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SlyShy

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Email: mkbunday@gmail.com Website: zencephalon.com

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2012 hackNY fellow. 2013 hackNY mentor. Former teacher at Dev Bootcamp NYC. Xoogler NYC. Engineer at AltSchool.

Breathe, relax, smile! Learn meditation. It changed my life, maybe it can change yours. You know my dad as tokenadult.

https://github.com/zencephalon

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calendar.management 6y ago

Show HN: Get text summary of your Gcal availability in seconds

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www.ybrikman.com 9y ago

Esoteric programming paradigms

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infiniteundo.com 9y ago

Counterintuitive Things about Testing

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www.reddit.com 10y ago

Reality gem: Simple and easy proxy to real-life knowledge

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Is it just me or did Kelly Ellis disappear from the front page?

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newlyancient.com 12y ago

Spiped + SSH = Secure Proxy

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www.tealeafnation.com 12y ago

China’s Surprising Reaction to the U.S. Government Shutdown

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nemaload.davidad.org 13y ago

Show HN: My friend's project to simulate an entire C. Elegans

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varnull.adityamukerjee.net 13y ago

Objects and Procedures: A Python and Java Comparison

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code.sailthru.com 13y ago

IRC or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sailbot

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r-wos.org 13y ago

Gti

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confusedlanguagetech.blogspot.com 14y ago

Holistic Sentiment Analysis Across Languages, Part I: LDA

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www.youtube.com 15y ago

Ruby 2.0: What We Want to Accomplish in the Near Future

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english.aljazeera.net 15y ago

Al Jazeera's Top Stories of the Year

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stephane.ducasse.free.fr 15y ago

The Art and Science of Smalltalk

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people.cs.uchicago.edu 15y ago

Programming Languages: Theory and Practice. Free book [pdf]

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blog.regehr.org 15y ago

Smallest saturating arithmetic functions in x86 assembly: Is 45 bytes the limit?

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antigrain.com 15y ago

Improving Digital Typography

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www.symantec.com 15y ago

Exploring Stuxnet’s PLC Infection Process

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djm.cc 16y ago

Return the largest number possible in 512 characters of C

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www.developerfusion.com 16y ago

C# VB.Net - Python - Ruby

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thingsaaronmade.com 16y ago

Bootstrapping a prototype-based object-oriented language in 44 lines of code.

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i.imgur.com 16y ago

Apple's New Signal Bars (Comparison)

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blog.okcupid.com 16y ago

OKCupid: The Big Lies People Tell In Online Dating

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beza1e1.tuxen.de 16y ago

Mistakes in programming language design

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www.dropbox.com 16y ago

Dropbox API is available

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blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp 16y ago

Ruby 1.9.2 RC1 is out

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www.spectacle.org 16y ago

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" - it's a lawyer joke

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all-thats-interesting.tumblr.com 16y ago

Calvin & Jobs

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www.facebook.com 16y ago

Facebook moving into the crowd-sourced Q&A business.

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Using https://autopilot.ooo I’ve automated myself in both my morning and evening routines. I noticed I have exceptionally poor executive functioning in the morning, but now I don’t have to think at all for the first hour that I’m awake, I just follow my pre-programmed instructions written for me by my benevolent higher-functioning awake self in the past. Thanks me!

Seems unwarranted to assume they are actively losing customers. I haven't bought an iPhone in years because I still use a SE, and I still use my 2015 MBP. They haven't lost me in any real sense just because I haven't contributed to a sale _recently_.

NetHack 3.6.2 7 years ago

I used to love playing NetHack and ascended multiple times. Sometimes I wish DCSS hadn't ruined NetHack's UX for me. I'd love to see NetHack reimagined with a friendly UI on-par with DCSS and other modern roguelikes.

As far as language learning apps go I've gotten way more milage out of Clozemaster than I ever did out of Duolingo. At least for learning vocabulary Clozemaster's combination of spaced repetition and cloze-completions helps immensely (especially using it on free text input mode instead of multiple choice). That said Duolingo does help a lot more with the dead basics.

For context I could already speak Mandarin because I grew up bilingual but always found that I've have to laboriously re-learn vocabulary for literacy. Clozemaster seems like the most sustainable way for me to maintain an expanded vocabulary (in both Traditional and Simplified characters) that I've found.

I just do Clozemaster every time I sit on a toilet, pretty easy habit cue, if a bit gross.

Fabric | Software Engineer (Full Stack) | Brooklyn, NY | Onsite, Full-time | https://meetfabric.com We're building a platform to give young families fast and easy access to simple financial security products. A few cool things about Fabric:

* We're entirely - as in 100% - serverless. Our backend services use AWS Lambda and API Gateway. We store our data in DynamoDB and S3.

* We give our engineers problems, not tasks. Your solution might involve frontend work, backend work, infra work - you name it.

