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Myztiq

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That guy over there.
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Myztiq··on Show HN: Make Your Photo 16x9
I'm somewhat surprised twitter hasn't gone ahead and implemented something like this themselves. Kudos for building a solution!
Myztiq··on I guess I have to watch ads everywhere on my $1,500 LG TV now
Most of these ads are actually built into the firmware, I have a pihole set up and I still get ads from my tv, sometimes even on startup there will be a new thing appearing in the corner. Next up is preventing it from accessing the internet entirely, but then I'd need to have a second remote to actually watch my content.
Myztiq··on Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems
Identifying cold-starts is a huge win here, using something to keep your lambdas warm is important for user-facing functionality. That functionality alone makes a compelling feature.
Myztiq··on Architect – A Serverless Framework
https://serverless.com/ - uses yaml or JSON or js. This looks like an opportunity for the community to grow some more which is almost always a benefit. A new filetype isn't always the best, but it CAN be useful in some contexts, I haven't vetted if this is the right one.
Myztiq··on LED stoplights not emitting enough heat to melt snow covering the lights
Or, use a heated panel. Reposting a link another commenter added:

https://products.currentbyge.com/transportation-lighting/led...

Myztiq··on No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
Ok, here's a real example of how fullstory can help provide a better product. Bug reporting. A user gets a JS error on the page, but say my application is pretty complex, and the state machine I've built can't handle a particular state. Well, I can easily walk through the recording of what the user had done and reproduce the issue.

I can actually hop on a call with this user and walk them through how to do something, while looking at what page and what inputs they have filled in. This takes frustrating back and forth of "What do you see now?" that happens without this tool.

Say I want to influence user decisions by offering subtle cues to push them towards something that will be overall beneficial for them. By watching certain key users we can know what frustrates them (erratic mouse movements, long time searching for features etc) and what things they grok easily.

The article totally washes over a super important feature of fullstory, excluding elements[0]. When you include a simple class name or specifically selecting what you'd like to exclude.

[0] http://help.fullstory.com/technical-questions/exclude-elemen...

Myztiq··on Tendermint 0.10.2
You could also just pop it behind a CDN, it looks like it's all static content anyways.
Myztiq··on Tendermint 0.10.2
I'm getting an out of memory error when loading the page.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread

Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

Myztiq··on Show HN: Make Medium Readable Again
I had the same problem. Found this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/medium-highlight-o...

Myztiq··on Serverless Event Gateway
I'm not entirely sure myself, a few guesses.

  * Cost based configurations
  * Putting high compute in one cloud and storage in another? 
  * Perhaps to handle entire cloud outages? 
  * There may be features that don't exist across all the providers that people may want to take a dip into.
  * Integration w/ existing frameworks, AKA code deployed to multiple clouds that need to be supported.
Myztiq··on Serverless Event Gateway
Where would the event gateway be deployed? It looks like it could be any provider and anywhere right? Essentially, giving me the ability to take my entirely serverless architecture and giving me servers to manage. Alternatively, it may be a Kubernetes type deployment. OR, what my guess is, the first step towards getting people to use the serverless platform, which will handle hosting this for us.
Myztiq··on Show HN: Run Code Snippets in Any Language Inside Your Blog
Well, there is http://code.runnable.com/ which does something similar. I don't remember if it outputted a dockerfile, but I do know it runs everything inside docker. I used to work at the company.
Myztiq··on Netlify CMS – An open-source CMS for Git workflows
Seems like a neat idea, I have not yet found a good example of the output that this generates on github.

I've used prismic.io and other such systems in the past, all wonderful. I'm glad to see this is evolving in other ways.

Myztiq··on Stop Filing Bugs, File a Container
You could do something similar with http://code.runnable.com/

[Disclaimer - I work at Runnable]

Myztiq··on Parse is shutting down today
I used to work at Kinvey, they've got a pretty good product geared towards integrating with whatever you've got to connect with. They have always been security conscious, even have HIPAA support now IIRC.

Happy to answer any questions, or get some current devs there into the conversation to help out.

