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messel

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Tech Co-founder https://tripnotes.ai & https://welco.me

Fractional CTO/Engineering Consultant https://tekhorizons.com

github: http://github.com/victusfate Twitter ID, @victusfate

author: https://victusfate.gumroad.com/l/xlhtbn

Howdy. I’m Mark Essel, an engineer that’s added cofounder, web developer and author to my bag of tricks. My quest is to rediscover my life’s passions, and leverage that drive into profitable business ventures.

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messel··on Postgres full-text search is good enough
Hi Justin, do you have a link to a technical paper on the anonymous? click algorithm. Was curious if you applied it to domains other than products/shopping.
messel··on Are video codecs written in JavaScript really the future?
is it outperforming lua jit in all or many benchmarks?

It's been a while since I rolled up my sleeves and ran various algorithms in js vs lua vs py (pypy was speedy as well last I checked).

asm.js isn't dynamically typed afaik, so I think of a fair comparison as v8 vs luajit

messel··on Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video
The crfs are based on perceptual quality from the docs: 18 is visually lossless

http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/x264EncodingGuide#crf

messel··on Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video
No doubt. Still looking forward to wider acceptance of h265 which has real gains in quality/bit
messel··on Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?
good show Matt, way to celebrate the holiday
messel··on Git 1.8.0
looking for saner nested submodule pulling , reading now
messel··on What is the difference between capitalism and the free market?
One word refers to an economic and political system, the other describes a market.

It's possible to have a (mostly) free market in an different type of political system.

messel··on CoffeeScript 1.3.0 is out
>Why is this cool? Because I can debug CoffeeScript in the browser! <insert Kool Aid man "OH YEAH!" here>

>But why is this REALLY COOL? Because I can potentially debug any language in the browser as long as it has a source map.

messel··on Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts
Corporate leadership and VPs are always last to go. Unless you've got one helluva board of directors.
messel··on A fork of ruby-debug that works on 1.9.2 and 1.9.3
ha, just shared http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3797489

taking a look.

messel··on Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
Same boat, but still wrestling with windows at work. I've got a workable configuration with Cygwin, and mingw32. Hey Visual Studio's IDE (2008) may be full of cruft but the debugger isn't too bad. Vs2010 feels broken, I gave up creating projects in VS, and now use a simple combination of ruby and cmake for creating solutions/projects.

http://www.victusspiritus.com/2011/10/30/an-elegant-ruby-scr...

messel··on Waking up at 5am to code
I wake up at 4:30 to read for a bit and some days squeeze in 30-40min of development work. After getting ready I head out for walking between 6:30-9am (depending on the day) then head to work. This gives me room to do a little project work in the evenings.

Glad to see more early risers!

messel··on Go language turns two, but its syntax turns forty
Is there a CoffeeScript to Go translator? Then I'm interested.
messel··on Google Reader cutting internal social features, integrating into Google+
I don't think Google will copy buzz's aggregate all mode into our + feeds, but then again I'm not sure what they'll do with Reader shares.

I guess I'll share certain articles to specific circles, if I share them from reader at all.

messel··on Ask HN: What programming blogs do you read daily?
Here are the ones in my reader, admittedly I haven't visited often enough over the past couple of months:

http://www.igvita.com/

http://ejohn.org/

http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/ (Denny covers assembly and networking issues often in great detail)

http://buhrmi.tumblr.com/

http://elegantcode.com/

http://72lions.com/

http://kellabyte.com/ (mobile-ish dev)

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/

http://ihumanable.com/blog

http://4loc.wordpress.com/

http://www.maxogden.com/

http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/

http://www.quirkey.com/blog

http://www.mikealrogers.com/

http://cocoawithlove.com/

messel··on Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript
thanks for the review. I hit the site was about to give up but will review it later. Bringing life to characters through animation is well worth checking out for a budding clientside coffeescripting, canvas slinging, html5'er

The google web cache was viewable: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QKa7OUg...

messel··on Twitter acquires BackType (YC S08)
I enjoyed reading about Nathan's work as well. He was the only team member I knew of.
messel··on Uniform and Normal Random Number Generator Shootout
Just looking for a good enough solution that's easy enough to bundle into a small packaged sim. I'll review your recommendations, thanks for sharing them.
messel··on Clientside CoffeeScript with jQuery
Pardon that, the embedded JavaScript of markdown blows, plus an attached image was coming through poorly.
messel··on Clientside CoffeeScript with jQuery
Simple client side code sample followed by a reference to more elaborate tutorials.
messel··on "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday
Sweet! epub here I come.
messel··on "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday
oh mobi may reformat better than pdf on my phone. Is that similar to epub format? That works wonderfully on the phone.
messel··on "The Best of edw519" is now free. Reverse Happy Birthday
Do you have code handy to convert from html (with a TOC) to epub?

I looked up some python examples to start with:

python epub docs http://www.egofile.com/2010/01/convert-openofficeorg-writer-...

http://code.google.com/p/python-epub-builder/

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/se...

messel··on Apparently HN gives you great advice and then 1536 users in 4 hours.
I tried it out.

Ran into some problems that hopefully you'll shake out. Surprised by the choice of web stack (.net and asp).

I didn't see an option to delete accounts, did I miss it?

messel··on What To Do When Your Web Application Goes Viral
Do you have an repo of your template django app hanging around? I'm learning a little python now and looking for more functioning examples. I was starting with flask, since it's been a couple of years since I used django.
messel··on Startups Are Hard
Focusing on the hard parts is a commonality to just about every successful startup story. It's not always pretty or interesting, but the business flows to their doorstep because competitors can't get the hard stuff right or keep up. Startup security is doing both what is hard and not attractive repeatedly until it looks both easy and fun.

Great reminder patio11

messel··on Ask HN: How do you organize your pdf library?
I use a similar broad topic based folder organization on both my dropbox ebook folder, and in my iBooks collections.

On Kindle it's just one big mess, but I don't have as many books in the Kindle yet (a dozen or so).

I use the same idea for Instapaper folders.

messel··on Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL
until you jumped the api limit :D why not hot swap any shortner?
messel··on Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments
Glad you put in the work to organize your comments. I've only caught a tiny slice of your input, but it's clear you really love what you do.

I hope you reconsider your ideas on code sharing, it's amazing how much one can learn on blogs and github. I started doing a little part time web programming in 2009 after a decade of strictly c++ simulation and analysis and would be lost without experienced folks (many teenagers) sharing their insights on practical web development.

messel··on Edw519 wrote a book compiling his best HN Comments
I just bought the book, but would like a readability upgrade :D
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