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by alsargent 8mo ago
San Francisco Bay racer here. Very nice website — thank you. A few requests: 1) To make it easier to identify these buoys, please take the information in the “characteristic height” and “structure” columns and associate them with each buoy.
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by alsargent 2y ago
Agreed
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by alsargent 2y ago
Interesting stuff
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by alsargent 3y ago
Thanks. As an Evernote user since 2007, and paying customer for several years, this sucks. I’m curious: why is Notion not on your short list?
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by alsargent 3y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question... but why doesn't Reddit lower its API prices to a point that Apollo and other app developers can afford? Plenty of other companies have figured out how to price APIs in a way that works for developers: A
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by alsargent 4y ago
Will be popular with shoplifters, package thieves, and bus thugs.
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by alsargent 4y ago
I wonder if note taking applications like Notion (or new startups) might include something this as a capability to improve their search and summarization.
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by alsargent 4y ago
Thank you! (ArangoDB employee here...)
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by alsargent 4y ago
“The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.” … great point.
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by alsargent 4y ago
Here are some trends that could drive a fundamental shift in social media: 1) Trust is the scarcest element in social media today. Any social media company that is built on advertising will never have the trust of a subscription-based socia
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by alsargent 4y ago
To get a sense of how many solar panels and batteries we'll need, drive around Houston, Texas some time. You'll see mile after mile of chemical refineries. Granted, some of these are for plastics and not energy production. But a l
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by alsargent 4y ago
Downhound creator here. Thanks for linking to the site; hope it was able to provide a bit of clarity on the situation on Google yesterday. Google's outage was pretty short, around 10-15 minutes or so. What new features/data would
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by alsargent 5y ago
Thanks. I hear your point about the last sentence. If I read "Glory to America", I'd more than cringe. However, the last sentence in Roman characters is "Slava Ukraniya" which has emerged as more of a call to defend
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by alsargent 5y ago
If you have a website, you can support Ukraine right now. Not all Russian citizens have the information about what their armed forces are doing in Ukraine, and what casualties they've already experienced. Add the script in the link to
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Web devs can support Ukraine with one line of HTML(infowarship.pages.dev)
3 points by alsargent 5y ago|3 comments
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by alsargent 5y ago
"We never spent a dime on marketing." ... except for Luis' salary, hosting the website, and the rest of the marketing stack, which might include Calendly, video conferencing, mailing list, etc.
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by alsargent 6y ago
(InfluxDB employee here. Sorry I should have mentioned that in my original post.)
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by alsargent 6y ago
Migration is something we feel is very important, which is why we've delivered a single-CLI-command upgrade from 1.x to 2.0. Here's the documentation: https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v2.0/reference&#
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by alsargent 6y ago
Also, screens last a long time, but it's the computers themselves that need continual ugrading. Case in point: we have a Dell screen from 18 year ago. The Dell desktop long since became obsolete. So this makes a lot of sense economical
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by alsargent 6y ago
I'll make two bets: 1) PC makers start coming out with their own keyboard computers with a similar form function within the next 12 months. 2) A future Mac Mini has this same keyboard form factor. (Perhaps with a "keyboard + magic
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by alsargent 6y ago
Maybe I missing something, but I've published several tutorials on Medium, all outside their paywall, and all appearing in google search results. It's a nice blogging platform. Not sure what the issue is. For instance, this articl
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by alsargent 6y ago
Consider Sales Engineering. Often in tech companies, there are two types of salespeople: nontechnical folks, and sales engineers. The nontechnical folks have titles like Account Exec, Sales Development, Inside Sales, Regional Manager. These
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by alsargent 6y ago
Hacker Newsletter. The best* of Hacker News, delivered once a week. Each newsletter contains a few useful articles that have helped me in work and life. * not sure how they figure out “best” but the articles are general good.
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by alsargent 6y ago
Interesting story about how this developer got called by the NSA, who instructed him to hang up then call back the publicly listed number for the agency. Exactly the steps that big banks should take. https://medium.com/datad
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I blocked the SearchMine malware virus(medium.com)
1 points by alsargent 7y ago|0 comments
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Is There a Wiki for Cookies?
2 points by alsargent 7y ago|0 comments
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by alsargent 7y ago
Test Automation U. just released a new online course today: Introduction to Capybara. Here's the link: https://testautomationu.applitools.com/capybara-ruby/ For those not familiar, Capybara works with Ruby and is
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Introduction to Capybara – free online course(testautomationu.applitools.com)
5 points by alsargent 7y ago|1 comments
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The Death Star: A Lesson in CyberSecurity(onelogin.com)
4 points by alsargent 10y ago|0 comments