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by bschmidt1 2y ago
This is mindblowing. It's like the missing piece of blockchain that was needed for dev adoption. I can see it also being used for modern bank/payments apps including those in games and other simulated economies. Now let's see
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I searched far and wide for this a few years ago for a disastrous React codebase I inherited that had a lot of unused components, never found anything. This looks great, particularly the `skip` and `mode` options (which I'm guessing se
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These guys were pioneers who set forth a lot of the patterns used in other PM software (Did they invent "Velocity"?). I hated Pivotal in the early days, but after a couple years on the job I learned to really love it especially as
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
It's especially rich coming from Facebook who was all for regulating everyone else in social media after they had already captured the market. Everyone tries this. Apple tried it with lawsuits and patents, Facebook did it under the gui
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Show HN: Shadowvane: A Soulslike MMO (Built in Node/Three.js)(playshadowvane.com)
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It's somewhat common to open source the core yet still monetize a version (browser vendors, SaaS, games). People will still pay for convenience, reliability, or for the best product. > Why would I use their API? To pay 15 cents per
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
> because a hypothetical light particle emitted at A couldn't reach B in time Fascinating insights - it can be seen as causality, or at scale that there is a multi-dimensional reality where some timelines are inaccessible/impos
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
The whole comment was about how much you love the Discover algorithm because it just shows you "nice things" but ok
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Wow, so excited for this. I had a web app online in 2020-22 called Skim Day that predicted skimboarding conditions on California beaches that was mostly powered by weather APIs. The tide predictions were solid, but the weather itself was al
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
> LinkedIn is pretty important nowadays when searching for work I agree with your larger point esp. Gmail - would be quite crippling - but I haven't had LinkedIn for years now, and it hasn't negatively impacted my job or search
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Breathing is something you can either do or not do, yet it's also something that happens automatically, such as during sleep or when you're not paying attention to it. When done perfectly correctly, consciously breathing nets the
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
It went from being a potentially infinite public creative/informational space to a privately owned strip mall with a few boring shops where you have to show your ID to get in. Same thing happens with any neat physical location too - ge
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> the folks running it care about making a nice place for people to hang out This is actually what I didn't like about bsky. I don't want the developer of software to inject their personal social biases into the platform, and t
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
> if we're gonna all be terminally online, we might as well at least bring as much of the human experience back into it as we can So Myspace, Foursquare? (Not being witty, I loved that era)
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
> founders get common stock Not any company I found. The only "founders" who totally give their company to investors are kids who just graduated who get to raise a huge seed round because of family connections, and half the tim
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"IRL social" in SF hahah
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
Some good photography profiles: - https://wave-social.vercel.app/phlezk - https://wave-social.vercel.app/ritaskitchen - https://wave-social.vercel.app/autumnal - https://wave-soc
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Show HN: Like OG Instagram X Myspace(wave-social.vercel.app)
1 points by bschmidt1 2y ago|1 comments
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
Confirms my suspicion that the most active HN users are in Canada/East Coast/Europe. When I first discovered HN I thought it was a small Stanford thing, but over time realized it's mostly a Canada/Europe crowd (even most
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
Yeah, just not sure what to do about it though. They are based here in SF but the founder was in Toronto when I took the call, he probably is not an American citizen. Helps at least just sharing it here and having people like you echo that
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Ultimately it's not worth it, which is why I left. Sucks though because I have to find another startup in town and hope it's not basically the same thing.
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
1. I'm asking a question "Is this the new norm?" not drawing conclusions . 2. I'm asking it after 2 consecutive experiences with YC founders, after 15+ years of working in a software developer role in this city and ha
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
Maybe they should recruit founders out of prison, surely they're angrier. I still don't see a correlation to a lucrative exit.
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> the first employees are excited about working 7 days a week > the new guy sucks. Just gets everything done slower You made 2 mistakes here. 1. The first employees were not excited, they were all on paid trial periods and have no equ
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We were all on long term paid trials. (I assume we were all being paid, maybe not). Besides that, what employee has preferred stock or any other provisions that would prevent their equity from being simply diluted the moment the preferred s
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> the human body simply can't do productive work in that type of environment investor appears Investor: "But 10x'ers can" /cape investor disappears Founders: "Whoa"
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> emergency mode Founder mode. :cool: ^/s I agree with all of your thoughts, especially: > great when voluntary and self-driven and terrible if mandated It's an interesting psychological thing: No matter how easy or even c
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
It sounded like glamorizing because of: > YC sincerely wants people to succeed. It's attractive for people who deal with their anger by working a lot. Equating the success metric to people who have anger problems from the perspectiv
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by bschmidt1 2y ago
The interview I just had (with the YC founder that inspired this post) also asked "Do you have kids?" point blank as one of his first questions - seconds after I met him on the video call. Should have mentioned that in the post
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> To proverbially prove all the haters wrong I disagree on both points 1) that only young, inexperienced founders have this mindset and 2) that this mindset is somehow better than other forms of inspiration/opportunity. No amount of

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