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by jackconsidine 7mo ago
Anecdote: I lived in Austin from 2017 to 2021. My rent was always very cheap (my baseline is Brooklyn which I guess makes everything feel cheap. But my rent went up $50 for the first 3 years and then down $200 during Covid and I checked rec
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by jackconsidine 8mo ago
Saw the headline and thought we were coming full circle on GEB -- a discovery of page number mechanisms in DNA functioning like GOTOs in code. It's instead a way to stitch together longer sequences of DNA. Still very cool
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by jackconsidine 8mo ago
> Aesthetics — Might be personal preference, but wished they looked more professional Im sold. Love mermaid but totally agree.
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by jackconsidine 8mo ago
> Only once would you have X write a PR, then have X approve and merge it to realize the absurdity of what you just did. I get the idea. I'll still throw out that having a single X go through the full workflow could still be useful
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by jackconsidine 8mo ago
Anyone know the VP who referenced the paper? Doesn't seem to be mentioned. My best guess is Gore. Living VPs Joe Biden — VP 2009–2017 (became President in 2021; after that he’s called a former VP and former president) Not likely the on
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by jackconsidine 9mo ago
> Why do I even need to do sales? > When looking specifically at bootstrapped (self-funded) SaaS startups, this is a valid question. There are many profitable startups in the low-end B2B space ($10-$50/mo) that exclusively rely o
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by jackconsidine 9mo ago
This important devil's advocate perspective reminds me of Chesterton's Fence [0]. I used to run a dev shop and had the opportunity to work with companies of all shapes and sizes. The startups often discovered Chesterton's Fen
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by jackconsidine 9mo ago
Interesting. In Spanish there is libre ("free" speech) and gratis ("free" beer). Now that I think of it, libre is part of the name of many linux packages (Libre Office). Never made that connection before.
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by jackconsidine 10mo ago
extremely cool thanks. See a few of my mentions on here, a few of them not [0] Regardless, this is a real treat [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44977536
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by jackconsidine 10mo ago
Congrats on the launch Please port to linux soon (sure it's relatively trivial on Electron :)). Like the idea of the IDE. Seems like it'd make it easy to prototype and launch quickly. RE: embrace the suck, yeah I'm with you.
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by jackconsidine 11mo ago
Used the following script to see if I had any affected packages: https://gist.github.com/considine/2098a0426b212f27feb6fb3b4d... It checks yarn.lock for any of the above. Maybe needs a tweak or two but you should be ab
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by jackconsidine 11mo ago
We send many thousands of delivery notifications per day on SMS over Twilio. I've been wanting to use RCS for a long time (better group notification experiences, branded identification etc). Tried to do so last month: you pay a fee (I
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
> We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI Seeing comments like this all over the place. I switched to CC from Cursor in June / July because I saw the same types of c
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
The graph shoes interquartile range, so this wouldn't be a factor, but worth noting: baseball also changed its rules on extra inning games in the past few years which speeds things up. A runner starts on second base which reduces the 0
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
What an awesome project at just the right time. I love baseball and I love that the hacker culture seems to love baseball too. I read that part of baseball's decline from the premiere American sport was due to its outdated revenue mode
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
FWIW I had a similar conundrum with Slack. I had set-up my business Slack workspace in college; 4 years after graduation my university changed policies (they used to forward name@edu => name@alumni.edu). I tried the normal means (support
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
Safe to assume ejections will fall off dramatically. I remember Lou Pinella being thrown out of Wrigley Field because a runner was called out at 3rd base a few years before challenges. Pinella was wrong and in another world he would have si
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
I think that’s a pretty unsympathetic take. Hindsight is 2020 but there are factors outside the author’s control (synced MFA, Gmail not detecting the spoofed address)
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
> The closest thing the federal government has to a department of water infrastructure, the Bureau of Reclamation, has an annual budget of just $1.1 billion. One of my favorite books is Cadillac Desert . It's about the damming of t
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
Michael, pop quiz: can you drive the forklift I can and I have
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
eCommerce for booksellers is an interesting problem. Many bookstores use IndieCommerce / Bookweb which has an unconventional status (a trade site? non-profit?). Where the frontend is lacking, it seems to make retail operations easy. Pr
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
Happy Bloom's Day 2 days ago everyone [1]. I'm on my 4th attempt at Ulysses. It's just two dense. Too many niche references that only an educated early 20th century Irish citizen would understand. [1] Ulysses took place all o
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
> We wanted to find a way to deterministically group elements that should be translated together, so, for example, a phrase wrapped in the `<a>` link tag wouldn't get mistranslated because it was processed in isolation. We als
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
> Treasury Secretary John Connally to meet with these leaders in Rome. They asked, “What do we do? Now that you’re not on gold, you can just inflate this stuff, and we’re stuck with it.” And Connally replied, “Well, it’s our dollar, but
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by jackconsidine 1y ago
Reminds me of something. I ran a software development agent for a while. We were working on a job-seeker / employer match-making application; when a job-seeker submitted their resume the system would take a few seconds to run a geo sea
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by jackconsidine 2y ago
Oh man, I’m really sorry to see Jake passed. I read their updates every few months when they’d land on HN; it made me sad to see the past tense of “dying” this time. Rest in peace
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Pet Microchip company ceases operations; pet owners urged to reregister(cbsnews.com)
2 points by jackconsidine 2y ago|1 comments
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Delivery and the Doorman(getcho.app)
1 points by jackconsidine 2y ago|0 comments
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by jackconsidine 2y ago
I’ve successfully used Sherlock to track down a colleague that I only connected with on MeetUp. It’s an amazing tool. Worth running on your own usernames as an easy account inventory
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by jackconsidine 2y ago
Sometimes police refuse to accept the reports because they're in another jurisdiction (you can't file a police report in X town unless you're there). To your point they usually don't have time. The report serves as a rec

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