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Re:Ask HN: Where to meet non-technical cofounders? on Sunday September 13, 2020 @09:46PM (#24465885)
My I suggest Lunchclub, "Curated 1:1 professional connections."

https://lunchclub.ai/

Re:Pinboard Turns Eleven on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:48AM (#23792739)
I became a Pinboard customer on December 17, 2010 and currently have 7,940 bookmarks, the most recent pin was added yesterday.

It's a great service. I recommend it to everyone.

Re:Segway ends production of its original scooter on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:35PM (#23621830)
The Segway Polo world championship is the Woz Challenge Cup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_polo#Woz_Cup

Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? on Friday May 22, 2020 @11:08PM (#23279515)
For fun,

me: Hey Google, spell Elon Musk's son's name

Re:It’s Time to Get Back to RSS on Sunday May 17, 2020 @04:37PM (#23215232)
My I recommend IPTC's NewsML-G2 https://iptc.org/standards/newsml-g2/
Re:Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use? on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:02PM (#22578668)
Question, what aspect of your product restricts the software architecture to not use "off-site cloud?"
Re:The Zen of Go on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:48PM (#22399413)
Any suggestions of open source Go projects/services that exemplify the Zen of Go?

Bonus points if they are using Docker / Kubernetes for deployment and hosting.

Re:Not everyone has an internal monologue on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:31PM (#22199074)
Do people with a weak internal monologue understand or enjoy jokes, puns, or poems?
Re:Pantone 448 C on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:18AM (#22136085)
Thomson Reuters Logo Color Scheme

https://www.schemecolor.com/thomson-reuters.php

Re:Goodbye, Clean Code on Saturday January 11, 2020 @06:27PM (#22023170)
> We were working on a graphics editor canvas, and they implemented the ability to resize shapes like rectangles and ovals by dragging small handles at their edges.

It's a dirty shame their development team had to build a graphics editor canvas from scratch.

Re:When good ideas make bad business on Friday January 03, 2020 @03:01PM (#21949731)
TLDR: OP learned the hard way that a good idea was a feature, not a viable business.
Re:Challenging projects every programmer should try on Saturday December 14, 2019 @03:57PM (#21792195)
- A load balancer module that accepts generic worker functions.

- A service that can take a real-time timestamped data and generate an internalized time series. For example returns a first, last, high, low, and average value at fifteen second intervals.

- A mechanism for serializing structured data. Something like Google Protobuf.

- A chart widget optimized to display and navigate date based content.

Re:Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates on Thursday December 12, 2019 @02:01AM (#21769856)
We also focus on the abilities of an individual.

There can be a fair amount of complex behavior of groups. Ants and plants for example

http://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/26/the-intellige...

Re:16-inch MacBook Pro on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:51PM (#21529996)
I wanted to give a shout out for this USB C hub. Not associated with the manufacturer, I'm am just a happy customer.

https://satechi.net/collections/usb-type-c/products/type-c-m...

Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger on Saturday October 26, 2019 @06:03PM (#21366528)
So we want Facebook to stop propagating fake news and hate speech and we want them to do so without crawling URLs?
Re:Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equity? on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @10:53AM (#21060827)
What keeps Jim from creating a new corporation, have that new entity tender an offer to buy the assets of the "current startup" for $100? Could Jim, owning the majority of equity accept the offer and pay our OP his $40?

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