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This contract was signed in December, during the Biden administration.
Re:$400M armored Tesla gov contract on Thursday February 13, 2025 @12:22PM (#43038507)
This contract was signed in December, during the Biden administration.
Re:Claude for Desktop on Friday November 01, 2024 @09:32AM (#42016771)
I use superwhisper for this.
Example of a rare amulet that self-referentially acts as an HTML site: https://twitter.com/zencephalon/status/1442862206501023746?s...
Re:Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:43PM (#31241321)
Nothing broke, the dynamic fee market worked exactly as intended. Contrast with Solana which actually went offline for 7 hours that same day.
Re:Ask HN: How do you keep track of your routines and habits? on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @01:40PM (#28460479)
Using https://autopilot.ooo I’ve automated myself in both my morning and evening routines. I noticed I have exceptionally poor executive functioning in the morning, but now I don’t have to think at all for the first hour that I’m awake, I just follow my pre-programmed instructions written for me by my benevolent higher-functioning awake self in the past. Thanks me!
Generally one stays inside a circle for protection and summons the demon into a triangle for containment. :P
Curious if you could share the template you used for the meetings?
Indiehackers.com has tons of these. Enjoy!
Re:Five-hour startup work day is impossible on Thursday October 24, 2019 @02:31PM (#21347679)
I don't work more than five hours a day, four days a week. I frequently surprise myself with labor saving inventions when I place time constraints on my work.
Seems unwarranted to assume they are actively losing customers. I haven't bought an iPhone in years because I still use a SE, and I still use my 2015 MBP. They haven't lost me in any real sense just because I haven't contributed to a sale _recently_.
Re:NetHack 3.6.2 on Monday May 13, 2019 @10:29AM (#19899567)
I used to love playing NetHack and ascended multiple times. Sometimes I wish DCSS hadn't ruined NetHack's UX for me. I'd love to see NetHack reimagined with a friendly UI on-par with DCSS and other modern roguelikes.
As far as language learning apps go I've gotten way more milage out of Clozemaster than I ever did out of Duolingo. At least for learning vocabulary Clozemaster's combination of spaced repetition and cloze-completions helps immensely (especially using it on free text input mode instead of multiple choice). That said Duolingo does help a lot more with the dead basics.

For context I could already speak Mandarin because I grew up bilingual but always found that I've have to laboriously re-learn vocabulary for literacy. Clozemaster seems like the most sustainable way for me to maintain an expanded vocabulary (in both Traditional and Simplified characters) that I've found.

I just do Clozemaster every time I sit on a toilet, pretty easy habit cue, if a bit gross.

Re:Jeff Bezos at YC Startup School 2008 [video] on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @05:05PM (#19203331)
Manual memory allocation in the C programming language.
Re:Hacking how we see [video] on Sunday December 30, 2018 @03:15PM (#18791074)
A lot of people have researched this (http://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-thro...). I've personally experienced it, slowing reversing my myopia over the course of many years. It took me a decade to develop so it seems fair to me that it also takes a long time to reverse.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018) on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:35PM (#18359456)
Fabric | Software Engineer (Full Stack) | Brooklyn, NY | Onsite, Full-time | https://meetfabric.com We're building a platform to give young families fast and easy access to simple financial security products. A few cool things about Fabric:

* We're entirely - as in 100% - serverless. Our backend services use AWS Lambda and API Gateway. We store our data in DynamoDB and S3.

* We give our engineers problems, not tasks. Your solution might involve frontend work, backend work, infra work - you name it.

* We have a highly collaborative and autonomous environment where we empower Engineers with decision-making frameworks that are based on our company-values and realtime data.

If you're looking to write fullstack JS on a small team where you'll have ownership over the code and an impact on the business, this is the place for you.

* More about the role: https://meetfabric.com/careers/software-engineer-full-stack

* On our serverless infra: https://thenewstack.io/case-study-how-fabric-uses-serverless....

