jwiley

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Ask HN: Best practices for starting and structuring an Open Source project?
5 points by jwiley 2y ago|4 comments
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Project to build and send cheap FPV drones to Ukraine(socialdrone.com.ua)
3 points by jwiley 3y ago|1 comments
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by jwiley 3y ago
Related: https://www.kyivpost.com/videos/21211 "Ukraine’s ever-escalating drone race with Russia is reaching a critical stage and a low-tech $260 hobby drone has become one of the most vital weapons in the war. In
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The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”(educationnext.org)
2 points by jwiley 3y ago|1 comments
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by jwiley 3y ago
"Reasonable people may disagree about whether teachers should have to pass licensing tests of instructional knowledge before getting a job in a classroom. But it’s hard to dispute the idea that, if there is going to be such a test, the
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by jwiley 3y ago
"These mysterious cosmic structures at the heart of nearly every galaxy consume light and matter and are impossible to glimpse with traditional telescopes. But now, for the first time, astrophysicists have gathered knowledge directly f
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Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Is on Crash Course, Space-Time Ripples Reveal(wsj.com)
4 points by jwiley 3y ago|1 comments
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by jwiley 3y ago
Related: https://www.ft.com/content/5814b408-8111-49a9-8885-8a8434022...
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ChatGPT Risks Divide Biden Administration over EU’s AI Rules(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jwiley 3y ago|1 comments
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by jwiley 3y ago
Turing police? https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/Turing_Police
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by jwiley 4y ago
This reminds me of a conversation I had with an owner of a bbq restaurant who said he was struggling to meet new laws required stainless steel tables for food preparation, which was going to cost him $25,000 to install. This legislation, a
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Ask HN: Is there an equivalent Hacker News in China?
1 points by jwiley 4y ago|2 comments
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by jwiley 4y ago
While MVC is certainly not perfect, I've had the opposite experience you describe: the days of the spaghetti abstraction really began with the Javascript centric approach. The emphasis changed from opinionated defaults, to completely
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Gain Admin Privileges to Any Windows Machine by Plugging in a Razer Mouse(lifehacker.com)
3 points by jwiley 5y ago|1 comments
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by jwiley 5y ago
Who needs the NSO group? Repressive regime TODO list: 1: create a child safety organization, or require an existing one to accept your images 2: add images of the children of dissidents (or journalists, or leaders of other political parties
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by jwiley 5y ago
Another question related to Budibase, how do you harden the container and handle security issues? A Google search leads me to githubs standard security overview which is empty, Sync suggests there may be some advisories associated with the
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by jwiley 5y ago
Good suggestion...I haven't dug in deeply, but do you know what 'tasks' are in this case? Is that user logins, writes to DB, integration requests or?
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by jwiley 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning. In terms of pricing I noticed Mendix lined to users. Assuming I want to offer it to lots of consumers who have the ability to login, would that count to the user total? Or is the user limit for admins?
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by jwiley 5y ago
I'll check it out, thanks
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by jwiley 5y ago
Thanks Santosh! I'll review and connect with you if it looks like a fit.
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by jwiley 5y ago
Budibase looks impressive thanks for sharing. How does scaling / load balancing work if I outgrow a single container?
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by jwiley 5y ago
Nice targeted solution for account + login ecesena. For my usecase I was looking for a more all-inclusive solution, but like the flexibility your product offers of retaining some of the control over core development.
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by jwiley 5y ago
Thanks for mentioning, I'll check it out when I get closer to implementation.
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Ask HN: No / low-code tools to build an application in 2021?
12 points by jwiley 5y ago|19 comments
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by jwiley 6y ago
This really made my day. I’ve marveled at the skill of demoscene folks for a long time, surely in the class of great artists and worth preserving and encouraging.
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by jwiley 6y ago
This is great info I've never seen referenced elsewhere. It would be awesome if you would write a blog post explaining this in more detail!
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by jwiley 6y ago
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cat_Drop
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Operation Cat Drop(medium.com)
1 points by jwiley 6y ago|1 comments
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by jwiley 6y ago
I've been a fan of Chris Crawford for a long time. I find his framing of games in terms of "verbs" (the things you can do in the game) and "nouns" (the things you can do them to) to be incredibly eye-opening. It f
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by jwiley 6y ago
Quake? Flawless?! I played that on a 486 25 that was rated as the minimum spec and it would barely load and crunched along at 6 FPS but I loved it and was happy to get it. I played Skyrim and fallout 3 on a MacBook and it was truly painf

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