Hacker News: mendelk

New comment by mendelk in "3D OpenStreetMap"

mendelk — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:31:23 +0000

All I'm getting is a message: "Oops! Unauthorized F4map API usage. If you are this website administrator, please contact the support at support@f4map.com."

New comment by mendelk in "The Big [Censored] Theory"

mendelk — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 23:09:41 +0000

> milk/toast

FYI the word I believe you're looking for is "milquetoast" :)

One-Quarter of American Restaurants Won’t Reopen, OpenTable Says

mendelk — Fri, 15 May 2020 04:49:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-14/one-quarter-of-american-restaurants-won-t-reopen-opentable-says

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23188998

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Blits.js Alpha Release

mendelk — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:38:32 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/flybayer/status/1253649008540569600

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22967788

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mendelk in "What happened to Mint?"

mendelk — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 23:01:04 +0000

Tiller (https://www.tillerhq.com/) does exactly this. You can dump the data into Google Sheets or into Excel.

New comment by mendelk in "What happened to Mint?"

mendelk — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 22:35:35 +0000

While I can understand not wanting to create a Google account (even just to use as a login), my understanding is that if you use Tiller via Excel, Google will not have access to any of your financial data.

New comment by mendelk in "T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta"

mendelk — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:23:38 +0000

I'm not from Germany, but I did notice that they changed the color for the German site. My comparison is to the American site.

New comment by mendelk in "T-Mobile demand Lemonade to stop using the color magenta"

mendelk — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:03:21 +0000

For those curious, based on the CSS on their respective websites, they aren't _exactly_ the same HEX color, just pretty similar.

(Lemonade is #ff0083, while T-Mobile is #e20074. Comparison here: https://www.colorcombos.com/combotester.html?color0=e20074&c...)

New comment by mendelk in "قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic"

mendelk — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:36:08 +0000

This reminds me of Yid++[0], a tongue-in-cheek C++ compiler with a bunch of keywords translated into Yeshivish[1]. (I apologize in advance if the humor is wasted on those unfamiliar with the Yeshivish / Talmudic world.) It's still in ASCII though :)

If nothing else, these things remind me how lucky I was to not have had to learn English while I simultaneously learned to program.

[0] https://schorrm.github.io/ypp/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivish

New comment by mendelk in "Why the NBA Apologized to China over Daryl Morey's Tweet About Hong Kong"

mendelk — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 03:04:08 +0000

The Bleacher Report article was taken down, but can be still be read here: https://web.archive.org/web/20191007075632/https://bleacherr...

New comment by mendelk in "Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs"

mendelk — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 20:35:16 +0000

This is precisely the purpose of the OpenAPI Specification[0], an extended subset of the JSON Schema specification. Plus there a whole family of supporting tools, such as Swagger UI[1], and lots more[2].

[0] https://swagger.io/docs/specification/about/

[1] https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/

[2] https://openapi.tools/

Former Flow dev: I'm dropping Flow in favor of TypeScript and you should too

mendelk — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:54:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/jamiebuilds/status/1064649666275340288

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18505494

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

From Tesla Delivery Hell to Giving Me Control of Their Forums with 1.5M Contacts

mendelk — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dansdeals.com/more/dans-commentary/went-tesla-delivery-hell-tesla-giving-control-site-forums-1-5-million-tesla-account-contacts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18465513

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by mendelk in "Turns Out Wearing a Hi-Vis Vest Gets You into Everything for Free"

mendelk — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 15:43:00 +0000

For a subreddit dedicated to this (TFA is currently first place), see https://old.reddit.com/r/ActLikeYouBelong/

New comment by mendelk in "Paul Buchheit on Joining Google, How to Become a Great Engineer, and Happiness"

mendelk — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:38:50 +0000

Welp, now that my Imposter Syndrome has returned in full force, any concrete advice on leveling up in engineering skill (other than getting hired at Google circa 1999)?

Edit: I now see that Paul coined the "Don't be Evil" slogan[0]. I'm curious what his thoughts on its removal and what that portends for Google today. u/paul?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22540

New comment by mendelk in "New law lets you defer capital gains taxes by investing in opportunity zones"

mendelk — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 01:31:17 +0000

"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France

(Note, this is not to express an opinion on the GP!)

New comment by mendelk in "Life in the Spanish city that banned cars"

mendelk — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:02:58 +0000

FYI in case you weren't aware, Yom Kippur is celebrated tonight / tomorrow this year.

New comment by mendelk in "Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3"

mendelk — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:11:45 +0000

Thanks. I'll have to look into that. Might not work for my use-case (AC units).

New comment by mendelk in "Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3"

mendelk — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:09:01 +0000

Thanks balloob. Tried all the solutions in the thread. None worked for me.

New comment by mendelk in "Home Assistant: Open-source home automation platform running on Python 3"

mendelk — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 14:32:34 +0000

That didn't work for me :/