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treenyc

205 karma · joined December 14, 2010

artist, hacker and human-being
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treenyc··on Teaching Machines to Draw
Human creativity is related to process and the experience of creating from nothing.

The process is more important than the end result.

treenyc··on How Do You Measure Leadership?
yup! Leadership, Leadership position and leadership authority are distinct!

See scholars and practioners who have contributed to building a scientific foundation for leadership:

1). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406

treenyc··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
when there is an equally good x in open source, why would anyone use closed sourced alternative?

Is it not a valid question?

If it is the marketing, service of support then let me know.

treenyc··on How Do You Measure Leadership?
Before we can measure leadership. Maybe we ought to first figure out what we mean by leadership.

Often there has being a mix up between leadership, management, and a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with leadership.

If people are interested in how and leadership is effectively exercised and what it is. Take a look at this paper: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406

treenyc··on How Do You Measure Leadership?
The knee-jerk reaction you are talking about is what is consider by some scholars as an Ontological Functional Constraints [1].

The constraint is considered deadly for the effective exercise of leadership. The constrains can however be removed or at least relaxed in a reliable way. :)

1). https://ssrn.com/abstract=1392406

treenyc··on How Do You Measure Leadership?
Hmm, do we distinguish leadership from management?
treenyc··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages Using Cassandra
I'm curious why would people use a closed source software, when you can use something like https://riot.im

Please let me know. I may be missing something.

treenyc··on Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time
It is a human illness wanting to explain something to just stratify our rational thinking. In reality whenever there is a paradigm shift, the previous explanation becomes obsolete. So stop trying to explain things and go out an do it and experience for yourself.
treenyc··on Donald Trump Is Elected President
US president has remarkably little power to make any change to the existing system. The real change has to be done on the local grass root level.
treenyc··on JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
What about this nodejs async,

https://github.com/caolan/async

May be a replacement until the async is implemented in V8

treenyc··on State of the Art JavaScript in 2016
Why not mithril? https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/

Seems to be way faster, and easier to learn than any of those other framework/libs.

For example: How is Mithril Different from Other React: Source: https://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html

"The most visible difference between React and Mithril is that React's JSX syntax does not run natively in the browser, whereas Mithril's uncompiled templates do. Both can be compiled, but React's compiled code still has function calls for each virtual DOM element; Mithril templates compile into static Javascript data structures.

Another difference is that Mithril, being an MVC framework, rather than a templating engine, provides an auto-redrawing system that is aware of network asynchrony and that can render views efficiently without cluttering application code with redraw calls, and without letting the developer unintentionally bleed out of the MVC pattern.

Note also that, despite having a bigger scope, Mithril has a smaller file size than React."

treenyc··on Get an unbiased opinion on if you should get out of bed
Oh my, I have no idea I got downvoted. How can you tell?
treenyc··on Get an unbiased opinion on if you should get out of bed
can't believe they don't use https for their logins.
treenyc··on Mondo bank taking £1m crowdfunding investment
Does Mondo allow the user to keep track how their money is being invested? With current technology that shouldn't be an issue.
treenyc··on Mondo bank taking £1m crowdfunding investment
Hmm, what's the difference between this and Simple? Other than that it is available in UK?
treenyc··on Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
Nice. Does anyone know if there is something equivalent to this much like the SSRN (Social Science Research Network) http://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/mjensen-20th/

Where you can perform full text search on all the papers?

treenyc··on Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions
Yes, but I would imagine that cost is not too much. Why not make it into something like a public resource. Often that approach will generate more wealth for the greater community.

Often the for-profit model and fiduciary responsibility can be constraining in wealth creation in general.

treenyc··on Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions
Why does it have to make money? If service such as twitter that can benefit the world in some way without making any money, why force it into a 'business model'?
treenyc··on Show HN: Deepstream.io – open-source real-time server with pub/sub and data sync
@wolframhempel or whoever is making this. Thanks for the making it. However, your webrtc demo doesn't work: both of the links are broken on github: https://deepstream.io/tutorials/webrtc.html

Can we see some live working demo.

Also the example on that page is also not working because adaptor.js is not found, but it says that your browser is not webrtc compatible.

treenyc··on Startups Selling to Other Startups: A House of Cards?
That is exactly the problem. Growth is extremely un-evenly distributed.
treenyc··on Gmail Will Warn If Message Is Not Authenticated/Encrypted
Main complain to Google or other big company. Stop putting email in spam that doesn't have reverse DNS set. Why should one IP be tight to one email domain?
treenyc··on The cost of transpiling ES2015 in 2016
>Another thing I do which may shock many JS people is to actually check in the build directory of my setup into version control, because this makes deployment much easier and ensures that I will always have a working version of the code in the repository, even if some external dependencies should change in the future. This also eliminates installing extensive tooling on my production servers, which itself is a large burden and creates many security issues (for a simple setup consisting of rabel, react, require.js and a few support libraries, node.js downloads about 350 MB of source files onto the machine).

Kudos. I can't remember how many 'open/source/Free' git repo that I cloned can't compile or have problems compiling. Personally I think it is NOT open source unless the user can compile and get an exact copy of the software that is in the app store.

treenyc··on Can You Fall in Love with Someone Through Text Message?
You can fall in love with anyone through anything! It is all in your head. ;-)
treenyc··on Introducing the Keybase filesystem
Same here. Would love an alpha invite.
treenyc··on Ask HN: Do you use an old or 'unfashionable' programming language?
Not exactly a programming language, but some early mac users would know: 4D - 4th Dimension
treenyc··on Kickstarter for funding Micropython port to ESP8266
How does this compare to the follow?

https://github.com/espruino/Espruino

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gfw/espruino-javascript...

treenyc··on Chrome Cleanup Tool
Why Can't Google just build that into Chrome?
treenyc··on MEGAChat now includes end-to-end encryption
It is great that Whisper Systems/Signal implement cryptography properly.

However, the NEWER versions of Signal requires access to your contact to work.

For many users that is a show stopper.

Implement a way for user to search by User ID and allow user to find each other by ID in addition to phone number.

treenyc··on The State of Meteor Part 1: What Went Wrong
Personally, the one thing I don't like about Meteor is that it insist on using MongoDb. That along makes me NOT want to use it, despite other cool features.
treenyc··on Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab
Another one we found easy to use is GitBucket that has most of github

If you have Java

just type download gitbucket.war

> java -jar gitbucket.war

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