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Re:Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations on Saturday October 25, 2025 @10:29PM (#45708669)
Thank you! Very cool.

I don't see a button for it (on mobile currently, and will check thoroughly at my computer) -- is there a button to add a node?

Another feature I've always craved for code diagramming is "collapse downstream nodes" -- though it might be outside of your scope (and mermaids?).

This thread is a weird place for you to soapbox. This is about two companies in Canada. Not only that, but it's about intelligence / security concerns, not airspace regulations.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:45PM (#38886652)
Thanks for posting, Tom. I just sent in an application.
The nature article makes it sound like a lot of the options listed are being tested because there's some evidence of some effectiveness Vs in the story OP posted, it sounds like the mechanism is much better understood.
Hey, HN. Ben here, founder of ShapeMeasure.

I grew up on construction sites -- my dad was a general contractor. After publishing research in quantum information theory and robotics, I decided to get back to the family business by founding a company to modernize construction. Happy to answer any question around construction, running a hardware startup, or anything else!

Re:Sunsetting Hire on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @02:27AM (#20817364)
Would you prefer if he just called him a jerk? Telling someone that they're being mean or inconsiderate is not the same thing as censoring them.
I would say "not really". Trying to raise with such terrible optics is not going to be a fast process.
Re:Don't use the greater-than sign in programming (2016) on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:59AM (#18639609)
"Go ahead and find out which one, I'll wait" ... As if it required herculean effort.

"which is a stupid option because it implies 10 < 5" No it doesn't.

And I stopped reading.

"I can't do what I want in life" -- What do you want to do?
Re:The Data From Comments to the FCC About Net Neutrality on Saturday August 09, 2014 @03:58PM (#8157864)
As LukeB pointed out, you've reversed the meaning of the term.

I strongly recommend fixing this -- you really risk confusing the layperson and the debate.

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