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by rodw 7y ago
Of course not, but: - Hotel rooms are more uniform (and just have less stuff) so a camera is easier to identify or harder to hide. - Hotel rooms are visited not just by many guests but by many staff. If you place a camera you are sort of ro
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by rodw 7y ago
It seemed to have a little trouble with light reflecting off my glasses (sometimes it found my eyes but placed my pupils more or less on my eyebrows) but it generally did OK with my glasses. My glasses are closer to the "invsible frame
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by rodw 7y ago
I'm always curious about what it takes to confuse things like this (if for no other reason so that I will know how to make face recognition camouflage to hide from the autonomous weapons that roam our future post-apocalyptic hellscape)
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by rodw 7y ago
For small scale sites you don't even need to do much that requires human intervention. Most bots (or at least most bot-actions) seem to invest very little in sophisticated techniques and rely instead on finding vulnerable servers by ca
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by rodw 7y ago
> it gaslights you into thinking you did not solve the challenge correctly, which is plain cruel That's interesting. Unless you are talking about having to click on more than one "page" of tiles (as illustrated in the vide
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by rodw 8y ago
W3W feels a lot like Swatch .beats [1]. It's not exactly solving a problem the doesn't exist, but I think solution is at least as bad as the problem we started with. At least .beats had the excuse of being a marketing gimmick, or
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by rodw 8y ago
Moreover, Node.js's non-blocking, single-threaded nature is great for the kinds of plumbing that things web services and related applications require (The stuff we used to call "database-to-web" applications -- i.e., fetch so
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by rodw 8y ago
Hi Denzel. I replied to a very similar question at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18562007 so rather than repeating myself I'll just point you to that.
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by rodw 8y ago
Exactly. We sort of backed into this project by starting with HSQL ( http://hsqldb.org/ ) a low-end pure-Java "database" that was popular at the time. The more we used HSQL the more it became clear that it was more
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by rodw 8y ago
"Oddities" might be overstating it, but I remember a number of times a light went off and I though "oh, so _that's_ why Oracle does X". It was the same kind of information you might deduce from looking at a "qu
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by rodw 8y ago
For complicated reasons I was involved in a successful project to develop an open-source, Oracle-SQL-compatible, transactional-integrity-preserving, extensible database designed for in-memory performance in Java. In the process of this deve
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by rodw 8y ago
If you've identified the "best" candidate for a position and want to hire or retain that person, you're now competing with the other offers available to that candidate (which include CoL-adjusted offers), not with the s
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by rodw 9y ago
I get the metaphor and all, but I found this statement to be pretty over-the-top: > Our old logo was a blue box that implied, “Dropbox is a great place to store stuff.” The new one is cleaner and simpler. And we’ve evolved it from a lite
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by rodw 9y ago
Yes, and there are plenty of examples of spreadsheet-bugs having significant real-world impact. E.g., 1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinh... 2. https://www.cio.com/
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by rodw 10y ago
Here's an example. Using Chrome on OSX I did a quick `select-all` then `copy`, switched to the ctxt.io tab, gave the text area focus then `paste`. I ended up with this - https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAYGAfEw I think "
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by rodw 10y ago
> Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word. Really? I'm pretty sure that's not the way this works.
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by rodw 10y ago
For what it's worth, here's a service that does that https://documentalchemy.com/demo/pdf2txt (and more: https://documentalchemy.com/demo )
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by rodw 11y ago
Apologies for invoking Poe's Law, but you mean that sarcastically, right?
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by rodw 11y ago
FWIW I just launched a web service API for doing that - https://documentalchemy.com/ If you're comfortable with an external API for this, converting MS Office documents to PDF is as simple as: curl -X POST --fo
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by rodw 11y ago
Nice. Ignore the haters, this is a wonderful _companion_ to curl. As others noted, I'd revert to curl commands for sharing with others (or for performance-sensitive tasks like downloads or quick-and-dirty load generation) but this may
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by rodw 11y ago
I've never used it, and believe I'd prefer a text-based declarative framework like Squib for this task, but just an FYI for everyone, there is a GUI program called nanDeck [1] that is often used for this purpose. For what it'
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by rodw 12y ago
Strangely, the "default" Genius UI seems to be more or less the two column view - e.g., http://genius.com/1258740/Walt-whitman-song-of-myself/I-cele... Is this intentionally divergent or is it some kind
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by rodw 12y ago
Hey thecolorblue, if you are interested in some contract work I'd like to talk to you. You can find contact info in my hn profile.
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by rodw 12y ago
Thanks Matt. I looked at swagger-codegen before createing swagger-dsl, and frankly it is pretty nice, but with respect to authoring the underlying Swagger specification document, swagger-codegen is just a direct YAML translation of the orig
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by rodw 12y ago
I guess I'll take this opportunity to plug my own little tool for this. I use Swagger [1] and more specifically Swagger UI [2] to generate interactive web-based documentation like the sample at [3]. But rather than relying upon source
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by rodw 12y ago
Here's one: https://twitter.com/harrisonpage/status/555180585384046592 I think you want this query: https://twitter.com/search?q=can+you+sort+these+numbers
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by rodw 12y ago
This is an impressive list, but it sounds like these programs are all within the same general category, and that category is a particular sweet-spot for lisp. I think when people complain about a lack of library support in lisp they aren&#x
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by rodw 12y ago
> it says that the author is out of touch with the community and the commonly followed standards Maybe. I suspect your interpretation may be the common one (which may be reason enough to follow the convention) but it is certainly possib
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by rodw 12y ago
Nice work then. Didn't mean to denigrate websequencediagrams.com, I've just always assumed the inspiration went in the other direction. Cool service either way. Thanks for it.
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by rodw 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that that website is just a SaaS-wrapper on PlantUML [1], an open-source Java application (pick your license, they allow several). If it isn't, the syntax is similar enough that this emacs mode is probably useful f

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