megamindbrian

Oh man, so annoying. Here's my immitation of the thought process of the marketing team that designed it: "enter your email address so we can continue sending you offers and adverts and all kinds of information on that thing that you clicked on that we are now blocking with this popup preventing you from reading even though you're just passing by".

megamindbrian··on Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

Working on managing Angular code using jupyter notebooks similar to Airbnb and their react-atom design flow? I think I got that right, they blogged about it but I never saw any code from it.

megamindbrian··on A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises

Everything to do with IBM is too expensive for the average user.

megamindbrian··on [dead]

Takes too long to load. I assume this is because no one can do everything? There just isn't enough time.

megamindbrian··on Principles of Sharding for Relational Databases

I laugh every time I read that word.

megamindbrian··on Aficionado Culture Is Where Fun Goes to Die

Can't this apply to coding frameworks? I feel the entry is too high using Stack overflow and when answers are wrong they are promoted anyways.

megamindbrian··on Internxt – Welcome to a New Internet

Have you heard of Usenet?

megamindbrian··on A Tech Lead’s New Project Checklist

Here is the other one from today. I should turn this in to an app-style application for employers/recruiters to fill out before they contact me. https://www.sideprojectchecklist.com/marketing-checklist/

megamindbrian··on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo

I guess I won't be working for Google anytime soon.

megamindbrian··on Airbnb dominated by professional landlords

And now it's just as annoying to find a place to stay as it was dealing with conglomerate hotel chains owned by Patel's.

megamindbrian··on Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through security community

This makes me hope hackers go back to selling vulns online.

megamindbrian··on Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

If he doesn't try to be funny he goes to jail.

megamindbrian··on Operation Luigi: How I hacked my friend without her noticing

I like the personality here.

megamindbrian··on Ask HN: Starting blogging when you're not an expert?

Blog using jupyter so others can analyze your work.

megamindbrian··on Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

Cool. Now can you use it with webdriver functions instead of re-inventing the API?

megamindbrian··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

It's about time. Slowness is why I quit all of Mozilla. Also dumping Thunderbird is irresponsible. We need one client that doesn't give annoying pop-ups when using IMAP and that use to be it. Guess we have to go back to using CLI to avoid pop-ups.

megamindbrian··on Monospaced Programming Fonts with Ligatures

I love this.

megamindbrian··on How the Web Became Unreadable (2016)

I like this line "So, as a physicist by training, I started looking for something measurable."

megamindbrian··on 80-year Harvard study has been showing how to live a healthy and happy life

TLDR: year 0 - 29 - Experience as much trauma, stress, and failure as you possibly can. 30+ - Stop giving a fuck about your unaddressed trauma and find a new reason to strive to stay alive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_pruning

megamindbrian··on Google relaunches Glass for businesses

This is such bullshit. I applied for their private beta and never got a response.

megamindbrian··on Bash-Snippets: A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users

This will go perfect with my own chrestomathy!

megamindbrian··on Babel-preset-php: PHP7 to ES7 syntax translator

Why not just compile phplib using https://github.com/kripken/emscripten and call the library functions directly?

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