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budu3 | 8 months ago | on: Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)

I finally completed my self published beginner Android programming book earlier this year. I took a break and now I'm working on updating it to add more Kotlin examples. I wrote the book in markdown and used Pandoc to convert it to print ready PDF.

https://a.co/d/blzUk62

budu3 | 3 years ago | on: How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong

The Google Podcasts app works for me. It has a minimalist feel to it.

budu3 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Share your favorite YouTube channels focused on mastering a skill/craft

For those who are interested in leather goods https://www.youtube.com/@Corter

budu3 | 3 years ago | on: The gut microbiome helps social skills develop in the brain in fish

This sounds like the premise for a good zombie movie.

budu3 | 3 years ago | on: The afterlife of used hotel soap

In fact West African countries have a centuries old method of making soap from locally available material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_black_soap

budu3 | 4 years ago | on: Subscribe to RSS Feeds over Email

I had to do view page source to see the HTML code. Very nicely written.

budu3 | 5 years ago | on: AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Can someone explain how Amazon is able to use the Elasticsearch name when it is owned by Elasticsearch BV?

budu3 | 6 years ago | on: Why some software developers hate Agile

SCRUM is toxic. It is toxic because it dis-empowers the developers who are doing the actual work and hands that power over to the "SCRUM master". The SCRUM master is the ultimate bureaucrat -- and a proxy for Management -- in a heavily bureaucratic methodology. The job of the SCRUM master is to guard and protect the SCRUM process. Often to the detriment of the developers and ultimately the project.

budu3 | 6 years ago | on: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry

Well in their defense, we don't want to pay for newspapers and so you can argue that this is the result of a lack of resources.

budu3 | 6 years ago | on: From Two Guys Building Their own Browser

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood - Theodore Roosevelt

budu3 | 6 years ago | on: CERN migrates to open-source technologies

Wow. Heads will surely roll once this reaches Satya's desk.

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: Hubrif: Lost $10K Building the Netflix for African Short Films

iRoku TV seems to have been successful in becoming the Netflix of Africa

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: Infants May Be More Likely to Die in America Than Cuba

> There might be some good doctors in Cuba but you bet your ass that only Castro and his goons have access to them.

A minor correction, neither the late Fidel Castro nor Raul Castro are currently the leaders of Cuba. Cuba is currently led by Miguel Diaz-Canel.

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data

I thought that inside info was non-public material info and so air-traffic data is not non-public per-se and so it's fair game. No?

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: Daniel Kahneman on when to trust intuitive judgment

Reading to your kids in not good for them? Can you please elaborate?

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: U.S. Life Expectancy Falls Further

Can someone explain the link of the lowered life expectancy to flu and pneumonia? I thought that these were deceases that were only fatal for people with compromised immunity.

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: So Your Startup Received the Nightmare GDPR Letter

We as the collective tech community brought this onto ourselves. We did not self regulate ourselves. We did not take out customer's privacy serious enough. Therefore, big government stepped in and regulated us.

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is WebDav still relevant?

I believe Adobe's CMS, Adobe Experience Manager, supports WebDAV.

budu3 | 7 years ago | on: Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency

I presume that expectation was that the human driver was suppose to be fully engaged to take evasive actions if and when required. What jumps up at me if that fact that the system does not alert the driver when his/her intervention is required.

budu3 | 8 years ago | on: Void Linux project leader has disappeared

Yep. On a human level, I really hope the PM is okay. Maybe open source communities can setup a way for core team members to check in on each other on personal level.