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sixhobbits
7,546karma·1,281submissions·January 21, 2016
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nice three letter domain ;) Will give it a try! edit: wow -- really impressed. Very satisfying explosion animations and sounds.
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real men use Colemak, right? /sarc I tried Dvorak for a couple of weeks and got to OK speeds, but in the end it wasn't worth throwing out the countless hours of experience with qwerty, or …
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Haha me too. "Our logger failed silently" "Shouldn't that have been recorded somewhere?" "I guess it's turtles all the way down"
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The website is pretty scarce on details. If the white paper is available somewhere on the site, it's not immediately obvious. What kind of technology are you using for ML and NLP? Any info on you…
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(2010)
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As usual, upvoting all the posts the list the salary range in the heading. I encourage others to do the same. #TalkPay ;)
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Sure, but also think about: * Can we expect mega corps to go "Hey, this loophole would allow me to only pay 50 euro in tax completely legally, but I think I'll pass on it this time"? In…
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People filing their own tax returns: "This is pretty complicated. Maybe I should hire an accountant or something" People commenting on a case involving international tax law and how it appli…
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I know it's controversial, but I think Dos and Don'ts as is correct English grammar and faithful to the author's title is strongly preferable to Do's and Don'ts (Apostrophe is…
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A few other people (outside of hn) have complained about the dashes :) I'm considering alternatives! I do still think that .com is preferable, both because it's the first thing a lot of peop…
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In case people miss the reference, see the oft-quoted non sarcastic comment about Dropbox's launch here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 …
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Very good point. I definitely don't want (in the extreme case) suicidal customers who expect me to fix their problems! The "market research" I've done has been extremely informal a…
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100% agree! However (ok, so not quite 100% then ;)), I feel like if I jump right in with such an immature product and put a price tag on it, I won't even find 5 customers. Maybe I just need some …
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Interesting! I hadn't thought of it in the context of ADHD. For me, a person will always be more effective than an automated reminder. You can dismiss the reminder or ignore it. For a lot of peop…
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Thanks for the feedback! I don't have the resources to take on more than 5 customers at the moment, so for now it's really about getting feedback and seeing what people think (even if they&#…
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Thanks for the feedback! As I'm running this solo and on the side for now, the priority for me is experimentation and to see if I can find even 5 people who would be keen on the idea. If it goes …
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Thanks for the feedback! The template comes from Pixelarity ( https://pixelarity.com/ ) which I would recommend to anyone. CSS is not my strong point, but I've attempted to modify …
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I am well aware of the scales at which VC funding operates, but these numbers are still scary. e.g. "Butter raised $3,000,000 in a Seed round from General Catalyst Partners on Jul 8, 2016. ... &q…
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Hey HN, creator here. I've been thinking about remote personal assistants for a while, but it's quite a bit to get off the ground. After publishing a book recently and realising how importan…
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"Mediocrity" is such an ill-defined concept. As you advance out of being mediocre, the pool of people you compare yourself to gets smaller, and you still end up feeling mediocre. When you ge…
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%... …
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Nice :) I'm not a React person, but I've done a bunch of beginner-level tutorial writing (including a book). I like your writing in general, but to be more critical I would say * Combine the…
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AWS is certainly capable of supporting confidential information. Are two Junior engineers capable of producing an actually scalable, secure, fault tolerant system with adequate consistency, integrity…
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The apostrophe is used to indicate genitive in English. I think you're thinking of the more subtle double genitive case that you sometimes see in examples like "A brother of the man's&q…
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Can we please edit the title to match the (correct) original "children's" instead of the modified (incorrect) "childrens'"