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Fibonacci's Infinite Sequence(samgentle.com)
2 points by sgentle 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
If you can bill $250/hr, why not hire people? Sounds like it would help fill your social/conceptual gap. Someone in a regular job might need to ask for a promotion to management, but with your own company you become a manager as s
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Fibonacci's Infinite Sequence(samgentle.com)
3 points by sgentle 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
If you haven't read Richard Feynman's appendix to the Rogers Commission report on the Challenger disaster, I really recommend it: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/roger...
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by sgentle 11y ago
My bank did this. They had actually made a mistake on their end; one of their reps put a hold on my account (presumably a suspicious transaction), but didn't put it in right so it registered as being my request. I called up, asking why
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by sgentle 11y ago
Oops. I have no idea how I missed that. I even tested it on Firefox. Fixed now, thanks.
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by sgentle 11y ago
Hm, how frustrating. I've seen that issue before on my own VPN and I think it's something to do with the interaction between Cloudflare's security cookie and my site, but it's tricky to reproduce. I'm trying it usin
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by sgentle 11y ago
I wouldn't say it has a use case per se, it's more of a toy. I hear you, though - I've added an info link down the bottom right that leads to https://github.com/sgentle/scrawl , where there is some more i
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by sgentle 11y ago
Good point, I've added mousewheel zooming now. I'd been putting off adding zooming but it really does make it nicer. Thanks for the feedback!
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Show HN: Scrawl(demos.samgentle.com)
34 points by sgentle 11y ago|13 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
This is cool! Have you considered doing versions for other languages? I'd definitely use something like this for intermediate French, for example. I also noticed that if you use the shuffle mode on any of the shorter GRE lists, it gene
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Show HN: Devrouter – connect to local webservers with domains instead of ports(github.com)
6 points by sgentle 11y ago|1 comments
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Attritional interfaces(samgentle.com)
36 points by sgentle 11y ago|5 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
The best thing I read about modern computer security came from Google, I'm fairly certain, though I can't find the reference now. Basically, the old model was two-party: you vs adversary. It could be assumed that your computer was
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by sgentle 11y ago
I recently discovered that some Americans say COM-ponent (I say com-PON-ent - same sounds, different emphasis). Not sure how regional it is.
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Sabotage(samgentle.com)
165 points by sgentle 11y ago|32 comments
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Sabotage(samgentle.com)
2 points by sgentle 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
I'm of the opinion that devices that have a standby mode should either have an option to power on in standby mode, or remember the mode they were in when powered off. Many computer firmwares have a setting like this. Though I think wha
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by sgentle 11y ago
Is this a different situation to the CNNIC Google cert issued earlier in the year? If so, how?
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by sgentle 11y ago
Very cool. It's interesting that, depending on how I draw it, I get a much higher match for "D" when I draw a box than when I draw a D. It seems like it might be tricky to train it on what not to recognise. Or maybe you just
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The Sound of Life(samgentle.com)
3 points by sgentle 11y ago|1 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
By the look of it they use the same DCs (Iliad DC2 & DC3): https://www.scaleway.com/faq/general/
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by sgentle 11y ago
Oops! Fixed it. Unfortunately cellular automata looks terrible on video.
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Chip(samgentle.com)
250 points by sgentle 11y ago|36 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
An important question if you believe in the abolition of work as a worthwhile goal: how do we get there? I hope we're all suitably convinced by now that revolution doesn't seem to work that well, which leaves some kind of iterativ
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by sgentle 11y ago
This is the worst kind of anti-intellectual nonsense. Do something real? What does that even mean? Are malaria nets not real to you? Instead of waving off the serious efforts of a large group of people to figure out how to do the most good
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Show HN: Contextable – Wikipedia snippets as you speak(sgentle.github.io)
1 points by sgentle 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
But that's exactly my point. In some situations, trying to help when you don't know what you're doing can make a situation worse. There are many examples where the obvious thing to do is not the right thing to do, from magnes
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by sgentle 11y ago
Sorry to point this out, but the uplifting character of this story only really applies if this action actually helped the trapped man. It might be nice to feel like these people helped, but if the takeaway is "untrained people should r
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by sgentle 11y ago
Maybe not obvious - I must have just forgotten to add it! You can email me at sam@samgentle.com

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