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   by jacobn 6y ago

   Neat concept, best of luck! You may want to check out https://www.neighbor.com/ as well.
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   by jacobn 6y ago

   For those of us with less detailed knowledge of US history: I take it you are referring to the assassination of president John F Kennedy?
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   by jacobn 6y ago

   We’re legally unequipped to deal well with gig workers. They’re arguably neither contractors nor employees, and shoe horning them into either category will inevitably lead to some absurdities.
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   by jacobn 6y ago

   Thanks! Rearranged the page to put the demos right below the video and made the video clickable so that it takes you right into the wikiart demo.
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   Show HN: Fly through 170,000 works of art organized by Deep Learning(polygrid.com)

   8 points by jacobn 6y ago|4 comments
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   by jacobn 6y ago

   From the quote in the article: Sweden didn't become like Denmark, thank goodness. Maybe the opinion corridor helped. But the price was too high: widespread self-censorship, a fear to examine reality objectively, a diminished belief in
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   Opinion Corridor: widespread self-censorship(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by jacobn 6y ago|1 comments
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   by jacobn 6y ago

   Add to that: software has built in global competition, whereas most other trades are inherently local. While Developer demand has thus far outstripped supply, that gravy train will eventually slow down. It’s been one heck of a ride, and it’
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   by jacobn 6y ago

   Why do I have to learn a second programming language just to configure my build? /s Builds need Turing completeness surprisingly often. Build languages then expand to accommodate, with spaghetti disasters as the result. “But it has to
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    by jacobn 6y ago

    While not the cheapest, we use it on iPad Pros with styluses - works pretty well.
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    by jacobn 7y ago

    They’re using TypeScript. Ts classes are horrible: you have to explicitly use “this.” to access anything in the class - it’s as good as it was possible to make it with the JS legacy, but it just doesn’t work very well. Using namespaces wi
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    It's time browsers default to HTTPS://

    2 points by jacobn 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jacobn 7y ago

    I love scala, and am very much looking forward to scala 3. For all the complaints about the language that always pop up in these threads: yes, the language lets you shoot yourself in the foot (with great power comes people who don’t apply i
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    by jacobn 7y ago

    Something is wrong with that shorturl - it just takes me to the main https://www.shorturl.at/ webpage.
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    by jacobn 7y ago

    This is huge. Love the concept. My company is 100% remote, and we're having all the pain points with Zoom that have already been mentioned. We also all have more than one monitor. But we're on windows. Get that pre-order form onli
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    by jacobn 7y ago

    Was it just me or did the ramp to the flatbed have solar cells on it? Based on the 6.5’ bed and measuring the image on the product page, it looks like the vehicle will be ~210” long - has anyone seen an actual official number?
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    by jacobn 7y ago

    “There will be $25,000 in prizes, and we’ll be flying the top researchers to the NeurIPS Conference in December, as well as allowing the winners to interview with our team.” I guess it’s a decent opportunity if you’re trying to break into D
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    Rivian R1T Pickup Is First All-Electric Truck at Overland Event(insideevs.com)

    2 points by jacobn 7y ago|0 comments
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    Of buyers or total ownership $ or units?
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande goes in-depth on this broad topic, highly recommended.
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    > "You should be able to pay market, and equity is about alignment not risk compensation."
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    I don’t know about “help”, but it will still change something - over time the different management teams will diverge (in some sense), even if the shareholders stay mostly the same.
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    Was your benchmark for requests/sec or connections/sec?
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    cedarlakeventures.com | Full Stack Web Developer | Orono (Minneapolis area), MN, USA | Onsite | Full Time We're a small software company whose primary focus is on advanced proprietary image processing algorithms. We offer competitive b
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    The IDE support is pretty good these days, as least in IntelliJ.
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    Righteous Mind, Why good people are divided by politics and religion by Jonathan Haidt (also applies to classic nerd feuds like Mac vs windows vs Linux) The Mom Test, how to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    Homelessness - there are a lot of literally crazy people in SF (not just startup people ;), which didn’t bother me that much as a single guy, but does bother me as a husband/father. Schools when the kids get there: public school lotter
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    SF. Immigrated to the US ~20 years ago. >90% of people I know in the US are in the Bay Area. Walkable. Goldilocks weather. Bright (can’t take the winter darkness of the far north). Good access to activities I like (hiking, Tahoe, Napa, e
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    Shameless plug: https://recompressor.com Does something very similar, but gives you a full trade off graph and also supports SVG and is free. (I’m one of the creators of the site)
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    by jacobn 8y ago

    From the landing page: "In-person payment processing: 2.7% + 5¢" (may be getting A/B tested if you're seeing something different?)