Myztiq··on New Virus Breaks the Rules of Infection
There is a method for doing this. I can't seem to find the original article where I heard about this, but it was tested in some remote area in Africa and had a 90% reduction in mosquito population with just one application. Here is a more updated Zika flavored article about the same technique:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/health/zika-florida-gmo-mosqui...

Myztiq··on Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown
I don't think that's the concept. It's a solid wing with no moving parts and lift is modified solely by the plasma emitters. The entire wing's surface is still a solid material, it's just the plasma is modifying how the air behaves around it causing change in lift.
Myztiq··on Zenefits' blog – Becoming the Compliance Company
This particular portion smells of a deliberate attempt to differentiate: "we are doing it 100% right now!" It says that their culture was never considered and its more of an attack on their old way of life. I'd venture to guess that much of that section is to create confidence in the "new" cultural values through differentiation.

I highly doubt there was a meeting where the old values where decided and driven forward in the company. This is all in an effort to be transparent again, just as they originally planned.

Myztiq··on Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch
Runnable engineer here, let me see if I can clarify some things.

The core use-case is being able to manage and test feature branches. In particular, some of the tricky things with pull requests related to integration testing.

Each feature branch can have it's own isolated environment for testing, pointing to different branches for other parts of the stack. This makes it so you no longer need to manage your staging servers, deal with outdated components on the server or even have to wait to be able to test your code. It's always there, always up to date and unique per branch.

Myztiq··on Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch
Runnable engineer here.

> How would this look like when multiple branches from different projects worm together?

Each repository has it's own configuration, and each branch gets it's own container. We allow you to connect branches together, not dissimilar to DNS[1].

To work on individual components locally we have a couple of tricks up our sleeves, but at the end of the day we have a CLI that will allow you to do file syncing and ssh'ing into your boxes from your own terminal[2].

1: https://runnable.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/209632083-Aft...

2: https://runnable.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208018696-How...

Myztiq··on Use Atom to edit in Chrome
A browser extension I didn't know I wanted. Keeps history of textfields when I navigate away, and gives me an option to restore.
Myztiq··on Use Atom to edit in Chrome
The only real use-case I can see here is getting access to multi-select, and find/replace utilities, or perhaps other custom shortcuts you might use. Overall a neat little trick. Atom is not my usual editor of choice but I could see a few small potential use cases.
Myztiq··on Facebook is closing Parse
Former employee of Kinvey here. But I absolutely loved working there and they have an incredibly formidable offering which I personally feel surpassed Parse.
Myztiq··on A game made with CSS/HTML only
Ha, kinda? It's all in the view/source. Feel free to do anything you want w/ it. If you want me to I might be able to track down the original php script and give you a link.

It might be a useful starting point to use this: http://ryan-kahn.com/static/onlyCSS/testRoad.html

That's what I used to play around with the styles for the cars themselves. Feel free to take it wherever you want and let me know what you end up with!

Myztiq··on A game made with CSS/HTML only
Ha! That's the only image I used on the page. I changed the mouse pointer to be the image of the car. I'm really surprised you can still change the cursor to an image.
Myztiq··on A game made with CSS/HTML only
This totally reminds me of a game I built a long long time ago using only CSS: http://ryan-kahn.com/static/onlyCSS/

Kudos! I love it.

(edit) The game's end screen no longer works, and I built a level generator for it in php (remember, years ago) and am no longer using that host.

Myztiq··on CSS-only plotting
Eventually once browser support is there we can reduce this to about 70 lines. By using

.scatterplot ul li[data-cp-y] { bottom: attr(data-cp-y %); }

Myztiq··on Nearables: Why a global lost-and-found network is finally viable
The estimote stickers are pretty cool. However, I notice they have a battery life of one year, at $12.50 a sticker ($99 for a pack of 10 + $25 in shipping) it is starting to get close to where I can imagine buying a set. If only they had some sort of solar recharging, or ability to pop in a new battery for a few bucks.
Myztiq··on Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever
I came here just to post that link. Cheers.
Myztiq··on Facebook acquires Oculus VR
$2 billion in total value [1].

$400 million in cash.

$1.6 billion in facebook stock.

Plus "$300 million earn-out in cash/stock based on the achievement of certain milestones."

1. http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140325-912577.html

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