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kasbah

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Electronic engineer and software developer.

https://kaspar.systems

github.com/kasbah

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kasbah··on Announcing Y Combinator Startup News (2007)
> Each user's voting power will then be scaled based on whether they vote for good stories or bad ones.

I guess they gave up on that? Would be interesting to hear how it panned out.

kasbah··on Ask HN: Failed interview, feeling unemployable and depressed – what do I do?
It sounds like you are suffering from imposter syndrome. Definitely look it up if you haven't heard of it as it is extremely common among engineers and developers.

Find someone that knows you to talk about this. It's very hard to give specific advice with out knowing your personality or the full story.

Try and remember that your life is much more than your work. There are so many other things worth living for.

kasbah··on The 2016 Top Programming Languages
Nope, it's C++.
kasbah··on The 2016 Top Programming Languages
What the hell is Arduino doing on that list. It's C++ with the Arduino Library.
kasbah··on How to escape lock-in with a multi-cloud stack
Do you know about the AWS free tier? You can get an EC2 micro instance for free for 1 year. When it runs out it might be worth switching to Digital Ocean.
kasbah··on Pcb-stackup: Generate beautiful and accurate SVG renders of printed circuit boards
This is in fact a thin wrapper, that I mostly wrote, around a fat wrapper that mcous wrote (pcb-stackup-core).

Check out http://viewer.tracespace.io for the updated svgerber style viewer.

kasbah··on D4 – Declarative Data-Driven Documents
I prefer:

    h1('Hello')
https://github.com/Jador/react-hyperscript-helpers
kasbah··on Open source template for building static web sites with Prismic.io and AWS S3
I use Kloudsec CDN to get HTTPS on my static sites. It's very easy to set up and free (certificates are from Let's Encrypt). You can use it for custom domains on GitHub pages as well.

https://www.kloudsec.com/

kasbah··on Show HN: Kitnic – A new way to share your electronics projects
Hi Chris, thanks for that.

Our focus in the short term is getting more content up on the site by helping people put things into the right format.

In the long term we definitely want to look at making the links to manufacturing easier and your API looks interesting.

I had a quick glance at the way you take in position data (what are xyyrs though?). It'd be interesting to try and standardize on something there even just to do some helper visuals for DIY builds.

Btw. getting a 404 on this: https://macrofab.com/apidoc/v2/raml.zip

kasbah··on Show HN: Kitnic – A new way to share your electronics projects
In case the GitHub link on the site isn't obvious enough: https://github.com/monostable/kitnic

The site is currently compiled to static pages hosted on GitHub and that's where contributions are handled too (through pull requests). We use Node and Coffeescript for the compilation and ES6+React on the front-end.

kasbah··on Show HN: Kitnic – A new way to share your electronics projects
The group buying idea _is_ interesting though.
kasbah··on Show HN: Kitnic – A new way to share your electronics projects
Thanks petra, we are really looking forward to exploring options like this. It's very much early days (the site is currently static pages hosted on GitHub and re-built when changes are made).

The first step will likely be to add direct links to the PCB fabs. Assembly would be a step beyond that. I am currently trying to figure out: what are the benefits of an "on-demand" manufacture of open source hardware projects?

kasbah··on Ask HN: S-expression based vector graphics editor?
Yes, this looks like it. Thanks very much!
kasbah··on Pebble 2, Time 2 + All-New Pebble Core
Also see the Seeed Rephone for a different take on this: http://www.seeed.cc/discover.html?t=rephone
kasbah··on Use AWS Lambda to self-host the comments for your blog
I don't think you can. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11804820/embed-a-you-tube...

You might be able to on Wikis though.

kasbah··on ChaosKey: a Hardware True Random Number Generator That Attaches via USB
The key components are the two transistors connected back to back. The first (Q1, pins 1, 2 and 6) is effectively used as a zener diode which will exhibit breakdown noise at low currents [1]. The second transistor (also labelled Q1 but on pins 3, 5 and 4) is used as an amplifier of said noise.

A similar circuit is explained in more technical detail here: http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/bipolar_transistor... (look for the "WHITE NOISE GENERATORS" chapter title)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_generator#Zener_diode

kasbah··on The end of Cambodia's famous Bamboo Train?
I was greeted with the same idiotic message. Best I could do for now without linking to a potentially malicious or ad ridden free web proxy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...

kasbah··on Jupyter Notebook 4.2 Released
> The IPython Notebook is now known as the Jupyter Notebook. It is an interactive computational environment, in which you can combine code execution, rich text, mathematics, plots and rich media.

The best place to start is probably https://try.jupyter.org/

kasbah··on Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants
These are virtual x86_64 servers, their non virtual ARM ones seem to be the C1x and C2x.
kasbah··on Show HN: Convenient web rss-reader
I have been using goread.io pretty much since it launched. There is a really annoying bug though that affects me every time I read my feeds. All my posts get marked as read at once when I resize the window in a certain way.

I had a go at fixing it myself but it seems I couldn't (my PR did get merged but the problem persists) and no one else seems to be trying to fix it so I am thinking of finding an alternative.

The truerss demo doesn't seem to work at all for me though. The page shows up but when I click on a post it doesn't show anything.

kasbah··on Ethereum Homestead release
Yes, seems like this isn't the best use-case for blockchain technology.
kasbah··on Ethereum Homestead release
Haha, yeah, I've been thinking that too. I was kind of more looking at interesting applications of blockchains but it seems like this isn't really the best use case.
kasbah··on Ethereum Homestead release
But I could set the cost of mining low enough to make it feasible no? Seems like the attraction of creating an altcoin vs using Ethereum is that it's a simpler system. If I am not interested in leveraging the existing networks, that might be a better way to go?
kasbah··on Ethereum Homestead release
I haven't read the full thing. But a DAO is still connected to the global Ethereum network and leverages it? Does it have to be?
kasbah··on Ethereum Homestead release
If I wanted to create some kind of kudos/points economy for my local hackspace would Ethereum be a good choice or should I rather look into creating an altcoin?

I am not interested in hooking it up to the global networks just providing a way for people to earn points for running workshops, cleaning and doing maintenance that they can spend as time on the laser cutter or 3D printer or similar (which we currently charge for).

kasbah··on Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
Because it currently wouldn't be possible to make a site of this scale with that method.
kasbah··on Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
Firstly, copying isn't the same as taking.

More importantly most of the scientists want their research to be read and studied as widely as possible but have their careers to worry about. The journal system is being widely criticised but academics are not in the best position to take action against it.

The dissemination of knowledge, with it's potential for reducing inequality and increasing social mobility, is much more important than the profitability of journal publishers and outweighs the risk of hurt feelings due to a sense of ownership of knowledge (which seems like a fallacy in itself) that anyone involved could possibly have.

kasbah··on Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
I think you are making a mistake of equating ethics with legality.

Furthermore, I am not affiliated with YC and have never been even been to Silicon Valley. I merely use this news/link aggregator because the content and links interest me.

Linking to a site doesn't even mean you are condoning it. Would you really rather the mods censor content like this because they are worried about their reputation? I think that is the day I would stop reading HN.

kasbah··on Show HN: The Deadlock Empire – Slay dragons, master concurrency
That's the Welsh Dragon!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Dragon

kasbah··on Investigating the overhead cost of compiled ES2015
I was just going to comment that it would be interesting to see the size of a run-through with browserify+uglifyify+uglify but looks like there is already a PR for it.

https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-i...

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