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Gather (YC S19) Is Hiring to Build the Metaverse (Remote, in the Metaverse)(notion.so)
1 points by liamuk 6y ago
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Gather (YC S19) Is Hiring to Build the Metaverse (Remote, in the Metaverse)(gather.town)
1 points by liamuk 6y ago
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Gather (YC S19) Is Hiring a Senior WebRTC Engineer(notion.so)
1 points by liamuk 6y ago
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by liamuk 6y ago
Another cofounder of Gather here -- I'm totally okay with you posting your app here (Calla right?) or the whole list. I think the hackernews comment readers would benefit from seeing the wider space of takes on this idea.
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by liamuk 6y ago
The other path here might be working somewhere with a culture of fixed goals rather than a time expectation. For example, many remote companies that operate asynchronously won't expect you to be in the office 40hrs a week, but will exp
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by liamuk 6y ago
I just asked my manager for a 24 hr work week (3 days on, 4 days off), and they said sure, and the company prorated my salary down. The company I was working for came out of a university research lab, and so had a culture of PhD students wo
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by liamuk 6y ago
Me and a couple of friends having been working on similar ideas for the past few weeks! https://gather.town & https://theonline.town There are a lot of people exploring this idea recently, you might be interested
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by liamuk 6y ago
Hi HN! One of the creators here. It's a cross between Zoom x Pokemon. You only get audio and video from people you're standing next to, and as you walk away from them, the video fades away and the audio drops off. With current vid
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Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online(hn.town.siempre.io)
261 points by liamuk 6y ago|46 comments
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by liamuk 7y ago
We had a really similar idea! https://town.siempre.io/ Leaned in way more on the 2d game aspect of it, and have video drop-off too, but the place it came from: "being able to have multiple conversations in the same sha
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by liamuk 7y ago
Fair-- I've resigned to viewing Plaid as our necessary evil banking infrastructure provider. It's my understanding that, at the least, Plaid doesn't sell data to third parties you don't authorize. If I'm wrong about
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by liamuk 7y ago
I've been using https://copilot.money/ which is great. Clean UI, uses Plaid to import transactions, paid for by subscription, not your data.
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by liamuk 9y ago
Of the 4 ``famous CS schools'', MIT, CMU, and Berkeley all start with Python, and Stanford alone runs Java.
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by liamuk 10y ago
This is probably true. Still, a nice idea.
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by liamuk 10y ago
Interesting thing I heard from Po once: The key to the American team's recent success is forgetting about the IMO and just learning math. Instead of teaching mechanics-- techniques specifically for solving olympiad problems (as they ha
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by liamuk 11y ago
> I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude. Nobody is fully good or evil. This guy is certainly in the wrong here, but that doesn't make everything he's ever done worthy of ridicule.
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by liamuk 11y ago
It might be more interesting if voting occurred at the level of space separated words rather than characters. As it is right now, twitch is tripping over itself trying to even type "ls" given the delay. As anyone who's ever t
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by liamuk 11y ago
Here's a poor man's version that uses <$50 of hardware (a wii remote and an ir led) If anyone's interested in playing around with it I'll put up some nicer usage instructions https://www.youtube.com/wa