kpsychwave

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Ask HN: Why are there so few American TTS accents?
2 points by kpsychwave 6y ago|1 comments
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by kpsychwave 6y ago
You raise good points. I would agree that Plato/Aristotle are good foundations for understanding European intellectual history but a lot of chronological study is required to see their influence / relevance today. Here's a co
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by kpsychwave 6y ago
As a philosophy major, I would advise you to pay attention to the order in which you expose yourself to materials. The earlier stronger impressions in your journey will naturally have a weight on your opinions of later materials. In additio
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by kpsychwave 6y ago
More of your type is needed in the industry because specialists get outdated You need to market your openness to jump in and solve problems. https://link.medium.com/5ucrrV7nNbb
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by kpsychwave 6y ago
For anyone looking to test their GeoIP implementation, we have a tool here: https://www.geoscreenshot.com
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by kpsychwave 6y ago
Very comprehensive list, it would be useful to include uptime and performance stats as well. Plug: If you would like to test your GeoIP implementation, we have a tool designed specifically for that here: https://www.geoscreenshot
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by kpsychwave 6y ago
At least 3 reasons: stereotype threat (related to race), financial aid and socio-economic pragmatics. Stereotype threat makes people less likely to engage in psychologically risky feedback loops (bad grades, seeking feedback,...), and many
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
1. Could you please explain the connection between economic growth and the population problem a little more? I would expect economic development to gradually cause a decline in birth rates? Is there a GDP marker where delta GDP > delta p
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Ask HN: How do you decouple transactional messaging from your application code?
2 points by kpsychwave 7y ago|0 comments
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
VPN users are an exception. I would think it would be best to use a proximate node to reduce latency. For corporation, there is another form of targeting (account based targeting) that relies on IP ranges. I believe DemandBase covers this s
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
GeoIP is pretty accurate at the state/country level for most users, but you will run into precision issues at the city level. A bigger problem seems to be that many forget to continuously sync their IP DB with their provider. Your targ
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Ask HN: How do you test in CI/CD of large content sites?
2 points by kpsychwave 7y ago|0 comments
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
Interested to hear about professional use cases for this kind of tool. I am working on a cloud-based sandbox browser very similar to the OP here: https://www.sandboxbrowser.com/ My target audience is software developers, QA
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
If you are interested in testing geo-specific dynamic pricing, we have a tool here just for that: https://www.geoscreenshot.com
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A Case for Hiring Malleable Junior Developers(medium.com)
5 points by kpsychwave 7y ago|0 comments
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
You can self-host the pre-AWS Cloud9 IDE on a VPS: https://hub.docker.com/r/sapk/cloud9/
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by kpsychwave 7y ago
Hire for adaptability. How soon after being hired do they provide value? Wrote an article about it here: https://link.medium.com/AifgIE7AvV
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by kpsychwave 8y ago
Blind spot mirrors solve this issue, and they are very cheap. I am surprised they are not mandated by manufacturers.
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by kpsychwave 8y ago
You can share your skills by mentoring junior developers in your local area. I have observed that there is an oversupply of junior developers who are self-taught or have credentials but have not had their first job yet. I started a local te
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Show HN: Find the nearest big city given coords microservice(github.com)
2 points by kpsychwave 8y ago|0 comments
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by kpsychwave 8y ago
Is the name a portmanteau of Baruch Spinoza?
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by kpsychwave 9y ago
A quick side-project I developed to test CDN issues. Looking for ideas on how it can be made more useful.
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Show HN: Diff web assets across geographic regions(ubiqwerty.site)
1 points by kpsychwave 9y ago|1 comments
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by kpsychwave 9y ago
Yes but like all async ops not without expense to the UX.
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by kpsychwave 9y ago
For conditionally loading other blocking assets in JS. For example, if IP is in China, local fallback for Google CDN as it will fail.
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by kpsychwave 9y ago
Given the fast lookup time, it would be useful if you could provide a JS API fot synchronous loading. Essentially, a blocking script in the dom <script src="...api.js" /> that prepopulates the window object. With clever
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by kpsychwave 10y ago
I use Cloud9 IDE for dev, it is a collaborative web app that runs the env inside a Docker container and has clone/revert capability. For MS related projects, I use PaperSpace, a windows VM in the cloud, they offer Enterprise plans with
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by kpsychwave 10y ago
Looking forward to seeing it. :) I don't have examples. I am thinking loop videos, GIFs, or CSS3 animations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27XvZReW_cs http://likethemammal.github.io/css-visualizer&#x2
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by kpsychwave 10y ago
Excellent.I was working on a similar personal project. I had these functionalities in mind: - Gradient / Color full screen mode - Keep remote screen awake - Screenshot preview of remote screens (html5 canvas) + Visualizations It is nic
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by kpsychwave 10y ago
Thanks dbg31415, I have pushed that fix. That is an excellent feature suggestion.

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