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by neilk 7y ago
This looks very cool. Kudos! If you can share this - what kinds of organizations are you targeting? What do they care the most about? I have a background in graphic design and computering, and I find it hard to envision the customer. They w
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by neilk 7y ago
Yeah, but let’s assume they aren’t trying for the unicorn-rebrand-in-200-countries market. What’s the disruptive underdog market here? Maybe it’s the ancillary stuff. Like, you have a basic logo, now generate the files for all the other thi
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by neilk 7y ago
I’ve seen a couple of these sites that purport to design logos with AI. They seem to be based on the hope that randomized graphic options + sufficient clicks + ML = something better than random. It might work, eventually, for organizations
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by neilk 7y ago
How do a spontaneously organized group of pro-PRC students get someone’s passport information and marriage license?
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by neilk 7y ago
You’re in luck: https://idlewords.com
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by neilk 7y ago
Is it possible to design a nuclear reactor that’s resistant to widespread corruption and incompetence? In 2019, we have to consider that even advanced democracies with great scientists and technologists might descend into some form of illib
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by neilk 7y ago
Papers Please could just be a commentary on the Soviet state, but for me it threw into question the very idea of borders. https://papersplea.se/
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by neilk 7y ago
I really like Serveo. I’ve used it to develop proper previews and unfurls for social media. Facebook etc need a real public URL to even show you a preview. And the other day I used it as a quick way to debug a server-client communication is
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by neilk 7y ago
ESR has done, and apparently continues to do, many useful things for open source. But his various personality disorders have reset that karma back to zero, or possibly put him in negative territory. It started early... https://li
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by neilk 7y ago
I have no expertise in the legalities here. But I’ve found that quite often, on the internet, when you think you’ve found a forum of hilarious ironic commenters... a lot of them are very sincere. Irony is currently used as a conscious strat
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Extracting campaign finance data from gnarly PDFs using deep learning(medium.com)
3 points by neilk 7y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 7y ago
Not a mechanical engineer but I think this is what is happening. Note that Shaft F and shaft D are made to rotate in opposite directions. Then another gear is made to pit those motions against each other, by means of that wacky rotating fra
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by neilk 7y ago
Yes, this is all sadly common. And those traits you mention all go together! Let’s be clear, most of the software empires of the present day were built on this style. It is possible to ship software like this! But if you do neither testing
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by neilk 7y ago
Interviewing.io is a startup that does some research into candidate evaluation. To their credit, they have even posted research with negative results. http://blog.interviewing.io/posts/
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by neilk 8y ago
He said that most of it was “model code”, which is maybe some form of data. https://mobile.twitter.com/thisgreyspirit/status/11165193134... I was a little amazed that the corruption-in-astronomy-journalism crowd t
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by neilk 8y ago
1) There could be an `await` method already defined on the Promise. It's just an object. 2) `await` can work with anything that conforms to the Promise spec, native promises or Bluebird or what have you. 3) Sometimes, a method doesn&#x
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by neilk 8y ago
I encountered a literal version of this the other day. I’ve been looking at some disused AI systems, which were all written in Lisp back in the day. In an attempt to remain relevant, at one point in the early 2000s someone tried porting one
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by neilk 8y ago
Did you mean denormalize?
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In science and code, metric shows large teams develop and small teams disrupt(twitter.com)
1 points by neilk 8y ago|0 comments
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by neilk 8y ago
90% of the advice here is solid, and if you are certain that high-risk high-reward businesses are what you are built for, and you have a safety net, then by all means join sama and the crew. But there are other good ways to be an outlier su
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by neilk 8y ago
The problem is, this is exactly what you would expect from a union that's working. If the union is successfully scaring the management from pulling any shenanigans on the good workers, then, they have a lot more free time for the borde
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by neilk 8y ago
Congratulations! You figured out that this isn’t about “theft of services” or anything like that. It’s about 1) Legalizing retaliation in case you mention the union meeting to a coworker over a Slack private message. 2) Drastically reducing
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by neilk 8y ago
You seem to be arguing that the employee actions described in the article didn’t already happen. Trivialities like favorite technologies can be put aside when it comes to questions of values and fairness.
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by neilk 8y ago
I’ve thought about this topic a lot, ever since I had a boss who I believe was both sociopathic and sadistic. The sociopathy made him remarkably effective at recruitment and strategy. The sadism was more self-destructive since, well, develo
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by neilk 8y ago
This article is trying really hard to make spruce beer a health trend, like maple was (is?). At the moment, it’s just a different kind of soft drink. It tastes a bit like a Christmas tree stand smells. Sort of minty, earthy, and a bit medic
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by neilk 8y ago
Ha, I figured that. It rocketed to the front page without any relation to HN's usual topics. And it looked like something that the manosphere/traditionalist/right-wing-droning-youtubers would see as a vindication of their ide
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by neilk 8y ago
I had to encode a factory's shift schedule. I noticed that it repeated in a regular way with each month. Then I noticed that there was yet another, more subtle symmetry in between weeks, so I encoded that too. Then I realized the remai
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Have you ever written code no one could understand?
2 points by neilk 8y ago|3 comments
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by neilk 8y ago
Blockchains are literally the most inefficient way we've ever discovered to store and secure data. Paper is by far the most distributed, understandable, efficient, and secure mechanism we have discovered for obtaining, securing, and ta
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Why are tech companies making custom typefaces?(arun.is)
2 points by neilk 8y ago|0 comments

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