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by medius 8mo ago
A link shortener is such an easy thing to code, it's essentially one database table with a redirect. To add to that, there are many open source libraries to implement link shortening, including analytics and stuff. Even then Bitly and
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by medius 6y ago
To tackle this, I highly recommend the percentile technique from MIT paper, "A Structured Approach to Strategic Decisions". [1] If you are judging any dimension, say priority, then assigning percentile rating to a task (i.e where
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by medius 6y ago
You can also check out https://github.com/medius/utm_form which can handle a lot of use cases. (Disclosure: I created this to help my customers at https://www.terminusapp.com )
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by medius 7y ago
Pi-hole dashboard is quite useful to see what's being blocked and add new domains/lists easily. For example, I also add all facebook domains ( https://github.com/jmdugan/blocklists/blob/master/co
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by medius 7y ago
To add to this, I have a 6 year old iPad. There are no issues with it except the operating system itself. Hulu won't install since it needs iOS 11 for some reason. iOS won't update to 11 because it's too old. Netflix works an
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by medius 7y ago
I use https://github.com/dan-v/algo fork which has Wireguard VPN and PiHole combined. It takes minutes to spin up a Digital Ocean VPN and have it working on all my devices. I'm very happy with this setup.
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by medius 8y ago
Analog can actually be much more precise than 8-bit since there's no quantization noise (yes, this is not A2D, but any intermediate results can take middle values that will only make the final value more precise than digital signal).
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by medius 8y ago
Just a few thoughts I've been mulling for a while about this topic: Machine learning is something that I believe can take advantage of analog computing. A machine learning algorithm does not need highly precise or accurate representati
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by medius 8y ago
Sherlock Holmes would be envious of such abilities.
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by medius 8y ago
This is one of the most amazing things about humans to me. I marvel at how it's possible to get so much information about our universe by observing so little. Astronomy is another field that I'm really impressed with. It's po
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by medius 8y ago
Yes. I generally like to make a reverse calculation when evaluating such offers. To get $1 million out of this risk, the company has to exit for $1 billion if I have 0.1% stake. How likely is it? And that's before considering dilution,
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by medius 8y ago
Here's my take on it: He has lost all credibility as a trustworthy individual. Anything he builds will be seen as tainted by IP stolen from Google (whether true or not). Most companies will avoid doing business with him for the fear of
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by medius 8y ago
I feel that the time to file for IPO for Lyft and Uber is running out. If Waymo One starts getting popular and gets more and more into news cycle, valuations of both of these companies will be considered based on the progress of self drivin
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by medius 8y ago
I've setup a DigitalOcean instance of PiHole [1] VPN where I have added all the Facebook domains[2] and other add blockers. This helps me block these domains on all my devices including the phone. I don't see any ads in any apps.
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by medius 8y ago
My wife said, after we finished watching her show, that Samin seems to be the kind of person she would love to be close friends with.
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by medius 8y ago
I just finished reading the series a few days ago. That's how I look at our universe now.
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by medius 8y ago
This may have some use, but the use of "Lost Einsteins" is so strange to me. I went to read the article thinking they will help educate unprivileged population, improve accessibility of knowledge, etc. But this is just another var
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by medius 9y ago
My wife and I were just talking about Bitcoin and I had this wild theory. This is obviously BS, but I had fun exploring this idea. Here it goes: What if Bitcoin/blockchain is a actually a strong AI? The AI manipulated humans via lucrat
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by medius 9y ago
If you are migrating to AWS RDS, I recommend AWS Data Migration service. I migrated my live database (~50GB) from Mysql to Postgres (both RDS) with zero downtime. I used AWS Schema Conversion Tool for initial PG schema. I customized the gen
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by medius 9y ago
This book has had a great impact on me. My favorite quote (Dover Thrift edition) "To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a speck of semen tomorrow will be a mummy or ashes. Pass
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by medius 10y ago
Uber is such a shit company. My wife is a software engineer and I can't even imagine her having to deal with anything like this.
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by medius 10y ago
Repairing is one part, but the software "upgrades" are also responsible for this. I have a 3-4 years old iPad. It's in perfect condition. No hardware problems at all and very minimal scratches. I take good care of it. But App
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by medius 10y ago
Trello works well for me. I make lists for In Progress, Today, This week, This month and Backlog/Icebox. Planning involves creating and organizing tasks in these lists. I move the tasks between the lists as I work through them. It give
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by medius 10y ago
I run www.terminusapp.com and it's profitable. Started it as a side project and now working full time on it.
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by medius 10y ago
And what's up with "$300B industry"? It's like someone opening a deli and saying they are disrupting $X00 billion food industry.
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by medius 11y ago
I also find 140 characters to be too limiting and hate spending more time than necessary to twist my words into something that will save a few characters. I know that this issue is very important for Twitter as a company, but it's just
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by medius 11y ago
Yes, but is it better or worse than values assigned to companies during various funding rounds?
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by medius 11y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VTxYQL2SbA - (Fall Out Boy - Uma Thurman) If only this article was accompanied by an awesome song, it would be interesting to me.
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by medius 11y ago
Side note: Jesse (founder of YNAB) is an amazing speaker with a great sense of humor. His story about bootstrapping YNAB is hugely inspiring to me. I highly recommend his 2014 Microconf talk ( https://vimeo.com/95653848 ) if
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by medius 11y ago
It might be an issue with the certificate chain not installed in the correct order on their servers. I've had this issue in the past. Mobile browsers sometimes do not "fill in the gaps" for missing/out of order certifica

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