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Re:Do dentists know what they're doing?
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:47PM (#50097718)
I had been going to the same dentist, who was also a family friend, my whole life (30+ years). When I told him I couldn’t go to him anymore bc I was moving away, he told me to be careful bc a lot of dentist will try to upsell me on stuff. Lo and behold the first new dentist I went to offered me a bunch of treatments and tried to tell me I had issues that needed correcting.
Re:Black Hole of Los Alamos Seller of surplus nuclear research materials
on Monday September 07, 2026 @12:43AM (#49593976)
I remember going there with my parents one day when I was in my late 20s. It was one of those days that stands out in my memory. Old computers the size of refrigerators. There was a rocket out front. Rows and rows of strange lab equipment from the 50s. I could have spent days there.
Re:The Rust on ESP Book
on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:18PM (#49101058)
I do something similar. I have all my esp/idf code in one crate and all my business logic in a separate crate. The business crate has no dependencies that won’t compile/run on the host. This is where all my tests live.
Re:Lime Files for IPO
on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:13AM (#48063505)
Micromobility company files for IPO
Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym
on Monday May 04, 2026 @02:47PM (#48013136)
A trick I learned is to picture their name written across their forehead (visualize each letter). It works pretty well.
Re:Ask HN: How do you prevent the impact of social media on your child...
on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:36PM (#42703491)
A lot of parents at our school signed a “wait until 8” pledge to wait until 8th grade before getting them smartphones. This way there will be less social pressure from their friends to be connected. My assumption is that without a smartphone they won’t use social media.
Re:Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?
on Monday September 16, 2024 @12:14PM (#41557607)
Xcode has this functionality. You can attach a system sound to a breakpoint. I used it exactly once when I was trying to determine if two events always happened in the same order and were always equally spaced in time. It worked well but drives you sort of mad after a while.
Re:Depression (2014)
on Friday May 24, 2024 @11:33PM (#40472458)
Something I read recently that really hit home is: ”set a direction, not a goal and train yourself to embrace failure as a learning opportunity”. When you set a goal you’re setting yourself up for disappointment if you don’t reach the goal. If you set a direction you’re still improving but you’re freed up to enjoy the process not the result.
Re:A Trick to Reaching Flow
on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:09PM (#35463233)
If I need to stop in the middle of something, I’ll often write directly in the source code, at the point where I stopped, exactly what I was working on and what to do next. I don’t comment out these instructions to my future self so when I sit down next, the project won’t even compile.
Re:Ask HN: Why do you like Visual Studio Code?
on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:49PM (#33695543)
How do you set this up? Any drawbacks?
Re:First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume re...
on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:19PM (#33043526)
There’s a lot of multitasking with kids which I don’t think is healthy for the mind. Also I never have quiet moments to reflect which is when I make connections, mentally piece things together etc.
Re:Someone is pretending to be me
on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @05:02PM (#33001081)
I had something similar happen to me a few years back. Someone using my photo and profile from my personal site and uploaded it to upwork to get contract work. I found out b/c someone hired them for a contract (thinking they were me) and got suspicious. The employer found my real email on my site and contacted me. Not sure what I can do to prevent it. I put a warning on my site saying to look out for impersonators.
Re:Happiness Is Two Scales
on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:06AM (#32517477)
High happiness and high unhappiness is how I would describe parenthood. On the one side your whole life is a chore and feels like a grind. On the other hand your kids give bring you so much happiness you seems to smile/laugh more often.
Re:Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built wi...
on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:35PM (#31769402)
They share a lot of similarities. Both make it hard to do unsafe things, both have functional influences, both have modern features like closures, optionals etc. I'd say the biggest philosophical difference between the two is that Swift leans more toward developer ergonomics while rust is geared toward system level programming (ie tighter control over memory etc).
Re:Why software engineers like woodworking
on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:43AM (#31690487)
I also think there is a precision aspect to woodworking which is similar to writing code. I like to take the time to make my cuts exact, make sure things line up properly etc.
Re:Amazon will allow many employees to work remotely indefinitely
on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @01:22PM (#28842414)
It varies like anywhere. My team at amazon is fairly low stress and there's no overtime (I've been here for a year now).
Re:Coverage is not strongly correlated with test suite effectiveness
on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @07:02PM (#28688475)
I've found that architectures like redux which force the separation of logic and side effects (eg file writes or networking) allow me to write robust tests against the logic code without mocks or stubs. My approach is to write enough code that I have a good idea of what the interface to SUT should look like. Then I write the failing test and make it pass then write another test... The tests I write generally only change when the interface changes or when the requirements change. It doesn't make the code too rigid b/c I'm only writing tests against the interface of this big blob of code. I'm free to refactor away and my test will still run as long as I don't change the interface.
Re:The Document Culture of Amazon
on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:07PM (#27546974)
Generally a link to the document is sent out earlier in the day. That way folks who are inclined can read ahead and comment. The slackers still get time to read the doc at the start of the meeting so they’re not completely in the dark.
Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "fe...
on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:34AM (#27231132)
Ah yes, I'd forgotten about the phrase "second screen". It was going to be big thing until people realized that no one wanted to look at 2 screens at once.
Re:Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "fe...
on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:50PM (#27230291)
I worked for a company that allowed you to play along with jeopardy on your brew/Jme device in real time as you watch the show live on tv. You could compete with your friends in real time, leaderboards, chat etc. The company eventually went under but I can’t help but think if it had been ported to iOS when it came out it would have been a hit. I’ve still never seen any technology like it.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)
on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @11:36AM (#18807417)
Seeking work
Location: San Francisco
I've got 10 years iOS experience (Swift/Objc)
Focused on BLE/IoT products
On site in SF or remote
www.13bit.io
Re:Functional core, imperative shell (2012)
on Friday September 21, 2018 @08:43PM (#18043810)
Yeah swift lends itself to this style well. Value types, functional aspects etc.
Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces
on Saturday August 04, 2018 @11:27AM (#17687190)
I remember finding TermKit a while back and thinking it had some interesting concepts. Looks like it hasn’t been touched in a while though.
http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/
Re:Show HN: Sourcetrail – Get productive on unfamiliar source code
on Thursday June 22, 2017 @03:50PM (#14614809)
Swift would be great. Perhaps you could leverage SourceKit.
Re:Ask HN: Which non-technology book has influenced you the most and why?
on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:37PM (#13969213)
This book blew my mind when I first read it in highschool. I've had a few pivotal experiences in my life which have shaped who I am and how I think. Reading this book was one of them.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)
on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @12:26PM (#12847328)
I'm a freelance iOS developer located in San Francisco. I've got 8 years experience with iOS and 11 years in mobile. I'm willing to work onsite in SF or remote. You can find out more at: http://www.13bit.io/.
Please feel free to email me tyler(at)13bit(dot)io. Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)
on Thursday June 02, 2016 @10:04AM (#11822503)
Hey your email bounced back. Can you ping me at [email protected]? Thanks.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2016)
on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:50PM (#11817106)
SEEKING WORK
iOS engineer with 8 years of iOS experience located in San Francisco. Interests include Swift and IoT. Available starting in July. Find out more at www.13bit.io.
Re:PCB design now supports LEDs and Matias switches
on Friday February 19, 2016 @03:47PM (#11136501)
I use this keyboard at home. While it checks everything off on my list (split, ergo, mech keys, ten keyless), the build quality feels a little cheap i.e. Loose keys that stick often. For ~$200 I expected more. Looking forward to the uhk.