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by ogou 3y ago
I've been a paid member of 3 hacker spaces and a couple of niche creative communities over 20 years or so. There was a time when people were actually interested in experimenting, tinkering, and holding workshops. I think that has been
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by ogou 3y ago
SV was never interested in news. It always considered it content. Journalists were labelled content producers. The holy grail was internally produced free content that reinforced circular engagement. They have that now. Lots of people happy
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by ogou 3y ago
Pygame is a good library to generate multimedia. I'm sure you could come up with some exercises with it. Also, convert data in a PDF to a CSV file. I have needed to do that many times over the years and learned a lot of Python by impro
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by ogou 3y ago
I've stopped all institutional donations. Never again in this political climate. Only specific projects, events, or Substack/Patreon support for individuals.
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by ogou 3y ago
None of those groups were New Wave. It was a synth-pop dance genre defined by the Human League, Gary Numan, Flock of Seagulls, The Normal, OMD, Ultravox, and Devo. The British press dubbed it New Wave as the inheritors of Disco, not rock. I
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by ogou 3y ago
This is cool. The real trick is getting a Bürgeramt appointment to submit this form. The official portal for that is a punishing exercise in bad UX. Basically, there are very few appointments available, so you have to keep refreshing the ca
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by ogou 3y ago
A good example of form over function. It's very pretty and I enjoyed skimming through the pages. I would never use it as a reference though. I rarely have access to a large desktop display when I'm prototyping at a bench. More com
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by ogou 3y ago
The author didn't mention anything about the actual company, BIS. Most of this article is cribbed from general sources and other tech reporting. What makes them notable? Why were they picked? How deep is the catalog? How many recording
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by ogou 3y ago
Intersectional trauma is the new exceptionalism.
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by ogou 3y ago
Someone gifted an old blade server to me a few years ago. Very slow, but 16 cores and 24 gig of RAM. At the time I was making a lot of video art with ffmpeg, without a GPU. That version of ffmpeg wasn't optimized for multiple cores so
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by ogou 3y ago
You're conflating attribution and accuracy. They found in you someone to attribute the statements to, but didn't do it accurately. Quoting someone is a special kind of deflection of responsibility. Same if it's a verbal quote
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by ogou 3y ago
Journalists are addicted to attribution. Before Twitter, they had to call people for quotes verifying or denying something. The tradition was 2 sources to verify. There was even a time that anonymous sources were frowned on. If they couldn&
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by ogou 3y ago
In Berlin, Google Maps shows bike share and scooter clusters on the same layer as public transport. Searching for a bus or tram stop with all that noise is punishing. Also the icons for the bus and bike are very similar at the default zoom
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by ogou 3y ago
In high school I worked in a Fotomat booth in the parking lot of a grocery store. It was at the end of that era when people would still drop off film to get developed and pick it up a few days later. So, it was not busy at all and I was in
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by ogou 3y ago
The Canberra antenna they will use is one of the last of its kind. Apparently many of the original dishes were made specifically for tracking the Apollo missions and then repurposed or retired after. Interesting tidbit: "The antenna we
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by ogou 3y ago
Anybody remember President Elect for the Apple II? As kids, my cousin and I were obsessed with that game during one Christmas break. Turn based campaign finance simulator. I have no idea why we thought it was so fun. https://en.w
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by ogou 3y ago
I've been reading for 10+ years and it seems to come in waves. Usually it clears up after a few posters push back. I rarely complain about it, but the past few months seemed to be especially high volume. I posted a few comments to sign
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by ogou 3y ago
There are parallels between the speculative art world and VC capital approaches to tech companies. In some ways, the art and ideas don't matter when it comes to potential value. Because of that, art dealers and VC funds don't seek
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by ogou 3y ago
I post a wide variety of comments. I noticed a wave of general news and Reddit style topics. I made 3 comments questioning that. I am participating in my community by pushing back against a change in content and tone. Many others have agree
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by ogou 3y ago
This is an important topic, but why post it here on HN? More and more posts are general news now. There are so many places for these discussions other than a technology oriented message board.
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by ogou 3y ago
Not every midlife assessment leads to a crisis.
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by ogou 3y ago
"this first draft is probably not solid enough to be cited in Wikipedia"
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by ogou 3y ago
You are internet savvy enough to find Hacker News and post this question. Why can't you make use of platforms or sources other than video-centric YouTube that are specifically designed to provide what you are asking for? It's surp
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by ogou 3y ago
A revelation for me happened back in 2010. I was working on a mobile app for a festival and trying to research the best UI. I saw the quote "A cheeseburger is an intuitive interface. It shows you how to eat it with the wrapper and arra
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by ogou 3y ago
Engineers (or anybody involved in a botched product launch) may be interested in the story of the Vasa. It was a Swedish warship launched in 1627. At the time it was the most powerful warship in the world. It took many years to build at a s
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by ogou 3y ago
Folks might not understand the context of this milestone. I worked as a web developer at newspapers from 2006-2014. As the industry collapsed and publications scrambled to make use of the new social web, everybody was trying to figure out w
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by ogou 4y ago
"What's the nature of your excellence?" I don't use it very often, but when I do I always get a great response.
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by ogou 4y ago
I released a couple of full length albums that got a fair amount of college radio play. I made them while working dead end tech contracts in Silicon Valley. Although I do have a few nice bits of kit and some DAW plugins, most of my setup is
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by ogou 4y ago
For me, the killer feature of search has always been "never". Never show me a result from that source or any like it again. Never show me Pinterest, Ebay, or any of the thousands of Stack Overflow scrapers. I still search for webs
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by ogou 4y ago
I was trying to learn bankable React, but ended up learning much more. Udacity for the first Typescript and React courses, but they weren't made very well. I started ( gasp ) reading the documentation for many libraries and followed a

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