    I made a little video with this (part of an ongoing series). https://youtu.be/w1RvNk6BA2c
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    by kris-s 11y ago

    My pet theory is that even relatively simple programming problems drain a very limited daily resource of programming time (something on the order of 2-4 hours of real work per day). Because a programmer can be drained of programming abili
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    by kris-s 11y ago

    Depends on the company and what their product/service is. You might need varying levels of knowledge. I'd say you totally could self-teach it for most roles.
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    by kris-s 11y ago

    I work at a biotech company and what I've read so far has been a very well written overview. Really great writeup.
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    by kris-s 11y ago

    Is it a big project? In PyCharm at least, the indexing is pretty slow even on my beefier machines. Once that's done it's smooth.