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Ask HN: Movies to Watch on a Plane

I need to fly for 20 hours tomorrow.Do you have any recommendations for movies that inspired you? To think about technology, business, entrepreneurship? Also open to "fun" (vs necessarily inspiring), "fantasy" (vs realistic science/business), and dramas!

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:37PM (#33194138)
Interesting decision to have zero images of the new design on the landing page. Could you share why you decided this way?
Re:Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:41PM (#32267747)
What is the technology stack for your app?

Ask HN: Anyone else use calendar for “recording history”?

People usually use calendars to schedule meetings or plan what to do where "in the future".What I like to do is fill all 24 hours of every day in my calendar with what I did (rounded up to 15min blocks) so that I can check in the future. I plan days in advance like others, but as I live each day, I make sure all the calendar records "in the past" are accurate.People around me don't seem to do...

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Re:Ask HN: How to raise a seed round in a down market? on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:38PM (#31870898)
How did you determine that you really need to raise a seed round?
Re:Tauri 1.0 – Electron Alternative Powered by Rust on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:52AM (#31764549)
Is this a substitute for Flutter? (After mobile support ships)
Re:Write documentation first, then build on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:19AM (#31753299)
Always the right approach and only the right approach
Why do entrepreneurs NOT use ready-made forum softwares like this to start startups? Clever use of general tools like this (maybe not specifically Flarum) can help them launch communities or marketplaces in less than a day. Is it as optimal as a in-house built forum? No. Should they be saving time on reinventing the undifferentiated code part so that they can test the core business concept and build out their differentiated networks of users? Yes.
Re:New Human Interface Guidelines on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @09:38PM (#31676681)
No. From Monterey to Ventura, they changed checkboxes to switches, which they explicitly recommend against in their Human Interface Guidelines.

Having said, I don't think 100% consistency is a useful goal anyway. The Ventura design is usable, and the guideline is useful. Gap between the two can be operational "debt" (like technical debt) which is not theoretically ideal, but practically useful to keep making/shipping progress.

Re:Sunsetting Atom on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:55PM (#31671407)
Wow! End of an era!
Re:Find a good available .com domain on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:57AM (#31665577)
Programmatic land grabs like this is why people today must suffer from lack of remaining .com domain names.

Nothing wrong with the writer of this post. I think this is a rational behavior that should be considered "expected". Whoever designed domain name registration/ownership model is to blame for failing to create a system which can efficiently give right domain names to people who actually need them and can use them for good (aka actually hosting businesses or contents instead of scalping).

Re:I've locked myself out of my digital life on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @03:15PM (#31658842)
This.

I never understood MFAs. In terms of ability to "log back in", it creates more "weakest links", where failure of one can lock me out of all.

Most consumers don't, but I use 3+ phones at a time, picking up whichever one has battery and is near me, and replace phones multiple times a year. MFAs and similar "future-looking" security solutions seem to target majority cases, whereas I think such security solutions need to support edge cases.

Currently, my best guess is magic links where I can set aliases like "this particular email" to be the source of truth, such that I can lose a device or two and still access the email, and still replace entire email if email is compromised (or regularly, just for best practice). But definitely does not feel satisfying...

Big respect for experts who are thinking about this problem day and night to solve it for the humankind. Seems hard and is definitely critically important!

Re:News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:58PM (#31646174)
Still no abolition of policy suppressing PWAs to 50MB?
Re:iOS 16 to support Web push notifications in 2023 on Monday June 06, 2022 @04:38PM (#31645908)
When will they abolish the arbitrary 50MB limit on PWAs?
Seems like an interesting problem, but I have zero background knowledge. Could you share who would use this and why?
Re:Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:00AM (#31627892)
A professional medical doctor will make more medical mistakes than I will.

Let us try our best to treat them charitably, forgive the mistakes we see, and provide input to help them do their work even better!

I had success working with Design/UX or any other specialists acknowledging that they spent more time thinking about it than I have, and that, of course, they will be the final decision makers on whether to accept or reject any inputs I give, before providing any feedback or ideas I have. Also, taking the attitude, not of "Let me teach you X", but of "Teach me whether you considered X and, if you have, why you haven't tried X yet".

Re:Do not combine footers and infinite scrolling on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:58PM (#31626832)
I once shipped a new product, and was surprised to receive no negative feedback from users regarding content quality.

Happens out, UX team placed the "Send Feedback" button below the infinite scroll content feed.

Re:Confess your love with zero-knowledge on Saturday June 04, 2022 @12:22AM (#31616965)
Finally, a way to secretly confess my love for justice and world peace.
For humans, probably better done via word cooccurence on Wikipedia, or, to make it much easier, give two Wikipedia articles and pick which has more of the word.
Clever game lol
Lost opportunity to ironically call this news "breaking"
When the writer says friendships, I believe the writer means communities, such as community of place.
Re:Why Infer Types? on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:48AM (#31548370)
Just put getFoo inside doSomethingWithFoo.
Re:YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @01:57PM (#31495357)
Imagine a free cloud storage, but you need to watch an ad every time you download a file.
Re:Designing for non-rectangular browser windows on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:16AM (#31456674)
Haha. Nice exercise!
Re:HTTP Cats on Thursday May 19, 2022 @06:29PM (#31440994)
Thank you. I am finally empowered to build the API I've been planning to build for years!
Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:27PM (#31414602)
A prudent business will respond to what people do rather than what people say.
Re:Ask HN: Cities Outside of Bay Area on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:12AM (#31364699)
Sacramento seems like a great city! Thank you for the recommendation. I will visit the city soon to check out the apartments there. :)
Re:DeepMind: A Generalist Agent on Thursday May 12, 2022 @01:09PM (#31356879)
Impressive

Ask HN: Cities Outside of Bay Area

I am interested in moving inland from Palo Alto closer toward Yosemite. I just want to be able to drive to Palo Alto within 2 to 3 hours once or twice a month for special occasions, but otherwise enjoy cheaper rent.I am familiar with cities along the coast, but not the ones post San Francisco Premium Outlet. Has anyone moved in this direction? Any cities you would recommend?

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