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by tpaschalis 8y ago
The comments of buboard and xvilka are on point . One thing I'd add though, is that physicists still have a healthy amount of skepticism on ML/NN. They don't like the "black box" approach, where the algorithm is re
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
This exactly. Companies exist to make money, and that's of course a good thing. But the way that some tech companies choose to go about that (growth at all costs, maximizing attention by clickbait, and ultimately selling whitespace for
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
A previous HN discussion [0] on the same (rougly) subject, with many different and good points for and against Medium (mostly against, though).. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18440756
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Yes, people do! From my time in HN, I've accumulated a list of links to smaller/niche blogs, that you wouldn't stumble on by chance, except if you were searching for something extremely specific. You don't have to add an
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Robert has an awesome blog! Stuff like this makes me appreciative, but also jealous of people who can have the skill to put concepts and thoughts into simple and eloquent words. It's been almost two years since I've started my own
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Can you share some more insights on what the service does? 2.1 Megabytes of corporate-y buzzwords are good and all, but your own site gets a 43/100 score on PageSpeed insights [1], or similar services [2]. Are these companies your cli
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
I like it! Since you wrote it in Go, it would be nice to also add a flag to export the result in camelCase, for easier variable naming :P
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
I've never particularly cared or been much knowledgeable about poetry, but thanks for introducing me to this beautiful one. :)
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Hey, since no one asked (as it's tradition :P), I'll bite. Have you got any ideas about monetization? Are there any usage limits? How about unexpected things you learned while building this? An 'about' page would greatly
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Ehm, I agree with the Vim point, but think of those who won't/can't spend time getting past that Vim learning curve. Especially for people dealing with csv files, tabular data or digging through logfiles, Multi-Cursor and Mul
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Thanks for the good words, stranger! I'm a terrible writer, but, there's only one way to get better! I really, really like your own blog, too :)
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
If you wish to see that "one of the all-time great shots" from Djokovic, here it is on YouTube in HD. [1] https://youtu.be/EjvSx0ipO0k?t=10181
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Oh, and since everybody seems to post their personal blogs for critique, shameless plug in adding a link to my own, which I think gets the minimalism aesthetic sooomewhat right. It still needs some more slimming down, and small aesthetic
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Yes, this a thousand times. One example, Dan Luu [1] gets this absolutely right . His blog would probably look similar on Lynx, or any text-only browser, yet is better than 99.99% of stuff "out there". [1] https://danl
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
It's funny, because some years ago when Medium blogs were starting to be posted left and right, people were praising the interface, and nobody listened to the few who objected. Now, we need all kinds of tricks, add-ons and blocks to ju
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Very surprised and happy to see this here. It's so hard to grasp, completely unthinkable to understand the hardships that people like Dr. Orlov went through, and yet, how they overcame them to do great things, that truly are still push
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Your comment hit the nail on the head. Even though Free Software Licensing might not be for everyone, we're all lucky to have people as stubborn and uncompromising as RMS to be the figureheads of the Free Software Movement. Indeed, the
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Hey HN! I've been practicing with Go, and actually built something that me and a couple other people have been using on a day-to-day basis. I'm looking forward to feedback and observations. Any suggestions on how to make the code
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Show HN: Goof – Easily offer a file/directory over a network(github.com)
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I want to second LÖVE [1] as an easy way to build games! Some user "adn" has documented almost the whole process using the framework to build his own game (which he released on Steam) on Github [2], so it's fantastic start
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Personal anecdote as well, but I think you nailed one of the reasons I love Python.. It's the way the language was designed (PEP 20) I had written some POC scientific code for my undergrad thesis, but the thesis was sidetracked for abo
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
I generally tend to disagree with the "Dockerize Everything" crowd, but process isolation is one of the cases where Docker shines. And while it won't magically protect your identity, it's a fast way of having a browser s
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Run a sandboxed Chrome using Docker(tpaschalis.github.io)
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> I roll my eyes every time someone talks about the "premium price" of Apple hardware. Apple hardware is not all that much more expensive; it's just not subsidized via tracking/profiling (loss of privacy), and subsequ
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
(Newbie Airflow user here). I believe one easy way to do it is by using Airflow's 'sensors'. Sensors are operators which poke continuously with an action until it returns True (eg. until a file exists, an API gives a specif
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
Well, this way you know what websites you should just avoid, because they're selling your data? The web is a large and open place, you don't need to give consent to anyone.
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It sounds weird that you had these problems. Silly question, but might it have been a database optimization issue?
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There's a bunch of different tools to do the same job, from manual cron jobs, to Luigi, Pinball, Azkaban, Oozie, Taverna, Mistral. I've started to use it for personal projects, and slowly probing for adoption in our shop, where ap
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
A quick Google search gave me a couple of sources [1][2] (sorry, it's in Greek, but Google Translate can work) As far as I understand, some small parts near the north are indeed connected to the grid, some use photovoltaics/solar
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by tpaschalis 8y ago
My experience with MS Teams contradict what I've mostly seen on HN. Coming from a Linux background, I had lost touch with the Microsoft ecosystem for the most part of a decade and would actively avoid Microsoft related stuff. When I go

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