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by albertyw 3y ago
https://www.albertyw.com/
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by albertyw 5y ago
I set up an old iPad Air to show https://www.codemancer.com/ for the last two years. It's got a clock, weather, and appointments and is readable from across the room. I've also run into crashes from Safari, whic
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by albertyw 9y ago
I built git-browse: https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse After getting tired of constantly searching github and phabricator, I built a small tool that would open git repositories, files, branches, and commits in the
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by albertyw 11y ago
Pretty sure it was just for Halloween (a US holiday) and they've changed it back now. I guess they also changed it internationally too?
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by albertyw 11y ago
How is this different from a regular CDN like Akamai, Cloudflare, etc.?
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by albertyw 11y ago
I agree with your message, but that quote could be applied to any company ever. Case studies would be more useful.
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by albertyw 11y ago
"If the project is behind schedule, Gigster just assigns more developers to it or fires under-performing ones so it gets done on time." - Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.
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by albertyw 12y ago
Disclosure: I'm working on a video delivery network company called Dendrio (www.dendr.io). You're pretty spot on about AWS. Storage is super cheap, but data transfer can be really expensive. Also, depending on your users' h
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by albertyw 12y ago
Brainfuck is just a set of symbols that map to the actions a Turing machine can make. I believe that the symbols themselves were chosen to make it difficult to read and write much like Whitespace. As for Turing machines, I'm sure the
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by albertyw 12y ago
I think this is a use case of signed commits. They would allow for verification of the commit's author's identity.
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by albertyw 12y ago
Invert the colors - white is paths, black is walls.
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by albertyw 13y ago
Fourier Transform equation is wrong. Integral from infinity to infinity? That doesn't make sense. It should be negative infinity.
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by albertyw 13y ago
Another red flag - Is it just me, or is the header image on the conference website an image of Las Vegas?
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by albertyw 13y ago
Amazon EC2 vs Google CE - Fight.
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by albertyw 13y ago
From the article they published in Advanced Materials, it seems the ink actually contains silver (the element) nanoparticles in a colloid. I'm surprised that the resistance is still that high.
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by albertyw 13y ago
Making some overgeneralizations here, software written by scientists aren't going to be as good as software written by software engineers. Their usual purpose (and their training/background) is to publish papers and writing code
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by albertyw 13y ago
Maybe not on high alert continuously, but with satellites now, they must have seen this hurricane coming for days if not weeks.
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by albertyw 13y ago
Love how "well connected" HN commentators are.
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by albertyw 13y ago
As a person who isn't in this space, why do you say that? Is it because of increasing competition or something to do with Braintree/Paypal?
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by albertyw 13y ago
Anybody wondering how long it will take for Bitcoin to gain enough respectability for the FBI or Secret Service to get involved after hacks like this? If the same amount of money was stolen from a normal bank, it'd likely be covered b
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by albertyw 13y ago
isn't this a repost of another (debunked) article that was on HN a few days ago?
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by albertyw 13y ago
My guess is that Dell laptops have incorrectly vulcanized rubber. During vulcanization, sulfur compounds are added to rubber to make it more elastic. Cat urine also contains a high amount of sulfur compounds. If Dell's suppliers got
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by albertyw 13y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but the US dollar is not backed by US government taxation. A dollar is still quite valuable outside the US because people and institutions attach a value to the US dollar, mostly because the US economy has been the la
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by albertyw 13y ago
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
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by albertyw 13y ago
Sun Tzu - Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak
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by albertyw 13y ago
Yep, I find coding on planes to be pretty productive too, if only for the fact that it's not like you have anything better to do. The only hard part is looking stuff up, like APIs. I find airplanes really useful for code reviews thou
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by albertyw 13y ago
I wonder how long it'll take College Board to move to a more expressive language like Python or Ruby. The basicness of AP CS (learning loops, recursion, and simple OO) means students don't learn enough about programming for the b
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by albertyw 13y ago
Not to sound self-righteous, but the HN audience (or more plausibly, some subset within) has a high influence on what the rest of the world sees and wants. Any Dropbox employees read HN?
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by albertyw 13y ago
It's MAD 2.0
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Better Interactive Data Visualization In Diabetes Tracking(thehealthcareblog.com)
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