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Convert Pen Drawings to SVGs

chuckgreenman — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:43:10 +0000

Article URL: https://chuckgreenman.com/python/images/just-rambling/2024/01/04/pen-drawings-to-svg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38878508

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Ask HN: Why do people write comments?"

chuckgreenman — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 15:35:31 +0000

Writing is a way of thinking for me. In a venue like HackerNews I can write something that I think I believe and someone will probably take the opposite viewpoint and tell me why I'm wrong.

Sometimes that helps me change my mind if I'm less able to defend what I think, sometimes it solidifies that I was right because the response isn't substantive.

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Removal of Heroku free product plans"

chuckgreenman — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 18:05:08 +0000

Heroku's final chapter was being acquired, we are now entering the afterword. It was revolutionary when it was introduced and for a long while after that - but their mistake was getting sold to Salesforce, they can't even make a competent CRM, of course they can't innovate a developer experience platform.

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?"

chuckgreenman — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:53:00 +0000

In the last couple of months Google's results have improved for me, I'm no longer seeing stack overflow clones, there are fewer content farm results too.

New comment by chuckgreenman in "List of apps people pay for but have low rating"

chuckgreenman — Sat, 01 May 2021 19:33:47 +0000

Here's the actual case:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/17...

There is an attached PDF with the full decision, Pages 27, 28 on reference some related cases that informed the decision.

New comment by chuckgreenman in "List of apps people pay for but have low rating"

chuckgreenman — Sat, 01 May 2021 19:22:16 +0000

Even if it is, it doesn't matter. The US Court of Appeals created precedent that allows for the scraping and aggregation of publicly published information with that LinkedIn case.

Ask HN: How Long Is Your CI Process?

chuckgreenman — Sat, 01 May 2021 14:10:35 +0000

I've seen a couple of projects using CI to build the project and run their test suite.

All of them have been interpreted languages like PHP, Python and Ruby. Their builds and tests took between 30-45 minutes. As far as project size and complexity, these were projects that were built and maintained by four person teams over the course of 3-5 years, so it's not like they were massive services with hundreds of developers.

I'm still kind of new, I worked at a couple internships and I've been working full time for a year so I might be totally wrong but I feel like these CI pipelines could be optimized to run faster.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27006465

Points: 94

# Comments: 79

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Show HN: AI-powered landing page builder"

chuckgreenman — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 14:14:15 +0000

No offense, but if you can't design and write a compelling landing page for your service that works you don't understand your product or customer enough to be in the line of business that you're in.

This is the race to the bottom kind of shit that is designed to help you crank out no/low effort content that search engines like but provide no value to an end user.

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Reed Hastings: On rock star developers"

chuckgreenman — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 15:21:30 +0000

Rockstar developers can duct tape a bunch of bullshit together and make a good demo, and after 6 months when they get poached by another company you'll just have to hire actually competent people. They'll have to untangle the your geniuses opus of bullshit and rebuild it into something that works. It will take time and it will be expensive.

I'm not too bothered by people wanting to hire rockstars though because there will always be a market for people like me to come in and clean up the mess.

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Ask HN: How do you RSS?"

chuckgreenman — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:53:48 +0000

Isn't there a way to default back to a rendered image if MathJax isn't supported?

Wat Talk by Gary Bernhardt CodeMash 2012

chuckgreenman — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 16:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804496

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?"

chuckgreenman — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:59:23 +0000

Oh geeze, he claims that regular dog food gives dogs cancer in one of those promo videos. Yikes.

OSU Cancels Classes, Highlights Need for Robust IT in Public Health

chuckgreenman — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://chuck.codes/scaling/health/2020/03/10/ohio-state-corona-virus-announcement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535113

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by chuckgreenman in "DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use"

chuckgreenman — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:31:53 +0000

Let's say there's a new can opener in the drawer [1], it's the same size and shape as a can opener but because it's not what you're used to you try to use it in the normal orientation and it doesn't work.

Even though the tool can open cans, rounds off the sharp edges and requires less grip force you reply with: a lot of OXO folks blame the user or social conditioning. It's BS.

Is that a reasonable response?

I'd argue that it isn't.

But to answer your question I use more precise language for what I'm looking for, specifying the city and state I want results from, specifying the type of thing that I want.

A lot of my searches are !bangs,

!godoc - for searching Go packages !gems - for searching ruby gems !sx - for getting only stack overflow results !w - for jumping to a Wikipedia article !gh - for searching github

- [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000079XW2?tag=duckduckgo-ffab-20&...

New comment by chuckgreenman in "DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use"

chuckgreenman — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:41:54 +0000

I think I've figured out what is happening when people tell me that DuckDuckGo's results "aren't good enough".

What's really happening is that they've been trained to search a certain way to using Google and because DDG doesn't have all the historical data of your searches on their platform they can't fill in the gaps as well.

After a couple days using DDG I found the right vocabulary to get good local results and which bangs to use to get results from the sites that I want. It's a more effective tool if you learn how to use it.

Analyzing a Suspicious Firefox Extension

chuckgreenman — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:18:33 +0000

Article URL: https://chuck.codes/security-adjacent/2020/02/17/analyzing-a-firefox-malware-searchware-extension.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22355786

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Analyzing a Firefox Searchware Extension

chuckgreenman — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:56:52 +0000

Article URL: https://chuck.codes/security-adjacent/2020/02/17/analyzing-a-firefox-malware-searchware-extension.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22350191

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

In 1965, thieves stole $430k with an anti-tank gun

chuckgreenman — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 21:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2017/02/throwback_thursday_joel_singer_sentenced_in_brinks_break-in.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716911

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by chuckgreenman in "I Ditched Google for DuckDuckGo"

chuckgreenman — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:49:35 +0000

Also, at 100 searches a day that's 6.25 searches per hour, if they're spread evenly over a 16 hour waking period. Who makes that many searches?!

New comment by chuckgreenman in "Trashing Teens (2007)"

chuckgreenman — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:20:28 +0000

Would you care to provide any evidence that a publication from the University of Rochester medical center, reviewed by an MD and two RNs is not credible?