Send Scotty a note at scotty[at]meetfabric.com :)

Re:Dugout Loop on Thursday August 16, 2018 @12:03AM (#17771775)
I feel extremely curious about the construction costs given that the proposal says the Dugout Loop will transport just 250,000 a year at $1 fares. I suppose if it works the press alone could make the investment worthwhile.
Re:Ask HN: What coding challenge sites should I try next? on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:09PM (#15826903)
Project Euler (projecteuler.net) has great algorithmic and mathematical challenges. I like to go through their problems when learning new languages.
Re:Introducing the new Snapchat on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:19AM (#15807399)
This seems like a solid response to Instagram eating their market share, as Instagram suffers from exactly the problem described (of course, as intended because Facebook's entire business model thrives on it).
Re:React 16 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:26PM (#15340148)
Impressive improvements in this version and very heartening to see performance improve in addition to the new APIs.

Multiple render return types and portals both solve some annoying situations that can come up.

Re:Dev Bootcamp is shutting down on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @11:32PM (#14758519)
As a former employee I have to say that Kaplan did a very fine job of running the place into the ground. Kaplan management managed to take an industry leader with first mover advantage and completely squander it by myopically focusing on quarterly profits. They really should have switched to a pay-after-getting-a-job tuition model that schools like AppAcademy offer. That would have simultaneously better met the mission of serving diverse students (students who can't afford $17,000+ and living in an expensive urban area for almost five months) and improve long term outcomes.

The pay-after-getting-a-job model creates virtuous cycles, because the schools that implement it suck up the most prepared students. Schools not offering that model end up with the leftovers after admissions to the top schools.

Arguably colleges and universities should also adopt pay-after-getting-a-job but that would probably hurt their bottom lines substantially. It definitely creates the correct alignment of incentives for the school to educate well.

Pretty amazing too, considering Kaplan has very deep pockets and could easily have financed the slight lag in revenue switching to models would have required. To me it just reeks of old-school short sighted corporate management thinking.

For a bootcamp to not adopt pay-after-getting-a-job just shows that they lack faith in their own product. Funny because many schools end up having to hire lots of their alums as a way of bolstering their employment numbers.

On a closing note, huge props to all the extremely hardworking teachers and students who went through DBC, they made it an amazing place despite all hardship. I made many of my most meaningful relationships there and I witnessed tremendous transformations in people.

Re:Next.js 2.0 on Monday March 27, 2017 @08:52AM (#13967236)
Yes, JSX considers that valid syntax.
Re:Split Brain Does Not Lead to Split Consciousness on Friday January 27, 2017 @06:55PM (#13503865)
As I understand it, they have most of the other pathways in the entire nervous system to communicate through.
Re:Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @05:03PM (#13126679)
As someone who came second in a DCSS tournament back in the day, let me tell U that this game rocks if U enjoy tactical gameplay. It can brutally punish U until U learn sufficient caution and U tune your situational awareness and resource management.

Have fun!

Re:Show HN: Antd – A set of high-quality React components on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:41PM (#13053453)
Some really beautiful components like the TreeSelect in there, not trivial to build at all.

That said, the first time I loaded the page sure took a long time. Kind of sad to need Webpack to create chunks just to recreate the old effect of not loading all the content for your website all at once.

Re:Leaving the Nest on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:09PM (#11832878)
Marwan Fawaz used to run Motorola Home. It didn't really have much to do with "Home" in the sense of Nest though.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016) on Friday April 01, 2016 @02:02PM (#11407033)
Travelytix | http://guestfriend.com | NYC, NY | Full-time | ONSITE

Travelytix is creating a SaaS product (GuestFriend) for hoteliers to more effectively cater to guests’ preferences by creating new channels for collecting user-generated data. We will help clients analyze their data to increase profitability via up-sells and personalization.

We aim to achieve this by replacing hardwired, antiquated in-room phones with VoIP on phablets powered by our software (applications and customized Android OS), integrated with a cloud-based PBX. We're building a Java backend and React frontend.

We're a five person team working out of a gorgeous penthouse in downtown Brooklyn, less than minutes form every major subway. We're looking for people excited to make a big impact and iterate quickly.

Looking for: * Senior Front End Engineer (http://guestfriend.com/senior-front-end-engineer)

Email: [email protected]

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