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by ccorcos 3y ago
The problem with the idea of “everyone working less” is that some people won’t work less. Even now, there are people who work more than 40 hours / week. Someone who works 25% more than you will make 25% more wages and will afford a 25%
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by ccorcos 3y ago
How about public utility districts? In my town, most of our utilities are public utility districts that are a private company with a publicly elected board of directors. Our electric company, SMUD, is fantastic with excellent customer servi
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Another angle on a solution: start your own gas company with competitive margins. Easier said than done, obviously. But maybe we should try to make it easier? I can imagine a downward spiral of government regulation creating moats for compa
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Something I’m not seeing mentioned here: I read somewhere (though i can’t find it) that we don’t have small trucks in the US because fuel economy standards are based on wheelbase. That’s why you can’t take an F-150 and put it on a smaller f
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by ccorcos 3y ago
I’m curious to hear more about the difficulty of breaking DC current. I was also thinking planning to research more into GFCI for DC current. Seems like it’s possible if you tie the negative terminal to ground just like with AC but that fee
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Yeah totally. I think the main hurdle is just the fact that a DC circuit isn’t saving any significant money… But as a quality of life improvement, I could totally see this as a selling point for rural homes: 100% off-grid for everything exc
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Subscriptions would be cool, allowing you to leverage this library for state management. Add an async storage interface so you can persist and you’ll have an awesome little database.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Yeah, but the annoying thing (from an engineering elegance perspective) is that most of those appliances that are on 230VAC convert to 12-48VDC internally (e.g. TV/monitor, LEDs).
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by ccorcos 3y ago
Yeah, I think PoE is 48V but it would be cool for adding connectivity to everything. WiFi more or less solves that problem these days though.
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by ccorcos 3y ago
It’s also a play on the BFG from Doom, aka Big Fucking Gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFG_(weapon)
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by ccorcos 3y ago
That would be close, but you’ll end up with more annoyances if you remain focused on the FileSystem. - auto-generated file names are gross. - 50+ imports in each file with bogus file names is gross The FileSystem itself is a gross way to o
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by ccorcos 3y ago
It’s always frustrating to me to see an inverter in these setups. All of your digital devices actually run on DC current! Your computer, monitor, phone charger… Inverters consume energy just being on, whether current is being drawn or not.
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by ccorcos 4y ago
I’ve been curious about this topic for a while primarily because I’ve found that issues with circular dependencies/imports in my projects are simply a consequence of their organization into files. If every exported variable or function
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by ccorcos 4y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the tips. I’m ccorcos@gmail — would appreciate the notification when/if you put on GitHub. Thanks!
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by ccorcos 4y ago
I’m keen on this approach for my next project. Can you share any Dockerfiles / scripts you use to get going with this?
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by ccorcos 4y ago
You make some good points in here, but I don't think it's the full story. From my perspective (first eng at Notion), I think what the sales pitch that really captures people's imagination is these situations where "the w
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by ccorcos 4y ago
I created something similar to this [1] a few years ago. Before the proliferation of web crypto apis, I just used a WASM’d libsodium. It adds some page weight but whatever… My use-case was for traveling, it seems like a good idea to have a
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by ccorcos 4y ago
> Every templating language inevitably turns into a very poor programming language over time. This realization is what initially sold me on React. I just wanted program and build abstractions with an actual programming language!
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by ccorcos 4y ago
I feel like there's a city vs suburbs correlation here too. If you live in a city, (nevermind the fact that you're probably renting and paying way to much in rent consider fixing anything yourself) you probably don't have the
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by ccorcos 4y ago
Author here, glad to see some interest. The Background and Motivation sections go into a lot of detail, but a quick summary is that if I were to build Notion all over again, I would definitely use FoundationDb. It's a lower level of ab
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by ccorcos 4y ago
Marginal cost of an additional user is zero. And instant global distribution with the internet. And then there’s the freemium B2B SaaS business model (Slack, Notion) that is just insanely lucrative…
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by ccorcos 5y ago
Have you talked to Joe Edelman? He would have all kinds of good ideas for you.
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by ccorcos 5y ago
"Files are a basic human freedom" - that definitely resonates with me. There's an assortment of trade-offs though. In particular, linking between files breaks if you ever want to move or rename a file. Also, by self-encapsula
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by ccorcos 5y ago
Stealth | Part-time (for now) | $50-$150/hr | Remote (or Sacramento, CA) I was the first engineering hire at Notion and I'm working on something new. I'd like some help getting things off the ground. I'm building a rich
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by ccorcos 6y ago
A question for people familiar with the science: How do we build confidence that there aren't any adverse effects from protein? My intuition tells me that this stuff is so small and the world of biochemistry is so complex that who know
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by ccorcos 7y ago
I did a study of which applications use Facebook advertising tracking and was really surprised to see how many products have it. Here's a sample: - airtable - asana - atlassian - bear - stripe - slack - loggly - tandem - pagerduty - fi
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by ccorcos 7y ago
Very cool! Thanks for sharing! Do you have public documentation. I'd love to check it out some more, but I don't want to waste anyone's time scheduling a demo. I'm curious how your mesh networking works -- do you have to
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Ask HN: What's the state of P2P database sync?
14 points by ccorcos 7y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Piano Sketch Tool – record, share, and learn piano songs(ccorcos.github.io)
3 points by ccorcos 7y ago|0 comments
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by ccorcos 8y ago
Nice job! How do you keep your login token fresh?

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