msielski

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by msielski 2y ago
Ahh good memories. I wrote Pente for PalmOS back in 2004 or 2005, complete with a computer opponent using a minimax tree with alpha/beta pruning. Unfortunately I never finished or released it. It was so much fun to do early mobile deve
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by msielski 4y ago
This does seem to be the latest trend - passswordless authentication or "magic links."
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by msielski 5y ago
There are browser extensions which do this: - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter... - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...
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by msielski 9y ago
Also big fan of vagrant global-status. I have it aliased to vgs in my terminal. Also very helpful for those using Vagrant on OSX is Vagrant Manager [0] which gives you menu-bar integration and a quick interface to turn VMs on and off. It&
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by msielski 9y ago
I enjoyed this, and was impressed that it was written by a high school senior.
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by msielski 9y ago
Some food for thought: "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?"[1] which has been discussed on HN previously, lists "Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate" at .9 probability of computeri
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by msielski 9y ago
Knowledge of process, not just market. Which, don't get me wrong should also be easy to automate.
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by msielski 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-worm
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by msielski 9y ago
Really interesting idea of running separate instances and synchronizing them. I wonder if this could be done in legacy games to support VR - an instance for each eye - and each instance's game state and camera position synced except fo
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by msielski 9y ago
Half of my Amazon packages are now delivered by an Amazon van or by some guy's personal vehicle with an Amazon magnet on it. I believe they're a mix of the Flex[1] program the author referred to and private companies Amazon is co
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by msielski 9y ago
My career began here in the mid 80s: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iGgAAOSwnHZYmiO0/s-l1600.jpg
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by msielski 9y ago
"More than any single person, Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for inventing the internet." Learn something every day.
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by msielski 10y ago
I read Chomsky's Understanding Power on Aaron's recommendation [1]. I found it equally transformative. [1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany
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by msielski 10y ago
Myself and someone I just met were suggested as friends to each other after we met. Neither looked up the other. Neither created any contacts in our phone. Only possibility is our FB app knew we were both in the same place at the same time
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by msielski 10y ago
I am I missing something or is this challenge to produce a system which determines if the headline agrees with a body of text? Many so called "fake news" sites would pass this test with flying colors as their fake headlines are s
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by msielski 10y ago
wiggle is the new blink
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by msielski 10y ago
What, "d-d-d-d-d-duh," "duhhhh-duhhhhh-duhhhh," and "BREHHHHK BREHHHHK BREHHHHK" didn't do it for you?
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by msielski 10y ago
It's kind of just a repost of the BBC article http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37211051 which itself is thin but at least has photos.
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by msielski 10y ago
Also big and clear enough to be seen on screen.
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by msielski 10y ago
I had a strange experience where my cable company's mobile app, which streams most channels, was missing audio on a few channels. After escalating the issue to an engineer, he finally got back to us and told us that if a username cont
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by msielski 11y ago
For Gmail you can do similar scripting with Google Apps Script. This isn't exactly the same, but it's a similar example. http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/gmail-snooze-with-apps...
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by msielski 11y ago
"...they all came to the realization that what made this place a success was not the collision-avoidance algorithms or the bouncer daemons or any of that other stuff. It was Juanita's faces." Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash. I th
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by msielski 11y ago
I have a hard time navigating it, and it's USA only, but there's http://www.data.gov/
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by msielski 11y ago
> immutable
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by msielski 11y ago
This helped make reading this a little easier. Copy and paste to your URL bar. You may have to retype the javascript: as it appears to get stripped for security. javascript:$('.entry').css({ "background":"#fff
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by msielski 12y ago
That's just proof it's popular.
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by msielski 12y ago
This is true, without the right tools. I am moving to logstash with kibana to do this, and it's looking very promising. See http://www.elasticsearch.org/videos/kibana-logstash/
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by msielski 12y ago
Conflating the Open Source community at large with the Linux community, the Linux development community, and the Linux kernel development community does not help him make his case.
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by msielski 13y ago
URL should be: https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/235adb5...
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by msielski 14y ago
I think it was a good first step. It may be fairer to judge the event against the history of collaborative software development at the White House (nonexistent) than against that same history elsewhere.

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