simi_

6 ms·

1.
by simi_ 9y ago
Not saying it's not stupid, but FWIW I noticed ACRush (competitive programming legend) is behind that startup - at least it should mean it's not a full-blown scam.
2.
by simi_ 11y ago
Moving from the UK to Germany, I chose Deutsche Bank based on its reputation. Pros: * English! There is always someone on the phone who can speak English, and they can even send their letters in English. (for Germany, this is very rare) * M
3.
by simi_ 11y ago
I keep all my dotfiles in a repo at ~/cfg, and have a script to perform tasks such as creating symlinks (e.g. ~/.emacs.el -> ~/cfg/emacs.el) and installing brew, antigen, etc. https://github.com/andrei
4.
by simi_ 11y ago
If I have to use a Windows machine, CCleaner is one of the first tools I install, it's fantastic. On OS X I use App Cleaner (I run it in parallel with `brew cask rm` just to be safe). PS: That's numberwang! https://www.
5.
by simi_ 11y ago
Seems like a perfect task for asciinema https://asciinema.org/
6.
by simi_ 11y ago
I had a similar experience buying a somewhat expensive watch through them - my wife was surprised to receive a very fancy, and empty, box. However to their credit they sent another one immediately, no questions asked. I really hope for Amaz
7.
by simi_ 11y ago
This made me think of "The Making of: Dust", which describes the iterative (and serendipitous) process of creating [two of] the most well-known Counter Strike maps. I think it's a brilliant how a design that feels obvious inv
8.
by simi_ 11y ago
> But meeting the needs of customers is what I get paid to do That was like being slapped with a good dose of pragmatism – I love it! Wrt the later part of your post, try Dart. It's annoying in entirely new ways, but it does away wi
9.
by simi_ 11y ago
Same [1], but I'm considering deleting it, as most of them are shit anyway. After seeing Assembly die in less than 2 years [2], I filtered my side project ideas through a "do you see this running in 10 years?" filter, and I s
10.
by simi_ 11y ago
Sourcegraph has pivoted into a git hosting appliance, it's pretty cool, even if nowhere near as full-featured. https://sourcegraph.com/
11.
by simi_ 11y ago
I'm inclining towards this option, too. I didn't think it was likely because both watches (can you call them that?) had the same issues. This reminds me of my experience with Razer: out of 5 mice bought (4 abyssus, 1 orochi), two
12.
by simi_ 11y ago
You might like this http://steve-yegge.blogspot.de/2008/06/done-and-gets-things-...
13.
by simi_ 11y ago
I had a Charge HR for almost a month, got one for my wife too. I finally returned them this week. They're nice to wear and pleasant to use, but the battery lasts one day and the reported steps/calories/distance is basically s
14.
by simi_ 11y ago
My thoughts exactly. IIRC Tim makes around 10 mil per year.
15.
by simi_ 11y ago
Tried some short gmail handles, can confirm. Creepy and stupid. Cloud-based datastores coming with your browser (aka what Chrome has* and probably its competitors too) have better performance, privacy, and UX; I can't think of any re
16.
by simi_ 11y ago
I've used Spectacle for so long that I can't remember how it was to use OS X without it. The hotkeys are tied to my muscle memory, and don't clash with any of the stuff I care about (emacs, iTerm2, Chrome, etc).
17.
by simi_ 11y ago
Hey Iwan - I just shot you an email over at your fastmail address. Looking forward to start a discussion there.
18.
by simi_ 11y ago
Definitely not something unique to them, I just don't like that practice - also, you usually have the regular car brand and the upper-market version, e.g. Lexus/Toyota, not N degrees of "luxury" e.g. Audi/VW/Se
19.
by simi_ 11y ago
Edit: Thank you for the several downvotes. I initially wrote a stupid rant based on this [0] about how VW's ex-CEO doesn't speak English, but a quick Youtube search proved that was wrong [1]. Oops! I'll just leave some quick
20.
by simi_ 11y ago
I was going to mention the same thing wrt leap seconds: if a company at Google's scale could apply a "hacky" solution to this, then you don't really need a more "scalable" solution. The fact that it simplifies
21.
by simi_ 11y ago
That was a surprisingly well sorted out read. Chapeaux!
22.
by simi_ 11y ago
Lavaboom CTO here. This came as a shock even for me, I knew money was running tight but I imagined we would continue in austerity mode. TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/lavaboom-deadpools/
23.
by simi_ 11y ago
Call them "legacy apps" and run them over a compatibility layer. Hardware will gradually get good enough to run the old Java apps without hiccups, and the apps that get translated to Go will run about as fast as the Java-Android v
24.
by simi_ 11y ago
For me this just puts into perspective how much it sucks to have Java as the language powering Android. Would a rewrite in (say) Go even be possible? I guess you could machine translate a lot of boring stuff like support for a gazillion de
25.
by simi_ 11y ago
That's not at all what I meant. Gmail redirects emails to "youremail+whateveryouwanthere@gmail.com" to "youremail@gmail.com". Some people filter emails this way, henceforth my suggestion to check for this edge case.
26.
by simi_ 11y ago
I'm not entirely skeptical of how ethical their exploitation will be conducted, I'm just raising the point that we're a country with heavily affected (ex-)forests. Moreover, there's a rich recent history of external inte
27.
by simi_ 11y ago
Here's a list of disposable email domains if you'd really like to block them: https://github.com/lavab/disposable I would go one step further and look for {spam_words} in "username+{text}@{googledomain}.
28.
by simi_ 11y ago
As a Romanian, I'm livid. We've had huge problems with illegal deforestation in the last couple of decades. https://www.google.com/search?q=romania+deforestation
29.
by simi_ 11y ago
Location: Cologne, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Western Europe or Romania Technologies: Go, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, Java, C# Résumé/CV: Google Drive [0] I work as the CTO of Lavaboom - we make secure ema
30.
by simi_ 11y ago
IMHO if you need to break down a task well enough to run on a supercomputer, there isn't a lot more to do to make it run on a regular server farm. edit: Actually, in the scenarios you'd use a supercomputer for, the added latency a

More ›