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by oliyoung 6y ago
Still think one of the biggest "mistakes" pre-Satya Microsoft made was dumping the Courier project, this is just that ten years later
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by oliyoung 6y ago
Here's how to use them in VSCode https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/json#_json-sche...
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by oliyoung 6y ago
the end goal involves wearing a device that enables Facebook content in your field-of-view 12-15 hours a day
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by oliyoung 6y ago
I'm /still/ trying to read Anathem.
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by oliyoung 6y ago
Saying this, as a HUGE Lakers fan, and almost as big an electronic music fan. Kobe was incredible basketballer and story-teller, but his passing has no business here, there are plenty of places to remember him. Florian was an engineer, a te
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by oliyoung 6y ago
It died years ago.
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by oliyoung 7y ago
Also around the time that the Gunditjmara were farming the Budj Bim area of southern Australia https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1577/
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by oliyoung 7y ago
This is either incredibly good news, or incredibly bad news, and I think that Lego's near-death experience and family ownership might mean this is good news ... maybe.
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by oliyoung 7y ago
I'm re-writing an API and Insomnia is a required tool because ... * Non trivial authorisation * Chained commands * Templated requests * Random generation of content
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by oliyoung 7y ago
this is either priming the video feed to make it quicker when you want to access it, or it's malicious. i mean, it's Facebook, no way it's malicious right?
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by oliyoung 7y ago
lodash's #get solves this for us now https://lodash.com/docs#get
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by oliyoung 7y ago
Imagine the world where that person that didn't do the thing in tech because of an "awkward/offensive interaction" with Stallman did that thing. Imagine that multiplied by all the someones that didn't do any of the
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by oliyoung 7y ago
Nothing has improved my day-to-day work life more in the last 5 years than typescript. It's joy. Just, joy.
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by oliyoung 7y ago
The Surface Book 2 is no question, hands-down one of the best pieces of kit I've ever ever owned, it's a phenomenal machine and I've not regretted moving back to Windows for a single second (except for a decent terminal, but
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by oliyoung 7y ago
I'm technologically experienced enough to be posting and reading on HN. It fooled me on the first view, I just didn't even see it, it was seamless.
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by oliyoung 7y ago
or, why should we, who pay AWS thousands per month, help write the documentation for their commercial product?
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by oliyoung 7y ago
essentially, yes
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by oliyoung 7y ago
Guy Raz's podcast How I Made This does a whole episode on it, it's excellent https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewar...
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by oliyoung 7y ago
It doesn't :) I understand your point, but with that level of technical detail in a post, claiming that "we're just a small startup so we built it ourself" and "you don't know because you've never worked i
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by oliyoung 7y ago
> "its good advice bt im Not sure uve had a startup before." [sic] > And this is spot on. Is it though? Amazon's Free tier is more than enough to run a small early/proof-of-concept startup. Even ignoring Docker etc
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by oliyoung 7y ago
it's great right?
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by oliyoung 7y ago
Any ZigBee thermostats should work with Alexa and HomeKit
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by oliyoung 7y ago
Same. A year or two ago when I needed a MBP replacement after a decade of OS X, I jumped to a Surface Book 2 and haven't looked back. Satya's Microsoft is almost doing everything right.
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by oliyoung 8y ago
I can't wait for someone like noclip to tell the story of this game's rise and fall and rise again. They pulled this out of the ashes of one of the worst launches ever and now it's a huge success
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by oliyoung 8y ago
> Cashback is generally lower here because interchange fees are regulated/capped to 0.3% for personal credit cards and 0.2% for personal debit cards. Offers of 2% cashback simply won't work outside the US so I'll be curiou
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by oliyoung 8y ago
+1 on this. Critical Role is the perfect storm of * great friends just playing a home game on stream * who are excellent voice actors (they have Overwatch, Last of Us, Spider-Man, Horizon ++++ credits) * who aren't afraid of improv an
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by oliyoung 8y ago
No, they haven't. They really haven't. Minecraft persists.
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by oliyoung 8y ago
Cytoscape.js is MUCH more capable than those, it can do client side network algorithms (A* etc) and traversal, Sigma & D3 are 'just' visualisation tools, where Gephi is an 'offline' tool
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by oliyoung 8y ago
Electoral Rolls are public information in Australia, you need special dispensation to be removed from them; there's no bulk access to them, it's protected access but it's not private data https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au
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by oliyoung 8y ago
Oh, and could play guitar just like Hendrix ... according to Quincy Jones & Questlove

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