How about Houston, Texas? Good timing, too, since I may soon need to recruit for a new startup. ⊙⊙
I'd be interested in a Houston meetup!
Readit Newsafvictory commented on Ask HN: Does Hacker News still do in person meet ups? · Posted by u/people_not_bots
afvictory commented on Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays? · Posted by u/n42
I haven't run into the visual issues you mention but I've definitely run into a lot of problems regarding failure to wake.
Currently using: 2 Gigabyte M28Us (scaled to 1440p) and 1 Dell S2716DGR, all running at 144hz on various different Macs. One of the M28us is passing through the mouse, keyboard, and webcam.
I don't have any issues with the 2017 era MacBook Pro using random display port to USB-C cables I bought off amazon.
I did have a bunch of issues with the M1 Pro MacBook. I used it exclusively in clamshell mode and 90% of the time it failed to wake up and detect the monitors in general. To get it working, I had to continuously unplug and plug the cables back in. Sometimes this worked on the first try, other times it took 10 minutes of messing with the cables. I upgraded to using certified Thunderbolt 4 cables on the M28Us but that didn't fix the problem.
Currently I'm running a baseline Mac Studio. The biggest issue I have is that the display order changes most of the time when I wake the computer. Every now and then it seems to not pick up one of my displays and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. It's a little bit annoying but definitely not as frustrating at the M1 Pro MacBook.
afvictory commented on RSS feeds are available for many U.S. Government collections govinfo.gov/feeds... · Posted by u/pizza
The civil servants who are responsible for creating govinfo.gov deserve some praise for publishing a truly massive amount of information in an accurate, reliable, and developer-friendly way. (I know them. They are hard-working people!) Also worth noting that these things don't just happen on their own. Dozens of advocates outside of the government (myself included) have advocated for these sorts of things to come about for decades, and they're always in danger of disappearing if advocates and other users of the data don't continually demonstrate to decision-makers the importance of it.
Small world, maybe our paths crossed! I had the pleasure of working with the govinfo team from 2015-2017 as they were rolling out the beta and finalizing the migration from the old fdsys.gov. Truly great folks that are passionate about maintaining government information and making it as accessible as possible.
afvictory commented on There are no results for tank man bing.com/images/search?q=... · Posted by u/rcoveson
There are also no results for "tank man" in Apple's GIF/#images tool in iMessage. There is a GIF present in Messenger's GIF tool which uses Giphy/Tenor.
Edit: The same is true if you search "Tienamen"
afvictory commented on USGS Data on the Lebanon Blast earthquake.usgs.gov/earth... · Posted by u/browsergap
Roscosmos has shared before & after satellite imagery for anyone interested: https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1291023063404994560/pho...
It's been a while since I have worked in this space but the underlying protocol (AIS) is incredibly lacking in terms of security due to the nature of plain text transmission & lack of authentication. I'm not sure if these issues have been addressed but below is some great research from 2014 on the matter [1][2].
[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/asia-14/materials/Balduzzi/Asi...
afvictory commented on The future of college is online, and it’s cheaper nytimes.com/2020/05/25/op... · Posted by u/prostoalex
I definitely believe that there is a need to transition college programs into an online format, or at least present the option to college students. It is, however, tricky for various fields of study. While for computer science it's definitely easy to offer an online curriculum, I would say the value for a lot of the physical sciences comes from the hands on experience. This is the case for business students as well, where most of the value of in person classes is derived from the network that one builds. It's much harder to build those kinds of relationships without engaging with other students face to face.
That being said, in my experience regarding the computer science perspective, having mandatory in person lectures added little to no value in terms of actual knowledge gained. In fact, I would argue that not being able to participate online was a detriment to my personal college experience. In order to avoid taking on massive amounts of debt, I had to work full-time while doing my undergrad. I was lucky enough to land a full time development gig my sophomore year, but it required being in the office 80% of the week. Between work, commuting, and sitting in a lecture hall, I had very few hours left in the day to actually work on my assignments and this caused me to make sacrifices in order to manage my time.
There was nothing communicated in our lectures that could not have been communicated in a pre-recorded video or via a class forum. The option to participate online will open up doors for many individuals who might not have been able to pursue higher education before, such as those who have to work or take care of their families.
The article mentions the OMSCS program at Georgia Tech [1], and I can't recommend this program enough. I'm currently about half way through the curriculum, and the format of the program alone addresses almost every issue I've had with my undergrad. I am able to watch lectures and do projects at my own pace which makes managing my time significantly easier. It also comes at 10% of the cost of my undergrad and that's a price that's hard to beat.
afvictory commented on Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL techcrunch.com/2020/02/26... · Posted by u/pritambarhate
We used appsync at my company and switched to a more classical approach of handwritten crud, a REST Api, a RDS (not entirely sure how well you can use them with appsync) away from dynamodb. Appsync was just not mature enough, had bugs and severe limitations. Without someone in the team who really knows Appsync, I would recommend against it and towards the tech you know.
What was the biggest hurdle you ended up facing that ended up being the dealbreaker for your team?
I think for us, the biggest issue so far has been figuring out some of the more involved Velocity templates as the documentation is fairly sparse and testing them can be a pain. Thankfully this project isn't too business logic heavy but due to time constraints, we ended up writing Lambdas for templates we could not figure out quickly.
[1] https://twitter.com/sequoia/status/1590522718650499073