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by kylegill 6y ago
Reading this reminds me a lot of a web comic about holding onto and treasuring questions instead of answers [0]. This seems a little more specific to software though. I do enjoy the brevity of it! [0]: http://kiriakakis.net/
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Ask HN: Which team would you join and why?
1 points by kylegill 6y ago|3 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
It actually served to make me more skeptical to the article only seeing percentages. Thanks for calling that out as well.
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by kylegill 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! What a neat moment to observe a friendly in-person interaction, reconnected via the internet years later. To me it seems like this is an example of how "the explosive expansion in access to opportunity facilitated b
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by kylegill 6y ago
Very true pointing out the multi in multimedia. Just like musicians, they make a big chunk of their earnings off of merchandise and concerts and not just record sales and royalties.
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by kylegill 6y ago
My friend was the one with the working pokedex and boy was I jealous. Lots of Pokemon nostalgia thinking about all the gizmos and toys I bought, trading cards, video games, marbles, action figures, you name it. Fun time to be nostalgic sinc
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by kylegill 6y ago
That's a fair point. Perhaps my statement paints too broad a brush. I get paid to work on open source software, so I agree it's not only worth doing because it's fun and meaningful. I guess I feel lucky hitting the sweet spot
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by kylegill 6y ago
I feel like your take is a beautiful encapsulation of the open source mindset, taking on passion projects because it's fun and meaningful to build!
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Pigs can play video games with their snouts, scientists find(bbc.com)
2 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
I was referring to the gif on the GitHub README here: https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot/#preview (sorry if I was vague) In this project's case, it showcases a lot of features as they're actually
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by kylegill 6y ago
Haha an important detail! Looks like they're trying to make an easily installable version for Mac. I see commits in the log about MacOS as well as a note that mentions building it yourself: > There are no macOS port of flameshot now
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Programming a Better Life: why learning to code is a great decision(kylegill.com)
2 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
This looks really neat, it's amazing what an animated gif or video can do for a README to help to understand what a thing is meant to do. If I were more of a hacker and hadn't already paid the best 25 bucks I've ever spent on
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by kylegill 6y ago
For fear of getting sued, ambiguity is a shield of protection, fascinating. > WebMD solves this by never giving the tiniest shred of useful information to anybody.
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WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise(astralcodexten.substack.com)
1 points by kylegill 6y ago|1 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
Yeah there is certainly some truth to that, the original logo design came from an open source contributor who mentioned some ideas coming from the movie posters: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/408#i
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by kylegill 6y ago
It's times like these where I realize how important it is for me to take myself out of my little tech bubble and have some empathy for all the people using the stuff supported by the crappy code I write.
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by kylegill 6y ago
I agree with what the article mentions, and think the concept of the Great American Novel [0] gives the Great Gatsby wings and leads to it being more _popular_ than it perhaps is _understood_. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by kylegill 6y ago
This looks sort of like a Plex for music, and in a way (if you use some creative thinking) a self hosted Audius [1], neat! I've been thinking about how I'd do this to ditch my library on what was Google Play Music and is now YouTu
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by kylegill 6y ago
Of all the interesting points brought up by this article, my favorite part was the link to the Pirate Bay's launch of a submarine to host its servers. ...dated April 1.
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Launching Delphi – A PM Reminiscing 25 Years Later(theopenforce.com)
3 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
This sounds very Kansas! I grew up there and now live in Utah. Every time I've gone back I'm reminded just how much the midwest is full of people who are good, friendly, and look out for each other.
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Could Miami Be the New Salt Lake City?(twitter.com)
2 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
My friend told me at their company they'd commonly convene the "variable naming committee" for such occasions, and I can't help but think of it every time I find myself in the same place.
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The Most American Religion(theatlantic.com)
4 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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Blob Opera – A Google AI Music Experiment(artsandculture.google.com)
3 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
I visited a friend's family dairy farm in a little town in Utah a few months back and it was quite a change from the tech bubble I tend to dwell in. I think this article reads pretty fair to the mindset of my friend's family too.
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Life Is an Open Source Project and You Are the Maintainer(kylegill.com)
1 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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Chrome Extension to Hide Social Media Feeds(chrome.google.com)
1 points by kylegill 6y ago|0 comments
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by kylegill 6y ago
My machine learning professor would always remind us that 50% is analogous to random chance in a binary decision, but in a model where the prediction is not so black and white, 66% doesn't sound half bad!

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