notaboutdave

This is an excellent rewrite, but I'm hesitant to try it because Moment doesn't emphasize speed.

I'm in need of a fast date and time library (close to realtime) and have reluctantly rolled my own until I find a better option.

This is pretty great. It looks like it automatically writes to the next logical empty cell.

  curl https://www.bitstamp.net/api/v2/ticker/btcusd \
  | grep 'last": *"\d*\.\d*' -o | grep '\d*\.\d*' -o \
  | tosheets -c A1 --spreadsheet=foo

^ That will append the last BTC price to column A of sheet 'foo'

User rossisred ported his "Funky Karts" game from C++ (targeting Android) to WASM.

Direct link to the game: https://www.funkykarts.rocks/demo.html

Blog post on porting the engine: http://www.rossis.red/wasm.html

Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14411328

His post helped me demystify what WASM is capable of and how it fits with the DOM. He shares some eye-opening code snippets, but the game itself is closed source so it leaves something to be desired.

That ~30 line component should be reduced to something resembling this:

  const PlanetView = ({planet}) => <div>{planet ? planet.stuff : 'Loading...'}</div>

I get what he's saying. The internet used to be peaceful grassy plains. Now it is loud bustling New York with bigger fish that are out to get you. This doesn't mean you can't disrupt everything, but now you have to outrun this new establishment that reinvests all its money into eating you more efficiently. Companies like Facebook already have giant audiences, and copying your product can be done virtually overnight.

Singing live with autotune is standard practice for most pop singers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczu_Qc7CkA

The Miyamoto approach of starting with a desired emotion and working backward toward a design is profound. This is radically different from most things I've read which involve cramming emotion into existing designs. This changes everything for me. Thanks for sharing.

Waste of a read! Reasoning that going from many input nodes to few output nodes results in compression (or shedding of nonessential data) isn't a brilliant theory, it's common sense.

The author even beats the dead horse of AI being a potential existential threat.

In summary:

> Businesses are upgrading their tech to stay in business which means higher job requirements.

> Workers who don't make "the cut" with necessary analytical skills or higher education are suddenly finding themselves without comparable job options.

Someone posted a PDF on here ranking jobs by how soon they're likely to be automated. IIRC, high-skill healthcare, fine arts, and tech jobs ranked the best. So to all the marketing savvy psychologist-artist-technologists out there, don't worry. You're going to be just fine.

NK seems like a living time capsule of that era.

Ever see that photo of Mark Zuckerberg surrounded by hundreds of people in VR headsets? The backstory of the original Matrix movie doesn't seem as far fetched anymore.

http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-virtual-reali...

Just signed up. I've been wanting to log this kind of data, but it was never a strong enough desire to do it consistently over the long-term. Considering how many times I check email every day, this just might do the trick.

Side note: Inbox-based apps seem like a great way to hack forgetfulness, at least for habitual email checkers. Unfortunately, everyone has figured this out and abuses it. I click "unsubscribe" at least once a day.

Some other useful points:

1. Transactions can be secured using public-key encryption. This way Bob can't spend Alice's coins (unless he has her key pair).

2. Wallets are typically a collection of public/private key pairs, where each pair is a ledger address/password combo.

Also, I could be wrong, but it looks like the example code will accept longer peer chains even if they're completely different.

Great article!

As a developer or startup the last thing you want to do is tie yourself into absurdly proprietary platforms like this. Giants like Amazon, Facebook and Google are buying up all established competition, but now they want control of your stuff before you even make it.

Also, user "nslog" only posts Amazon stuff and never comments.

Easy workaround: Install Preact. No code changes required, at least not for me last year.