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ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: Can you recommend me a fast, light text editor for Windows?
I like SciTE (it's not as popular as Notepad++)-- https://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
Something I call Event Stream Assistant. I found myself commonly having to code small utilities for message brokering management/assistance (over and over again)- for the simple things like: Flat File Processing, Flat n' Sort, Single State, Single State Merge, CnC (CLI for managing (SAS) ESP projects). Logic Engine (basic logical engine / schema interpreter) Pika (AMQP), MQTT wrappers, and Websocket Async services...

Some of these items are in production environments. I plan on releasing it open source (fully) once I get around to it. It's really useful.

ivthreadp110··on Flow browser passes the Acid tests
Abysmal exception handling, Character encoding issues, Incongruity code style, Delusional developers. (I'm in that last category for sure)... but hmmm... probably should check myself at that statement.
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: If you could work remote where would you live?
center of the earth
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
I responded without reading anyone else's comments-- I'm so happy that my Past [name], Future [name], dialogue is something other people do! You're "other me" is the same as my "Past Jon"

haha-- Remember to thank your "other me" and you should make sure to drop little notes addressed to your future self-- beacuse it is REALLY rewarding to find a note you left addressing your future self like "Hey, Future Self-- If you're looking for the actual module that does the communication-- it's: [location]"

And if a year later you are doing EXACTLY that-- trying to track down that thing-- and you start with something you know -- and find that note- It's hard to not exclaim- "Thanks Past Self, you just saved me some searching- hats off to you sir"

ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
Sometimes-- but most of the time when I look at code I wrote and was proud of but 6months or a year later-- I'm like, what was I thinking- I would of done it differently now. I call it programmers remorse. Since we're always learning and patterns change over time based on technology I think that most programmers live in a constant state of embarassment over things they previously had done.

However-- sometimes (with increasing rate into my 15 year carreer) I need to modify something and had not touche the code in a long time-- only to find to my supprise I already had that feature or ability coded into it... I then have to say "Thanks Past Jon- This is Future Jon (to you) and noice forward thinking"

While in isolation due to gobal things... it's a good time to make sure Past you and Future you get along-- Present you (third state) is both past and future but leave some notes for Future [yourname] and make sure if you find notes from Past [yourname] you remember to appreciate their work.

ivthreadp110··on Don't Touch Ya Face
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/models/1lXY78MD/

Also terrifying... I mean, it's google... after all - Pretty sure my android device knows when I'm touching my face when it's turned off.

ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
SAS Viya. Enough said.
ivthreadp110··on Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
Because so many people/companies think about security as a secondary thing, and in most places Improving Security is some really simple changes.
ivthreadp110··on Show HN: Paperkast
I know how you feel- It's always rewarding when you worked on something but never finished it- you knew it was a good idea when doing it-- then years later someone else does something very similar. No anger from it, not like they stole your idea- it just validates that your original idea was so good that it was just a matter of time until someone else did it. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
ivthreadp110··on Show HN: CSS Scan – Instantly check or copy computed CSS from any element
I really enjoyed Angular 1.x, was not happy with the 2.0 version (other then they fixed some critical performance issues with scaling websites). It was perfect for making simple single page applications for internal use at an an eCommerce company. POS, Order Processing, RMA processing, Research, competition and price controls, inventory & warehouse management, etc. I use ReactJS for large applications these days.
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: Should I get a 2lb, 3lb or 4lb laptop?
Upfront, I'm not a Apple person. I generally buy Business Class windows machines (after making sure I can install Linux on them). While their speakers generally arnt the best, I do enjoy the extended battery life and SSD. I mostly use them for coding laptops. I also like the "flippy" ones, but that's only because I have the tendency to carry them around by their laptop lid and this way it does not snap the neck.
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: What tools do you use to automate your business?
AutoIt3 for some windows automation. Python and bash/shell scripts.
ivthreadp110··on How to Build a USSD App Using Python and Django
Ah- I was not aware they had an LTS with different versioning. (And I did attend DjangoCon many years ago)- I clicked on this article initially because I was curious with what USSD was in the first place-

Thanks for clearing that up for me :)

ivthreadp110··on How to Build a USSD App Using Python and Django
Why Django 1.1? Super old school right? I'm actually suprised that Django supported Python3 fully back then... then again I've been super slow to switch to Python3 but I think my earliest Django app (an eCommerce website) was at least 1.3 possibly...

