leobakerhytch

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by leobakerhytch 5y ago
Regrettably, we humans just don’t have a good sense of scale.
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by leobakerhytch 5y ago
See Slaughterbots [0] for a dramatization of this scenario. [0]: https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
And a fourth time on a per-article basis if you, as an individual, non-academic taxpayer, would like you read the very research your taxes have funded.
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
When you say historic buildings, I suppose (hope) you don’t mean listed ones, since they’d be breaking the law? Regardless, it’s a crying shame what people have ripped out of even very ordinary Victorian and Edwardian houses. Decorative mou
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
You might like to try Write yourself a Git [0] (discussed here previously [1]). YMMV, but I find the best way to learn something deeply is to get hands on. Less of a chance of convincing yourself you understand something that you really d
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
Even though the full-size filter would surely work with a phone camera, if you could scale it down to a form factor that clips onto the phone, I can see this selling like hot cakes. Might be one of the rare cases where influencer marketing
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
Clickbait title, but I wholeheartedly agree with the article’s main assertion, that startups need product engineers who think about more than just code. Engineers who can make decisions for the benefit of the customer, and ultimately the
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
From the Twitter thread linked by yoquan: > Explosives were used to deploy the parachute, so care had to be taken that there were no late detonations. [0] Precisely what you guessed it to guessed it to be. [0]: https://mobile
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
Absolutely. I think that’s why it’s so vital to combine both qualitative and quantitative data. I doubt there are too many people in tech making this mistake, but without numbers there’s a good chance you fall prey to people’s inaccurate pe
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
That’s what qualitative data is for. At the very least, talking to customers and reading their feedback. Preferably followed by organizing that data somehow, and using it to better understand the quantitative data you have. It’s fair commen
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
Rather than building dedicated integrations (which can always come later), a relatively quick win that’s tool-agnostic would be to implement webhooks. I’ve used Typeform’s webhook feature a number of times to good effect, whereby you recei
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
Except I think there’s convincing argument to make that engagement will go down over time, if the algorithm makes no attempt to prioritize or suggest novel content. The rare occasions I discover a new channel, it’s almost always from some s
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
To add to that list: abstract syntax trees. It would take a pretty monumental effort to build, but I think a huge step forward could be made with a VCS that has knowledge of code structure, and the relationships between source files. Large
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
I realized in the last year or two that I was never really bad with names, I just didn’t give myself the chance to be good with them. For someone I’ve just met, it takes a little effort to use their name at least once or twice soon after
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
I fully agree that the default porcelain has poor UX for managing the staging area, but doesn’t a porcelain without it encourage overly large commits? All sorts of workflows become substantially more difficult (if not impossible) with kitch
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
Just to bring to levity to this discussion, your quote very much brings to mind the hilarious and ever-relevant Four Yorkshiremen[0] sketch from Monty Python. Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night, half an hour
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
I can assure you 130km/h is treated as merely advisory. That is, you are advised to go at least 130.
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
I highly recommend the browser extension Session Buddy [0], if you, like me, regularly find you’ve opened tens to hundreds of tabs. It’s quite cathartic to save out my tabs into topic-based sessions, close everything, then reopen just one s
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
You say this was your first time outside India. May I ask, what was your path to setting up a company in the US and moving there? Was this via an L1 intra-company transfer, an E2 investor visa, or something else?
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
I couldn’t get this to work, but setting back my clock to October 20th did the trick (along with deleting the modal’s element via dev tools as jonahx mentions).
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by leobakerhytch 6y ago
GMBN has a couple of great videos on buying a mountain bike [0][1], but I can really recommend a direct to consumer brand such as Canyon or YT — especially if you’re not sure whether you’ll commit to the sport. You get a lot more bike for y
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by leobakerhytch 7y ago
A lesson from history shows this not to be the case: hand-wrought nails were such a precious and militarily significant commodity in Roman England, that when the legion left, they painstakingly concealed their hoard to prevent the locals ga
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by leobakerhytch 7y ago
Turning off viewing history and search history puts the recommendations much more under your own control — they’re then (AFAICT) only based on likes and subscriptions, and you still have the option to reject recommendations, as sbierwagen s
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by leobakerhytch 7y ago
I’m not sure I would call it quitting tech, but after studying computer science at university and dabbling in some start-ups that went nowhere, I was a property developer for a while. Learnt an incredible amount from it, not least how punis
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by leobakerhytch 7y ago
Nice video on the design and manufacturing of aluminum drinks cans here: https://youtu.be/hUhisi2FBuw The whole thing is pretty ingenious, but the way the internal pressure helps vent the can while the tab is acting as a se
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by leobakerhytch 7y ago
I was hoping someone would mention this. Have you seen the product in person? I’d be very curious whether it lives up to how good it looks on video. For those unfamiliar, the panel simulates Rayleigh scattering to give the appearance of a b
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by leobakerhytch 7y ago
Thanks for this suggestion — will try this as a way to escape the ‘filter bubble’. To clarify: do you reset completely, retaining absolutely no likes, subscriptions, etc., or do you find it sufficient to clear your watched videos?
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by leobakerhytch 10y ago
Link to https://data.gov.uk on that page in fact points to ’file:///C:/Users/mcallister_mj2/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook&#x2F
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by leobakerhytch 10y ago
If you look at the corners of the plot, you can see the short sides of the octagon that the completed building will eventually become. Overlaid on the financial district of New York, for comparison: http://mapfrappe.com/?sho
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by leobakerhytch 12y ago
Is that… Jesus, on a pogo stick? http://i.imgur.com/f8EMwTP.png

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