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osullip

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Running https://atomdigital.com.au Building https://www.mybayside.com.au/
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osullip··on Collection of best practices for providing and consuming webhooks
Not sure of the evolution, but maybe because 'callbacks' exist everywhere, but 'webhooks' are specific to REST APIs.
osullip··on I will now send this to beginner programmers
I am self taught at most things I know.

What I would have given for someone to explain objects to me when I was trying be an object oriented programmer.

>objects are the things you think about first in designing a program and they are also the units of code that are eventually derived from the process.

Huh? Classes would confuse me. Methods would confuse me. I could get things to work but not understand why or how to extend and abstract properly.

At some point of learning you just need to be told the answer so you can move on.

osullip··on Ask HN: Where and how do you find your early adoptors?
You could use a url shortener to track the traffic. Or register a short version of your domain, redirecting the traffic to a specific landing page.

Same as using different toll free numbers when for different adverts to track performance.

osullip··on I need to stop being boring
Tell that to people who won't/don't have kids
osullip··on Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
I disagree 100%.

This is amazingly innovative.

We have seen letter switching examples and how the brain will try to fill in the gaps.

This is superbly unique and justifiably a patent and trademark.

The demo works.

The rules may be simple. But as the old boat repairman story says, sometimes you need to know where to hit the hammer.

Please, please don't use this for evil.

osullip··on Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read
I was very impressed. To the point where I got scared about how fast I could read and if I was losing control of the content going into my brain.

Is there an app that can 'un-bolden' letters so I can slow my brain back down.

osullip··on Italy gets its first unicorn as Scalapay raises $497M from Tencent
According to Smart Company it's an Aussie unicorn. https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/news/scalapay-b...
osullip··on Ask HN: What Roles/Skills Do You Struggle to Hire For?
Two examples to explain what I mean.

1. I had my own consulting business (small, 2 of us plus some outsourced support). I didn't like the sales part of the business. Met a client who loved selling and needed support in other areas. I wrapped up my business and took a role as it was more focused on what I love.

2. Currently working with an individual whose business closed during Covid. They think at a high level and are helping with BA work, documentation, client comms etc. It's not so much a hire/employee and more an understanding that they can add value with less direction. They get paid a contract rate.

osullip··on Ask HN: What Roles/Skills Do You Struggle to Hire For?
Find someone who has/is running their own business and partner with them. Forget the employee/employer relationship for this kind of skillset.

I have done this several times in my life - it's amazing when two people, willing to do literally any job that is needed, get together. Pretty powerful combination.

osullip··on Joni Mitchell pulling music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young
Older artists do not need to rely on Spotify for their income. They have an older fan base that still buy the old way.

Neil Young sold 50% of his publishing rights for $150m[0], so he is doing fine without Spotify.

It is much harder for new artists to make a similar stand. They rely too heavily on Spotify for exposure and the small amount of income they get from playlists and automatically being added via the algorithms used.

So it is easier for the older artists to 'make a stand' without much cost to themselves.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/01/26/social-me...

osullip··on Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out Of Hell' singer, has died at 74
13 year old me loved his music (and I do now). I remember it was Beauty and the Beast (if I remember right) that launched "I'd do anything for love" into most people's hearts. Well, it did to mine.
osullip··on Nasally-Injected Brain Drug Can Help Treat Depression in 20 Minutes
In mice
osullip··on Micro APIs for Everyday Use
Best of luck! I had a similar idea and never followed it up.

The way I see it is this: there are always a bunch of devs learning their trade.

At one point I would have great ideas but be missing two or three key components that I couldn't build.

I searched for out of the box solution for one time tokens and for a way to store date in transit for automation - nothing existed that I could use so I built it - but I've 20 years experience now and wanted to share my solutions.

Yes, you can do all of this in AWS yourself, but sometime you just want to solve it and move on.

Sometime you want to tell a client it is 0.0001 per record and that their business needs $5 per month to automate/integrate/remove something that costs them a lot more.

