JustARandomGuy

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by JustARandomGuy 1mo ago
What was "naked conductor runs under the carriage" supposed to be originally? Open driveshaft? Differential?
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by JustARandomGuy 1y ago
Cost. I run a small Chicago area “private” meetup (in the sense that one needs to be invited, it’s not publicly advertised) for small business owners. We do workshops on how to advertise using Google ads, do basic web analytics, etc. The sk
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by JustARandomGuy 1y ago
Oh my goodness, thank you! I have been searching for a source of the small icons as an example to show the computing classes I lecture, and I finally found my rotating favorite one! https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/msntbc
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by JustARandomGuy 2y ago
+1, I would be interested. I think you should check out the Light Table kickstarter[0] which originally had a similar premise to yours, and raised several hundred thousand dollars. I personally put in $50 to be in the beta, and that was alm
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by JustARandomGuy 2y ago
Unread RSS Reader. Godawful poll timing. 6103 requests in 52 days is about one poll every 736 seconds _on average_, but they're hugely spread out. WTF? Put it this way: the list of unique intervals (nn seconds, nn minutes, ...) is fou
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by JustARandomGuy 2y ago
Surprised nobody has mentioned it, but my favorite movie of his was Pride and Prejudice 2005 edition. He plays the father role extremely well - you can feel the emotion in the room. Going to have to rewatch it this weekend in his honor.
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by JustARandomGuy 2y ago
> If you understand that this is primarily an exercise in marketing and not tech, then you'll be on your way A solid gold insight right there. I graduated into a bad economy as well (Millennial into the 08 recession) and what got
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
It is what happened to each of the wives of King Henry the 8th. It's a famous rhyme intended to make it easy to remember the order of what happened to them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wives_of_Henry_VIII
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
I don’t necessarily know if the famous graph is accurate - I don’t think the divergence in beliefs is so extreme as that graph indicates, but it is undeniably true that on a worldwide scale there is a growing rift between men and women. Art
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
This article strongly reminded me of the "helicrane" system developed by NASA for the last Mars probe, which oriented itself by recognizing the terrain below it and using that to orient itself toward the right drop location: http
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
Glad to see someone else had that problem too - I spent hours reading through the Twilio documentation to try to figure out if transactional sms was allowed because all I kept seeing was campaign registration, campaign fees, and etc all abo
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
A pretty insightful look at how Google thinks about its ads - I was surprised by the System Challenges slide - it looks as if they’re having hardware concerns about the Ads fleet? I wonder if the Ads software inflicts more “stress” on its m
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
There is one thing you should always remember: Never accept responsibility, without the authority to change things. You are being given the responsibility to manage all of this, without the authority to do so. So here is what I would do:
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
Argonne is a highly regarded national lab; results from there would be highly credible. Also an Argonne staffer has gone on record[0] saying that they're attempting to replicate, while other labs have not said whether they're tryi
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
>Would you live in an apartment 15 feet wide and 50 feet deep? For laughs, I just measured the width of my home's hallways and rooms. I don't see why 15x50 feet apartment isn't doable especially for a bachelor/new cou
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by JustARandomGuy 3y ago
Quote from article: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman… is apparently unaware that Reddit's success is because of the posts by the users that use the service in all of its forms If Reddit starts losing popularity due to this incident (and that
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
Millennial: same feeling here. When I talk to people of my parents generation they always talk about how cars let them roam about and give them freedom. I never felt the same way, and I think a large part of that is that I grew up with the
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
I’ve been in and out of the Wordpress ecosystem for almost the last 20 years. Most “developers” on Wordpress/woo commerce/other popular wordpress plugins are very limited in what they can do. Most of them are limited to assembling
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
Very inventive. Admittedly when I read the first few paragraphs, I was thinking “he’s got to have $40K of iPhones doing image processing” but you made a good point about being able to use iPhones with screen and other damage. What was your
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
A good, reliable api to archive web pages in multiple formats and extract the article text. The best are very expensive - look up Diffbot, it’s the best I’ve found but at $299 a month, it’s expensive. I’d happily pay per web page extracted,
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
+1 Would be happy to come as well.
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
Not knowing anything about Italy myself, can you expand or link to something describing the problems? Would like to learn more.
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
+1. Would strongly encourage a gofundme for this. I know many HNers including myself would be happy to pitch in to help retire any debt you have remaining from this.
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
> As someone who is speaking with a handful of people stuck in this situation, what direction should I guide them towards Get experience. By any way possible. Have them build an online app - a blog system specialized for doctors, an RS
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
I once interviewed at Northern Trust for a programmer role. Interview was 2 hours long divided into 4 - 30 minute segments each with different interviewers. None of the interviewers asked anything about tech. Absolutely nothing. All of the
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by JustARandomGuy 4y ago
Whatever Tumblr’s political legacy turns out to be, I will always value it for the UI and how it encouraged more people to blog. When you logged into the Tumblr dashboard, you were presented with several options to post - link post, image p
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Ask HN: Coursera Certificates Not Working?
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by JustARandomGuy 5y ago
Very insightful and thought-provoking. I really appreciated this insight, that governments had (quote) an understanding that if you just leave young people to be, they will go and get married. They will have children. They will be able to
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by JustARandomGuy 5y ago
Very kind of you. Thanks.
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by JustARandomGuy 5y ago
>that shortly after this made the rounds in the marketing communities I'd love to read more about this. Do you have any recommended "marketing communities" that I should visit?

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