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dc_gregory

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I no longer work for DesignCrowd, but can happily pass on contact details as needed.

Switched back to my old personal account: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gregoryl me@gregorylyons.dev

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dc_gregory··on Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
In this case, the evidence is that excel/word etc are doing fairly well...
dc_gregory··on A note to our employees
> The environmental situation with beef is a little more complex than "less beef eaten -> fewer cows -> less methane -> less climate change."

I'm not aware of this, and would be interested in knowing more; as I understand currently, that flow really does apply.

dc_gregory··on A note to our employees
Why would that be a reasonable response to this policy? It largely seems childish, and reactionary, in the face of a policy that is (clearly!) intended to improve the world.
dc_gregory··on Microsoft Releases a Linux Version of the ProcDump Sysinternals Tool
It works quite well too. As I understand it, SQLServer itself is effectively running on top of its own "OS" like layer (even on windows), so porting cleanly was made significantly easier.
dc_gregory··on Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
!gm <address> will push you back to google maps if you need it!
dc_gregory··on Introducing Oculus Quest, Our First 6DOF All-In-One VR System
With git, people are confusing intuitive with simple; once you build up a good mental model for it, you can be very effective. Prior that is painful.
dc_gregory··on Digging into Browser-Based Crypto Mining
To coin the classic HN approach, isn't this just Mechanical Turk + a bank account?

Being less reductionist, you could possibly bootstrap the chicken/egg issue of getting task executors / task creators by proxying tasks off Mechanical Turk.

dc_gregory··on Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
With what money?
dc_gregory··on A rogue Romanian economist legally gamed the lottery
Your advice is on point; I would find this resume very difficult to skim (and very easy to skip), need to treat it like a landing page, and distil the important parts.
dc_gregory··on Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
Not an entirely unfair reply to

> Not a smart move, imho.

dc_gregory··on Impossible Burgers’ key, bloody ingredient gets long awaited nod from FDA
What do you think the animals are being fed exactly...?
dc_gregory··on Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63
Iirc, PayPal responded to a previous support request from us stating they were aware.
dc_gregory··on Stripe for female founders has invited you to join Stripe Atlas
If you read the page carefully, they will waive the fee for anyone that uses the link. Assumption is they will be generally pushing this out via marketing channels that target women. Regardless, its a very nice thing for them to do!
dc_gregory··on Uber Will Rent Scooters Through Its App in Partnership with Lime
Interested to know how you managed that; a specific technique or someone helping you or some such?
dc_gregory··on Windows NTFS Tricks Collection
If you created some directories to test, you can delete them with bash (whatever git installs works). It does create nested directories, so you need to do:

    rmdir .../.../
    rmdir .../
dc_gregory··on Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and preservation project
Hah, I stand corrected
dc_gregory··on Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
Not unique, but certainly low value to Amazon in terms of expected revenue.
dc_gregory··on Archive.org and California to start a data sharing and preservation project
Thats a bit unfair; copyright is a fairly unintuitive concept if you haven't been exposed to it.
dc_gregory··on RSS is undead
I think we killed it :)
dc_gregory··on Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online
It isn't. Its just the noisy people tend to be the most visible. The vast majority of vegans (including myself) just want to find good food.
dc_gregory··on Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders
Generally, a redback is fairly unpleasant, but doesn't require a trip to the hospital (for a healthy adult), so its unlikely to be fatal in most cases anyway (thankfully!).

Funnel-webs are terrifying.

dc_gregory··on February 28th DDoS Incident Report
I think it was more likely meant re. the original (incorrect) interpretation that github had left public access to memcache instances.
dc_gregory··on Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?
By "they" you mean "I" right? It's all you post about :/
dc_gregory··on Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards
I think in 4.6.1 (maybe 4.6), the default was set to TLS1.2 as well, so the problem was mostly solved a bit earlier. Much cleaner solution to listen to the OS though.
dc_gregory··on Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards
Assuming there is a compatibility reason. Also keep in mind, 4.5 was released late 2012 (and support ended at the start of 2016).
dc_gregory··on Facebook User Growth, Time Spent Fall on News Feed Changes
I feel they have crossed several lines in their constant push for engagement, to the point where, previously, a notification from Facebook was generally worth my time (and directly related to an action a friend has taken), whereas now, most of the notifications are irrelevant, effectively short term boosting engagement at the cost of mid/long term engagement drop. I have flat out disabled notifications from Facebook at this point.
dc_gregory··on Discontinue support for weak cryptographic standards
This is a bit of a pain for .net devs on 4.5, as it by default has TLS1.2 disabled.

You can fix it with

        System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | SecurityProtocolType.Tls;
but note that its a somewhat global setting (for your appdomain?) so don't just set it to Tls12 and wonder why some of your connections don't work anymore.
dc_gregory··on Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer
This fairly common piece of software does it.

https://www.regexbuddy.com

4th result on google for "regex conversion" for me. Seems like there are quite a few others.

dc_gregory··on SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO
I think if you hold a non-obvious position like this, it'd be great to explain your reasoning. I am def. curious as to what you think here!
dc_gregory··on Waterfox – Firefox fork retaining XUL support
Chrome has had this functionality for a very long time. Right click on a tab => duplicate.
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