Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

I help startups succeed. Cofounder Tookstock, @Vigilantebar, @infochimps; Author Big Data for Chimps; Board @ATXHackerspace; DE CSC; EIR @capitalfactory; He/Him tookstock.com Austin, TX Joined March 2007

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

2 years ago

Harris Biden '24

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

2 years ago

@robwordsYT for Words Unravelled: how about a brobdignagian gargantuan gargantuous humongous enormous ginormous gigantic titanic bigly episode about the myriad multifarious multitudinous legions of sesquipedalianisms for big and wee (covering the long and short of it, as you do)

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

4 years ago

@ThePlatypus8 Exactly! I think there's a whole set of these by country, and that Russia didn't shift until after the "October" revolution

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

4 years ago

Looking for a library/website of "edge cases" -- weird unicode strings, odd dates, longest tld, etc. Things that you might think weren't valid but are (or v/v). I have gathered my own samizdat collection over time but is there a collaborative project collecting them?

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

4 years ago

eg for date/times: +/=/- one tick around gregorian, y2k unix 0&2^32, and 1970 epochs; the weird excel date; 1/1/1900; a local time that is skipped by DST; a leap day; a past occurence of a leap second

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

4 years ago

To play Eldrow, come up with a series of guess words and final goal that gives this board: ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟩🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

4 years ago

@lacanta @lilykonings I upgrade any job candidate that asks questions back of me when hiring: more likely to manage up, set boundaries, stubbornly defend their good ideas. I do not downgrade anyone who doesn't, because of equity issues like you experienced. Those interviewers were foolish and unfair.

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Lily Konings @lilykonings

4 years ago

Give yourself full permission to interview your future managers back. When they ask "Do you have any questions for me," take the opportunity to expose what your next 1+ years under this person might be like. Here are 5 questions I have or wished I'd asked of my future managers:

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

@zwegner @qntm That sequence leads to a different answer now but there are still 4-guess wins to find; this one uses only common words:

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

Among other triumphs,@NASA PASSED THE BECHDEL TEST! Woman lead directing woman engineer on the deployment. They may have mentioned this #jameswebbtelescope fella and Oscar-3-0-9 but mostly the conversation centered on the jib boom and motor parameters - a solid win.

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

@peteskomoroch @netflix I've long wanted a tool to do remote visualization of massive datasets by distributedly rendering a video stream that is interactive and real-time. In the eternal pendulum swing between dumb terminal & workstation, dataviz has never swung towards dumb terminal as far as it should

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

@michelletandler Do the cooking dishes pre-meal while your partner entertains (or while folks hang out in the kitchen). When I can manage to pull this off it makes the aftermath so much easier.

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

Hmm, lenticle is not a scrabble-legal word. (wordnik.com/words/lenticle — a biconvex stratum of rock; or a window on to the pendulum in a clock, example here: brianloomes.com/collecting/cou…). Technical but not new: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c… OED has it, and a cite under 'eye'. @NASPA @emckean

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

The Mysterious Molecular Culprit Behind Cold Tooth Pain nytimes.com/2021/03/26/sci…

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

@ftrain The life of Dame Emma Hamilton en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma,_Lad…

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

@bdainton Image upload. If anyone knows of a "drop this snippet into your app and customer's images will appear over there" or any part of it please share.

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Philip (flip) Kromer @mrflip

5 years ago

Texas Energy Market settlement prices are probably better indication of when power will come on than press conferences: ercot.com/content/cdr/ht… Typical #'s are 4-10; by 14th it’s 8000s, down to 2000s mid-day 15th (when ours was briefly on). All of today high 8000s; not optimistic