* We have a highly collaborative and autonomous environment where we empower Engineers with decision-making frameworks that are based on our company-values and realtime data.

If you're looking to write fullstack JS on a small team where you'll have ownership over the code and an impact on the business, this is the place for you.

* More about the role: https://meetfabric.com/careers/software-engineer-full-stack

* On our serverless infra: https://thenewstack.io/case-study-how-fabric-uses-serverless....

Send Scotty a note at scotty[at]meetfabric.com :)

Dugout Loop 8 years ago

I feel extremely curious about the construction costs given that the proposal says the Dugout Loop will transport just 250,000 a year at $1 fares. I suppose if it works the press alone could make the investment worthwhile.

This seems like a solid response to Instagram eating their market share, as Instagram suffers from exactly the problem described (of course, as intended because Facebook's entire business model thrives on it).

React 16 9 years ago

Impressive improvements in this version and very heartening to see performance improve in addition to the new APIs.

Multiple render return types and portals both solve some annoying situations that can come up.

As a former employee I have to say that Kaplan did a very fine job of running the place into the ground. Kaplan management managed to take an industry leader with first mover advantage and completely squander it by myopically focusing on quarterly profits. They really should have switched to a pay-after-getting-a-job tuition model that schools like AppAcademy offer. That would have simultaneously better met the mission of serving diverse students (students who can't afford $17,000+ and living in an expensive urban area for almost five months) and improve long term outcomes.

The pay-after-getting-a-job model creates virtuous cycles, because the schools that implement it suck up the most prepared students. Schools not offering that model end up with the leftovers after admissions to the top schools.

Arguably colleges and universities should also adopt pay-after-getting-a-job but that would probably hurt their bottom lines substantially. It definitely creates the correct alignment of incentives for the school to educate well.

Pretty amazing too, considering Kaplan has very deep pockets and could easily have financed the slight lag in revenue switching to models would have required. To me it just reeks of old-school short sighted corporate management thinking.

For a bootcamp to not adopt pay-after-getting-a-job just shows that they lack faith in their own product. Funny because many schools end up having to hire lots of their alums as a way of bolstering their employment numbers.

On a closing note, huge props to all the extremely hardworking teachers and students who went through DBC, they made it an amazing place despite all hardship. I made many of my most meaningful relationships there and I witnessed tremendous transformations in people.

As someone who came second in a DCSS tournament back in the day, let me tell U that this game rocks if U enjoy tactical gameplay. It can brutally punish U until U learn sufficient caution and U tune your situational awareness and resource management.

Have fun!

Some really beautiful components like the TreeSelect in there, not trivial to build at all.

That said, the first time I loaded the page sure took a long time. Kind of sad to need Webpack to create chunks just to recreate the old effect of not loading all the content for your website all at once.

Leaving the Nest 10 years ago

Marwan Fawaz used to run Motorola Home. It didn't really have much to do with "Home" in the sense of Nest though.

Travelytix | http://guestfriend.com | NYC, NY | Full-time | ONSITE

Travelytix is creating a SaaS product (GuestFriend) for hoteliers to more effectively cater to guests’ preferences by creating new channels for collecting user-generated data. We will help clients analyze their data to increase profitability via up-sells and personalization.

We aim to achieve this by replacing hardwired, antiquated in-room phones with VoIP on phablets powered by our software (applications and customized Android OS), integrated with a cloud-based PBX. We're building a Java backend and React frontend.

We're a five person team working out of a gorgeous penthouse in downtown Brooklyn, less than minutes form every major subway. We're looking for people excited to make a big impact and iterate quickly.

Looking for: * Senior Front End Engineer (http://guestfriend.com/senior-front-end-engineer)

Email: matt@travelytix.com

Travelytix | http://guestfriend.com | NYC, NY | Full-time | Onsite preferred, open to remote

Travelytix is creating a SaaS product (GuestFriend) for hoteliers to more effectively cater to guests’ preferences by creating new channels for collecting user-generated data. We will help clients analyze their data to increase profitability via up-sells and personalization.

We aim to achieve this by replacing hardwired, antiquated in-room phones with VoIP on phablets powered by our software (applications and customized Android OS), integrated with a cloud-based PBX. We're building a Java backend and React frontend.

We're a three person team working out of a gorgeous penthouse in downtown Brooklyn, less than minutes form every major subway. We're looking for people excited to make a big impact and iterate quickly.

Looking for:

* Android Engineer (http://guestfriend.com/android-engineer)

* Senior Front End Engineer (http://guestfriend.com/senior-front-end-engineer)

* Product Designer (http://guestfriend.com/ui-designer)

Email: matt@travelytix.com

Wow does that UI ever look cluttered and claustrophobic. Doesn't seem like they want anyone to actually read their email.