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gryffinon Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger

PDF is an open format. Scanning PDF for the links is probably the least you could assume.

You gotta assume they will reconstruct generations of your family tree if they can from your chat history.

gryffinon The State of Machine Learning Frameworks

TensorFlow & PyTorch, Angular & React,

Or even Karma & Jest,

Facebook seems to be late to market, but learns from Google's mistakes, to create simpler and more elegant tools.

gryffinon Show HN: Hacker News Clone – Clojure, GraphQL Learning Project

Clickable links:

https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_full...

https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame

gryffinon Computer Stupidities (2013)

> My coworker (who uses Windows 95) was having trouble downloading a self-extracting archive off the net. In an attempt to make it easier to open the file with WinZIP, he associated *.EXE with WinZIP.

> Nothing worked after that. Every program he tried to run would load WinZIP first. He couldn't even run REGEDIT to delete the association.

Happened to me.. :) One of those Windows 95 days!

gryffinon A History of Visa

> If built correctly it's genuinely difficult to mess things up.

Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) [0], Indian Institue of Management - Ahmedabad [1], and (the not so known) Physical Research Laboratory [3], premier institutions in India, all of them founded by the same person - Vikram Sarabhai. Each of them stood the test of time.

Given the situation of all other government run institutions in India, ISRO is truly a marvel. Maybe "it's genuinely difficult to mess things up"!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Space_Research_Organisa...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Management...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Research_Laboratory

gryffinon Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox

Firefox uses PDF.js[1] to render pdf. This is a standalone project to render pdf in the browser using html and js. If I remember correctly, you can even render pdf in chrome using this.

[1]https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/

gryffinon Org-mode on web, built with React, for mobile, synced with Dropbox, Google Drive

A non-techy person who has heard of emacs!

gryffinon YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

Essentially with all that data, YouTube still hold a bad recommendation engine.