Jemaclus

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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I totally agree with you, but I'm deeply amused that you didn't define the term yourself! This is a pet peeve of mine, for real, especially with PR releases that sometimes hit the top of HN. Sometimes you'll see a post about
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Absolutely. So many times we fall into a rut of using our familiar tools that we don't realize that sometimes there are new innovations that can make our lives easier. Or, at the very least, automations we can put into place to make ou
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
We are in agreement :)
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
> One of the most naive things I have read today. Ideas are cheap. If you were capable of just "having an idea" and turning it into any considerable amount of money you would have done it already. What if I told you that I&#x27
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
As an engineer, my view on days/hackathons is pretty simple: you don't pay me enough for my good ideas. If I had an idea that could make the business $5M, I'm better off going into business for myself. Instead, I'm going
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I generally feel secure in my role (Director-level) with respect to things that are within the control of my boss and myself. My company is doing _okay_, and I bring a certain level of expertise that surpasses many of my peers and the folks
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I mean, sorta? If you think about it as the "rules of the move," but the actual movement can be drawn as a straight line. See: https://twitter.com/graycrawford/status/1750248031784763639
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
It's not clear to me how you would have a company of this size without a CTO or CFO. I'm interested in why your expectation is that the roles themselves would be eliminated, versus bringing in people who might perform better?
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
The volume is easily controllable, and the hearing aids themselves come with a noise ceiling that prevents sounds from getting too loud, although this is adjustable by the audiologist on a case-by-case basis. I can go to a bar or a concert
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I have an Oticon. I forget the exact model, but it's the most powerful of the models. (My hearing loss is very bad and I'm classified as "profoundly deaf" which as close to totally deaf as you can get and still use a hea
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Would be nice to show some screenshots in the README :)
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Hearing aid wearer here. There's a certain element of salesmanship that happens at hearing aid centers, but audiologists do use science to evaluate your hearing levels and they should be more than happy to show your hearing charts to
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I'm not a C or C++ programmer. Well, I know my way around, but I don't write real programs with it. Here's my potentially dumb question: what's the benefit of header-only libraries versus regular C/C++ code?
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
> how would i break into the market and find my first customers? It's the Field of Dreams model. Build it, and they will come. Do some basic marketing. Worst case scenario, you built an uptime monitor for yourself! I'm not sure
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
You'd be surprised! One thing to consider is that _people_ want free stuff, but _businesses_ get to write off a lot of expenses, meaning that for most businesses, $100/mo is nothing at all and any random employee could probably se
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Alternatives exist for everything. The goal isn't to come up with a totally unique idea, but rather to find a market that is sufficiently competitive in which you can carve out a tiny slice. For something like an uptime monitor, you ar
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
not twitter :)
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, languages are just tools. On the other hand, I have favorite tools! I've worked enough jobs to know that I'd rather be happy with the tools in my toolkit, and I've also been
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
> Despite the replication crisis in social science and behavioural economics, this was an effect that we immediately verified in our own user data at Lifesum. People began diets at the start of a new year, around their birthdays, and at
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Yeah, that last part is the right part. AirPod calibration is nowhere close to the level of calibration that an audiologist would put you through. It's more than simply boosting voices and filtering out background noises, it's cal
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Interestingly, the social stigma is probably at an all-time low. I used to get a lot of stares for wearing my hearing aids, but ever since the advent of Bluetooth devices, it's become relatively normal to have things in your ears!
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Airpods are not hearing aid replacements (yet). Hearing aids are specifically designed to compensate for loss, not simply to filter out background noise and boost voices. Hearing aids frequently need an audiologist to tune them to get maxim
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
There are a couple of reasons. First, hearing aids are, unfortunately, not covered by most Americans' health insurance. I'm completely deaf in one ear, and in the other ear I'm profoundly deaf (basically as deaf as you can ge
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
That's very interesting! In English, we differentiate them because they are actually two different things, at least in our mind. I wonder if there's another Polish word that might differentiate? Here's an image that explains
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
It's a cool idea, but I'd prefer to browse myself rather than receive an email :) I am very interested in your methodology here, though. Are you using the Reddit API or scraping the pages? How do you determine what is a product re
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Depending on your traffic levels, this could be possible. But Kafka has storage limits based on time and disk, so things can fall off the queue over time. If you have a small system, you can just have your consumer start from the beginning
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
Yep, this, exactly.
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
It's been a few months, so I can't remember details, but one thing I wanted to use some features was the EventBridge Scheduler and a few other things like that, and I couldn't find anything on the website that referenced thos
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I've used Pulumi for professional projects and personal projects, and I think it's fantastic. You can write your code in pretty much any major language (professionally, i use Python, personally I use Go), and you get the same outp
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by Jemaclus 3y ago
I'm very concerned that as a solo founder you've put this much effort, money, and time into something that doesn't have PMF. Validating ideas is basically the first step of a business, and if you can't validate demand

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