mpetrovich

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by mpetrovich 4d ago
You took the words right out of my mouth. Writing code used to force you to understand it, but now the former doesn’t guarantee the latter. And most attempts to replicate the latter in other ways (more reviews, self-quizzes, etc) seem to be
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by mpetrovich 19d ago
You can also taper off by reducing dosage one day of the week at a time. Thats how I tapered off a 10mg Escitalopram prescription: every 4 weeks, I added another day of the week where I reduced my dosage by 5mg. Took about a year to fully t
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by mpetrovich 3mo ago
The classic solution-in-search-of-a-problem. If the founder had started by talking with people in the problem space, he could have discovered what problems were actually worth solving before investing any money and effort into a product. Ev
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by mpetrovich 4mo ago
I suspect they ask for email first in order to determine whether to log you in via SSO vs. require a password.
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by mpetrovich 4mo ago
I found php’s array methods lacking as well. The inconsistencies are a pain. I ended up porting many of the methods from lodash, underscore, etc. to php: https://github.com/mpetrovich/dash Maybe you’ll find it helpful
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by mpetrovich 4mo ago
Seems inferior to C2PA, which is actually an open standard: https://contentauthenticity.org/
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by mpetrovich 4mo ago
If that’s true and they do intend on shredding their copy on sale, what stops GitHub from buying it back themselves? (through a proxy, obv)
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You need to calm down(petro.blog)
1 points by mpetrovich 4mo ago|1 comments
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by mpetrovich 4mo ago
AI isn't changing the fundamentals of building software. It's changing the speed. Don't confuse the two.
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by mpetrovich 1y ago
Some feedback: show example input & output without requiring me to create an account. Looks interesting, best of luck!
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by mpetrovich 2y ago
Reminds me of this open source library I wrote to do the same thing: https://github.com/nextbigsoundinc/imagely It uses puppeteer and chrome headless behind the scenes.
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by mpetrovich 3y ago
Good point. What if we combined the best of both: more realistic images from tpdne.com and API-accessible metadata from your site? Seems like a matter of crawling the former to get all the images and then tagging them and serving them via y
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by mpetrovich 3y ago
Perhaps something powered by thispersondoesnotexist.com would better for that. That site returns completely AI-generated faces that seem much more realistic and candid.
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by mpetrovich 3y ago
The demos on the Jolly Roger site are hilarious. The bot sounds so realistic, and the bot even had the audacity to ask the scammer, “Are you a real person?!” “Hold on, there’s a bee on my arm”
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by mpetrovich 3y ago
In my career, the biggest problem with ORMs I’ve used is something the author touched on: They can be terribly leaky abstractions. It seems that many ORMs end up re-implementing SQL in their own domain-specific language. However, an underst
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by mpetrovich 3y ago
My goodness, this describes me perfectly as well. The countless choices of a blank slate brings anxiety to a recovering perfectionist like me. Do I choose A or B or Z? I prefer improving things rather than creating them from nothing. I’ve c
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
No, he’s talking about the movie. You know, the one with the sub.
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
Oh, so you’re saying that omitting the version from the header will ALWAYS return this specific version, NOT the latest version? That certainly addresses the footgun I mentioned. EDIT: From the docs: Requests without the X-GitHub-Api-Versio
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
You’re saying that it’s LESS likely to specify the API path at the callsite than the HTTP header? o_O
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
I agree with you, so then why not stick with the previous /api/v2 url approach? And it would annoy me far more if my app that talks to GitHub inexplicably breaks in a few years because of a release I wasn’t aware of. These changes
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
Making the version optional is a bad idea, IMO. It lets consumers use your API without versioning, which is like telling them, “here, create a time bomb that may or may not explode when the next breaking api change is released.” There’s zer
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
The systems angle mentioned later in the article may seem a bit …engineered, but it works! I’ve moved a ton in my life, and I have an annoying habit of losing touch with friends when I move away. Out of sight, out of mind, ya know? Anyway,
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
I hadn’t considered it since it’s mobile-first, but that’s a great idea to try! I imagine that the arrow keys would control the movement of the empty space, right?
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Show HN: I made a sliding puzzle game(tileslide.com)
3 points by mpetrovich 4y ago|3 comments
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
Really fun! This inspired me to create my own version of the sliding-tile puzzle game that I used to play as a kid: https://tileslide.com/
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by mpetrovich 4y ago
Anyone else remember playing Glider? As a young kid, I gladly lost countless hours trying to navigate a paper airplane through a Rube Goldberg mess of obstacles. What a fun, imaginative game. Would be cool if there was an emulated version s
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by mpetrovich 5y ago
Back in college I wrote a 3D rendering engine using what seems to be a similar method as the OP. I always thought the results looked a little strange... https://github.com/mpetrovich/CUB3D
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by mpetrovich 5y ago
Pandora + SiriusXM | Product Manager | Remote | Full Time Product Manager, Data Platform & Enablement Want to be a product manager on a team that helps the largest audio entertainment company in North America understand and act on its l
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by mpetrovich 7y ago
You might also be interested in Dash: https://github.com/mpetrovich/dash
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by mpetrovich 7y ago
The author makes an unvalidated assumption that the users of this service care MOST about bandwidth efficiency. I suspect that users care more about a service that works reliably. An extra 50-100k every 5 minutes (assuming the user keeps th

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