jmickey | 6 years ago | on: Automated Reports with Jupyter Notebooks (Using Jupytext and Papermill)
Already there in Azure Data Studio
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jmickey | 6 years ago | on: Argdown
This is something I have had at the back of my mind for a few years now - a website that lets people upload hypotheses and link evidence that supports or rejects the hypothesis.
Such a website would allow people to gain insights, by gathering individual bits of evidence observed in various news articles, research papers, etc. and linking them together to form a larger picture.
jmickey | 6 years ago | on: Personal Kanban 101
I've had good success with using Trello and Portable Kanban (http://edgars.lazdini.lv/portable-kanban/) for personal task management.
One advantage of Personal Kanban is that it is a native app, so there is no latency between writing something down, moving tasks across boards. Sadly, it is not open source.
jmickey | 6 years ago | on: Languages I want to write
I understand that is how object oriented databases work. For example, you can define the equation for a financial derivative, then change the price of one of the components and derivative price is updated automatically.
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: The culture war at the heart of open source
Richard Stallman has considered this issue, alas, with no clear solutions yet - https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-s...
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Indico – Open source tool for event organization, archival and collaboration
I periodically help to organize meetups with invited speakers and am looking for a solution that would help me manage communication with all guests + event attendees.
I would like to track - which guests have been confirmed, which have not yet. With whom we have had an pre-event call, etc. Would Indico work for this? Are there better tools?
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI
In our company, business analysts are relatively technical - they know their way around databases and understand SQL better than most developers. They do create complicated data workflows as ETL jobs, but they are not developers.
Is it a stretch to say that dry.io would enable these people to take on simple development tasks that would be currently done by programmers?
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Dry.io wants to democratize software development using AI
I believe that you are not the target audience here.
Isn't the point of dry.io that a business analyst can replace a developer? :)
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History
Can you please provide some examples? Genuinely interested! :)
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
As long as the cookie does not track the visitor across different sites?
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Ursula K. Le Guin Was a Creator of Worlds
Perhaps unrelated - is there anywhere a repository of fictional worlds that creators can use for their projects at cost of free of charge?
This would be great for many industries - computer game development, board game development, movie creators, writers, etc. :)
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?
This is still my favourite website from those days - https://hamsterrepublic.com/ :)
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Mobile customer location data is ending up in the hands of bounty hunters
No need to invent new jurisprudence - if the location data can be used to identify an individual, it is personal data under the GDPR and enjoys all the rights and protections enabled by the regulation.
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Modified virus used to kill cancer cells
Sounds a lot like what people at Rigvir are doing (https://www.rigvir.com/our-company/about-rigvir.php)
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper
I do wonder how having a postal address is related to being a legal or illegal immigrant. After all - if your friend has a fixed address, they can share it with you, so you can receive mail, can they not?
Regardless if you are an illegal immigrant or not.
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: I crossed the Alps on a space hopper
I hoped to see that the author dealt more directly with the address problem.
Is there no way to set up free post boxes with a fixed address for those that need them?
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Teaching foreign policy majors to code
What about teaching coders about foreign policy? Now that sounds exciting! :)
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
But what is your end goal? What purpose does this caste system serve?
History has shown that once people no longer believe they have a fair chance of achieving prosperity, they revolt. So, even ignoring any other characteristics, your way of social organisation is not stable in the long run.
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: Americans Want to Believe Jobs Are the Solution to Poverty. They’re Not
It seems to me your policy would lead to the creation of permanent two-class society, where moving between the classes is difficult. Besides, do you really want to live in a fortress segregated from the rest of the society?
Why not invest money in education, training and a social security net that gives poorer individuals the means and space to catapult themselves into wealth?
jmickey | 7 years ago | on: PgModeler – PostgreSQL Database Modeler
Is there any chance the Windows demo binaries can be made portable?
That would make it easier for users not having administrator access to evaluate if PgModeler fits their requirements. :)
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