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112 karma · joined June 30, 2020

macro-b··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]

At my previous big tech employer we used to have a mercurial layer on top of our legacy version control system. I loved it, much simpler and more clear than the typical workflows I have to deal with in git. I get it that with git you have more power, but do really most teams need that?

macro-b··on Scale Ruins Everything

It’s more about regulations rather than development. It’s forbidden here, so taxi drivers can still make a good living rather than subsidizing a billion dollar company

macro-b··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel

At the moment it runs without an internet connection after you download it the first time

macro-b··on Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = an Hybrid of Word and Excel

That seems quite doable but it would require a backend to store the OAuth

macro-b··on Ask HN: Best way to host a GDPR compliant static website?

That is my plan, but hosting on something that’s subject to US regulations seems like a problem and limits options quite a bit.

macro-b··on React Native On-Device Machine Learning with Google ML Kit

One extra buzzword and they would have done bingo!

macro-b··on Google Nest Renew

If anyone is interested in working on this topic there is an opening in the team

https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/107740695336231622-s...

macro-b··on Ergodicity, What's It Mean

A dynamic system is a system whose evolution doesn’t simply depend on its input at time t, but also to its internal state. In this case the wealth at time t does not simply depend on the outcome of the coin toss, you also need to know the value of the wealth before the coin toss.

macro-b··on Photon – a live demo of a natural language interface to databases

“Select all elements from catalog” did not work...

macro-b··on MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

I tried English and Italian and I was a bit surprised... my son’s name which is Leo and valid in both languages wasn’t there... while there were at least dozens of names so archaic most people would never hear them in reality! Not sure where you got your sources