lost-theory

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by lost-theory 2mo ago
Pretty fun. But I saw this issue come up on multiple days: Letters were AIERNGT for the final word of day #2. I tried INGRATE. Didn't work. Then I tried TEARING. That worked. But then on the win screen, it said GRANITE. Huh...
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by lost-theory 8mo ago
http://lost-theory.org/
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by lost-theory 9mo ago
I think it's pretty neat. It'd be cool to have recurring commenters with different personas who focus on different things. I wrote a test post and almost all of the comments focused on one detail to the exclusion of others. With d
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by lost-theory 6y ago
After looking into how conceal works, it doesn't look like you can use it to "annotate" a line or dynamically change the text on the screen without actually changing the contents of the buffer. It can only be used to hide som
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by lost-theory 6y ago
I've looked into this a bit and the closest thing I could find is in VimWiki, where certain plaintext patterns are dynamically replaced with other text without actually changing the buffer. See how line 11 dynamically changes in this v
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by lost-theory 8y ago
That looks useful. Do you know if that works with gRPC-Web where the underlying gRPC port is behind a service proxy?
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by lost-theory 8y ago
Good points. I don't see anything wrong with these individual open source releases. See my other comments about the larger trend this represents. "Releasing these things don't give them control over anything that negatively i
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by lost-theory 8y ago
Again, I don't think this specific example is hugely significant, I'm looking at the larger trend. Re: public endpoints. Say you're poking around a public web service, and it doesn't provide an API. Maybe you're wri
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by lost-theory 8y ago
Many companies are "all-in on the web" but aren't in the same position as Google. Look at the recent Chrome profile / Google account auto-login issue. Isn't that an example of Google exercising "control" o
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by lost-theory 8y ago
"It's open source" isn't the full story. Something can be open source and also used in a harmful way. You're right that gRPC-Web alone isn't a huge issue, but it's part of a larger trend of Google wanting
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by lost-theory 8y ago
It's interesting to watch Google's moves to control every part of the stack. Browser: Chrome. Frontend: Closure compiler -> obfuscated SPAs. Transport: gRPC. Backend: Proprietary Google software written in Golang. Orchestration
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by lost-theory 9y ago
It looks like an anti-adblock measure: https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer/pull/2502 > after the page finished loading. It removed the real page content and replaced it with a box asking me to whit
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by lost-theory 11y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeoplecode http://www.watchpeoplecode.com/ http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Creative
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by lost-theory 11y ago
Watching tech talks on 2x speed makes this much more bearable for me. It's a lot easier to fit a talk into 15 minutes of free time vs. 30 minutes. You can change the playback speed on YouTube videos by clicking the gear icon. You can a
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Agreed. That's why it might make sense to fight NIH on the general problem of sending emails, but to give into NIH when deciding to use an "external service to handle email drip campaigns" vs. building it in-house. That type
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Here's one I found a while back: https://github.com/usablica/intro.js
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Cygwin comes with mintty [1] now, which is a decent terminal, though it doesn't match iTerm, Gnome terminal, etc. in terms of features (like tabs). [1]: https://code.google.com/p/mintty/
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Looks nice! The design of the example PDF is a bit noisy for my taste (the geometric shapes at the bottom of every page). And the demo PDF you generate by uploading a markdown file has a lot of whitespace. But I assume that's all tweak
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by lost-theory 12y ago
It's not on the list. The least expensive metros range from $0.50/sqft to $0.65/sqft and Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI is $0.94/sqft. That metro area is larger than just the city of Detroit itself though, which is probably
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by lost-theory 12y ago
"asyncore" [1] has been in the stdlib since 1.5.2 (15 years ago!). Twisted, gevent, tornado, etc. were newer projects and built to overcome the deficiencies and crudeness of asyncore. E.g.: https://mail.python.org/
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by lost-theory 12y ago
After registering, it gives you this message which says they'll help match you up with a mentee: "Thanks for pledging to mentor! You’ll receive an email with more information about how to fulfill your pledge in early 2015, once we
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by lost-theory 12y ago
For Python there is pex [1]. [1] http://pex.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Here's a python one-liner that will do it: import os; import random; os.system("vim %s +%s" % (lambda f: (f, random.randint(1,len(open(f).readlines())+1)))(random.choice([f for f in sum([[os.path.join(p, f) for f in fs] for (
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by lost-theory 12y ago
4-5 years ago this was how you did it in World of Warcraft: http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/Inner_Space http://www.lavishsoft.com/wiki/index.php/LavishScript
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Lumosity - http://www.lumosity.com/ - San Francisco, CA We are looking for software engineers on the rails team and operations team (the team I'm on)! Lumosity provides brain training games to improve the minds and liv
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Missing Mailgun & Rackspace.
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by lost-theory 12y ago
This wraps up my feelings about CM tools very well. They all seem to follow this "language agnostic" / "it's not really programming!" model, whether it's chef's ruby DSL or ansible's YAML. I don&
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Lumosity - http://www.lumosity.com/ - San Francisco, CA We are looking for software engineers on the rails team and operations team (the team I'm on)! Lumosity provides brain training games to improve the minds and liv
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Perhaps they want to make this change before the acquisition to spare Google the bad press of "shutting down yet another service".
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by lost-theory 12y ago
Lumosity - http://www.lumosity.com/ - San Francisco, CA We are looking for software engineers on the rails team and operations team (the team I'm on)! Lumosity provides brain training games to improve the minds and liv

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