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by nlh 7y ago
I think the author’s point is that the “extreme” is required, at least for him, in order to truly indulge in the escape. A walk/exploration would be too much of a connection to normal life. But to each his or her own!
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by nlh 7y ago
This is awesome! Exactly the kind of library I’ve been looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions on a way to start with an OpenAPI spec and end up with a mock data set? With Mirage it seems easy enough to mock our API directly from sc
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by nlh 7y ago
Apparently I’m the only person on earth who wants to know what kind of phone Bezos was using, which OS version, etc. It seems like this detail is conveniently being left out of every story. Anyone have any additional details? I understand
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by nlh 7y ago
Not sure who's downvoting you, but I came here to say exactly this, and you're exactly right! All my numismatic spidey sense twitched when I read the story. I remember one of the first things I learned was that counter to instinc
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by nlh 7y ago
This is a totally random shot, but I wonder if Pixelmator Pro's new ML Super Resolution could be of help here: https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/machine-learning/ You could grab individual frames of the video an
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by nlh 7y ago
I think this view could be abstracted as "tech is helping automate customer service into oblivion." I had a very similar experience this past week: I wanted a new dryer for the apartment. The goal was to have the installation pro
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by nlh 7y ago
Yes (sort of - I can’t share the name because this was a friend’s startup and I don’t want to gossip explicitly) but this exact thing happened: Amazon went through an acquisition process and on the day of closing, as everyone was in the roo
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by nlh 7y ago
Just to add to that - I’m kind of in the same boat here. I had to read the homepage and intro sections a few times and I’m honestly still a bit lost in understanding who this benefits and why. Just by way of anchoring: I’m no dunce, I’m a
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by nlh 7y ago
I see your point but at the same time - why is redefining the rules a bad thing? Why should people be obligated to evaluate themselves against criteria that’s popular or set by other people? Why does that actually matter?
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by nlh 7y ago
Ah ha! Your quoted "horror story" comment is mine, so I guess I'm obligated to check Freshpaint out. Will do :) You mentioned that you were early Heap employees. At one point it looked like Heap was heading in this directio
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by nlh 7y ago
My predictions (writing this before reading others' so I'm not too corrupted yet ;) * The AR revolution starts/takes hold. We move from holding 5" screens in front of us to glasses-mounted or contact-lens based AR devic
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by nlh 7y ago
This is great - thank you! One request: I read your gaming section eagerly and all the games you mentioned look super cool, but would you mind adding some links / details about each of them? I’m still not sure exactly which racing si
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by nlh 7y ago
This is timely! I never really learned C deeply (other than from a class in high school where pointers were considered 'too advanced'...so we didn't really get too far). I decided to work on this year's Advent of Code i
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by nlh 7y ago
It isn’t going well yet from a financial perspective, but he writes this: “People have asked me if I’m still happy with my decision to quit and start my own company. The answer is definitely yes. As someone who has always valued independenc
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by nlh 7y ago
I’ll echo what other happy SF residents have said - it’s pretty great if you’re able to put yourself in a good part of town. Look I’ll be honest - your experience in SF is going to correlate with your ability to afford living here (I hate
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by nlh 7y ago
Very well said.
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by nlh 7y ago
I’ll echo what everyone else said - SUPER IMPRESSIVE and awe-inspiring work. Thanks for sharing it with the world. I have one question: While I can read and understand each individual line of code you wrote (go Crystal!) and what each met
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by nlh 7y ago
Now that’s more like it! That’s the attitude that I wish the original quote took. It is truly about merit, and Twitter (can be) a way to lower the boundaries.
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by nlh 7y ago
I found Crystal about a year ago and absolutely fell in love with it. It just “clicks” for me. My sense from reading most peanut-gallery commentary that the biggest reasons it hasn’t taken off more (yet) are: 1. Real multi-threading (it’s n
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by nlh 7y ago
C bindings, strongly-typed, a great concurrency model, very fast, and Ruby-like syntax. That makes it a very unique and appealing language to me (and others). If you / most people don’t particularly like the Ruby-like syntax, then Cry
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by nlh 7y ago
Is the connection really valuable? I know in a discussion like this it has an abstract perception of value, but I wonder whether one can really assign value to most Twitter-based connections with so-called influencers.
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by nlh 7y ago
Totally. And thank you for saying that. I think there is definitely a positive way of looking at this, I just don't think Bill Gurley captures that potential in his statement. I'll edit my comment.
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by nlh 7y ago
Loved this with ONE exception: > “Twitter is the most amazing networking and learning network ever built. > For someone whose pursuing their dream job, or chasing a group of mentors or peers, it’s remarkable. In any given field, 50-80
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by nlh 7y ago
Seconded! Raytracer is phenominal, especially if you do it “purely” (no GPU/OpenGL/etc.). It’s relatively straightforward and the satisfaction of seeing even a basic shaded sphere that you literally created from scratch in code b
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by nlh 7y ago
Since we're all sharing coding playlists here, happy to share mine as well: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hLUvezSiJ2TpmSQq27IQI?si=... This is a ~21hr mix I use basically daily when getting into flow - I love
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by nlh 7y ago
Everyone’s talked about charging more but let me add a vote specifically for dealing with credit risk - it’s real. I worked with a lovely but cash-strapped startup who really needed my help, and I made absolutely certain to collect payment
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by nlh 7y ago
I’ll second what Greg said in his sibling comment. One of the mental models I’ve learned is that if someone offers you a deal and you’re not special in any way, it’s not a real deal or there’s something more going on. “I charge everyone els
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by nlh 7y ago
Here’s the part I’ve never quite understood (perhaps because I’m not a budding chef or restaurateur): Isn’t the whole point/dream of becoming a professional chef, opening up a restaurant, etc. to have the experience of running your own
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by nlh 7y ago
While we’re on the subject, I just moved my whole financial life over to hledger ( https://hledger.org/ ) and oh my goodness I’m so much happier (I dumped both QuickBooks and Quicken, which I’d been using previously). It won’
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by nlh 7y ago
I experienced such a fascinating wave of emotions reading this link and then this thread. Let me share so others' can compare: "Ha! This is funny. It's poking fun at all these sites that try to reinvent a productivity tool

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