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harrylepotter

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About harrylepotter

Adelaidian living in SF since 2011. Former cofounder turned product guy at a megacorp.

Occasionally i write on https://medium.com/@bendavey or contribute to the odd small project on github.com/harrylepotter

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    Comment #48897960

    Darwinium (darwinium.com) is another example. Approach here involves a combination of profiling and step-transition probabilities; idea is that a customer can ring-fence a particul…

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    Comment #45950696

    ironically this was the game that enabled the savegame exploit with the bert and ernie fonts if i recall correctly

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    Comment #45807015

    Darwinium | Senior Fullstack Engineer (Frontend focused) | Enterprise Fraud & Risk Management | Remote (GMT+11 – Sydney) Darwinium helps some of the world’s biggest companies stop …

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    Comment #45190742

    completely off topic but i find your blog theme thoroughly refreshing.

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    Ask HN: Why has the meta portal never been jailbroken?

    Every day i look across at a gorgeous device on the corner of my desk gathering dust that "could be" if there were the ability to run any android app on it (...namely the Homeassis…

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    Comment #44652853

    A fridge-mounted ESP32 barcode integration would be pretty awesome for tracking fridge inventory

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    Comment #44439146

    We do quite a lot of this using webviews in vscode over at Darwinium. Similar process that involves postMessages between the UI container and the host containing the LSP. Biggest c…

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    Comment #39351940

    I cancelled my Prime membership 3 years ago after moving to Australia. Haven't missed it in the slightest. I make far fewer impulse purchases and found prime video anaemic at best.…

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    Comment #38185212

    just went to the store to buy a Vodafone prepaid sim card. There were about 60 people in line. Point of sales are out in a lot of coffee shops. Utter chaos!

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    Comment #37898034

    Because the browser is the gateway to things like search. And thats the gateway to a lot of things.

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    Comment #37493496

    this is a toxic comment, and rather presumptive. You don't know what this person's use-case is or what constraints they have.

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    Comment #36117679

    I wouldn’t underestimate that. All CDN vendors are substantially different. Lambda @edge is broken into requests and responses, and don’t even get me started on Akamai.

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    Comment #35533279

    Nice Dave Dobbyn sneak reference there.

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    Comment #32687604

    It's been many years for me but i recall ZK (zkoss.org) being fairly compelling

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    Comment #32516776

    Yeah I intentionally chose it as the foundation for UI for a project we started in 2021. The components are simple and lightweight there's an abundance of great themes.

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    Comment #32159100

    10 PRINT "FUCK" 20 GOTO 10 …still makes me giggle

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    Comment #32050686

    The pages of code beginning on page 82 bring back some memories. There was a certain childhood thrill that came from changing some of those values despite not really knowing what w…

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    Comment #30278487

    Hate to break it to you, but December 1991 was 30 years ago.

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    Comment #30157803

    Reminds me of Victor Gruen (designer of the modern shopping mall) and his thoughts on what it became.

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    Comment #29195485

    I ran a no-code startup about 10 years ago for building mobile apps. My experience has been that no-code is empowering... until it isn't. There's always a piece of bespoke function…

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    Comment #29024988

    From a practical sense though, wouldn’t the staffing costs pale in significance to the other costs of running a large vessel?

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    Comment #28862608

    October 31 is easier.

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    Comment #28837265

    36. Started my career at 19 and cofounded a company early in my career. Developed a like of coordinating technical direction rather than being in the trenches, and moved into produ…

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