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sarreph
4,026karma·903submissions·July 21, 2013
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I make software, images (sometimes moving), and music.
Today, my focus is on personalizing the internet at Kenobi.ai (YC W22)
Reach me at my name (Rory) and my company’s domain.
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Verdn (YC W22) | Full Stack Engineer | ONSITE London, UK | Full-time | verdn.com Come and join Verdn as one of our founding engineers as we grow our three-person team! We're looking for ambitious…
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On point 2: > Hitting play will start the music at some sound level, after about a second or two the sound level is suddenly reduced (and stays at that level until hitting pause and play again). Th…
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Verdn (YC W22) | Founding Full Stack Engineer | Full-time, Remote or Hybrid (London) Hi HN! Come and join Verdn as one of our founding engineers as we grow our team from two co-founders this summer! W…
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Couldn’t you have said that without spoiling the actual country name?
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Verdn | Full Stack / Backend Engineers | ONSITE | London, UK | Full-Time | https://verdn.com Verdn is creating the environmental API of the future by allowing companies to embed pledg…
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Verdn | Full Stack / Backend Engineers | ONSITE | London, UK | Full-Time | https://verdn.com Verdn is creating the environmental API of the future by allowing companies to embed pledg…
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You can also write JavaScript numbers with E notation (i.e. multiplied by 10 to the power of x ), which is basically what I do with all numbers above 1,000 or below 0.001 now. It has the rare benefit…
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Pure speculation, but could be a combination of keeping the thickness down (it's only 4.7mm thick), and the purism of recreating the pen-on-paper feel. That being said I wouldn't be bother…
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I too was asked to provide my user (admin) password when getting my MacBook's screen replaced at an Apple Store. I had the same concerns as OP, but I asked if I could set up a new, separate user …
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This is very much in the vein of Jobs to Be Done theory[0]. If you haven't heard of JTBD before, I would implore you to check-out Clayton Christensen's famous "milkshake" video her…
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Still exists in the docs[0] but I definitely wouldn't say React is "promoting" binding... I certainly haven't used it in years either. [0] - https://reactjs.org/doc…
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Absolutely it can. We pivoted our MVP of a general-purpose ecommerce API integration to a Shopify App because: - Most small/medium sized ecommerce stores we were targeting with our product were u…
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I don't think I did a great job of making clear that my main gripe with their support (taking months) was from a separate, personal account which — from day one — was unable to send non-spam, tra…
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At work we had a Sendgrid account that got compromised, after which all of our comms were (predictably) being marked as spam. After back and forth with support, we were told to continue sending as nor…
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No, as per Betteridge's Law of Headlines[0]. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... …
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This is the important line for me: > Every time you aren’t boring in a technology pick, you’re likely not optimizing for your company’s best interests. Really helps to underscore the difference bet…