Hacker News: decklin

I Eat Poo

decklin — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 19:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/jeremy/86abfcd80ce2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6466274

Points: 18

# Comments: 9

10x Engineer

decklin — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 17:56:29 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/about-work/6aedba30ecfe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6432823

Points: 228

# Comments: 176

New comment by decklin in "Amazon’s Music Download Site is Cheaper Than iTunes 78% of the Time"

decklin — Sat, 21 Sep 2013 18:54:37 +0000

If you open an MP3, speed it up in Audacity, and save it as an MP3, you are still re-encoding it and decreasing quality, which is what I assume you mean by "conversion".

After any processing step, you should save to a lossless format to avoid this. You can start with whatever format you want (AAC from iTunes and MP3 from Amazon are pretty indistinguishable in subjective quality.)

Better yet, use a portable player that can change playback speed on the fly while decoding. (many "DJ" apps, a hardware player than can run Rockbox, etc.)

The Infrastructure Engineers Guide To Entrepreneurship

decklin — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 16:42:15 +0000

Article URL: http://boundary.com/blog/2013/09/16/the-infrastructure-engineers-guide-to-entrepreneurship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6394164

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A Twisty Maze of Linux Clocks, All Slightly Different [2010]

decklin — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 03:26:38 +0000

Article URL: http://geekwhisperer.blogspot.com/2010/01/twisty-maze-of-linux-clocks-all.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6331990

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Things I Never, Ever Want to Hear Again

decklin — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:50:06 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/about-work/82978662b2d6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6322008

Points: 26

# Comments: 47

Spirit - Set your Tweets to disappear with a simple hashtag

decklin — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 01:06:56 +0000

Article URL: http://twitterspirit.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6318138

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Steal This Article

decklin — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:58:55 +0000

Article URL: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/steal-this-article/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6316834

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Unbearable Whiteness of Breaking Things

decklin — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 19:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/p/521cb394fda2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6285532

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Value of Windowing is Questioned (1984)

decklin — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:23:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/25/science/value-of-windowing-is-questioned.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6267010

Points: 14

# Comments: 8

Just Delete Me

decklin — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:00:14 +0000

Article URL: http://robblewis.me/just-delete-me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6265613

Points: 341

# Comments: 69

Let’s Start a Revolution

decklin — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:49:09 +0000

Article URL: http://writing.jan.io/2013/08/16/lets-start-a-revolution.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253824

Points: 71

# Comments: 25

New comment by decklin in "Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page"

decklin — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:56:48 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6150773

Ethics and Power in the Long War

decklin — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 03:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://noisysquare.com/ethics-and-power-in-the-long-war-eleanor-saitta-dymaxion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6158220

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Open Letter on New Massachusetts Tax on Software Services

decklin — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:24:40 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.codingoutloud.com/2013/07/28/open-letter-on-new-massachusetts-tax-on-software-services/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6128031

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by decklin in "Observations from a Tipless Restaurant"

decklin — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:23:56 +0000

I thought part 1 (http://jayporter.com/dispatches/observations-from-a-tipless-...) was particularly insightful:

"A certain small number of very vocal men (and it was always men) resented that we were not letting [them] try to exercise additional control over our team members. This was true even though compelling research has shown that servers do not adjust quality of service as a result of tips; instead the idea that the restaurant was not offering our servers up as objects of control, was heresy. For these people, the primary service they wanted from the restaurant was the opportunity to pay for favors from the server..."

New comment by decklin in "RailsBridge Boston welcomes 64 women into Boston Ruby community [video]"

decklin — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 18:47:50 +0000

I was a TA at this one (and the last). It was really great to see the high turnout and how passionate the organizers are. Many thanks to all involved.

If you want to improve your people skills and ability to explain technical concepts (I'll be honest, I'm not very good at either, which is why I do this as practice), I really recommend answering beginner questions from people of a different background than your own. Apart from getting better at teaching (you work in a team, right? You need to explain your code) you can get a lot of insight into how programming language design is user interface. Users are a diverse group.

How Many Federal Laws Are There?

decklin — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:23:33 +0000

Article URL: http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2013/03/frequent-reference-question-how-many-federal-laws-are-there/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6007556

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Occupy Ruby: Why We Need to Moderate the 1%

decklin — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:51:12 +0000

Article URL: http://confreaks.com/videos/1085-cascadiaruby2012-occupy-ruby-why-we-need-to-moderate-the-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6004394

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New Handicapped Sign Heads to NYC

decklin — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:28:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.npr.org/2013/07/07/189523504/new-handicapped-sign-rolls-into-new-york-city

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6004294

Points: 1

# Comments: 0