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Show HN: Breadboard circuit simulator for iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro(apps.apple.com)
2 points by shantanubala 3y ago|0 comments
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by shantanubala 5y ago
I feel like I'm reading the same article, but drawing very different conclusions from other commenters. I might be missing something - of eleven projects, three were reasonably successful implementations of an improvement to existing i
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by shantanubala 8y ago
I think programmers tend to underestimate the difficulties involved with becoming a good programmer because once you're good, you only see the even steeper learning curve ahead of you. Some of the smartest people I know work in other d
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by shantanubala 8y ago
You're right. I wasn't in any way trying to imply that the Chinese government was acting fairly - they are stealing and ought to be punished. My confusion stems from the American companies who readily jumped at the opportunity to
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by shantanubala 8y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll express a counterpoint - viewing the same situation through a different lens. Put simply, the Chinese understand why American companies outsource their labor to China. Chinese labor is cheap
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by shantanubala 8y ago
But how do you conduct a background check without a database of reports from people who have experienced harassment? Unfortunately, most of the time, this gets swept under the rug. This way, at least that background check will actually reve
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by shantanubala 8y ago
Kalanick is still a very successful founder - not that I necessarily think he should be emulated. Regardless of what you think of Uber, Travis Kalanick started a very large company, and Uber is as entrenched as ever. So perhaps this actuall
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by shantanubala 9y ago
I'm not a doctor, but I know Adeel (the doctor who wrote this post), and can't say enough positive things. More often than not, doctors use printed pages to give instructions, and those pages subsequently get thrown in my trash ca
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by shantanubala 9y ago
This sounds like a great way to manipulate the price of Bitcoin
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Moment is Made in the USA(blog.somaticlabs.io)
1 points by shantanubala 10y ago|0 comments
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How We Filmed Our Crowdfunding Video for Under $2,000(blog.somaticlabs.io)
3 points by shantanubala 10y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Moment – All the information you need. No distracting screens(wearmoment.com)
3 points by shantanubala 10y ago|0 comments
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The Haptic Breakdown: What’s Inside Your Smartwatch(blog.somaticlabs.io)
2 points by shantanubala 10y ago|0 comments
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The Bandwidth of Tactile Perception(blog.somaticlabs.io)
1 points by shantanubala 10y ago|0 comments
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Haptics and Emotion: How Touch Communicates Feelings(blog.somaticlabs.io)
2 points by shantanubala 10y ago|0 comments
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Tactile Illusions: Interesting Ways Our Brains Fail(blog.somaticlabs.io)
3 points by shantanubala 10y ago|0 comments
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Electrovibration and Touchscreens: Creating Virtual Textures(blog.somaticlabs.io)
3 points by shantanubala 11y ago|0 comments
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Haptics and Emotion – How Touch Communicates Feelings(blog.somaticlabs.io)
3 points by shantanubala 11y ago|0 comments
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A Brief History of Haptic Feedback in Video Games(blog.somaticlabs.io)
1 points by shantanubala 11y ago|0 comments
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Adding Senses to the Human Body(blog.somaticlabs.io)
4 points by shantanubala 11y ago|0 comments
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by shantanubala 12y ago
Slavery is explicitly permitted in prisons by the constitution. > Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any
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by shantanubala 12y ago
It depends on the level of abstraction with which the language was designed. Go was designed for systems programming, and the code is intentionally verbose. A few extra characters, brackets, and syntactic constructs are a small price to pay
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by shantanubala 12y ago
If anyone feels like they need someone to talk to, send me an email (in my profile). If you're in San Francisco, we can also get coffee.
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by shantanubala 13y ago
Privilege exists when the outward characteristics you describe are used as heuristics for filtering good coders from bad coders. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the heuristics they are using when performing such a task. LessWrong
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by shantanubala 13y ago
XMLHttpRequest is a facility provided by the browser - when you are making a request, you are just accessing objects and functions provided by the host environment. In Python, the "host environment" is generally CPython with the s
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by shantanubala 13y ago
The problem is that it's a lot harder to execute -- if you have a "Kids Code" event, you are guaranteed to get a disproportionately larger number of white males. This isn't just about helping a disadvantaged group, but
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by shantanubala 13y ago
This would be perfect in conjunction with an "unload" event that triggers the countdown if the user decides to go to a different page on your web site. This way, the user doesn't have to stay on the page to make sure their ac
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by shantanubala 13y ago
Kindles are very hackable in comparison to most devices. http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... Amazon also didn't void my warranty when I installed a few hacks on my e-ink Ki
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Show HN: Scalable Lead Generation(useirontail.appspot.com)
2 points by shantanubala 13y ago|0 comments
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by shantanubala 13y ago
Any local machine may be problematic (if you have a dynamic IP), but git is really easy to host on a VPS or any box with a static IP -- just make sure you have everyone's SSH keys authorized (not on root unless you trust everyone wit

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