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by jbackus 5y ago
Very nice. I've been using https://screenotate.com/ for years in part because of the nice OCR support
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BlockFi accidentally pays out millions of dollars to users due to bug(reddit.com)
27 points by jbackus 5y ago|1 comments
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by jbackus 6y ago
Having your business beholden to any app store is a bit scary, but Google's chrome web store is probably the most precarious. As far as I can tell, almost every negative action taken against you is done in an automated fashion, with
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by jbackus 6y ago
Nope. If you read the post, you'll see he mentions that it isn't related to uglification. It's a definition of unicode characters
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by jbackus 6y ago
Another cool way you could do this: Ruby methods can ask for their caller_locations. They work like this: # Source $ cat example_for_hn.rb def foo bar end def bar baz end def baz (c1, c2) =
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by jbackus 6y ago
I had the privilege of seeing Jeffrey do multiple live performances of his software (demoed @ 9:20) at different Internet Archive events while he was the artist in residence. Each time, I got the delightful feeling that I was witnessing som
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by jbackus 6y ago
Yeah, I don't remember any of the Ruby tooling ecosystem maintainers having nice things to say about the various syntax changes they've added over the years. I don't blame them. These changes are always justified with a hand
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by jbackus 6y ago
Yeah. Been years since I even played with it, but even in 2016 I remember Ripper being completely unusable, failing to parse plenty of normal Ruby syntax. The Parser gem also maintains a separate parser for every Ruby version, so you can a
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by jbackus 6y ago
Ruby's parser is notoriously complex; if I remember correctly, only a few members of the core team even know how to maintain it without introducing regressions. The craziest part of this is that Ruby does not provide a full featured Ru
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by jbackus 6y ago
I'm building Jam ( https://jam.link/ ) to tackle this problem. You can think of it as a consumer password manager built specifically for sharing. It's fully frontend encrypted, so Jam doesn't know what logins y
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Jam lets you share passwords with friends and save money(techcrunch.com)
5 points by jbackus 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook won because its culture was voyeuristic(medium.com)
1 points by jbackus 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbackus 8y ago
Author here, thanks for reading! Regarding "decentralization can only exist to circumvent the law", I don't think that in the long term (>5 years out). I touched on this a bit in another comment: https://news.yc
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by jbackus 8y ago
Author here. I'm mainly writing about decentralization that is supposed to be mainstream while also looking for historical examples. With that in mind, I've looked at: - Dozens of file sharing apps and their protocols (focus on Na
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How to make a user-friendly Ethereum dApp(blog.hellobloom.io)
4 points by jbackus 8y ago|0 comments
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Any open tab can detect Ethereum wallet usage if you use Metamask(twitter.com)
1 points by jbackus 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbackus 9y ago
Another interesting project is RDL: https://github.com/plum-umd/rdl Both Diamondback and RDL come out of UMD. I'm curious what drives this research there. From what I can tell, Ruby is barely touched otherwise by
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Pry Features Every Ruby Developer Should Know(blog.cognitohq.com)
3 points by jbackus 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Write Better Code Using Mutation Testing [RailsConf 2017](youtube.com)
4 points by jbackus 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbackus 10y ago
First of all that is an interesting point. Given that it isn't as potentially dangerous I'll agree that it is less bad than I initially thought. I'll respond to your question by asking you a question. Which of the following e
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by jbackus 10y ago
Ah well "You probably shouldn’t do that though" is just my opinion as the author. I didn't play a part in these changes. I just like Ruby enough to dig into their changelog :)
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New Features in Ruby 2.4(blog.blockscore.com)
222 points by jbackus 10y ago|70 comments
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by jbackus 10y ago
I don't know if he has written about it beyond the docs and various commits. He has talked about it many times on his podcast (which I highly recommend). Here is an episode that talks about the attributes API as well as his Relation#or
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by jbackus 10y ago
I feel bad for Sean Griffin. He spent over a year overhauling the internals of ActiveRecord to add this attributes API. His work dramatically improves coercion and type enforcement for ActiveRecord users. Seems weird for this to only get a
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by jbackus 11y ago
Author's other projects are pretty interesting too: https://rsnous.com/
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by jbackus 11y ago
This is very common across most psychology studies from what I understand. > In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the premier journal in social psychology – the subdiscipline of psychology that should (arguably) be the m
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Catching bugs and writing more robust code using mutation testing(blog.blockscore.com)
1 points by jbackus 11y ago|0 comments
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by jbackus 11y ago
This is a great post. I'd love to hear more about multistage zaps people use. I'd also enjoy a post that talked about different zaps that zapier uses in house.
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by jbackus 11y ago
We use blazer[1] which is open source and lets you share queries just like this video demonstrates. It also has other nice features like composing results into charts and allowing interpolated values for generating queries with variable inp
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Jq is sed for JSON(robots.thoughtbot.com)
1 points by jbackus 12y ago|0 comments

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