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by mch82 6y ago
This quote from the CMU article lines up with the headline on this HN discussion thread (200M, 62%, bots, COVID-19): > CMU researchers since January have collected more than 200 million tweets discussing coronavirus or COVID-19. Of the t
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by mch82 6y ago
What about COVID-19 coverage led you to your conclusion? Can you please share examples of specific news reports that we’re non-factual?
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Nice idea. Anyone working on this?
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“The Innovator’s Prescription” (Clay Christensen) explains the Innovator’s Dilemma better than the original book and introduces jobs-to-be-done with the milkshake story. “Creativity Inc.” (Ed Catmull) explains how Pixar manages people &
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by mch82 6y ago
Steve Wozniak’s biography, “iWoz”. He perfectly explains how to combine off the shelf parts in novel ways so that 100% of R&D is focused on closing gaps unique to the business problem at hand.
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It’s much more challenging to make software for the IRS, healthcare, and civilian agencies that operate within the United States with direct impact on the lives of US Citizens.
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How come?
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by mch82 7y ago
People only have so much attention to allocate. It’s exponentially harder to become a star on social media platforms as the number of users grows. Look for the next platform that appeals to your audience & begin building while there is
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by mch82 7y ago
Going only off of the video I saw of Tim Cook with the shield... The entire shield is a clear plastic film. It’s held against the forehead using a fabric strap. The shield appears to be either die cut or laser cut, which explains the produc
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by mch82 7y ago
Nice set of features! I’m especially excited about the package managers.
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by mch82 7y ago
The point of Markdown is to be legible as plain text, without being run through a rendering engine. Rendering engines are a bonus, but not required. Based on the samples shared, ASCII Doc is hard to read without a renderer (just like HTML).
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by mch82 7y ago
Any thoughts on why they’d be using Rust rather than Swift for this work?
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Another interesting note is that Parsoid, the nodejs service that turns wikitext into the Visual Editor, is being ported from js to PHP.
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Libraries actually still do a lot. They’re community centers, give people access to computers, host classes, and some have maker spaces. Libraries also have librarians, who can help with research and who invest time curating the collection.
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by mch82 7y ago
I wonder if we’d be better off if we donated to library collections of audiobooks, films, and music rather than subscribing to Audible, Netflix, and Spotify?
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I was working with people in finance & they found it difficult to follow the flow through VBA. I used Blockly to model the code & they were instantly able to provide me with feedback. It was pretty cool! Not sure if Blockly is “no c
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by mch82 7y ago
Decentralizing networks so it becomes impossible to limit access to information & communication.
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To me the article misses the bigger deal: SpaceX launched 60 satellites in a single launch & ~250 in ~8 months! Under 9000 satellites have ever been launched in 756 months, since 1957. That’s a launch rate increase from 12/month to
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Engineers keep shrinking communications, computer, and power technology. Launch services keep coming down in cost. Check out all the stuff people are accomplishing with CubeSats, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CubeSat
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This was true, but is no longer true in most cases. Copy/paste works between many iPad applications. Increasingly, applications can expose interfaces that allow information to be exchanged between them. Pythonista, in particular, provi
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by mch82 7y ago
Doesn’t that page show everything as end-to-end encrypted, except email messages on the server? If “backup”, photos, messages, contacts, calendars, iCloud Drive, notes, and safari data (and a few more) are end-to-end encrypted what else is
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by mch82 7y ago
Submitting this because it borders on performance art and it’s also funny, plus it could lead to interesting discussion
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Somebody Snuck a Potato into CES to Make a Point About Useless Smart Gadgets(forbes.com)
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Here’s the umbrella website for these auto layout libraries using the Cassowary algorithm http://overconstrained.io/ It seems this was Apple’s auto layout, but links to the developer documentation are now broken. My conclus
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by mch82 7y ago
Audible.com to learn about topics through books while in the car or on a walk. I buy paper copies of the books I want to share or reference. I try to alternate nonfiction and fiction (usually science fiction and historical fiction).
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Interesting that billionaire dropouts often send their children to college & donate heavily to public education
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The first two paragraphs of page 23. - Usury ceilings eliminated - Costs ballooning In other words, the return on investment is falling because society is taking financial advantage of & reducing investment in young people.
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What is your goal with the project?
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Art projects & games are fun ways to learn. Since you mentioned Python, Django is a good option to get started & build on a reliable foundation.
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Your podcast is very good! I recommended the series to a friend who manages an open source project. Looking forward to your other interviews. In the podcast episode, the guest does mention people are moving away from CLAs. He goes on to say

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