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by nate 6y ago
Practice being terrible. I think a lot of us have some idea of what "practice" means, but very few of us do it. Instead, we "play to win". Because it feels like practice but it really isn't. For example, a lot of fo
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Finger on the App(fingeronthe.app)
2 points by nate 6y ago|0 comments
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Study on Covid mitigation methods: wear masks(pnas.org)
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Data Science for Justice(policingequity.org)
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Social Distancing Detector(pyimagesearch.com)
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by nate 6y ago
I hate running. I'd do it because it seems like the easiest way for me to get a cardio workout to hopefully live longer. But I couldn't get past some kind of 4 mile barrier in my head. It was just too boring. But I started pushing
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by nate 6y ago
It's funny, I'm a huge proponent of remote teams and working, but yeah, having a physical constraint of a whiteboard is a nice forcing function to keep people ordered when all these online collaboration tools just become junk draw
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by nate 7y ago
If you're into finding more video blogs: I'm at http://youtube.com/natekontny I cover running businesses (successfully and unsuccessfully), software design, science experiments, and just getting through life :) (C
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by nate 7y ago
A corollary to this I include in my life is "Do your worst." I get stuck a lot creatively: this feature I'm building is too hard, this design in my head is too vague, my article idea sucks, my video isn't going to make s
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by nate 7y ago
I used this constantly for things like making demo "videos". Great tool. The only thing that drew me away was using a cloud based screen capture tool so that after capture the gif/video was already being pushed to a url I cou
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by nate 7y ago
Yes, but inspecting source, those are nofollow links. So that should eventually deter anyone trying to actually keep using that as a method.
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Fanvent: Reliable pandemic ventilator using computer fans(twitter.com)
2 points by nate 7y ago|0 comments
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by nate 7y ago
Reminded me of a quote from Paul Arden: "All creative people need something to rebel against." It's why things were simple and easy to understand in 1999. But then we all rebelled making it more sophisticated and complicated
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Handling Slow Cascading Deletes in Rails(getcensus.com)
6 points by nate 7y ago|0 comments
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by nate 7y ago
Cool! Nice work on this!
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by nate 7y ago
I've been fooling with some giant CSV files for model training and yeah Google Sheets and Excel just freeze up or stop importing. So what I've found really handy to play and filter those giant files is Wizard Pro if you're on
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Ask HN: What's state of the art for screen scraping these days?
9 points by nate 7y ago|3 comments
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by nate 7y ago
When I was using a typical doctor it would take me at least a month to get an appointment. But OneMedical I can get super fast response times. The staff is fast to reply to questions you text using the app. Recently I had a problem that was
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We Don't Wash Dishes Like We Used To(cnn.com)
1 points by nate 7y ago|1 comments
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by nate 7y ago
I'm totally in agreement that that would be discriminatory. And no doubt hiring managers are sadly looking for quantity and crazy amounts of open source wizardry. But I have a slightly alternative take that might be helpful for folks s
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Martian Water Ice Crater(rt.com)
1 points by nate 7y ago|0 comments
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by nate 7y ago
Very much yes. For years I started getting this fluid buildup in my ears. At best, I felt occasionally dizzy. At worst, it felt like my brain was in constant "I feel like I have a cold and I'm so slow to think". Short story:
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by nate 7y ago
I got into long distance running during this morning-not-eating period. Totally distracting to any hunger thoughts. Also, you start to find it's actually a huge benefit not to have a stomach full of food while you're trying to run
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Fourteen years after launching, 1Password raises a $200M Series A(techcrunch.com)
45 points by nate 7y ago|5 comments
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by nate 7y ago
Oh wow, thanks for the reference. Any good histories of Roku out there you recommend?
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by nate 7y ago
A lot of folks are look forward to what's coming in tech, which is fine and good and can lead to promising careers and innovation. But I'm even more impressed with folks like Nintendo who do the exact opposite. They look at all th
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I Am a Failure(medium.com)
2 points by nate 7y ago|0 comments
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Another Hallway(ninjasandrobots.com)
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by nate 7y ago
Yeah. I’ve been running 10 miles now at a time and I still refuse to use those things. I’m thankful the zoo has vending machine that that Apple Pay :)
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by nate 7y ago
I'd also just filter/test your water everywhere :( I'm in Chicago, and my daughter and I decided to test some public water fountains near the city zoo for lead. Thought it would be an interesting way to expose her to more sci

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