lazyjeff

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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I was about to say as well, JavaScript, SQL, were both niche DSLs that are now mainstream enough that people prep them for general software development interviews. JavaScript is now a general language, but maybe the most popular DSLs break
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Show HN: Irchiver, your full-resolution personal web archive(irchiver.com)
38 points by lazyjeff 5y ago|15 comments
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
Absolutely, especially with the recent "invention" of the native font stack as a solution that does not require loading external files while showing a nice modern font. Imagine if the trade-off was more explicit to the visitors: w
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
Same here, using Winamp 2.95 on a HiDPI screen as my main audio player. The best feature that it seems no other player has reproduced yet is being able to hit the J key to do an instant search for a song, with 0 latency: the search narrows
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
Wow, what a beautiful piece of writing. The sayings from that period, the weaving of "recipes", and the little girl's mindset add a lot of color to this piece.
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
One of my pet peeves is that these articles never report the a priori distribution of labels that are being predicted. Guessing whether you're at sitting vs walking with 90% accuracy is not very useful if most people are usually sittin
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
Sorry for a back-and-forth replies, but I don't want readers to be misled: > You do not retain the copyright, and the only permission you get is to share it for classroom use with some other constraints. Authors posting them on thei
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
These societies are run and composed of by academics themselves. In fact, the executive salaries are $0 as far as I know, so it's a volunteer organization. It's basically how publishing would work if academics take control away fr
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I don't think the choice is between a commercial publisher and open access venues. In fact, open access options are typically my least favorite, because they charge the authors to publish. Maybe the initial idea was good, but the term
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
Ludvig is one of the best systems-level computer programmers of this era. His focus is on optimization in every way has been the secret to success for these projects; something that is sadly missing in most software these days. µTorrent cam
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I teach user interface design, with a bit about typography but I'm not a typographer myself. But I feel like a lot of the advice there is taken from graphic design (based on the original EoTS book), and not that practical for web desig
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I found when I tried doing this "calibration" phase, that it's not just about sheer time spent on a task. A task that took three 1-hour sessions is often not doable in one 3-hour session, because you lose creative productivit
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I don't think it's necessarily that scientists are avoiding the hard work to show causality. It's that the most interesting causal experiments are often unethical, or the independent variable cannot be hidden like a placebo (
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
At the end of the day, the data has to live somewhere. If not on disk, then in memory or straight from the network. If the device is rooted, then the user would technically have access to any of these, so it doesn't really matter.
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The 19th-Century Swill Milk Scandal That Poisoned Infants with Whiskey Runoff(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by lazyjeff 5y ago|0 comments
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SSVG: Scalable Scalable Vector Graphics(ssvg.io)
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Stories of how my research papers were published(jeffhuang.com)
29 points by lazyjeff 5y ago|2 comments
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
One "hack" I discovered not too long ago, is if you get "Internet only", there's not a penny of taxes. But if you get "Internet + TV" even for the same price, there's like 25% extra in taxes and fees
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I've documented my approach which is to not use an app at all, but instead a single text file that becomes a list of things done by the end of the day: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ The notes you t
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I've read the original paper before, and I think people are misusing its title and the number 7. If you read closely, the conclusion of 7 being a magic number is a bit of satire. In fact, just think about the title itself, a "magi
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I think that even for each person, their motivation varies and depends on the paper. I tried to document my own backstory behind writing my papers, and would be interested to hear others about this: https://jeffhuang.com/str
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Chinese youth rejecting the pressures of hustle culture by ‘lying flat’(independent.co.uk)
17 points by lazyjeff 5y ago|6 comments
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I recognized the username rauchg from when I worked with socket.io over 10 years ago. Super inspiring to see such a talented programmer do so much for the web.
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
The university I work at, though about half of it I'm covering from various funds I control.
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
I've just started a 15 month sabbatical myself. Fortunately mine is paid, but I like the author's focus on enjoying the mundane. I'm focused on the opposite: overanalyzing the mundane. I've collected complete data about
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
The first bit of this article is similar to Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" philosophy, but the proposed solution of "simple command prompt" seems strange to me. The author gives an example of what a todo list app
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by lazyjeff 5y ago
Hey Mike, I'd be interested in being involved too. Ping me, you have my email.
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The evolution of China's high-speed rail network(cnn.com)
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We bypassed bytenode and decompiled Node.js bytecode in Ghidra(swarm.ptsecurity.com)
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Review articles cause “dramatic loss” in citations for original research(natureindex.com)
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