And charge them a decent rate for the solution, not the tools.

osullip··on A study used data from phones to predict depression and personalized treatment
"The one-month study collected data from 14 participants"

This is a preliminary study. A much wider group of participants is necessary, from a range of backgrounds and mental health status, before it could be said to 'predict' or 'personalisze' anything.

It's good to look at this as a topic.

I am sure that my behavior changes when I am depressed and that I would express it first via my phone - after all it is at my fingertips.

While I would say that this is very limited in its findings, I hope that there is some further study that expands on this.

osullip··on Show HN: Transform a CSV into a JSON and vice versa
I run a software company and we have a challenge when it comes to these types of conversion tools.

If there is any data that is a) not publicly accessible or b) contains personal information, I cannot authorise the use of a web based third party tool. There is just too much risk that some bad actor uses this as a method to soak up data.

I would love to verify /validate that all of the processing is local and have some way to certify if this hasn't changed.

osullip··on Show HN: Inliner - Pull blocks of code into a single file
Amazing work!

There are a number of languages that use some import / include function to add code blocks.

Have you considered adding some configuration where users can define their include function and what should be looked up?

osullip··on A unified theory of low/no code and middleware
All I do for a living is build middleware.

Don't take that away from me.

osullip··on Simple as in SNMP
Off topic, but did you get style inspiration from b3ta.com?

https://b3ta.com/newsletter/issue768/

osullip··on Anxiety is in your body, not your mind
I read Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.

Written around 2000, it is surprising how many of his verses are relevant today. These are translations of the original, so have picked up some contemporary interpretation.

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/31010

osullip··on G4S – January 2021 Washington, D.C.,Security Outlook
Published 4th Jan. Not the best security company (see other HN posts) but a fair assessment of what would happened on 6th Jan
osullip··on Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript (1995)
Under appreciated BSG reference. Well done!
osullip··on Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
TL:DR

Fast, mobile friendly, secure sites will rank higher from May 2021, all other things being equal.

AMP sites will rank the best and Google will own your users.

osullip··on TikTok to open $500m data centre in Ireland
...slated investment into the country of around €420M (~$497M), according to a blog post penned by global CISO, Roland Cloutier.

...“This investment in Ireland… will create hundreds of new jobs...

Even at 999 new jobs, that is $420k per job.

These statements need to be clearer. They want to setup in Ireland to minimise tax, not to create jobs.

osullip··on Guide To Array Functions: Pick the least powerful tool for the job
I'm sharing it with my team now!
osullip··on Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked
This is what yahoo were doing in 2018 (it's my twitter) https://twitter.com/pos43/status/999606375217967104

I found a very convoluted way of opting out: https://twitter.com/pos43/status/1001331147110957056

It is now 2020 and I would be interested to see if these methods have been changed to make them easier or harder.

osullip··on Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported
Or Australia where about 10% of the population has been tested. https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavir...
osullip··on Show HN: Workout Daily. We text new 7-minute workouts daily to make fitness easy
I went to their sitemap: https://www.workoutdaily.io/sitemap.xml

And found this: https://landing.workoutdaily.io/pricing

osullip··on Show HN: Real-Time job opening notifications from remote-friendly companies
Minor UI bug: If you select one company, then go back and hit `Select All`, your previous selection is removed.

Expected behaviour in to add all companies.

osullip··on Google AdSense Leak
Already posted and discussed in 2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
osullip··on Plastic particles falling out of sky with snow in Arctic
It is not just single use plastic.

Micro plastics from washing clothes:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026974911...

"The number of microfibres released from a typical 5 kg wash load of polyester fabrics was estimated to be over 6,000,000 depending on the type of detergent used"

A lot of study still needs to be done to determine the sources of micro plastics.

We can all stop using single use carrier bags, but can we stop washing our $3 Target t-shirts made from poly-cotton?

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