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apitman
13,487karma·3,567submissions·December 11, 2014
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Software architect on the iobio team at the University of Utah Eccles Institute of Human Genetics. I'm passionate about the application of computer science to solving health problems. Hans Rosling is my hero.
Personal site:
apitman.com
Projects:
IndieBits.io - A community for data ownership, self-hosting, and decentralization.
LastLogin.net - A free, privacy-focused login provider
TakingNames.io - Domain names for self-hosters
boringproxy.io - Simple, e2ee tunneling proxy
droplock.apitman.com - Simple secure secret sharing
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Or maybe the general principle that if you make the wrong choices often enough, eventually you might find you've lost the opportunity to choose at all.
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This. I've been getting up at 5 for the past few weeks. Initially I mostly wanted to be more disciplined, but I quickly realized the value in having my free hours at the beginning of the day inst…
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Netflix's median employee salary is ~$180,000? Seems really high. Do they have a non-traditional org chart?
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I'm going off topic at this point but I'd think for a native app the main advantages of a binary format would be the static typing and code generation that come from using an IDL.
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Or better yet, pick pocket someone else's phone at another location. Commit a small but likely-to-be-reported crime near that location. Then carry their phone (and not yours) while committing a m…
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You might also be interesting in file.pizza. Very useful. The webtorrent ecosystem in general is very cool tech.
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He links another post he made a year ago about moving from SF to one of the most conservative/religious cities in America[0]. Both were great reads. [0] https://medium.com/@shl&#x…
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Funny how as I clicked on the "100% free and open source software" button my brain subconsciously branch-predicted the layout of a GitHub page. The payoff was worth the stall.
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I developed bad RSI starting about 5 months ago. It's manageable now (mostly from stretches and nerve glides my physical therapist taught me, and using an ergo keyboard and foot pedals) but was s…
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Hans Rosling is one of my greatest heroes.
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Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I'll throw in several more favorites that have changed the way I think over the years, in no particular order: * The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt * 7 Hab…
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I've had a copy of this from a book sale sitting on my shelf for over a year. I'll have to get to it.
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Keep in mind my experience was almost exclusively with communications systems, which are important but nowhere near as vital as things like autopilot. Things could very likely be better there, or at a…
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Oh Dreamliner, still[0] making me look bad 12 years later. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9477941 …
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I hear ya, but I'm hopeful this will improve over the next few years as QUIC gets used more in the wild. It really does bring some nice advantages.
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Might look into Dante Labs. I was fairly happy with their privacy policies and ordered a kit during black Friday for 200USD
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I guess a more implicit part of my question is why didn't they design it to work well on top of websockets from the beginning, rather than doing their own framing? If you assume you have a reliab…
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that HTTP/2 only half solves the head of line blocking problem. It's true that you don't have message-level blocking like websocket…
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I'm quite surprised they're not using websockets for streaming. Anyone know why? EDIT: Better question: is anyone aware of a system like gRPC but built with bidirectional streaming for the b…
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I think they're rather similar in goals. I found this overview informative: https://youtu.be/RoXT_Rkg8LA
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Stroustrup likes to say it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot with C++, but when you do it tends to blow off the whole leg.
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Every good thing people are saying about Steve's contributions are true. His efforts stand out not just within the Rust community but across every open source project I've engaged with. Than…
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Nice, is this similar to ngrok?
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It's on iOS. Not sure about desktop Safari
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Well this is timely. I spent several hours today trying to get local https working. I needed it because iOS Safari will only let you make getUserMedia (WebRTC) requests for the webcam over secure conn…