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ziikutv··on A practitioner’s guide to hedonism (2007)
Agreed. For me, I noticed that I am always seeking for an answer. A magical key that will unlock everything lol. I do not mean from a religious POV. I just mean things like..if I do X, Y will happen which will lead to Z, so on and so forth.

Related to this: Instead of Hendonism, I am getting into Stoicism; of course adapting it to 'modern day'.

ziikutv··on Painting with Code: Introducing our new open source library React Sketch.app
The website slows down my chrome browser to the point where it lags and I have to backout.
ziikutv··on Ask HN: How did you acquire your first 100 users?
The other interpretation of this, if you have millions of paid users, that are getting 5 months free.. that's 5 months of you paying the bill and not getting any revenue. That wont scale in terms of maintainability. At least that is what I assumed when I read that.
ziikutv··on Uber gets sued over alleged ‘Hell’ program to track Lyft drivers
I think the main problem is.. No Consent. Consent it the cornerstone of all things.

P.S: Literally paraphrasing my Engineering Professional Practice course. An exam of which I just crushed!

ziikutv··on Bringing IoT to sports analytics
Finally, something interesting coming out of the Gentlemen's game. Nice read.
ziikutv··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
I think the editing manually is something people with resources and motives will do anyways.

I can see something like this, if not already used, for propaganda.

Tin Foil hat is on

ziikutv··on Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
Dire indeed.
ziikutv··on The Deep Space of Digital Reading
Additionally...

1. Some books have horrible formats. In the physical books, shitty formatted texts are not printed (hopefully) and fixed. 2. Too many filetypes and some books tend to be only in a particular format, hence creating a separation. Though this is easily remedied by using converters, it loses formatting sometimes.

I still prefer EBook reader for the convenience. However, a physical book is great. I find it better but I do not have a good reason as to why.

ziikutv··on How gut bacteria change cancer drug activity
And, more research in there is needed.
ziikutv··on ARM Releases Machine Readable Architecture Specification
ARM, still kicking! This is pretty neat. As M-J-Fox said, most developers end up having to write documentation to get around the code not being machine readable. I had to do this as well for school projects.

Good for them.

ziikutv··on Stop Guessing Languages Based on IP Address
Thanks! For fuck sakes, using VPNs sometimes is a pain in the butt due to localization.

Edit: Although I understand localization is important, but perhaps we should favor English - an international language - over a localized one. Of course, one would say, it being international does not mean well adopted. Perhaps, we can use some sort of constants to assume a Country's acceptability of English and first make English the first choice; having localization as an option.

Interesting Anecdote: When I was a tiny little kid in India, we were forced to use the English version of Google so that we learn English as well as Computers at the same time. Sure Localization is more user friendly (and hence I understand it being there) but it is not a standard. After not surfing the web (or visiting other pages), 99% [1] of the applications/programs on the computer are not localized.

[1]: Bullshit number.

ziikutv··on Show HN: Securely Handle Encryption Keys in Go
I have no technical expertise to chime in. But I just wanted to say, that I like how nicely formatted the README is.

I think the only feedback would be to show sample usages and adding a bit more technical information*

[*] That would be understandable to people with basic encryption knowledge.

ziikutv··on Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
That makes sense but I was talking about general branding and even what the website looks like on desktop.

It's one thing about keeping a consistent UX vs following what, due to its nature, becomes a "standard" UI

ziikutv··on Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+
Ah, interesting. The example on the 'on-boarding' page reminds me of what we used to do at work.

We used itertools chains to write producers and consumer to create 'Chain' objects that process data exactly as the bonobo.Graph.

Can't wait to try this.

ziikutv··on Why MIT Switched from Scheme to Python (2009)
Read many comments, decided to make a reply on the main one so its easier to address them all. Many people suggest that it was a bad switch and that Scheme should have been kept because it helped them understand FP.

I think it would be doing a disservice to other students if they didn't switch. The rationale given was a great one actually. OOO is there for a reason. I do not like the idea that FP is the answer for everything.

I understand many students used Python, C++, etc. This was the case for me as well. I did not go to any lectures for the Introductory course. I spent my time wisely studying for other Engineering classes (in reality: I actually didn't do shit and did other activities). You should do the same too.

