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Robot Brain for Smol Brain(intuitably.com)
2 points by secretsinger 5mo ago|0 comments
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by secretsinger 3y ago
Local-first architecture isn't just nicer for users: it also solves some of the pain-points of Flutter (and mobile/frontend dev in general).
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Another reason to use offline-first architecture: Developer Experience(intuitably.com)
2 points by secretsinger 3y ago|1 comments
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Major retailer accepting Bitcoin payments in South Africa(reuters.com)
1 points by secretsinger 4y ago|0 comments
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Major South African retailer accepts Bitcoin payments(ca.finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by secretsinger 4y ago|0 comments
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by secretsinger 6y ago
Obligatory: Can you hook it up to GPT-3 and an email address, so a client can just email in a feature request and get it added automatically?
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The Hawthorne Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by secretsinger 6y ago|0 comments
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by secretsinger 6y ago
The land is in limbo: it's abandoned pine plantations currently being used by joggers, dogwalkers and (to a lesser degree) cyclists. I can highly recommend trail building (both walking and cycling trails) as a combination of physical,
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by secretsinger 6y ago
In South Africa, we have pretty harsh lockdown laws, including only being able to exercise within 5km of your house and only between 6am and 9am. I'm a keen mountain biker, so I've put my energy and frustration into developing new
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by secretsinger 6y ago
ha, that's awesome! I started using this for my side project a couple of days ago (found you via google). Great product, really useful.
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by secretsinger 7y ago
If you feel like a wierdo while doing this, you can take some comfort in the fact that it is endorsed by one of the most reputable psychologists in the world (Seligman) and that is has been empirically validated as increasing happiness and
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by secretsinger 7y ago
Work: Our team has an extensive set of interlinked linked google docs for everything from how to set up your dev env to the plan for the week and logistics for off-sites. As well as a thorough README.md for every project we work on. What ma
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by secretsinger 7y ago
Our (fully remote) startup was acquired by a (fully non-remote) company about 18 months ago. My team was fortunate enough to be allowed to remain completely remote, although we have recently onboarded a couple of in-office team-mates. Most
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Notes on Security in 2019(a16z.com)
4 points by secretsinger 8y ago|0 comments
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by secretsinger 8y ago
When I was a kid, my father bribed and coerced me into playing with LOGO (really showing my age here). I ended up spending a fair amount of time playing with it, (I guess) learning a lot of basic programming concepts along the way. I have
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The Inside Story Behind MS08-067(blogs.technet.microsoft.com)
2 points by secretsinger 9y ago|0 comments
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by secretsinger 9y ago
Most "non-tech" people have a reasonably small attack surface, so my approach has been to try and milk the Pareto principle: Here are some things I've found which are simple enough to implement but actually offer substantial
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Estimating a nuclear blast with bits of paper(dannen.com)
79 points by secretsinger 9y ago|31 comments
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by secretsinger 9y ago
I remember Joel saying something about "smart AND gets things done" back in '06. But I guess the youth of today are too busy working 18/7 and learning the latest, hippest Javascript meta-framework to read such outdated
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An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in a bizarre short film(arstechnica.com)
66 points by secretsinger 9y ago|28 comments
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Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove(nytimes.com)
2 points by secretsinger 9y ago|0 comments
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A lesson in determination(eu.blackdiamondequipment.com)
1 points by secretsinger 9y ago|0 comments
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Has “Founder” become a job title?
7 points by secretsinger 9y ago|3 comments
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by secretsinger 9y ago
There is a similar issue with technology certifications (e.g. FIPS 140-2). A lot of companies treat these as some kind of mystical incantations that will protect them if sufficiently invoked. Case in point: being mandated to switch from on
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COBOL Cowboys(reuters.com)
4 points by secretsinger 9y ago|0 comments
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Hermit crabs know that life is not a zero-sum game(youtube.com)
2 points by secretsinger 9y ago|0 comments