dougk16

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by dougk16 8y ago
Yes! This is in the future plans section: https://aytwit.com/about#technical_details__future_plans I agree email is so five minutes ago, but it was the easiest path to get started.
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thanks for your comment. I recognize your username and enjoy reading your comments. https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints sort of solves the adoption problem, in that you wouldn't necessarily need a critical mass of peopl
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by dougk16 8y ago
Wow thanks for the compliments on the design. I indeed spent ridiculous amounts of time on the design and making it super simple and accessible, all the while knowing it would mostly get crapped on. :) I appreciate your appreciation!
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. > 1. Even assuming both person A and person B use the service within a week of each other, the odds that they both use the same hastag are astronomically low. Person A says '#wannaGoOut', but person B
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by dougk16 8y ago
Hello HN, Thanks to everyone checking this out. I know it's kind of a weird project, but that's the idea! I've been kicking this project around since college in 2003 when I was afraid to ask a girl out even though I was prett
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by dougk16 8y ago
> Cool premise, but how will the recipient know what they're receiving? I think https://aytwit.com/thoughter#hints answers your question.
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Show HN: Thoughter(aytwit.com)
312 points by dougk16 8y ago|156 comments
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by dougk16 8y ago
I made something that sounds similar to the kinds of ideas you're throwing out: https://aytwit.com/thoughter You can read the basic protocol here: https://aytwit.com/about#technical_details__thoughter_g
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by dougk16 8y ago
Yup we worked in a bunch of old colonials and attics and other ridiculous tight spaces that could compete I think. Also count the fact that American housing might be bigger, but so is all our stuff! There were a few times where a whole team
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by dougk16 8y ago
You may have skipped over the word "professional" without pause. It doesn't have much meaning nowadays so I don't blame you. Attitude has nothing to do with getting the job done as if it were my own belongings. As long a
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thanks for your reply. I agree it's easy to judge unfairly from a few-minute video. I do wish I could have sat in a corner the whole day judging instead :) We had to do the peace of mind thing a few times with certain clients. We would
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by dougk16 8y ago
I was a professional mover for a number of years in a wealthy area in the US (Fairfield County, CT), so moving people from McMansion to McMansion, back and forth between Manhattan, etc. People movin' on up, and sometimes way way down.
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by dougk16 8y ago
I've always considered the "increasing disorder" definition of entropy to be a simple analogy that most people can relate to in their everyday lives, not necessarily a formal definition. Indeed I would be interested to know i
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by dougk16 8y ago
I'm in the same boat and have thought a lot about it. The biggest correlation I see from automated testing advocates is that they are usually using dynamic languages for non-trivial core business logic. I mean that's pretty much i
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by dougk16 8y ago
There's a good approach to asserts I adopted years ago for your typical low-risk CRUD/web/mobile app that I'm guessing ~90% of us are working on (as opposed to aviation software like in the article): Use asserts as you n
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by dougk16 8y ago
A few years ago I explored this concept and made a CMS for exactly these kinds of situations, also textbook reading, and in general any kind of endless/near-endless content that benefits from seamless space/time organization and n
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by dougk16 8y ago
My kids are 6 & 4 and you're not doing anything wrong. Either that or we're both doing something wrong. :) Relaxation comes in small spurts, like getting your head above water, so suck in as much air as you can whenever it hap
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by dougk16 8y ago
Try any popular RPG, or otherwise dialog-heavy game with quests and instructions and such, but switch the language package. For example I did this with the Diablo games to help me learn Polish. A cool part is you pick up a lot of archaic vo
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by dougk16 8y ago
I've done it, doing it. Not extreme countryside but bears, coyotes, turkeys, deer, etc. roaming through the yard everyday. Garden, few acres owned, hundreds of acres of woods around. Major thing I'd note which bit us more than we
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by dougk16 8y ago
Thank you so much for the feedback. If I can pick your brain just a little more... I'm totally open to changes in the pricing and expect to fine-tune this. One question though: did you as a casual visitor understand that you only pay i
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by dougk16 8y ago
Ouch sorry about that! And thank you for the feedback. If it soothes the pain a bit, it's only for the title font, and it's actually Comic Neue ( http://www.comicneue.com ). FWIW here is a previous HN discussion on this
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Show HN: Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?(aytwit.com)
11 points by dougk16 8y ago|5 comments
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by dougk16 9y ago
I was under the vague, easily mind-changeable impression that we as modern humans would not be able to build the largest pyramids* in any reasonable amount of time (or even at all) using modern technology. This article makes it sound like c
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by dougk16 9y ago
I don't give this advice often since for most people it's the "moving abroad" part that's the deal breaker, but since you mentioned you're doing it already, I'll throw out teaching english as a foreign lan
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by dougk16 9y ago
The OP mentioned starting their strategy when they were 25, implying they are/were a "normal" person, which is why I asked, since my vague understanding of the situation in the US matches what you describe, that you have to h
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by dougk16 9y ago
Could you link to any "for dummies"-type resources that show how you can incorporate and use that corporation to reduce your taxes? Something that would hopefully be applicable to your typical middle-class homeowner in their 30s w
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by dougk16 10y ago
Having done a few years of cross-mobile C++, we get into opinion territory perhaps, but it was never a smooth experience for me. Apologies, but don't have time today to go into too much justification for my opinion. It can be the les
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by dougk16 10y ago
A programming language and toolset that could transpile to human readable code for just about every popular/mainstream language out there. The closest I've seen is Haxe. This would be great for sharing business logic between diffe
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by dougk16 10y ago
Yup that came up but it looked a little too complex to use for the person for whom I made the website. He can handle basic HTML tweaks but isn't really a techie. He also wanted to be able to update his website from any machine, includi
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by dougk16 10y ago
Bah every time I have a good idea it's taken :) I recently went through the pain of setting up a simple static website for a math professor[1], and it really is depressing how polarized the options are considering you want the site to

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