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Re:New species of “supergiant” isopod uncovered on Friday September 11, 2020 @02:10PM (#24445597)
Sorry, the site is down now, but here is a cached version: https://web.archive.org/web/20200826125737/https://news.nus....
Re:Show HN: Bio and CV hosting for researchers and scientists on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:40PM (#24426250)
Built this so researchers like me can create a simple bio & share it with a short public URL with no ads. It also compiles the info into a CV & bonus- there's also a cute avatar builder!
Re:Show HN: ThePenTool – Library of design assets on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:03AM (#24268257)
Thanks for sharing, hn isn't quite the audience for the site's design, but fwiw I really like the quirky design - there's alot to appreciate and get inspiration from.
Re:Clover: An all-in-one notebook on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:23PM (#24267873)
Congrats to the team, looks very useful. I was an early customer of the Macaw App from the same creator(s?) and was excited for its development and had deeply integrated it into my projects but they got aquihired then all development stopped and bugs frozen in place... honestly didn't feel good and left me wary of new apps like these. Anyways, hopefully this one has a long bright future.
Re:What if we could live for a million years? on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:43PM (#24189658)
This thought experiment crosses my mind everytime I read the crazy ages of the characters in the book of genesis, the obvious consequence is that space travel and technology would be the dominant science since the earth and this solar system is way too small and boring for creatures who live that long.
Re:What’s Flying Above Us? on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:34PM (#24189523)
The most interesting reading is in the 'tracking police helicopters' slidedeck linked in the site: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1sowJrQQfgxnLCErb-CvU...
Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:29PM (#24189467)
Thanks for the link! Looks like I was holding on to an assumption I never actually verified.
Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:22PM (#24189377)
That's why I try to reflect on my feelings when I can because they aren't rational. I have to remind myself it's the fiduciary duty of companies to take legal advantage of any opportunity the law gives it.
Re:Apple, Epic, and the App Store on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:14PM (#24189285)
"This case asks us to draw the line between anticompetitive behavior, which is illegal under federal antitrust law, and hypercompetitive behavior, which is not."

I feel this contradiction within me when I find myself promoting and praising the growth hacks and 'doing whatever it takes' mentality startups employ and then subsequently realizing that at the same time I would probably shame and criticize the same tactics if the same company got large.

Re:Chat server on a WiFi-enabled SD card on Monday August 17, 2020 @01:06PM (#24189198)
Site is down. The words 'WiFi-enabled SD card' makes my imagination flow. I think in the future you'll have one SD card with all the electronics/computing power and you just insert it into various dummy devices to change it's capabilities.
I want to know why and how Queen agreed to do the music and the story of how the theme song was created. Would be super interested to hear that oral history.
It is nice and calming, btw your twitter link at the bottom your site is broken (it links to https://batch.sh/www.twitter.com/batchsh).
Congrats, looks useful! Just an opinion, but I think you should skip the cool large animation on your homepage and just start with the "Our platform is essential in scaling and maintaining your business.". I had no idea what Batch was until I scrolled way below the fold.
Re:Robinhood now valued at $11.2B with new fund backing on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:38PM (#24188864)
I think it's great to lower the barrier of entry to financial services and such but one thing I feel is lacking is the education component. There's not enough explanation, warnings, and documentation in the UI or on their site because of the effort of getting people to invest as quickly as possible.
You'll probably want to validate the R in your ROI ratings with the people who will be using your product as quickly as possible instead of making educated guesses. There have been many times where my expectations of return were completely wrong.
Re:Show HN: Use React to build G Suite dialogs and add-ons on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:47PM (#24183069)
Great work and I admire your dedication and work you put into this! How hard do you think it would for someone of average intelligence to fork it to support Vue or Svelte instead?
Re:Hello “Hello World” on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:39PM (#24183005)
Sorry this is remotely tangentially related, but one of my favorite websites to peruse when bored is this hello world collection http://helloworldcollection.de/ You can really get a feel of a language's personality and style from its 'hello world'
Re:Art of chording on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:34PM (#24182986)
Cool, I've always wondered how the stenography machines worked. Also, I'm stupid because I read through many pages before realizing I was mispronouncing 'Chording' in my mind as 'Chow-ording' and was wondering where that word came from.
Re:Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:29PM (#24182948)
Just curious if you experienced those issues with Phaser before or after they replaced Pixi and what's your strategy for sound and controls?
Re:Visual Game Editor for Pixi.js on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:24PM (#24182918)
I was mainly thinking how spritesheets tools are much more developed in PhaserEditor2d vs ctjs, but you're definitely right in that loading spritesheets works perfect in Pixi especially if you use a tool like TexturePacker.

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