daemoncoder
Re:PySimpleGUI 6
on Friday May 08, 2026 @09:30AM (#48062859)
I switched to Freesimplegui as a replacement.
Re:FAA Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:34AM (#46973326)
Or "fount" from older, non-American English.
Re:Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @05:27AM (#46973279)
Ability to handle email coming soon.
Re:Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025
on Monday December 22, 2025 @06:41AM (#46353381)
This is excellent clarity of thought.
Re:The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned into Something Evil
on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:27AM (#44910261)
It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8
on Thursday May 22, 2025 @06:38PM (#44067919)
First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title.
Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.
Re:Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?
on Sunday October 09, 2022 @04:54PM (#33145251)
So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat
Re:History and effective use of Vim (2019)
on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:15PM (#32280722)
There's an AutoHotkey script for that!
Re:South Africa is running out of Marmite
on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:51AM (#31096110)
But Pa won't.
Re:Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox (2012)
on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:19PM (#30959075)
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...
I used this a great deal, when I first started out on serious UNIX tasks (1996+)
Re:How the Rosetta Stone yielded its secrets
on Wednesday November 24, 2021 @07:47AM (#29329450)
And so it goes on: Egyptian temples defaced by early Christians, Palmyra temples destroyed by Isis...
Re:A read query can write to disk: a Postgres story
on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:09PM (#29073137)
I like to say they should remove the block from under the accelerator pedal.
Re:In-demand tech skills are the last thing to look for in IT hires
on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @04:49PM (#29018923)
I have the opposite problem: colleagues who don't want to learn how to do anything new.
Re:Autonomous drone navigates independently through the forest at 40 km/h
on Friday October 08, 2021 @06:16AM (#28797567)
With the 'no drone left behind' policy, there will be drones to fetch injured drones.
Re:Gigerenzer’s simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models
on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:53AM (#26326850)
TED Talk
Re:Ask HN: What is your low stress, high paid job?
on Saturday January 23, 2021 @01:35AM (#25880182)
Somewhere around 2005, most of my job as an Oracle DBA/developer for a pension company seemed to consist of writing small scripts to automate some process. Somewhat like little Unix daemons to do my bidding - hence the handle ”daemoncoder” :-)
I often joke that I'm just writing a small script to replace myself with.
Currently I do a lot of data wrangling and analysis, mostly in Python, so still plenty of small programs to automate the boring stuff.
Re:System Design Interview book review
on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:04PM (#25651023)
”The Fine Article” that this discussion is about :-)
Re:Ask HN: How do I become a shell god?
on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:29AM (#25405830)
Unix Power Tools was a great help when I was learning shell scripting:
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...
Re:Ditch high definition and new tech to fight climate change
on Thursday December 03, 2020 @08:23AM (#25288548)
digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions - reminds one of David MacKay's book:
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air.
In particular as Professor MacKay puts it: "Obsessively switching off the phone charger is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon. Do switch it off, but please be aware how tiny a gesture it is."
I've been using The Vim Outliner (TVO) for years now, haven't found anything else that works as well for my daily workflow.
Re:RIAA Takedowns Backfire as Pirated MP3s Now Surface on GitHub
on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @10:36AM (#24989934)
Those two groups are not mutually exclusive :-)
Re:Tools for Better Thinking
on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:42AM (#23348058)
I've heard this concept called the cardboard colleague - you explain the problem to a cardboard cutout representing a colleague instead of an actual person.
Of course it remains a concept, I don't think anyone would go so far as make one :-)
Re:75-year-old woman with shovel accidentally took down Armenia's inte...
on Friday April 24, 2020 @03:21AM (#22965498)
Time-domain reflectometry
Re:Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @08:27AM (#22355853)
”I can leave anytime I want!” :-)
Re:Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?
on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:19AM (#21943945)
This is a good point - the cable is probably 20+ years old and has been used for weed eaters and lawn mowers. It's been regularly uncoiled and re-coiled, not always correctly.
The correct way is using the over-and-under technique: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/tools/a15873/over-unde...
Re:Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?
on Friday January 03, 2020 @02:06AM (#21943905)
I got the capacitance idea from having worked with TDR in the late 80's. As students we used them to tune FM antenna combiners, but I never quite got the hang of it at the time.
Re:Any way to find a lost Kindle inside a house?
on Thursday January 02, 2020 @01:18PM (#21938042)
I found the break in a 10m extension cable, by measuring the capacitance at each end and calculating the ratio of the two values. This predicted a break at roughly 1m from one end. Then started probing the cable from 10cm towards the ”short” side, moving towards the long side. Found the break within 15cm, saving roughly 9m of cable.
Re:U.N. Scientists Think They Can Halt Global Warming for $300B. Here'...
on Thursday October 24, 2019 @01:04PM (#21346614)
HN user demographics...
Re:Steve Wozniak Recounts His Efforts to Engineer the Apple II Floppy ...
on Saturday May 19, 2018 @05:07AM (#17107185)
Cargo cult at its finest :-)
Re:Teacher in Ghana has no computers so he draws Microsoft Word on the...
on Saturday March 03, 2018 @03:44AM (#16508481)
Do you have any references for (b)?