I'm just wondering if other then just habit and 1.1 being what you're familiar with you chose to pick such an old version.

ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: What do you like and/or dislike about HQ Trivia?
I can't wait to see how they monetize it. That is something I like. Should be interesting.
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: For someone starting to learn webdev in 2018, where should they start?
Python backend is easy to learn. JS for front end is critical. For JavaScript, make your life easier- start at ES6.

For Python for backend start super simple for small projects. Bottle.py or CherryPy.

Templating is a thing of the past, use Angular or ReactJS for front end development and use async calls for all data loads.

That's what I'd suggest. Python is easy to learn, start with simple things like bottle.py to to make a simple restful service. JavaScript can be a mess if done wrong, but ES6 is a game changer. I like both Angular and React, I find Angular 1.x super easy to use and learn but never use it in produciton.

If you're starting out, that's a quick dev cycle and easy to learn.

ivthreadp110··on Show HN: React-Redux-Sass Starter Kit
Thanks for the starter kit- I'm always looking for new framework launch and go... Wondering if you could include babble with it?
ivthreadp110··on Want to use my wifi?
Cleaver Beavers :) Nice read!
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: What are some items you have on your desk?
A clock on PST (I live in EST). 3d Printed various objects. 3d Printer (I overtook the desk next to me). Lots of clutter. Papers, Misc. Junk. Misc D&D items (Team building). Peak Proformer Award 2017 (Q1). Scatterd notebooks and pens. Of course Computer, 2 monitors, 3rd USB smaller monitor. Nurf Gun. Cirtic Acid. Water bottle. Chromebook as aux computer.
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: Which websites do you visit?
HN, reddit/worldnews, rt, livescience, youtube, sciencemag, google news searches, the economist
ivthreadp110··on Ask HN: What do you do when your tests are running?
Read news/technology articles (hacker news) or work on a task for another client :). If I don't distract myself I find myself making changes in the code requiring me to stop and start my tests again.
ivthreadp110··on Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
Only wish invert y-axis was in settings... I may be old school but can't do first person views when moving up makes you look up. Gotta invert the axis for me to be able to play around without messing me up.
ivthreadp110··on Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
Tried it again after rebooting and it ran fine (choppy in high def mode- not surprising given the hardware specs of this computer).

I must of had to much stuff open before or something. In otherwords- unable to reproduce strange crash.

ivthreadp110··on Firefox Gets Better Video Gaming and Warns of Non-Secure Websites
I tried opening the link "if you have 51 installed link" on my Samsung C13 chrome book and it crashed it in a strange way. Yes I am aware it's running chrome, but was curious what would happen.

I have it running in developer mode in the beta channel. I'm going to try it again to see if it crashes it again.

ivthreadp110··on The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion
Full list of highschools: https://csudata.calstate.edu/highschool/school-list?pagestyl...
ivthreadp110··on The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion
https://calstate.edu/highschool

On the second tab you can see demographics.

ivthreadp110··on The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion
Everyone can bend data. I work with the raw data of this kind of thing. Sure his graphs and charts are "right" but they're bent data.

As a data scientist we don't cook the books. It's the readers of our results who decide to Cook them.

ivthreadp110··on The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion
This is a utter shit article- I work with these root statistics on a daily basis- yes they are bent based on what he is trying to rrove. It's the flaw having a theory then making the data prove it instead of looking at the data and coming up with a theory.

Keep bending the data fool

ivthreadp110··on The Asian American ‘advantage’ that is actually an illusion
The illusion of it all is that you can measure based on "ethnicity" instead of something that matters more... such as being a first generation college student- being a first generation immigrant to the states- if you are eligible for PELL status or not. It's silly that we, the USA, still use ethnicity over socio-economic background as a measure to compare student success. When in all reality- ethnicity does not matter- it's about the culture and family you are raised in. No ethnicity is innately better then any other one. Culturally some might be more focused on education- and as a country, the United States is losing that culture because instead of focusing on future generations we focus on ethnicity and dumb shit.
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