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megamindbrian

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megamindbrian··on Derinkuyu: Turkey’s Underground City
Pass. I refuse to travel to countries where the barbaric act of lopping off someone's head is still common practice. If you don't agree with the politics too bad. You were born in the wrong place. Leave, and find better places to visit.

Don't get me wrong. It makes me sad too.

megamindbrian··on Franchise – An Open-Source SQL Notebook
Can you integrate this with jupyter instead? Since there is already a nice UI made for it?
megamindbrian··on Facebook’s war on free will
I'm unable to believe that anyone running a product with over a billion active users has anything less than altruistic intentions. Who is to say any of us have free will? Who is to say any of us deserve free will after all the wars we've caused and damage to the environment? If your going to get theological don't bother, you are out of date.
megamindbrian··on Underestimating the power of Jeff Bezos
He doesn't have the power to make a nice UI.
megamindbrian··on Ask HN: How to choose the right university subjects for a career in IT
I think about that a lot. If I applied the same work ethic that I have now to school, I would probably be way smarter. Perseverance is hard to learn. At the education company I worked for we proved that there is enough time to study 3 hours outside of class per credit hour and still work and have free time. It just takes time management and a daily calendar to find that balance.
megamindbrian··on Ask HN: How to choose the right university subjects for a career in IT
Stretch your mind, try to take something really hard and don't be afraid to fail. One dropped class or an F or even a GPA below 3.0 isn't going to ruin your entire life or career, most sane companies don't even check GPA. I missed out on math and physics, I wish I had taken the advanced classes like differential equations. There was also a fluid dynamics class that sounded cool. As far as electives, I hated taking them. Now I just wish I could take another art class or reading class and give more purpose to the activity. I also took Religions of the World and that gave me a basic understanding of other people's belief systems that has a small impact on my friendship with multinational friends. Such as not eating a cheese burger in front of Indians. And not being offended when someone from the middle East doesn't want to eat in front of me. High school history class also sucked, so rather than being discouraged to take a history elective in college, I wish I would have taken one. You need all of these topics to enjoy society.

Forgot to mention. I have used math professionally at a medical company I worked for. You will need it if you ever plan on exploring big data or AI or even usual algorithms. I avoided math in college because it was hard and that's a mistaken mindset.

megamindbrian··on I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for
I was expressing my excitement over something neat which implicitly answers the query in the title that it was designed for me. People who think wave analysis is neat. There are at least 3 other posts on here describing the basic features of wave analysis are just fine. Thanks for the down votes!
megamindbrian··on Windows for Linux Nerds
What does this mean for Cygwin?
megamindbrian··on I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for
Web audio can be used with this: https://wavesurfer-js.org/
megamindbrian··on $782k over asking for a house in Sunnyvale
You do know there is more than one company in the US right?
megamindbrian··on $782k over asking for a house in Sunnyvale
HEY! MOVE TO PHOENIX. HOUSES ARE CHEAP!
megamindbrian··on CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer
HEY LOOK, NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS! http://caniuse.com/#feat=style-scoped
megamindbrian··on Daniel Kahneman “I placed too much faith in underpowered studies”
Doesn't science also apply to science? We should be sciencing our science which means being skeptical of all conclusions, even your own. I feel your stress. I use to even call myself a scientist, and regard myself as a scientist, but then I realized 90% of my work is entirely unmeasured and there is no sense of effectiveness of the remaining 10% that actually makes it to production.
megamindbrian··on CSS in JavaScript is like replacing a broken screwdriver with your favorite hammer
I've worked on many different codebases. CSS and script tags add to the mess something awful. For cleaning CSS I take an existing site open with developer console and click through every HTML element in the tree looking for alignments offsets, centering madness before flexbox, font size and color corrections are all stripped away. These settings belong in the top level body or global part of the CSS. I flatten out the HTML and CSS alike so all my elements are at most 4 levels deep.

This is a process that takes about 1 day per product page. It's a horrible pain to clean up a site but the payoff is easier maintenance in the future and hopefully some acknowledgement that the page loads better. This skill can easily be trained in to developers. I hope this reminds everyone that computing is a skill that must be practiced.

It isn't normal to use tables for layout these days, just like it is no longer normal to use JavaScript for centering elements vertically. This is fixed with flexbox. Please learn and use it!

megamindbrian··on Show HN: Google Calendar programmatic event bulk insert and listing for Node.js
Love the idea, and I'll probably steal some code from this later but I can't help but tease. Let's REPL every API! First start by REPLing a server to serve your rest API then REPL that API by consuming it and offering a CLI for it! Great idea!
megamindbrian··on How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
Or learn JavaScript and just use D3. It does this out of the box given the dataset.
megamindbrian··on Show HN: DeepSense – Know people better through AI-built profiles
I am dazzled by the complete lack of any information.
megamindbrian··on Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men from Labor Force
Fake news is an even bigger problem than opioid use?
megamindbrian··on Facebook and Microsoft introduce ecosystem for interchangeable AI frameworks
Why would you want to pile another black box on top of the black box?
megamindbrian··on Tinder and the Dating Apocalypse (2015)
This is so toxic to developing a healthy han relationship. Aren't these people afraid of being desensitized to emotional connection?
megamindbrian··on Your load is too heavy: Zork deep reading
Proof looking at code makes things less fun?
megamindbrian··on The FCC.gov Website Lets You Upload Malware Using Its Own Public API Key
Agree. Which is why I have decided to be unhelpful instead of risk spending my life in prison for trying to fix a bug.
megamindbrian··on Ask HN: Is any senior dev reasonably happy with their job?
Please first define "happy"? Is it bursting with joy to step foot in the door everyday? Yes, I step feet in an out various times throughout the doors in the office and I am happy to peel my eyes off of the computer screen.
megamindbrian··on JavaScript is Eating the World
It gets easier once you get use to it. The output is a plain script tag include. Aot is one of the most amazing things I have seen. I can tell when an app uses it and when it is slow.
megamindbrian··on JavaScript is Eating the World
We should all speak JavaScript.
megamindbrian··on Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?
My favorite topic was from an advanced user interfaces class. Describe 3 example of a bad user experience where the input in to the system does not give you the expected output. My poor example was a Kleenex box, I try to pull on one Kleenex and it tears or two come out at a time.
megamindbrian··on Neo – Desired Word Processor for Authors
Follow the white rabbit...
megamindbrian··on Offline-Friendly Forms
Ok, let me just open up my developer console using F12 and check the Offline box on the network panel. So glad I took the extra 20 seconds to do that before reading part of the article and navigating away from this "distraction".
megamindbrian··on New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
"b" didn't exist 200 years ago, so why does "a" feel the need to get there? Progress for the sake of progress!
megamindbrian··on Show HN: How to discuss with opinionated people using the Socratic method[video]
Everyone's faith is different. This guy can't define everyone's faith in one Youtube video. As a scientist I am trained to question anything and everything. As a spiritual person, my God is knowing what the right answer is before knowing the reason why or the purpose of the question. If an answer is already written down, God is the life that came before me. If I guess what the right answer is before, that is the God inside of all of us. How does an Atheist explain intuition?
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