Viewing profile — asurty

Thanks for taking the time to find/share these links! Very informative. It sounds to me like most of the criticism's outlined are solvable. Perhaps the people behind the standard s…

Web components seem like a good idea to me. I would imagine there are a lot of libraries out there (eg/ calendars, styling frameworks) that would benefit from reuse across applicat…

That is cool, didn't realize that! I wonder why React lags behind ( ? )

IMO they are complimentary to react. Frameworks like react/angular/backbone/vue solve the problem of creating a single page application with a nice architecture and sharing code be…

A few years back I did something called 'master the mainframe' where they provided a TSO login for you on an instance running in one of their labs. They also provided you with a bu…

I love the idea of requiring the purchase of merchandise beforehand, although I'm not sure if this would only compound the problem of scalping. The problem with building moats is a…

I think ticket master attempted to do something similar to what you were saying as mentioned in this freakonimics podcast - https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-the-live-event-t…

TLDR: band gaps are not for the feint of heard :D

I think the core ethos of the book is every negotiation is different and so each tip/technique is just that - a tip/technique you can add to your tool belt and use when the context…

I have also been loving yoga on youtube! Its like going to a class except there is nobody to tell me how much my form sucks. I've been thinking about writing an app to let me turn …

This is exactly why I decided against purchasing a cottage (thats what we call it up here in Canada). I realized I would be spending at least 4 hours in traffic every weekend to do…

That was fun! Somehow I feel like I came up with a tune that already exists - https://music-grid.surge.sh/#256-80-256-40-256-32-256-288-12...

I've been using it more to read Dalio's articles. Which makes me curious why he is using linked in and not just hire someone to set up a personal blog for him ( ? )

This reminds me of a podcast I listened to recently about creativity. Maybe its not about the idiomatic question of whether classes are good or bad but more about the act of placin…

This reminds me of a first year engineering philosophy course I took where the prof spent a good chunk of it trying to tell us there is no such thing as 100% objective research the…

I also found typing "Fa.." became muscle memory. I found blocking it with /etc/hosts worked for me - https://gist.github.com/thomasbilk/1506210/2d20f47bbcca75b2f... [edit] I was th…

Perhaps this will only spur the global do gooders of the world to come up with better (more permanent) solutions for promoting privacy, free speech and innovation. As a reader of H…

Also heard about this here - http://www.wnyc.org/story/public-comment-broken?tab=transcri...

The beauty of having an open source solution is smart and rational people from across the political spectrum can work together on something that everyone agrees is a 'correct' voti…

I hope the title for this link is not misleading. I'm genuinely curious of the answer and hope people read the full article.

Microsoft has lost my trust in them after what happened to me with Skype. I was one of the many victims who had their account hacked. The worst part was how their customer support …

is this available as a podcast?