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ambirex··on Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?
About five years ago, I took my kids to a petting zoo with baby animals. I was so struck by how cute baby goats were. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had made fundamentally wrong choices in my life because I didn't have more time with baby goats.

This is my current daydream to own goats (because that's probably the best way to get consistent access to baby goats). I was specifically looking at the breed of Nigerian dwarf goats. There would be cheesemaking, vegetation clearing, and current dreams also include an apiary.

Ahhhh.... goats.

ambirex··on The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason (2017)
in all fairness, at that point, he has usually written quite a bit. ;)
ambirex··on Affinity 1.10
Totally, I too am not in a pro vfx type person. But I have been slowly learning Da Vinci Resolve (which is really nice). I'm just a real fan of Serif, which as been producing solid apps for a reasonable price.
ambirex··on Affinity 1.10
What strikes me with the performance is the potential to use the engine for a motion graphics app. Think somewhere in-between After Effects and Apple Motion. This might be wishful thinking, but I would love to see it and would purchase it in a second.
ambirex··on Goose flying upside down is simply showing off, say experts
say experts who are flightless and honestly a little jealous ;)
ambirex··on Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever
Except the NYT and Wapo have a much better history of correcting mistakes. Comparing Daily Mail and NY Post to other serious news organizations is really an apple to oranges comparison.
ambirex··on Neal Stephenson – Announcing Termination Shock
Throughout the pandemic I have re-read Anathem several times. The thought of a cloistered community in pursuit of knowledge (mathic society) ends up being my happy place.
ambirex··on RIP Google Reader
The last interaction/version of Bloglines was really quite good, but at that point the user base has switched to Reader.
ambirex··on RIP Google Reader
The real missed opportunity for Google was expanding reader's social/collaboration features into a more robust social network.It would have saved them from trying to ham fist Google+ for everyone. It could have been a home for Wave and Buzz type of tech. Instead they threw out the baby, be damn the bathwater.

That being said, I have a found NewsBlur a great replacement.

ambirex··on My prof gave me zero because ProctorU Review+ said that I was talking
I believe pain is relative and she is obviously under a lot of stress. I have decided that I am not in a position to judge what others are going through. I hope others would extend me the same courtesy.
ambirex··on Apple has stolen the wearables crown from Fitbit thanks to the Apple Watch
Antidotally, I was a fan of Fitbit's focused model and owned several of their middle range devices. I ended up buying an Apple Watch for two reasons (one in FitBit's control and the other not).

1. Connectivity with my iPhone was spotty. I mostly blame the iOS ecosystem for this; long-running apps will sometimes lose connectivity to BLE devices. This would happen even when they are in the background, probably how apps are suspended and resumed.

2. Band quality, at the one year mark they the band would start to fall apart. Fitbit support, for their part, was always easy to get a replacement (usually free). But after the 3rd time, I kinda of felt that I shouldn't have to deal with that every year.

So when Apple announced the waterproof Series 2, it was right around the time my Fitbit was falling apart again. The Apple Watch (expensively) solved my two issue.

ambirex··on Apple previews iOS 11.3
I'm not sure that being adult excludes me from having fun with the single most used device I own. I occasionally send Animoji to my family to say something whimsical.
ambirex··on N.Y. Times Scales Back Free Articles to Get More Subscribers
Don't subscribe from their website, but from their app. You can cancel on your phone without having to call them.
ambirex··on Node.js 8.0.0 has been delayed and will ship on or around May 30th
To someone not familiar with the internals of V8 and its roadmap, this seems like a sound (albeit unfortunately timed) decision.
ambirex··on Drupal Confessions – An Open Letter
I don't think wanting to work on open technologies and other political activities is a binary position.

Open software is built by groups of people and one part of building a community it deciding what sort of people you want to work with.

ambirex··on RethinkDB Postmortem
If you are a developer and build a product using react. When do you ask the business to buy support?

While you're building you assume you'll have to gain your own level of proficiency. So you don't know at what point you'll need support.

Having to go back and ask for an increased budget after it has shipped is a harder internal sale.

As much as I appreciate rethink's approach, I can see it as a challenging business to be in

ambirex··on I've removed all ad network code from my blog
Except that he is still using Disqus, which is free to use because they have moved to ad supported model (for the most part).

Even if he isn't running the ads, they are using the script to track users across sites and then feeding that into ad networks.

ambirex··on U.S. judge rejects World Chess bid to block websites from airing moves
I can claim anything I want, it doesn't make it legally enforceable
ambirex··on U.S. judge rejects World Chess bid to block websites from airing moves
The main difference between this and other sports/events is the moves are facts. They wouldn't be able to broadcast a live video feed. But you can copyright facts.
ambirex··on Ask HN: How do news networks get election data?
In MN the Secretary of State makes data files (mostly csv) available to media outlets.

We transfer and process them, for national races we we the AP Election API

ambirex··on Google vs. Apple – The Smartphone Race Is Over, and a New One Begins…
Sorry if that was too vague. VR is an interesting technology but I am very skeptical of it gaining wide spread adoption. That is why I don't think it should be considered a defining feature of a phone.
ambirex··on Google vs. Apple – The Smartphone Race Is Over, and a New One Begins…
A couple nitpicks:

- Virtual Reality - still hasn't demonstrated mainstream appeal. I'm pretty bearish on it being the next 3d TV's

- Resolution - Does anything north of 300dpi really matter at this point? Maybe for VR, but see above

- Privacy - as data breaches become the norm, where/how do you want your data stored?

ambirex··on Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron
... says the human. ;)
ambirex··on HyperDex can now act as a stand-in for MongoDB
I appreciated the candor of this note in "What's The Catch?"

HyperDex does not have anywhere near the market penetration of MongoDB. This means that it's easier to find a developer who has used MongoDB than one who's used HyperDex

ambirex··on IBM Watson's Visual Recognition Demo
This appears to be the rebranded AlchemyVision product from AlchemyAPI (bought by IBM last year).
ambirex··on I'm still in love with Flash
Is the page all flash? I'm on a phone and have no idea what the author expects to show.
ambirex··on The most popular subdomains on the internet
I'm confused about hgfgdf and lkjkui anyone have an explanation for those?
ambirex··on Show HN: Detect Adblock
Then simply allow all scripts on the domain to load, only blocking 3rd party scripts.

It is a cat and mouse game.

ambirex··on Show HN: Detect Adblock
If I add a rule to allow the ads.js to be loaded for only that domain (an possibility adblockanalytics.com) it completely defeats the detection.

In my experience once you start blocking any content the ad blocking community will make a change to the EasyList to have that exclusion included.

ambirex··on Faraday reveals their electric car
I am now convinced that Faraday is not a front for Apple. Showing concept designs of a product is not a typical Apple move. Faraday wouldn't dispel the rumors because it fuels interest.
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