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gkilmain··on Apple’s Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri’s potential
To run an Alexa skill on iPhone you need to install the Alexa app and the Amazon app and use your Amazon app to handle the voice part. Then open the Alexa app to view the card. I hope I'm understanding the hype of the article correctly in that I can build a native app and use Siri to interact with it.
gkilmain··on Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?
sometimes me too.
gkilmain··on Ask HN: How do you manage your mental health?
Running. Every time, without fail, about 20 minutes after the run i feel absolutely amazing. Like I can accomplish anything.

Whether I run a mile or three, doesn't matter. Feeling is the same.

gkilmain··on Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
My wife, my parents, my inlaws, they all use FB. Haven't heard a peep from one of them.
gkilmain··on Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
Tech is still magic to most people, not just politicians.
gkilmain··on Zuck's live grilling on Facebook Live
Users are fleeing Facebook and sharing their stupid posts on .... oh right theres no alternative. They will easily beat this.
gkilmain··on The joy of index cards (2009)
Writing relative to typing helps me slow down my thoughts but of course its slower than typing. But for me this is good. About the finality, well, you can use a pencil or you can just cross out a line. When I write I try not to get caught up in making sure what I write is right. If its wrong just cross it out.
gkilmain··on Google bans cryptocurrency ads
Are you genuinely curious or just piling on?
gkilmain··on AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code
Yes, it is on chess.com
gkilmain··on AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code
That is exactly what happened. He played a friend of mine whose much lower rated. Eventually the lower rated player found himself in winning position but when the draw was offered he assumed he must be missing something and accepted it. So it worked once.
gkilmain··on AI Cheats at Old Atari Games by Finding Unknown Bugs in the Code
I have a friend who I play chess against and every time he's about to lose he offers me a draw. And will continue offering me a draw until I win. Not happy to see the AI performing like that bitch MukyMuky.
gkilmain··on CSS Grid changes everything [video]
The speaker suggests serving up mobile layout for older browsers and this is the pattern we are following at my company.
gkilmain··on Very old, very sophisticated tools found in India
I'd be okay if we removed 'on either end'.
gkilmain··on California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Their intent is purely to improve the developer experience.

> There are other, less obnoxious ways to ask for feedback

Yes I agree but I don't think that applies to this specific use case.

gkilmain··on California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Its a government website which provides data to you. They've moved to a new platform and they're asking you to provide a bit of information so that they can improve their platform which in turn should improve the developer experience. Are you fucking kidding me? More user friendly? How about they don't ask anything, guess at what the developer wants, so that a few years from now you can come back and comment how their data portal is shit.
gkilmain··on Ask HN: What is the most common security mistake you see?
As a front-end developer I'm curious about this. Do you have an example to share?
gkilmain··on Will the high-tech cities of the future be utterly lonely?
I'll be 75 in 2050.
gkilmain··on Former miners out to put Kentucky on the tech map
I missed the IQ test part. All I read was coding aptitude test, whatever the hell that is.

Sure we're all different and maybe 95% is high but its at least 50%. One out of every two people I meet I am confident they could become proficient at programming given a solid learning environment.

gkilmain··on Planck.js – JavaScript rewrite of Box2D physics library
Since these types of projects are way outside my day to day I've had a hard time keeping track of them and also could have sworn I've seen something similar. I rather enjoyed the additional pockets. But I also enjoy bumper pool.
gkilmain··on Vue.js is easier to learn than jQuery
Whats your opinion? Anything you read or hear will be their opinion which was derived from their experience solving their problem. Whats my opinion? They're all awesome. Try them all. Then once you've done that you can do that thing thats very rare on the internet, the analyses, and be the internet champion to all the newer newbies in front-end development.
gkilmain··on CSS - Level 4 Selectors
I think you're right. One looks like an attribute (caniuse.com), cssrocks is :scoped, a pseudo.
gkilmain··on CSS - Level 4 Selectors
I see conflicts with caniuse.com. For instance :scope. CSS4Rocks says supported in all browsers but IE. caniuse.com says its only supported in FF and mentions it has been removed from the current specification.
gkilmain··on Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid
How do we know they wont sign an exclusive deal with KP to only use Twitter for social media?
gkilmain··on Twitter Shares Slump After Report Says Google Won’t Make a Bid
I'm thinking there could be some nice synergies with ESPN. All of the scoreboards on espn.com provide a twitter feed. All of the team pages do too. The feed provides insight to a game that you'd never experience from your couch.
gkilmain··on Zuckerberg in Lagos Land
Am I the only naive one who's digested this article at face value? I mean he's providing a service an encouraging the denizens to build upon it. WTF is wrong with that?
gkilmain··on Show HN: Open-source search engine with 2bn-page index
I think for newbs who want to learn the fundamentals of web dev w3schools is a good resource. Even the people over at w3fools admit it. For a deeper dive though clearly MDN is the winner.
gkilmain··on Radiobox.css – Tiny set of CSS3 animations meant for your radio inputs
I work with internal apps that are form intensive and making our users do double take would most certainly piss them off. At the very least it would make them less efficient at their job. I think predictability when designing a form is paramount.
gkilmain··on Be nice to nerds
Yes. Remove everything after the word smart and add "(like most people in the programming profession)"
gkilmain··on Be nice to nerds
Its unfortunately that is your interpretation of the word because your definition is inflammatory
gkilmain··on Be nice to nerds
Agreed, labels suck, though I have been called a bro-grammer and for some reason it doesn't bother me. Maybe because its the antithesis of nerd.
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