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by dickfickling 5y ago
It's fascinating to me that the coins dated all the way from 200 AD to 400 AD. Finding a US cent from even 100 years ago is a surprise and delight these days, and I imagine it's similar throughout the world. But somehow, 1600 year
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by dickfickling 5y ago
I’m sure i’m being dense here, but can you please explain the justification for fining a retailer for an unattended cash register? Also what’s unsavory about CVS/Walgreens?
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Chums (YC W21) Is Hiring a Back End Engineer(chumsco.notion.site)
1 points by dickfickling 5y ago
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Chums (YC W21) Is Hiring a Lead Designer and a Back End Engineer(chumsco.notion.site)
1 points by dickfickling 5y ago
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by dickfickling 5y ago
As the other comments have noted, Cory addresses this further down in the linked post. He further expanded on this in the post he wrote when he quit smoking[0]: > That was my homework: go away and think of an immediate reason not to smok
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by dickfickling 5y ago
Not sure if you saw this, but Culdesac is a YC company (S18), which probably explains the “founder” nomenclature.
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Ask HN: Would you capitalize on P = NP
5 points by dickfickling 5y ago|0 comments
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by dickfickling 5y ago
I've got no feature requests or questions, I just want to say I'm really excited about this. It sounds like a really thoughtful attempt to be better than the standard approach to eng analytics, e.g. "how many points did CodeM
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by dickfickling 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26888735
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by dickfickling 5y ago
using `new PrismaClient({ log: ["query"] });` it'll log all the actual sql queries it's running, so you'll be able to see if queries are being combined
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by dickfickling 5y ago
in short the separate engine process allows them to combine every findX call you make during one tick of the event loop into a single SQL query, following the dataloader pattern, so you don’t have to implement it yourself. i’m sure @nikolas
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by dickfickling 5y ago
I LOVE Prisma. I’ve used Django, SQLAlchemy, Sequelize, Knex, and TypeORM in the past. all had rough edges that continually frustrated me or didn’t provide the functionality i needed. Prisma is different. It’s absolutely got rough edges, b
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Chums (YC W21) Is Hiring a Lead Designer and Front End Engineer(workatastartup.com)
1 points by dickfickling 6y ago
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Chums.co | Senior Full Stack or Front End Engineer | NYC or REMOTE | Full time Hey HN, we're Noah and Dick. We founded Chums (www.chums.co) to help you recommend products to your friends and have more fun shopping online. A lot of peop
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Hey, we've got a formal post up for our design opening here: https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/22566 Right now our focus is on a designer and an engineer with a few years of work experience each, but get in
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Regarding the curated list suggestion: it's definitely on our to-do list. Our plan is for groups (called Buckets in Chums) to have a way to pin products or reviews to the top. So if somebody's passionate about e.g. garden power to
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Primarily it was about having a strongly typed and self-documenting API layer. I've tried writing Swagger/OpenAPI specs manually, using frameworks like TSOA or routing-controllers, but never found a solution I liked. We're al
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by dickfickling 6y ago
We love the idea of group buying as we get a lot of product inspiration from Pinduoduo. We’ve spent a lot of timing thinking how to leverage the fun of group buying without the traditional discount incentive. It’s hard to do! The solution w
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Hey Andy, we'd love to chat. I just sent you an email.
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words! Our mobile app is built with React Native, website with React, and backend with Node/GraphQL. This is the first time I’ve used GraphQL, and it’s been a dream come true.
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by dickfickling 6y ago
The products that are discoverable through Chums are either directly recommended from friends, or are part of our product catalog. For products that can be found at various merchants, we give users a choice of where they can make that purch
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Cred (short for credibility) is a feature we’re building like HN/Reddit karma. Users earn cred when a recommendation they make is followed through on or upvoted. We want users in Chums to have credibility when they make recommendations
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Thank you! We're fixing the email link now. I appreciate the advice to seed a few hashtags more thoroughly. That's absolutely something we intend to start doing over the next few weeks. Again thank you for the kind words!
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by dickfickling 6y ago
I have a lot of love for Wirecutter, but I definitely agree with you. Their suggestions are often focused on too broad an audience to be relevant to me. Re: monetization, for the short term, we’ve got relationships built through my time at
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Launch HN: Chums (YC W21) – Shop online with friends
65 points by dickfickling 6y ago|39 comments
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by dickfickling 6y ago
Chums.co | Senior Full Stack or Front End Engineer, First Designer | NYC or REMOTE | Full time Hey HN, we're Noah and Dick. We founded Chums (www.chums.co) to help you recommend products to your friends and have more fun shopping onlin
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by dickfickling 6y ago
yeah down for me too. Wonder if it's the same issue as yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26066365 ) Edit: they're now showing an incident: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/5
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by dickfickling 6y ago
MY INTERNET HAS BEEN GOING OUT AT 3:40pm PT TOO! Sorry for the all caps. I just scrolled through my texts and saw the “internet out?” texts are at the same time. Hopefully that means it’s a provider issue behind us. Wonder what we have in c
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by dickfickling 6y ago
This is great! I've been meaning to build something like this for a long time. I'm always excited when I notice I've passed the same car on commutes on different days, or see a car I recognize from home in a different part of
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Ask HN: Anyone Using Deno in Production?
2 points by dickfickling 6y ago|0 comments

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