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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Agreed, you'll lose access to all that server-side stuff after not too long. Just do something dead simple: single page of vanilla html/css. You'll have to move it at some point, the hosting server will need updating or shut
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Finally a laptop with a good (1080p) front-facing camera.
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
I'm sure Emery who runs csrankings.org has thought of this and that criteria "professors who can advise a CS-only student" is well thought out. Anyone who comes up with rankings/datasets has to determine a set of inclusi
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Winamp 2 has been my music player for 20 years and it's still my main player that I use with the flac plugin. I never upgraded to Winamp 3 or 5, and Winamp 2.95 is still fully functional on Windows 10. Selecting "Double Size"
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Original author here. Yeah it feels wrong because you're not using the calendar like it's "supposed to" be used. But who cares. But what this does is 1) reduce the stress of seeing that item day after day until the day w
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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file(jeffhuang.com)
1545 points by lazyjeff 7y ago|402 comments
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Fair enough, but even the tenured professors were untenured at some point before so they did matter and were not problematic enough to deny tenure. And tenure doesn't really apply the same for adjuncts or some lecturers, who are perhap
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Professors have been teaching and getting student course evaluations since forever. At institutions and roles where the admin knows little about the subject, they rely more on the course evals. At institutions with more engaged faculty and
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
WebP only needs Safari browser support before it's officially supported by all modern browsers.
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Loved the simple concept. I made it to the end of the game, and was a little sad because of what had happened. Nice touch.
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Disney Won. Now What? (2019)(buzzfeednews.com)
2 points by lazyjeff 7y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Kudos to the author for sticking with it, and making a contribution to the field. His persistence will serve him well in his Ph.D. (provided he gets in this round). He's also right that AI/ML is particularly competitive for PhD ad
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
I've got the same one, very pricey, but amazing to travel with compared to the giant macbook charger. It's only 60W but charges almost as fast as the 87W one for 15" macbooks. It's also really nice to be able to charge a
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A man who drives around collecting leftovers from tech companies(motherjones.com)
17 points by lazyjeff 7y ago|1 comments
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Keeping a web application running for 10 years is amazing. How many people here can say they have done that? There's still things to do even if you add 0 new features: there's security updates, supporting new browsers (IE7 was the
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Just curious, what's wrong with plain html/css? Seems more powerful now than ever, with flexbox/grid and the new css features.
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
WebP should be replacing JPEG and PNG. I feel like JPEG/PNG is like the GIF of 1999, formats which can be completely replaced with no real drawbacks. The disk space and network savings alone could reduce energy consumption. Safari is t
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
I'd love to get other peoples' thoughts on this, but I think we're at a tipping point back to vanilla html/css/js. There used to be a huge need to jquery, bootstrap, polyfills, and other tricks, but many of those fe
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
We have directly tested the MediaPipe one and it's less accurate than the Leap. Like it's completely unusable in practice, especially when the palm is not facing the camera. Also there's an HCI problem, which is that people o
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Yup we've looked into that. It's not accurate enough to feel good to use, and often you go off screen for a bit which breaks the interaction. The infrared sensor actually has a field of view wider than the camera and helps maintai
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Show HN: Touchable augmented reality on your phone, 3 years in the making(portalble.cs.brown.edu)
15 points by lazyjeff 7y ago|5 comments
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Just last December, I mindlessly selected my credit card to pay my quarterly property tax, and was hit with a $97 fee. Yeah my fault for quickly clicking through and using my browser autofill, but I was watching a TV show thought it'd
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
So is it just me or is the syntax for css grid a bit clunky? I'm talking about specifying ranges using "1 / 4" to mean 1-3 inclusive, or having to separately specify grid-template-rows and grid-template-columns each time
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
The original user interface components had a lot of detail, and focused on learnability. Look at the original scroll bars, they do quadruple duty: they tell you how long the document is, where you are in the document, let you jump to the ar
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
Thanks so much for doing this original research and writing it out so clearly. I'm not in the life sciences, but about 40% of my funding is NIH, and this does seem to mostly match my impression of the biases people have of biomedical f
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
I'm pretty sure we already all knew they were using humans 9 months ago. Take a look at the comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18391280 It seems like they were fairly explicit about it, so I'm not
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by lazyjeff 7y ago
I'm stuck in London right now trying to get to Athens on British Airways because of this IT failure. I went to a gate of an earlier flight where they had opened up a couple of seats, and the gate agents were trying to get me on, but th
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
I'm an assistant professor in computer science and have tried a few things to tune down the pressure in my lab. It's always hard to tell what works and what doesn't due to the very small N (N = number of phd students). I also
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Microsoft begs you to stop using Internet Explorer(engadget.com)
3 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|1 comments
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Wearing and comparing 10 sleep trackers simultaneously over 9 nights (2017)(sleep.cs.brown.edu)
2 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|0 comments

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