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by steindavidb 5y ago
> The most underrated skill to learn as an engineer is how to document. Fuck, someone please teach me how to write good documentation. Seriously, if there's any recommendations, I'd seriously pay for a course (like probably a l
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by steindavidb 5y ago
tl:dr; "I want to be a postdoc"
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by steindavidb 6y ago
Do you mean blockchain or technology inspired by blockchain? Lots of cool merkle tree stuff (trillion, certificate transparency); also several international shipping supply chains use blockchain for chain-of-custody (txns are irrevocable co
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MIT now issues digital degree proofs on Bitcoin using “blockcerts”(twitter.com)
10 points by steindavidb 6y ago|1 comments
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by steindavidb 6y ago
Hi cs-szazz. I remember being in your situation; it's frustrating because you can't Google for answers. Here is advice I was given when in a similar situation. - Find the other people at the company in your situation (size of gran
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by steindavidb 6y ago
Senator Feinstein (D-CA) is a do’s-onshore of the bill. Here’s the form to contact her office and encourage her to not support the bill: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
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by steindavidb 7y ago
obligatory thread naming good open-source password entropy checkers. I'll start. zxcvbn: https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn
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Computer Color Is Broken(youtube.com)
9 points by steindavidb 7y ago|0 comments
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by steindavidb 8y ago
(for a single filer) at $100k income, this lowers the effective state income tax to 0.8% at $200k income, this lowers the effective state income tax rate to 4.4% New Hampshire is literally next door and has no income tax.
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by steindavidb 8y ago
this works fine over http instead of https. is there a way to fix the link?
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Script to delete a too-big Dropbox Folder(github.com)
1 points by steindavidb 8y ago|0 comments
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by steindavidb 8y ago
It has to do a lot with reliability and cost. A smart car has a lot of expensive sensors and an expected life of a few years with regular maintenance. There's also a huge market opportunity around smart cars. Those cabinets can last de
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by steindavidb 8y ago
My SO and I have three MBPs between us. Two have had keyboard failures (one the "8" key, the other the space bar). Both took about a week for Apple to repair.
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by steindavidb 8y ago
This website is unreadable on iPad, the font size changes every time I scroll.
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by steindavidb 9y ago
Commonmark is a wonderful and well defined markdown standard (ie the one GitHub uses)
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by steindavidb 9y ago
I taught myself 18.100a from the book and website when I took it because class was too early in the morning and found them sufficient to make up for the missed lectures. Wonderful resources. Highly recommmend.
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by steindavidb 9y ago
I did this by running a sikuliX script. Took about 5 minutes a day for a week to iron out all corner cases it got stuck on.
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by steindavidb 9y ago
Travels with Charley in search of America
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by steindavidb 9y ago
this is actually fixed with selective sync in dropbox pro
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by steindavidb 9y ago
Going straight to the spec is really great for HTML/CSS. Also worth looking at the CSS snapshot from w3 https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2017/
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by steindavidb 9y ago
Appboy | New York City | Full Time | ONSITE Appboy is currently looking for full time software engineers to join their team! Appboy is a NYC based start-up specializing in smart marketing automation. Our powerful SDK and dashboard have enab
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by steindavidb 9y ago
Appboy is also looking for someone to head up technical recruiting - https://boards.greenhouse.io/appboy/jobs/571121?gh_jid=57112...
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by steindavidb 9y ago
Appboy-New York-Full Time-ONSITE Appboy is currently looking for full time software engineers to join their team! Appboy is a NYC based start-up specializing in smart marketing automation. Our powerful SDK and dashboard have enabled compani
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Instapaper Outage Cause and Recovery(medium.com)
3 points by steindavidb 10y ago|0 comments
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by steindavidb 10y ago
github pages might suit your needs.
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Show HN: Compare (after-tax) job offers(davidbstein.com)
5 points by steindavidb 10y ago|0 comments
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Getting started with rich text inputs on the web(davidbstein.com)
2 points by steindavidb 11y ago|0 comments
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NY DA Employs Secret Orders to Gather Complete Dossiers from Facebook(eff.org)
44 points by steindavidb 12y ago|1 comments
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Squarespace: They Asked for My Password.(keepitlit.co)
41 points by steindavidb 13y ago|63 comments