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Re:Ask HN: In-browser alternatives to Sketch on Saturday December 10, 2016 @01:35PM (#13147088)
I've heard good things about https://gravit.io/

But there are others: http://alternativeto.net/software/sketch/

Re:Are code challenges a good predictor for hiring developers? on Sunday November 15, 2015 @01:03PM (#10570378)
I am not in a hiring position but Mr. Peter Norvig says that being good at programming competitions correlates negatively with being good on the job at Google.

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/programming-competitions-work-p...

Re:Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup? on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:02AM (#10203161)
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Re:Ask HN: What's your 1-man startup? on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:00PM (#10201780)
I created LyricSmith (http://lyricsmith.com/) for my mom. It does not make me a living ;)
Re:Ask HN: Resources on secure coding in C? on Friday August 14, 2015 @11:09AM (#10060501)
This is loosely related but if I were you I would want to know about it. Casey Muratori is doing a series on game development in C. I find it educational and entertaining.

https://handmadehero.org/

Show HN: Twitch Experiments

Posted by appleskin on Wednesday May 06, 2015 @12:58PM
from the show-hn dept.

I have been running some experiments on twitch.tv along the lines of driving traffic to websites via donations. Many streamers will read a message attached to a donation of a certain amount of money on stream in front of all their viewers. Sometimes they will visit a url if that happens to be in the content of the message. On rare occasions they will even share the url with the rest of the...

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