mathewsanders

10 ms·

61.
by mathewsanders 5y ago
I was looking forward to a good cat video but just got the message “This video is unavailable.” What a tease!
62.
by mathewsanders 5y ago
I was one of the supporters for the first remarkable and pre-ordered with a bundle with case for $350 (I think) which seemed pretty expensive but I really wanted to support businesses developing these larger scale e-paper tablets. The batte
63.
by mathewsanders 5y ago
Along with looking really cool, I think there were some other benefits as well. Having a self contained case, and a pretty small size that can easily fit in your palm was pretty practical. We’d go on road trips and it was nice to be able
64.
by mathewsanders 5y ago
The article mentions the Portia jumping spider. Children of Time is a novel that explores descendants of Portia spiders who evolve to become a complex technological society and it’s a really enjoyable read :)
65.
by mathewsanders 5y ago
Do you know if the Lynn Conway talk was recorded and available online?
66.
by mathewsanders 5y ago
That surprises me as well! Particularly if it includes departments like ICE and FBI within that definition of policing. I tried to search for the original source to see if I could find how they are calculating theses costs but didn’t have a
67.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
Stora Skuggan is a Swedish perfumer that has tried to recreate the scent. From their website: > There were many attempts to cultivate Silphium, but they inevitably failed. It would only grow wild in a limited area of the north African co
68.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
+1. I’ve not seen it for 10 years (since I’ve lived in the United States) but growing up in New Zealand, looking up at the Milky Way with your naked eye, it’s definitely clear the increased density of stars. Doesn’t look anything like photo
69.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
I worked at Monster.com (job posting service) ten years ago and this was essentially their business model: HR departments would be locked into a long term contract of 2-5 years, which was (anecdotally) a longer period than typical HR manag
70.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
I also used Altavista and Hotbot (although I don’t remember why I could choose one over the other for a certain search). I do remember one point of difference was Google’s “I’m feeling lucky” option that just sent you to the first search re
71.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
It’s pretty cool that from the very first step that they are introducing how to use accessibility modifiers to improve support for voice over.
72.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
> My cats not only sleep through the night, they insist I go to bed on time (no later than 11) or they start getting upset. My boy Dudley is the same. It’s so funny I’ll be in the living room watching TV and at a certain time he’s like “
73.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
“Agile teams that truly iterate with the customer can often avoid these problems because the customer is there the whole way through and the team continuously pivots to close gaps discovered by the customer throughout the project, thereby b
74.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
There a few options for virtual cards. Ive been using https://privacy.com/ . I’ve been using this not only for subscriptions, but also when I’m making an online purchase at a store that I think may not have the best security
75.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
> I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :( That sounds like an impressive project in itself :)
76.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
Update: I fixed a mistake on how I was calculating R0 (I think it's correct now) and also adding some basic smoothing with moving average options. With this approach the R0 estimations are always lagging, so the most recent estimate I
77.
by mathewsanders 6y ago
This uses data on confirmed deaths from NYC department of death in the included data.csv but you can easily switch that out to whatever region you have the data for. Uses confirmed deaths, estimates for mortality rate and mean number of day
78.
Swift playground for modeling Covid-19 cases in NYC(github.com)
3 points by mathewsanders 6y ago|2 comments
79.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I also got a firm IKEA foam mattress (MATRAND) a couple months ago and I was sleeping better from the first night, and a couple more nights and the knots in my shoulders were gone. Also, at least in NYC it’s flat rate $50 for home delivery.
80.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
> Fast forward ten years and the Apple Watch team offered me a job working on SwiftUI in 2015. (The project started on the Watch team). That’s an interesting nugget I’ve not heard before about history of SwiftUI!
81.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I agree, and like the right click, force touch options were always accelerators for more confidant users (rather than being the only way to complete some task). Personally I loved force touch and a few months on iOS 13 I’m still struggling
82.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I get the point of being able to measure success by something quantifiable, but the emphasis on individuals needing to prove the impact they’ve made strikes me as an odd setup. I’ve never worked at a FAANG but currently at a F100 in finte
83.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I’d never heard of Hungarian notation, but searching for info I realize that I’ve seen this pattern so often but never knew it had a name :) TIL https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation
84.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I think AR has potential to be the most impactful new type of technology, but I don’t have any idea if wide adoption is 1 year away, or 10 years away (or more). At the moment most of the focus is around overlaying some virtual world in the
85.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
A few years ago I was in a T-mobile store (making the switch from AT&T) and the sales guy kept trying to get me to include add-ons to my base contract (e.g. unlimited international calls). He kept trying to convince me, and I kept sayin
86.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
> They mapped how the neurons in the ADN circuit fired as the animal’s head changed direction. Together, these data points formed a cloud in the shape of a simple and persistent ring. Am I the only one who moved my head around and imag
87.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
The 40 year lifespan caught my eye because for a long time I’d always had this idea that in our near past old people were rare. I recently learnt that in historic context that it’s skewed by a lot of infant mortality. So if you lived over 2
88.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I’ve had to act on this consumer protection act (at least New Zealand’s equivalent which I think is very similar) when my MacBook trackpad stopped registering taps and Apple were very reluctant to follow their obligations as required by law
89.
by mathewsanders 7y ago
I hope I wasn’t the only person here who thought of the egg man scene in Pink Flamingos when they read this :)
90.
by mathewsanders 8y ago
This recent article on the Atlantic is more interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro... Covers both lack of evidence-based science in dentistry, and also culture (th

More ›