What I am trying to say is, just because you already know OOO because you took the initiative before University (which I think - and I am biased - is a good thing to do), does not mean everyone else has. University is about teaching a body of students, all of education revolves around the mean of this body of students. It is a sad fact, but no professor or department or University will give you the unique attention you deserve; this is why I would not suggest University for that purpose. I only did University to get a piece of paper. I learned most programming stuff on my own time, before going in.

Teaching OOO, an easier of the two (FP/OOO), is a good thing. And teaching it in Python.. is a great thing. Kudos to MIT

I think instead, it is a better idea to keep Python/OOO as first year and in second year start teaching FP in whatever language. Or perhaps teach them both in first year. I think we just need to realize that when we go to University/School, we will have to walk at the pace of the "mean" even if that requires having to run (to catch up) or crawl (to slow down). Sad reality.

Edit: I just noticed that if I press the post button twice, it makes two posts. I deleted the dupe.

ziikutv··on The Benefits of Solitude
Yeah, this is something I miss as a kid.

I wish I was back home with my granddad and just farming sometimes. He is an awesome man but I cannot buy land in India anymore.

Edit: He used to manage an "Ashram" which was basically just a private little river facing house in a village. He maintained the bushes/trees/plants and all that jazz and just chilled. It was good. It was simple.

ziikutv··on PhotoScan: Taking Glare-Free Pictures of Pictures
I think there were some good counterpoints to what you said. But the most important one is.. USER.

People will record the video differently hence, adding more complexity to solving, comparatively, a simple problem.

One person might do the movements really fast, which leads to blur, which would mean they now need to add de-blurring. Other person might even miss an angle that was required. I think this is likely why panoramas are made in parts.

ziikutv··on Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
Its going to be open source so, you can put your thoughts into action if you want. =D

Edit: add smiley face.

ziikutv··on Calculus Made Easy (1914) [pdf]
So a while back, I said I am going to start writing "Colloquial books" about all of the courses I took as I relearn all of the stuff in my and other Engineering Branches (minus the grade-gun pointed at my head). One of the first courses are of course Calculus.

I skimmed through some of these video lectures, I wonder if I even should write books for this. Or simply href.

Thank you for the share. Will be of great help to me come summer.

ziikutv··on Show HN: Webhook – A lightweight configurable tool written in Go
I would suggest some sort of a generator instead of creating CLI as if you have many endpoints, this will be a chore.

As an example: We worked on something similar for a school project in Python, where you would simply write classes for each things, which would then create a JSON file.

In your case, might not be what you want if you do not want to tie to a single language though.

ziikutv··on Show HN: Webhook – A lightweight configurable tool written in Go
So I am going to reply to this one as its the root one.

Just Curious: Whats the appeal here? Why did you all decide to work on this? What were (if at all) you using before this was made by you?

Regards,

ziikutv··on Show HN: Webhook – A lightweight configurable tool written in Go
"pass-arguments-to-command" vs "commandArguments"

Verbosity is sometimes good but in the context of this.. Where all you are doing is giving commands, giving them arguments... there are not so many things here that can lead to confusion.

If you had multiple arg fields I understand.

Again, preference :)

ziikutv··on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
I think if it is an unpacked one, it does as it assumes you don't want it all the time. Not sure why it does that if dev mode is on.

Have you tried Packing them? I have yet to experience this.

ziikutv··on Microsoft to shut down Wunderlist in favor of its new app, To-Do
Is it just me or all apps now seem to either use..

* Material design

* Apple-like design

* Dropbox-like design

Even when I goto Dribble, its the same thing, different colors.

And the worse thign is, even when I am designing something. I conform to that norm!

ziikutv··on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
* Download Ublock zip

* Enable Developer Options

* Add Ublock package zip

* Enable in Incognito as well

TL;DR: Them removing it would be a dick move, but not end of the world. We can still install any packages we want.

ziikutv··on Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser
I do not consider dropping Ublock any time soon.
ziikutv··on Show HN: Webhook – A lightweight configurable tool written in Go
I think your JSON keys are verbose.

Command to run should be just called command. And trigger rule can be just trigger no?

Maybe personal preference.

ziikutv··on How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
This is why people are adding Pateron to their channels. Asking for monthly or single pledges from their fans to continue making content. There are many people already doing this.

Easter Egg: "Bos in the house"

Regards,

ziikutv··on Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere
Dang this human is good
ziikutv··on How to Raise a Creative Child – Step One: Back Off (2016)
Fair point.
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