steerpike

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by steerpike 6y ago
You absolute legend. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
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Ask HN: Looking for an animated blog showing how information spreads(?)
1 points by steerpike 6y ago|2 comments
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by steerpike 6y ago
I strongly believe that if I could go back 20 years and tell my younger self what technology to focus on it would be SQL. I think in terms of bang for buck it would be hard to beat deep understanding of SQL in terms of usefulness across jus
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by steerpike 6y ago
I've tried to find something similar and as far as I can tell the best current candidate available is pouchdb syncing to a couchdb instance. If offline first isn't a must have and you're ok supporting 'intermittent offli
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by steerpike 6y ago
Agile is the worst possible way to deliver software except for everything else we've tried.
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by steerpike 6y ago
Yep. Build several popular areas for it and it triggered my love of programming
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by steerpike 6y ago
Rachel Agnew is a great resource for learning modern css and the things it's capable of. A good start is probably these slides on 'The Evolution of Responsive Design' - https://noti.st/rachelandrew/4Atj
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by steerpike 6y ago
It's colloquially described as "shipping the org chart". Which I always liked as a way to describe it to a wider audience.
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by steerpike 6y ago
The author is clearly delusional and narcissitically unwell. This has no place here.
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by steerpike 6y ago
I recommend the Philosophise This podcast[0]. It has a lot of episodes on the classic philosophers but it also delves into some of the contemporary philosophers that I find very interesting. I lot of other philosophical discussions seem to
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by steerpike 6y ago
I'm reading the Moomin books to my two eldest at the moment and they are loving them. My eldest is on the spectrum and seems to find the honest, gentle Nordic nature of both the style of writing and the content to be very appealing. We
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by steerpike 6y ago
I still maintain that one of the best APIs ever released is one of the first - flickrs[0]. Their API is easy to use, does everything you want it to and then some (did you know it provides gis polygons and shapefiles for points of geographic
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by steerpike 6y ago
Folksonomy Webmaster XHTML Clearfix Ajax(?) Dhtml Yql
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by steerpike 6y ago
I've had some success with jellyfin running on a $5 a month digital ocean machine. Very easy to set up and configure. Decent admin panel and it has an android app that has worked fine for me so far.
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by steerpike 6y ago
I wrote a playlist generator that uses related artists map found at music-map.com and last.fm to generate a YouTube playlist of artists you might like based on the supplied seed.
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Show HN: Create a playlist from your favourite artists to help find new music(playlist.hallofbrightcarvings.com.au)
1 points by steerpike 6y ago|1 comments
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by steerpike 6y ago
Sure. Couple of points: * Lastfm has an API but it's not great and an API is different to a dataset. I want to have the data available in my own DB, not have to make requests for whatever I might need. * You can't get youtube link
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by steerpike 6y ago
A clean dataset YouTube music videos associated to musicbrainz tags.
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by steerpike 6y ago
It's called Gellman amnesia but it's usually attributed to newspapers
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by steerpike 6y ago
I strongly recommend Cheers to childbirth[0] which is by far the most useful and practical book I found on what you can actually do to be a helpful partner in the leadup and during the birth. Remember you're not the priority in this si
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by steerpike 7y ago
Software development is a perculiar mix of generalised principles and incredibly specific edge cases that you need craft unique solutions to. When you start working with a business to develop software for them you need to talk extensively w
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by steerpike 7y ago
Computers are multiple layers of massive complexity. Somewhere in that complex stack it's very easy for 'something' to go wrong. When it's first turned on the computer works, so it's clear that there's an initi
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by steerpike 7y ago
What's an important announcement or event? I mean it's a pretty broad category you've stipulated but I guess the 'Current events portal' of Wikipedia [0] gives the best possible summary of what you're looking f
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by steerpike 7y ago
I wrote the original version of the Nomensa accessible media player mentioned in this post and it's a shame the open source version wasn't kept updated as I think there's real value in an adaptable, accessible media player fo
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by steerpike 7y ago
I would almost certainly start with 'The Wizard of Earthsea'. Incredibly approachable and likely her most influential work. Plus Ged is awesome.
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by steerpike 7y ago
You might want to take a look at Netvibes[0] [0] https://www.netvibes.com/en
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by steerpike 7y ago
That's a really excellent question and I've sat here way longer than I probably should have over-analysing it to try and think of an answer for you. I do think it's possible, but it's difficult to provide you with exact
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by steerpike 7y ago
In case you're genuinely curious, I suspect you're being downvoted because your parent comment comes off as incredibly gatekeepery[0]. It's also illustrative of a very common occurrence in tech circles where the moment a woma
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by steerpike 7y ago
An ontology is supposed to be a formal way of describing things so that the people who want to discuss their concepts have a very clear and disambiguated set of terms for conducting that discussion. There's more to it than that, but re
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by steerpike 7y ago
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a pretty obvious one for this demographic.

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