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dragonfax··on The Unix Magic Poster
I love that he's "pouring" everything into the "shell".
dragonfax··on Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
I've been using retool for a year, and very heavily for some large internal tools for the last month. I find some of its design rather inspired. Its been massively helpful and surprisingly easy to use. Even for some relatively complicated tasks.

We are hitting the limits of its capability. Which is when applications get complicated or end up with lots of code. The javascript you write in your tool is running inside many layers of retool javascription and encapsulation.

But at this point if we decide to move such an app out of Retool, then the business logic is already written.

dragonfax··on Retool Raises $50M from Sequoia
The git thing is only for on-prem.
dragonfax··on Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes
The Ketoers say this isn't a problem. That cholestorol is misunderstood, and high values are only bad if you eat high carbs. If your low carb then the high value is actually normal and healthy.

But YMMV

dragonfax··on Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment
I used flutter from Android Studio and from VSCode, and neither ever gave me any gruff.
dragonfax··on Scientists Find Alzheimer’s Treatment While Trying to Cure Diabetes
So its a learning drug? Would it have an effect on someone without AD? (or diabetes)
dragonfax··on Show HN: Accelerate SHA256 Computations in Go Using AVX512 instructions
Isn't this the kind of thing that was missing from the "go on different platforms" benchmark a little while back. The intel platform has crazy optimization for encryption algorithms on Inteil, while ARM was severely lacking.
dragonfax··on “Make It Biblical” – How Vagrant Story Changed Video Game Localization
Loved that game. Dark souls is the spiritual successor to me.
dragonfax··on Matcha: Mobile apps in Go
Seems to have a weird bridge it has to serialize things and send them across to get them to the native side... ala React Native. I say weird, because go should be native by itself, thus no need for this hoop-jumping.
dragonfax··on Neugram – Scripting in Go
I like this. Especially the error handling. Since the focus on a scripting language can be brevity (Ala perl) I don't want to write all that error handling boilerplate. But I don't want to ignore issues either. So this is a compromise. I can check errors, I can capture errors (in _) to ignore them. But if I don't do anything, they turn into panics.
dragonfax··on Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs for Windows
Cloud gaming is popular, but I don't think that this suits cloud gaming. When gaming over the cloud, your machine needs a high end GPU 100% of the time the instance is running, and your users play for many hours. The startup time for a GPU-dedicated instance isn't large in comparison.
dragonfax··on Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job
This isn't new. And with schools like this, they say "good job" or tech job, but they mean "any job" (that pays over 50k). I've had friends screwed by this before.

If you can't get hired because you went to a "dev bootcamp" or just aren't good enough with code after spending all that time in school, they'll come after your for that car mechanic pay check.

dragonfax··on The Robot That Brings Coding to Life for Kids
They made a real-world Logo Turtle.
dragonfax··on Object Pascal Handbook
Love the cover art
dragonfax··on Parallelizing the Naughty Dog Engine Using Fibers [video]
I've been working with golang for too long. Everytime I watch stuff like this it just looks like they're re-inventing goroutines, channels, and the go scheduler.
dragonfax··on 2048 Numberwang
Oddly enough, makes it easier to win.
dragonfax··on Vim.js - JavaScript port of Vim
Its already been done as a chrome extension

https://github.com/NickTomlin/pocketvim

dragonfax··on Perl One-Liners
I used to be a Perl Guru, but am well out of practice. I still use it in my regular job as a pragmatic way to do some data munging without having to start up a REPL.

I'd love to have a copy of the book.

dragonfax··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
I guess the Llama got sick of its ass being whipped.:/
dragonfax··on Using GNU Stow to manage your dotfiles
Back to the old "dotfiles with git Best Practices".

My favorite is just to alias it all to a different name.

    alias dg='git --git-dir=/Users/dragonfax/.dotfiles --work-tree=/Users/dragonfax'
now regular git doesn't overlap with my dotfiles git, and I never have to worry about mis-executing the wrong git
dragonfax··on Kindle MatchBook
Disappointed after reading the thread here.

At first look, I thought it would be more along the lines of, "snapshot a few randomly chosen pages from the book with your mobile camera, to prove that you've bought the book in the past and still own/have it now, and then you automaticaly get the ebook version really cheap as a result."

dragonfax··on Meet Potluck, a new product from Obvious-backed Branch
So they made reddit.
dragonfax··on Cooking up a half-baked bad idea involving ssh keys
Yeah this is really silly. But it was obvious from the get-to when the writer didn't understand the "public" is "public key"
dragonfax··on Software to avoid the software people
I think he's missed the point of SaaS
dragonfax··on Blocking China IP Address Blocks
Blocking china doesn't help anyone, and just hurts people that didn't do anything wrong.

The script kiddies (fake hackers) can't really get into your systems if you apply simple security policies and sanity checks.

The real hackers that can get it aren't blocked by any of your ip filters. They just go through proxies.

dragonfax··on Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Wait, your saying how awesome its trust metric is and how it will change everything. Then you say no one can see it. Then you admit that its not implemented yet.
dragonfax··on Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Yeah, I have to agree. Reading his blog post, and then the documentation on the site, I got the image of some great new designs to manage the "Information Architecture" of an online persistent discussion (a thread). But instead when I actually logged in and browsed around, all I got was reddit with nicer formatting.

Weak.

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