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mdonahoe

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About mdonahoe

I work for Skydio, building autonomous drones.

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    Comment #47339837

    I had fun re-implementing antirez's "kilo" editor https://github.com/antirez/kilo There's a nice tutorial for it https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/ Great way to learn more …

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    Comment #44076373

    Copycopy?

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    Comment #39470792

    Yeah she and I prefer the flash version too. The music is great, and sitting together at a computer is a better collaborating experience than the mobile app. Unless you're on a roa…

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    Comment #39468210

    My daughter and I play "dadbot" where I'm the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her https://lightbot.com/ but we like t…

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    Comment #39413766

    I went to Olin and took a class from Allen Downey. Highly recommended

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    Comment #38577824

    I think LexClips are a little better because they tend to have less Lex and more guest than the full interview. But I’d prefer if he was edited out completely. Errol Morris had som…

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    Comment #38482638

    Do you work at Apple?

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    Comment #38480935

    The man/woman color inversion one was the most impressive to me. On the rotations, I can rotate in my mind and see the other view… but I find it very hard to color invert mentally

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    Comment #38369612

    I guess with Nazis, there is a chance that a revolt eventually happens and ends their reign. It’s less clear how humans come back from being paperclipped, so maybe that’s his ratio…

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    Comment #38079861

    I’ll take an Irish Car Bomb please.

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    Comment #37969947

    Or ] if you want to make a red screen ;-)

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    Comment #37969931

    What’s the minimal program that actually draws something? I’m just getting black so far. Edit: ah, it’s F

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    Comment #37957643

    Completely agree! The antagonists also dig tunnels and otherwise subvert city infrastructure. I feel like it was a perfect example of what the author talked about.

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    Comment #37813996

    “We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.” —- Thoreau

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    Comment #37690791

    We raised ~$60m before R1 launched in 2018. And we were still under 100 total when S2 launched at the end of 2019. I'm not sure how things would have played out if we had 100m+ bef…

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    Comment #37684876

    “keep a copy of it” It’s been so long since I sent a physical letter that I forgot the default is you only have a record of the replies.

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    Comment #37592096

    > our lab Which lab are you referring to?

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    Comment #37387769

    My friend just moved back to SF from Austin. He said Austin seemed alive when it was one of the only places open during COVID, but now it’s just another place with worse weather.

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    Comment #37387517

    Light bot https://lightbot.com/

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    Comment #37219599

    I tried to do this, but apparently I didn’t start early enough. Now my six year old daughter trolls me, saying “I love the ads” and refuses to let me press SKIP AD if we are watchi…

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    Comment #36414242

    Harm is all you need

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    Comment #36398503

    I know the reason, and it’s a doozy. Send me $5 and I’ll let you in on the secret.

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