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Twitter: @caffinatedmonk GitHub: @caffinatedmonkey Blog: http://caffinatedmonkey.github.io/
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caffinatedmonk··on Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another
I built DnD, a self hosted file transfer program. It's like scp with a UI. Check it out on github: https://github.com/0xcaff/dnd
caffinatedmonk··on The top iPhone apps are taking up a lot more space
I'd wager a guess that the weight is coming from machine learning models.
caffinatedmonk··on Jamboard, by Google
Do people really want to import pictures on to whiteboards? I've never needed to do this. It's usually easy to just draw whatever it is.
caffinatedmonk··on A link between video games and unemployment
Sounds like how I feel when writing code.
caffinatedmonk··on Trying to Buy a Town with Ethereum
It also seems to be based on the account balance of the patron, not the amount they contribute.
caffinatedmonk··on Ask HN: Learning to code, without a computer?
I would recommend to start with the basics: logic, assembly, algorithms and data structures.
caffinatedmonk··on Ask HN: Learning to code, without a computer?
> -- If he'll be in for ten or more years, he should learn something else. His learning will be so slow and the field changes so quickly that he might learn a few timeless fundamentals, but that's all. He could accomplish much more in some other challenging field that didn't require tools he wouldn't have (ex: math, physics, accounting, ...)

The field changes quickly but the fundamentals (data structures, design patterns, data structures) not as much.

caffinatedmonk··on Employee #1: Coinbase
Where can I find math problems like this? I'm taking Calculus 2 would like to challenge myself with similar problems.
caffinatedmonk··on Speech Is 3x Faster Than Typing for English and Mandarin on Mobile Devices
They should have tried it with a full size physical keyboard and larger on screen keyboards too.
caffinatedmonk··on Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees
What does Cisco sell besides hardware?
caffinatedmonk··on Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
I'm curious why they didn't mention something so game changing as this in the keynote.
caffinatedmonk··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
Speaking of annoying things Google has done lately, they recently updated Android's Google Keyboard completely changing the layout, keysize and removing most of the secondary (press and hold for more characters) keys. It has become almost impossible to type with it but I haven't found another keyboard with a good theme, haptic feedback and good suggestions. I miss the days Google used to cater to power users.
caffinatedmonk··on Tesla Model S autonomously crashes into a parked trailer while in ‘summon’ mode
The great Zoz talked about this at defcon 2013 https://youtu.be/gGweoLu1Gzo.
caffinatedmonk··on [dead]
This has happened to me so many times at my school. Almost every time I open a terminal in class, someone makes a big deal about it, telling a teacher or everyone in the class I'm hacking something. Teachers don't usually know what to think though so they just ignore it.
caffinatedmonk··on [dead]
I believe he was referring to Trump's America as discrimination towards non-Americans and just ignorance in general.
caffinatedmonk··on Drone believed to have hit British Airways flight 'may have been a plastic bag'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzURm7OpAA
caffinatedmonk··on Show HN: Test your JavaScript modules simultaneously in 32 different versions of Node.js
Just out of curiosity, can't this be implemented with `nvm` and some sand boxing? Why did you choose to use docker?
caffinatedmonk··on 9-year-old reporter breaks crime news, posts videos, fires back at critics
[Here's a link to the original response video which the article failed to include.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ShfNQOUeAY) Probably to reduce bounce rates or something.
caffinatedmonk··on The Kik Bot Platform
Kik also downscales images last time I checked. It is still better than MMS though.
caffinatedmonk··on Schools Are Slow to Learn That Sleep Deprivation Hits Teenagers Hardest
I'm a Junior in highschool and I have the same problems. Some teachers require you to bring all your books to their class every day. Others usually use textbook information to create PowerPoints which they use in class but it is still useful to have the textbook open to learn all the information which they skip. Students usually avoid carrying around textbooks by leaving most of their books in their lockers at school for most of the year but this makes it hard to study outside of school. They also cram all their homework during studyhalls and copy homework from others instead of actually studying though.
caffinatedmonk··on A Raspberry Pi dashcam with two cameras and a GPS
He wrote about handling shutdowns in another post on his blog.[1]

> For the automatic shutdown I have used a 12V programmable timer in combination with an optocoupler.

> When the car is powered the the timer gets triggered and is starting the power supply for the Raspberry pi, Dashcam pi will get started and will do its job. When the car is turned off the optocoupler triggers the GPIO pin of the raspberry and starts a shutdown. After 15 seconds the timer is shutting down and the raspberry pi is powerless.

1: http://pidashcam.blogspot.com/2016/03/cheap-solution-for-aut...

caffinatedmonk··on OwnTracks: Self-hosted, open source location tracking
[According to the documentation:][1]

> When the device determines that it's moved a significant distance, it contacts a server via 3G or WiFi (hopefully one of those is available, but we queue messages many thousands on the app until connectivity can be established)

[1]: http://owntracks.org/booklet/guide/whathow/

caffinatedmonk··on Outernet: Humanity's Public Library
Also see https://projectmeshnet.org/
caffinatedmonk··on Lyft Plus
If this drove itself that would be amazing.
caffinatedmonk··on How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home
Thanks! I have been trying to stay away from structural information but recently I have wanted the contribute to the uofw/uofw project. This project aims to completely reverse Sony's PSP firmware. This requires me to learn MIPS ASM which requires me to learn the structure, general terms and ideas of computer science.

Your last point, about having fun, is a good one. Lately, I have been very busy with school and programming. Between my school work and my programming, almost all of my day is consumed. You have a good point.

Thanks for the advice!

caffinatedmonk··on How a Florida kid’s “stupid app” saved his family’s home
Do you have any advice for kids who code? I am 14 years old and I started programming when I was 12. I primarily write open source software.