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prodikl

40 karma · joined December 21, 2011

Programmer and designer out of the city of brotherly love and into the city of Seoul.
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prodikl··on VC from Asia is skyrocketing
yeah, some of this is fluff like the "block youtube, make youku" stuff. but there is some genuine innovation, and i'm glad for increased supports for start-ups in asia in general
prodikl··on Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation
lots of negativity here. i think it's a cool idea, and i hope he runs with this. if you're problem with bitcoin is "it's not quite perfect enough" then that's a bad reason to not attempt this

it has obvious benefits (and some cons) over the bolivar or a foreign fiat currency, but ya know, baby with the bathwater

i look forward to seeing where this goes

but i do agree about LN mainnet not being appropriate to use yet

prodikl··on Subscription is the only way to do software
i remember back when my dad bought lotus 123 for like $60 at the local store. that was a fair value

i think the app store and ad-supported software really devalued a lot of forms of software for most lay people. my wife still gasps when i spend a buck on software

prodikl··on I Fell Victim to a $1,500 Used Camera Lens Scam on Amazon
As someone who sells on Amazon (just used books and whatnot), the third-party system is great when everyone's honest. I can sell a $40 book for $15 used because otherwise it's just collecting dust, the buyer can easily find the item and shop among third-party sellers. (since my item gets organized under the main amazon search result, vs. ebay where every item is totally seperate)

The big issue is scammers ruining it for everyone

prodikl··on High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD
yeah i was gonna say. give it a week or a month to even out and so we can get more samples before we crown anyone king
prodikl··on Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows Server
photoshop, muscle memory

in that order

prodikl··on SKYACTIV-X: first commercial gasoline engine to use compression ignition
loved my 6-speed 2015 mazda 6. highway miles were truly amazing for a full sized sedan. like others said i'm glad to see mazda continuously innovating. it's paying off
prodikl··on Summers Are Getting Hotter
yeah are we talking 1 degree F here or 10 degrees C or what
prodikl··on Petition to open source Flash
ActionScript is still loved by the Starling community. I don't really think i'll miss the swf format, though
prodikl··on “We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020”
yeah i think people forget (or just don't know) that flash became animate. Most of the "html5" animations we see are made in animate. so in a way, it's all still in the same family and toolset, just the delivery format has changed

that said, i'm really curious as to what's going to happen to actionscript. Starling really ran with that and it's an otherwise really nice language (as3, that is). i'm glad they open sourced it and I hope it still gets developed.

i also hope they keep developing and supporting AIR

prodikl··on TIO: Try it online
am i not getting this? i typed echo "hello"; for PHP and the output says "echo 'hello';"

it just repeated back what i typed instead of processing the code hmm

prodikl··on Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system
exactly, that's the downside to it.

it's really nice to have /controller/method/param/param routing out of the box, so the speed of 0 to MVP is quick, but on the other side, renaming a route sucks. unless you have a list of overrides in which case, may as well just use hand written routes from the get go

prodikl··on As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail
i think we can all agree that the main issue (in america) is population density (lack thereof, could the system ever pay for itself?) and the american suburban lifestyle not being compatible with high speed rail
prodikl··on E-cigarettes ‘Potentially as Harmful as Tobacco Cigarettes’
Exactly, as anyone who used ecigs knows, if you pull when the coil is too hot, you get what i'm assuming is formaldehyde and friends.

when used normally, the ecig should only vaporize the PG and nicotine (2 ingredients). if you burn the mixture, that's where you get a cocktail of chemicals akin to a cigarette

it's admittedly hard to describe but a really vital difference. its the difference between warming a cookie and burning a cookie. the soot from the burnt cookie is way more toxic than a properly warmed cookie

that said, i welcome more information about e-cigs for sure. but as an ex-smoker who used ecigs's step-down method and finally quit last year, we need to be very careful before crucifying this very effective cessation device

prodikl··on Mathematicians looking to make elections in the US more representative
Is this like.. where you choose 1, 2, 3?

so if I choose

1. Dem 2. Green 3. Repub

and you chose

1. Repub 2. Green 3. Dem

They'd all be equal? (four points each)

prodikl··on Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, and the Climbing World Reels
palms literally raining phew
prodikl··on Aluminum Should Now Be Considered a Primary Factor in Alzheimer’s Disease
dude... does this mean antiperspirant is going to increase my risk of alzheimer's in the future?? what about aluminum cans and alumnium foil?
prodikl··on Google’s AlphaGo Defeats Chinese Go Master in Win for A.I
my wife, who's chinese, says its because china wanted to protected its own market. i'm sure censorship was a part of it, but think of 1 billion viewers and how much money that'd generate. the government decided that money should stay and circulate in china instead of going outside to google
prodikl··on Goodbye Amazon
yeah, seems pretty fair. if the supplier doesn't think it's worth it and thinks they'll do better without amazon, that's their prerogative
prodikl··on On Chinese Writing: Evolution
This was such an interesting read in the context of me being half-Korean and my wife being mainland Chinese, and we met in Korea, recently moved to NYC... The difference of traditional and simplified was a very real learning experience for me (especially finding subtitles for movies), and for her, experiencing american-chinese culture and history here.

Your write-up was especially fun to read because it avoided the touchy politics of mao vs chiang, mainland vs hongkong and taiwan, etc., that I've only somewhat recently been exposed to (including Korea somewhat). It seems very neutrally written and focuses more on the interesting details than the emotional tribalism that I sometimes see.

Thanks again!

prodikl··on Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
pretty sure we could come up with another type of liner
prodikl··on Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
yeah this is how we start starship troopers
prodikl··on Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
i think this is the most logical answer. i would imagine pain appeared very early in a common ancestor as its effect on survival is absolutely immense
prodikl··on Problems with Swagger
> The rest of the URIs are provided by Hypermedia.

I know this sounds awesome but in practice, it's really useful to have my swagger UI exposing the endpoints for our front-end developers to consume. What a pain it'd be for me to tell them "hit / and see what you get!"

Having HAL links between resources is great and this discovery aspect of HATEOAS makes a lot of sense in development. But having a single entrypoint "homepage" to the API, when it comes to swagger, doesn't make sense.

I ran into this when I asked another department for the endpoint to hit for certain data. I was given a swagger page with a bunch of "/status" endpoints that would then reveal additional endpoints. Who knows what rabbit hole I was sent down. I just needed the endpoint and the necessary parameters.

If I were a third party or some outside developer consuming the API, it kind of makes sense. But our internal swagger docs really should reveal endpoints. I would feel like a big asshole if I asked my front-end co-worker to just "hit /status" and see if you get what you need!

Disclosure: I don't use Swagger codegen. I only use the Docblock markup to document my API and generate the swagger.json that I display on our docs page.

prodikl··on Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
yeah, visualizing lets us move the argument to a more focused context. we could examine and say, lets figure out if "more profit" really does lead to "more tax" money, etc
prodikl··on Loopy: a tool for thinking in systems
i think its missing pan / zoom. i had to move a chart from my laptop window to my big monitor window to view it all
prodikl··on Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
i'm exactly the same way. i can do the command line but i feel that in this case the gui provides way more information than a command line could.

i wanted to like GitHub for Windows but the "sync" button is too abstracted to be useful for anything but personal "dropbox" style repo use

prodikl··on iPad 9.7‑inch
its a pro feature, are you a pro?
prodikl··on David Rockefeller has died
highly recommended. its nice to know the history behind some of the biggest names you hear everyday
prodikl··on Happiness report: Norway is the happiest place on earth
i doubt it. japan and south korea are pretty homogeneous and they have some of the highest suicide rates in the world
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