msielski

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Comment · 2 years ago

Ahh good memories. I wrote Pente for PalmOS back in 2004 or 2005, complete with a computer opponent using a minimax tree with alpha/beta pruning. Unfortunately I never finished or released it. It was so much fun to do early mobile development - it compared to nothing else I'd done at the time. And it wasn't easy. This is definitely an accomplishment.

Comment · 3 years ago

This does seem to be the latest trend - passswordless authentication or "magic links."

Comment · 4 years ago

There are browser extensions which do this: - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/recipe-filter... - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc...

Comment · 9 years ago

Also big fan of vagrant global-status. I have it aliased to vgs in my terminal.

Also very helpful for those using Vagrant on OSX is Vagrant Manager [0] which gives you menu-bar integration and a quick interface to turn VMs on and off. It's useful even to remind myself when I've left some VMs on, especially if I'm running on battery.

[0] http://vagrantmanager.com/

Comment · 9 years ago

I enjoyed this, and was impressed that it was written by a high school senior.

Comment · 9 years ago

Some food for thought: "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?"[1] which has been discussed on HN previously, lists "Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate" at .9 probability of computerization and "Real Estate Brokers" at .97. It's certainly not a solved problem, but these two jobs are nearly at the top of the list (or bottom, as the list is in reverse order).

[1] PDF: http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Futu...

Comment · 9 years ago

Knowledge of process, not just market. Which, don't get me wrong should also be easy to automate.

Comment · 9 years ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-worm

Comment · 9 years ago

Really interesting idea of running separate instances and synchronizing them. I wonder if this could be done in legacy games to support VR - an instance for each eye - and each instance's game state and camera position synced except for slight horizontal offset for left eye vs right eye. Xwing VR!

Comment · 9 years ago

Half of my Amazon packages are now delivered by an Amazon van or by some guy's personal vehicle with an Amazon magnet on it. I believe they're a mix of the Flex[1] program the author referred to and private companies Amazon is contracting[2]. Not a stretch to see them adding pickup as a service and competing directly with USPS, UPS, FedEx etc. See also the companies they're acquiring in this area[3].

[1] https://flex.amazon.com/

[2] https://logistics.amazon.com/

[3] http://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazons-delivery...

Comment · 9 years ago

My career began here in the mid 80s: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/iGgAAOSwnHZYmiO0/s-l1600.jpg

Comment · 9 years ago

"More than any single person, Tim Berners-Lee is responsible for inventing the internet." Learn something every day.

Comment · 9 years ago

I read Chomsky's Understanding Power on Aaron's recommendation [1]. I found it equally transformative.

[1] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany

Comment · 9 years ago

Myself and someone I just met were suggested as friends to each other after we met. Neither looked up the other. Neither created any contacts in our phone. Only possibility is our FB app knew we were both in the same place at the same time for a few hours.

Comment · 9 years ago

I am I missing something or is this challenge to produce a system which determines if the headline agrees with a body of text? Many so called "fake news" sites would pass this test with flying colors as their fake headlines are supported by equally fake stories. This seems more like a test against clickbait.