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by samcgraw 4y ago
Ha! Two fiction-based posts on HN in two days? Love to see it :) Shameless plug, but: I've been working on a site that was inspired by CYOA (although not exactly the same): Storylocks.com [ https://www.storylocks.com/ ].
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by samcgraw 4y ago
Neat! I don't see many fiction-based apps on HN and I love it when I do :) Shameless plug, but: I've been working on a site with similar aims (although not exactly the same): Storylocks.com [ https://www.storylocks.com&#
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Ask HN: How do you promote your side hustle?
6 points by samcgraw 4y ago|1 comments
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Tell HN: Don't use Spotify's proxy settings to approximate 'airplane mode'
7 points by samcgraw 5y ago|4 comments
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by samcgraw 5y ago
> I fear my house will be filled with unread books before long. Umberto Eco[1] would call that a success :) [1] http://gregorianstorage.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-justify-...
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by samcgraw 5y ago
> The big investment in your career will be ideas that stand the test of time. This is spot on in my experience. As I grow in my career as a software engineer, it's funny how much more often I notice that the things that set one apa
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by samcgraw 5y ago
Ironically this page is experiencing HN's hug of death and 502ing - so still working as expected?
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by samcgraw 5y ago
Very interesting read! I suppose another such solution, for a patient with a given medical condition X, is to have a very large pool of doctors and see if any of them have condition X (with similar age, background, etc). Then one could co
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by samcgraw 5y ago
Dan Abramov has an interesting take on npm audit ( https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design ). Scanning through the vulns on GitHub Advisory Database, it looks like it still contains many that DA brought up as unhelp
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by samcgraw 5y ago
Hey there Patrick, congrats on this launch and Stripe's success thus far. As to your reflections, I'm wondering how Stripe ingests these various emerging patterns around the world (especially as you expand to unfamiliar territory)
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Ask HN: What is your favorite local business?
6 points by samcgraw 6y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What is your favorite website right now?
6 points by samcgraw 6y ago|7 comments
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Ask HN: Why are you on (or off) Twitter?
1 points by samcgraw 6y ago|5 comments
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by samcgraw 6y ago
Love to see this. As an aside, it always jars me when a site hijacks default browser scrolling functionality. In my experience, making it as fast as possible is a _far_ better use of dev resources than figuring out how to make scrolling uni
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by samcgraw 6y ago
> I wrote what beginning writers were supposed to write then, and probably still are: short stories. This is a bit tangential, but if anyone is finding themselves in a similar spot and looking to sharpen their short story writing, I buil
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by samcgraw 6y ago
> And I am not even considering the time that each developer spends on learning all those third-party libraries. I never saw two React projects with the same dependencies, project structure, and guidelines. This means the knowledge is no
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Show HN: Storylocks – write creative fiction with a group(storylocks.com)
3 points by samcgraw 6y ago|0 comments
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by samcgraw 6y ago
A collaborative creative writing platform called Storylocks: https://storylocks.com?source=hn Every story on Storylocks is a serial; chapters are crowdsourced and the top-rated gets inducted into the larger story. I wanted to cr
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The Unseen: a collaborative mystery story from Storylocks(storylocks.com)
1 points by samcgraw 6y ago|0 comments
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Our Cyberpunk Future(gascad.medium.com)
1 points by samcgraw 6y ago|0 comments
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Our Cyberpunk Future(gascad.medium.com)
2 points by samcgraw 6y ago|0 comments
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Snapchat’s Spotlight is a big gamble for the company and creators(theverge.com)
1 points by samcgraw 6y ago|0 comments
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by samcgraw 6y ago
Hey there HN, Shane here. Really excited to share what we've been working on! Storylocks is a collaborative, chapter-based writing platform inspired by the choose-your-own-adventure books we read as kids. We wanted to create a platfor
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Show HN: Storylocks – Write serial fiction with friends(storylocks.com)
3 points by samcgraw 6y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Are you on Twitter? Why or why not?
3 points by samcgraw 6y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: How do you work through large ideas?
145 points by samcgraw 6y ago|85 comments
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Ask HN: What do you wish you knew more about?
9 points by samcgraw 6y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: Storylocks – write serialized fiction with friends(storylocks.com)
3 points by samcgraw 6y ago|0 comments
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by samcgraw 6y ago
Neat! I'll check these out. Thanks!
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by samcgraw 6y ago
Interesting to find Yarn over npm on this list - curious as to the reasons for this decision? Back before npm had package.lock files I was completely on board, but since npm anted up I've struggled to find reasons to go back to Yarn.

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