cpg
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Open Source developer and contributor.
Founder of Amahi, the leading Open Source Media Server.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Ahhhhhh. Ohhhhhhh. A film!
Comment · 7 years ago
PayPal is horrible, both as a merchant and a customer. In every single way possible. From APIs to service, to explanations to everything. It's time for someone else to take their place and everyone stop using PayPal.
Comment · 7 years ago
Apple bullied me at some point https://blog.amahi.org/2011/06/21/apple-hits-amahi-with-a-ce...
Comment · 8 years ago
Amahi | Front End, Design and RoR full-stack |Contract | REMOTE | https://www.amahi.org
Looking for help in implementing wizard-style functionality (maybe a small SPA) to existing RoR app. Also, help with modernization existing open source RoR app. message jobs at domain
Comment · 8 years ago
Haha, yeah. It has not born much fruit yet, so it still feels like a bit of a loss, except I did learn a lot by doing.
Comment · 8 years ago
It's like their are their Nigerian Prince.
Thank you.
Comment · 8 years ago
I started playing tennis and I loved it. It's non-contact, you have to be thinking all the time and it's outside (often in the sun). I am happy when I play (or even watch) tennis.
Then (warning, plug ahead) I started a D3.js project (to keep skills fresh) to visualize data about tennis strings and rackets[1] to understand them better, ...
... which devolved in keeping my rackets/strings on that same app, which later open to others ...
... which devolved in starting a flex tennis league in my region (SF Bay Area)[2], ...
... which devolved into starting a small business to automate tedious and time consuming tasks at small racket-sport shops (and maybe others in the future)[3].
I'm so happy with projects that get a life of their own!
Watching comedy and writing comedy also makes me happy.
[1] https://www.racketlogger.com/racket-explorer [2] https://www.racketlogger.com/leagues [3] https://shops.racketlogger.com/
Comment · 9 years ago
Microsoft did the same thing way back with CPUID .. when it was Intel, it worked well. Otherwise (AMD, Transmeta), they would use very inefficient operations instead of SSE (IIRC), slowing down benchmarks that used media (like players, etc) and Photoshop. This is from a distant life in the past, but I think it was not limited to use of SSE.
Comment · 9 years ago
Title is incorrect. My account was created before 2012 and they just disabled all public links.
Comment · 9 years ago
I do not see any emails from them. Maybe I read them over quickly and deleted them :-(
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, I probably missed the notifications somehow.
They probably should have had some warning on the app itself when putting or sharing files from that folder.
It's a free service, so my bad for using it without a good backup, but I had used programs for a long long time that produce screenshots with one keystroke and copy the URL to the clipboard, saving time.
I figured this was relatively low overhead for them and a popular feature, so they would keep it. Lesson learned ..
Comment · 9 years ago
I relied on this "light" publishing for a few things and I'm quite pissed off. I did not notice any notification on this.
To me, this should be done very very visibly and with tons of warnings. I used it to communicate screenshots with details, etc. Now all links are broken and I'm SOL with no viable solution to changing those links from documents, bugs, etc., etc.
Very very very bad!
Comment · 10 years ago
Congratulations! Remarkable work, at remarkable speed!
Comment · 10 years ago
Could someone ELI5 (but I know chess moves only, not strategy) the reasons why the ending was described as "sexy" and "incredible" and "classy" and other superlatives I heard?