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by brendanmc6 8y ago
Sounds like some low hanging fruit for an API or SaaS product. I'd hope the buyers would be healthcare professionals-- but like you've noted the real markets might be a bit more unpleasant...
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Sam Harris explores these topics in his book Free Will, I wasn't blown away by the read but would still recommended it if you already find yourself fascinated by the discussion.
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Right, building another messaging app is not the right approach. But choosing one of the many existing solutions, and somehow convincing all of my social circle to move to it-- that's the problem I want to solve! Has anyone done it b
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I agree. But I can think of two alternatives that you don't mention: 1. A centralized and proprietary system, but with a transparent and non-profit governance structure. I understand the costs and technical challenges of global communi
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I tried this a few years ago, it only worked for American customers. But it did save me some money making calls. Last I checked they basically abandoned their mobile app for a near decade...
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Hahaha I had that in my copy clipboard while typing the post :) For real though, has any sort of movement or organization tried to alleviate these problems without financial motivation?
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It's hardware specific! Most of the planet is on Android. If there is a way to do iMessage on Android, I can at least say that not many people know how.
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by brendanmc6 8y ago
I agree with you, but a hardware specific messaging app is just stupid. As you can tell by the length of my last post, thinking about this situation has got me upset. So upset, that right now I've decided to launch a non-profit, open
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by brendanmc6 8y ago
I have lived back and forth between Europe and the USA over the last few years. Communication is always the most difficult part of the move. It's a reminder of how far off our tech is from the true ideal. In Europe, everyone has WhatsA
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Ask HN: Two co-founders, USA and EU. Where should we incorporate?
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I can't imagine using anything other than styled-components... Are there advantages to using CSS Modules instead? Every time I look at the docs for another styling solution I just see unnecessary complexity for no clear benefit. Styled
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Right? I fail to see how I can keep components all in sync across different parts of my app with GraphQL. I'm already using Firebase, most of my operations are already unique API calls. I typically dispatch an update to my store and to
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I deal with this too. An example I'll never forget: leaving my sweater at a friend's house, realizing half way home (on a bike, freezing), biking all the way back to pick it up, then riding all the way home without my backpack (I
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by brendanmc6 8y ago
The best homemade pizza: Everytime I make this for someone they text me a picture a week later doing it for someone else. Make a dough, 2 to 24hrs in advance. Take a dough ball and make a crust. Heat a pan on your stovetop as hot as you can
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A concept that really is lost on a lot of people. It doesnt make any economic sense to build and sell something of low value when you could do it at higher value. In a place like SF that is being squeezed by an influx of high income earner
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by brendanmc6 8y ago
This just seems so much more attractive to me on a personal level. I invested a stupid amount of my time to build a webapp just on a unproven hunch that a market exists for it (i.e. if it did, I would have been a customer). Now that I'
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by brendanmc6 8y ago
I quit news entirely. I only get my information about current events through headlines on Reddit and HN, which I avoid clicking. Or through conversation with colleagues and friends. Or through books. I blocked all news sites on Facebook and
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For the people who don't speak the academic dialect: DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. It is a unique ID number that all mainstream academic articles receive upon publication. The main function of the DOI is for copy-pasting in
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by brendanmc6 9y ago
Incredible-- I spent a solid 4 hours yesterday looking for a simple drop-in animation solution for my app and somehow missed this. From the documentation, react-transition-group and react-motion seem quite un-intuitive and intimidating to a