working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.
thanks for all the support I'll check the links.
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#342We are drowning in emails and Instant messaging, esp. in our workplaces. As a former CTO of a fast growing startup I was struck by how much frustration and wasted time there was due to inefficient communication and lack of sharing knowledge about who we know and who knows what.
I'm building AntEater to make every on teams as smart as the team - using AI. It's free to try (for Gmail and Slack - https://www.anteateranalytics.com/) for small teams and helps share knowledge and activity for truly transparent teams to help individuals work less and work better.
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#343Working on a desktop version of my webdev tool SnipCSS: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma... The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn't handle CSS specificity or inheritance c…
The difficulty I imagine with that is for components whose subtree's styling is modified upon interaction via JavaScript. For instance, a drop down that gets extra classes when you click on it causing it to appear. How do you account for that?
It doesn't account for user interaction but I might attempt to do something for that in the future.
The desktop version uses puppeteer so I do force a hover state on each element and get extra psuedo selectors by doing that. I'm also planning to add something so you can interact with the page first to get the page in the state you want, because right now the selection process cancels all other events (you select something by clicking).
One of the first difficult issues that I ran into was that I had to modify CSS selectors to target the subtree. For example let's say there is a selector:
#mysidebar #atable tr
Now I only want to Snip/Extract the #atable element. I have to modify the selector by chopping off #mysidebar because the html I'm giving the user is just #atable and everything below that. The problem is modifying selectors like that ruins CSS specificity. That's just one example of how things became a lot more complicated than I originally thought it would be.
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#344working on my crippling depression / ADHD, unemployed (i don't want to work anymore in anything) 6 months , 0 productivity. learned a lot of category theory, functional programming and c++ tho.
are you lifting weights and exercising? If not get on it ASAP. Revert back to the physical-activity-heavy lifestyle of our ancestors and you'll feel better
I walk a lot, but I'm thinking on start a video series with fitness exercises.
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#345I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…
> 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to stay through the entire program. 17 of them stayed.
You're missing some numbers at the start there, chief. How many people did you reach out to? How many responded favourably (first round of self-selection)? How many actually started the program (second round of self-selection)? Without these numbers it's hard to support your premise.
Of course, none of this takes away from the fact that you got 14 people from minimum wage into high paying software jobs in just two years. That's a damn fine effort! (And as others have said, where the hell can you get a $130k job straight out of a 2 year Javascript boot camp?)
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#346We're drowning in emails and Instant Messages and need AI to help make sense of it all. As a former CTO for a fast growing startup I was struck by how often everybody was asking the same questions about connections and skills, and how much time and efforts were wasted in mid-size organizations because of lack of transparency and visibility. I'm building AntEater (www.anteateranalytics.com) with my team to bridge this…
Mercari has an internal tool that does something similar.[1] I think it’s a brilliant product. Your marketing site turns me off, though. It lacks the polish I want from something that I’m granting permission to spy on my internal corporate comms. I want to feel very certain that the trade off of privacy vs convenience will pay off.
[1] https://twitter.com/girlie_mac/status/1143693961069916161
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#347I quit my job last month to work full time on (what I think is) an under-explored area of climate change: how institutional investors block shareholder proposals calling for firms to adopt more climate-friendly policies. I have just published the first bit of research with data on how 500+ funds from the big 3 fund managers voted on climate change-related proposals in 2018: https://voting.greengovernance.org . Later…
Some ideas
-Which consumer product companies still use a lot of plastic packaging vs those already use bio-degradable packaging?
-Which heavy-industry manufacturing companies use coal or diesel as the main source of energy in their factories vs those use renewable energy source?
-Any company forbid their executives to fly excessively whether in private jet or business/first class? How many miles per year they travel ? It's simply not environmentally friendly when video conferencing should be effective in 90% of the cases?
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
4 hours a day? How do you manage all your life sustaining activities after work?
I get up early and go to bed early. I have no energy after work, so I study in the morning from 4a-8a'ish. It took a little life-hacking to get used to, but I feel a lot more accomplished each day, before I even get into the nitty-gritty meetings and pushing code.
Guessing you're married with kids and have a relatively routine life after work then.
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#349Reverse engineering a handheld device that is used to flash the Bosch ECU memory region related to engine tuning
It features:
* master/slave paradigm
* public + private key encryption
* XOR ciphers
* hardware tokens
* server-side validation
* .NET obfuscation
* Themida/WinLicense DLL packing/obfuscation
* Debugger detection
Car tuning is an industry where if your car costs $60k, tuners can charge you $999. If your car costs $120k, they know you are a wealthier client, so they blatantly charge you $3k for the same amount of effort on their end. Gross.
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#350SSD Nodes is a bootstrapped cloud hosting provider I've been working on since 2011. Our servers are 90% lower cost than DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode when you commit to 1 or 3 years in advance.
We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB/s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors.