tuddman

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by tuddman 5y ago
As a longtime NYC resident with a vehicle, I experienced first-hand the unending frustration and anger amongst drivers over parking. I saw literal fights break out; windows smashed; I myself grew tired and weary of circling the block look
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by tuddman 5y ago
I suspect these companies view upgrading core functionality tech as a cost center to be avoided at all costs and for as long as humanly possible. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", I hear them bark from their bean-count
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by tuddman 5y ago
As with most technological advances and innovations, people - even laggards of technological adoption - tend to over-estimate in the near term and under-estimate in the long term in terms of predicting the 'impact' of a given tech
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by tuddman 5y ago
and iota: https://github.com/iotaledger/wasp which while not a DSL, also compiles to WASM
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by tuddman 6y ago
I stopped using the term 'technical debt' with non-technical people a long time ago to describe needing to maintain code. One guy even tried to convince me he was correct that the term is BS because, 'he heard from some othe
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by tuddman 6y ago
> Clojure has other weaknesses which become apparent rapidly. Clojure has lots of strengths which also become apparent the more you works with it: async, thread-first, thread-last, transducers, core.logic, (partial f a), flexible comp
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by tuddman 6y ago
I also built a system that extracted structured and unstructured text from images/pdfs. For the generated pdfs, I found pdftotext could pull with 100% fidelity, and so that was 'option #1'. for scanned-images-saved-as-pd
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by tuddman 8y ago
or you could work with this company, https://werk.co , to help institute flexible arrangements that actually make sense for each employee.
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by tuddman 9y ago
agree. Once I discovered Clojure, it's all kinds of fun to write in! The community is great. The ecosystem now has plenty of robust libraries to handle most any heavy-lifting task(s). If you want to play around with getting up and run
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by tuddman 9y ago
> Anyone putting their money in IOTA is an absolute idiot. I bought in when it was trading well under $1. I'm holding long term so I don't much care about today's price, but it _is_ nice to be up >700% so far. I don&
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by tuddman 9y ago
> It's 100% premined, which smells as scammy as Ripple. It's not a coin, it's an entity handing you gift vouchers with their name on it. No scam. There was an announced, publicly available crowd sale available to anyone
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by tuddman 9y ago
kerl comes from the fact it wraps & extends keccack hashing library. So the name is actually quite fitting.
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by tuddman 9y ago
and 'hickory' [ https://github.com/davidsantiago/hickory ] to work with the site data however you want.
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by tuddman 9y ago
To disable that deceptive snooping in 6.0 (Marshmallow): Settings -> Location -> Improve Accuracy -> Toggle Wi-Fi scanning.
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by tuddman 9y ago
Author is projecting. Replaced "me" with "people" in writing this. Considered himself smart; tried to wrap head around Bitcoin, but lacks math/cs/finance background, and or curiosity to dig below surface lev
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by tuddman 9y ago
> It's really easy to fall into the trap of giving each customer exactly what they ask for ... this is the sort of product strategy that easily leads to disastrous results. do you know any product/company examples where this w
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by tuddman 9y ago
cancel cancellation fees. problem solved.
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by tuddman 9y ago
cancel cancellation fees. problem solved.
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by tuddman 10y ago
I was a solid proponent of OSX for all development. I've only had to go through 2 macbooks in the better part of a decade, upgrading the OSX versions along the way ... and so, when it was time recently to buy macbook #3, I was actuall
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by tuddman 10y ago
very cool! any idea how this would compare to clojure-wrapping https://github.com/OpenHFT/Chronicle-Map ? Seems like there are some similar design goals between the two.
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by tuddman 10y ago
Their website is using the standard boilerplate angular version of a 'dashboard' theme from Metronic. And their API console page took 7.02 seconds (on FIOS connection) to fully load the DOM.
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by tuddman 11y ago
I did, for exactly that reason. And I'm guessing just about everyone else on HN did, too :) It's a good point, though. "Normal" people should be protected against themselves in their financial decisions.