philshem

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   Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?

   10 points by philshem 7y ago|14 comments
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   by philshem 7y ago

   to paraphrase Indian activist and writer Arundhati Roy: > if Bill Gates were a shoemaker, he would solve the worlds problems with shoes
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   by philshem 7y ago

   Thanks for the feedback! I’m eager to make my first PyPi package but will probably do my open-mastermind project first, since it’s a simpler codebase https://github.com/philshem/open-mastermind
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   by philshem 7y ago

   FYI - not the ham company
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   by philshem 7y ago

   I find it a clever way to host images for a GitHub repo Readme.md - without needing an images folder inside the repository.
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   Use GitHub Gists for Permanent Static Image Hosting(gist.github.com)

   1 points by philshem 7y ago|1 comments
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   by philshem 7y ago

   Self-promotion, but I wrote about my search for part-time work in a full-time world: https://smalldata.dev/posts/pay-me-less/
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   by philshem 7y ago

   OP here. I had been playing the NY Times' Spelling Bee until they required a subscription. Although the cost is modest, I decided it would be a fun exercise to implement for the command line. I'm using Python a lot for data analys
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   Show HN: Terminal-based Python port of NY Times' puzzle game “Spelling Bee”(github.com)

   3 points by philshem 7y ago|3 comments
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I really enjoyed the first season of The Sound of Your Heart.
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Self-promotion[0], but as a physicist dad, I never found the pattern: > Unfortunately, while physics problems have solutions that are constant, baby-related problems have solutions that are random and change from day to day. What had wor
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    by philshem 7y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! It means a lot (especially since no one is counting!)
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    by philshem 7y ago

    I agree. I think the exercise of writing improves my writing, and that's why I'm proud to use no tracking, cookies, or analytics scripts.
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    by philshem 8y ago

    I didn't find any link to their GitHub profile in the blogs or press releases: https://github.com/apache/
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    by philshem 8y ago

    I agree 100%. Kudos to the team at USA Today for compiling it. This dataset[1] has been frequently asked about on the open data stack exchange site[2], with no real authoritative answer until now. [1] https://gofile.io/?c=bE
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    by philshem 8y ago

    Sent from my iPhone
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    by philshem 8y ago

    > and everyone loved me :) Certainly untrue for those who enjoyed their 40 minute breaks
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    by philshem 8y ago

    So far with PM my outgoing mails have consistently made it to inboxes (which is why I switched from zoho)
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    by philshem 8y ago

    If you want contributors, it’s a zero-cost and stable solution.
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    by philshem 8y ago

    To make it really open, would be better if the collection was stored as Github issues. Less shiny website but easier to add and no curation process (PRs may be refused, aka censored)
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    by philshem 8y ago

    Unsolicited opinion on ProtonMail: I'm a big fan. It's not as flashy as gmail, but so far my mails haven't been marked as spam, which was happening with zoho. Unfortunately, zoho doesn't provide free email forwarding, so
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    by philshem 8y ago

    These types of graphs are one unique example where using “time” not on the x-axis is preferred. I think because it highlights the symmetry around x=0.
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    by philshem 8y ago

    You can start with an awesome-fortran list: https://github.com/rabbiabram/awesome-fortran
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    by philshem 8y ago

    I always though Zoom came standard on Macs, and that is was made by Apple. It works that well. Turns out my wife had installed it before she gave me her MacBook.
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    Hiring Healthy: when is it discrimination? Or anti-diversity?(smalldata.dev)

    2 points by philshem 8y ago|1 comments
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    My search for a part-time job in a full-time world(smalldata.dev)

    3 points by philshem 8y ago|0 comments
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    by philshem 8y ago

    The capitalization of Scratch in the title made me first guess that they were using the educational programming language Scratch.
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    by philshem 8y ago

    Oops meant as Ask HN
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    Any indication of updated corpora from Google N-grams?(books.google.com)

    1 points by philshem 8y ago|1 comments
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    by philshem 8y ago

    PhD 2008, now a data "science" generalist