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squillful··on Uber open-sources tool to automatically clean up stale code
A similar tool, Vulture, exists for Python: https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture

I haven't used it yet myself, but discovered it during a search inspired by this post and thought it would be worth sharing. Definitely a trickier problem to solve for dynamic languages, but looks useful.

squillful··on LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks
Came here to say the same thing. Awesome app. Great to be freed from the shackles of Audible and the likes :)
squillful··on Hacker News Clone Using GraphQL and React
I think this is really nicely done. It's probably a little over-engineered for a project of this size, but it shows the power of using all of these libraries together, and I'm sure it was a great learning experience.

Does anyone know what tool was used to generate the system architecture diagram? It's really clean and clear - https://github.com/clintonwoo/hackernews-react-graphql#archi...

squillful··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
This blog post sums things up well - http://blog.cyrusmehta.com/2016/03/suffocating-the-foreign-e...

Whilst it's pretty great that the extension was increased from 17 months to 2 years, you now have to prove an employer-employee relationship, which is significantly more limiting than the previous iteration.

squillful··on I’m Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter! A friend of mine has just started OPT and has founded a company. She plans on using the STEM extension too, which was a successful path for myself and some others, but the recent changes to the STEM extension seem to be considerably more limiting now. Do you have any guidance on options for founders considering the OPT and STEM extension route?

Many thanks in advance!

squillful··on Disney acquires own streaming facilities, will pull Netflix content
Yep, that would be incredibly ineffecient, so they use a smarter approach - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205919#existing
squillful··on Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive
Very helpful reply, thank you. However, I still believe they should have outlined this in their Help Center rather than have users figure it out by trial and error.
squillful··on Introducing Backup and Sync for Google Photos and Google Drive
This is confusing in so many ways

1. They give no mention of how this handles existing installs of Google Drive or Google Photos Backup.

2. The application has the exact same name for Google Photos and Google Drive. Do I need to download and install both? I tried that, but couldn't move the second to my applications directory without overwriting the first. Looking at the downloads they're the same size, so I'm guessing they're the same, but that begs the question, why the two download links in the blog?

3. Where will photos be saved? I save mine in Google Drive, and choose the option to sync to Google Photos. Will they be stored directly on Google Photos? Because I'd rather keep them on Drive.

I'm still a huge fan of both products, and hope that this cleans up a number of integration issues between both services, but this announcement feels like it wasn't thought through at all.

squillful··on Pinboard Acquires Delicious
I was a longtime Delicious user, but it really fell apart after the Yahoo acquisition. I'm happy to hear that it won't disappear.

I've recently switched to raindrop.io, which is an excellent replacement. Bookmarking serves two purposes for me:

1) It provides a way to record sites I don't visit often, which I hope I'll be able to find easily in the future if needed.

2) It provides me with easy access to the sites I visit regularly on all devices, without restricting me to a specific browser, and with an aesthetically pleasing and intuitive UI like Speed Dial

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe...

I want the record of these two kinds of pages to live in one place, and while Delicious and Pinboard were close, I felt that they never quite met that need.

squillful··on Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?
This is 100% incorrect. In fact, there is a much higher risk of injury lowering a power clean under control, especially if you're going heavier.

That's not to say that you won't benefit from working with a weight where it is possible to control when lowering, but there's a lot to be said for power cleaning a higher amount and dropping upon completion of the rep.

squillful··on Build your own summary tool
You may be interested in checking out an automatic summarizer I developed this summer. It uses numerous techniques to weight sentences for extraction - https://github.com/shanedownfall/CNGLSummarizer