ia | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: I made an Apple Vision Pro review roundup with AI using Jumprun
This is almost spooky... it produced the results of my typical google research process. Thanks for this, I'm impressed.
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ia | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: I made an Apple Vision Pro review roundup with AI using Jumprun
How hard would it be to do a comparative analysis, say of Vision Pro, Oculus, and Quest? Does that capability exist? Or is it more of a summarization/vision board thing?
The UI looks great, btw.
ia | 11 years ago | on: Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte
i will, thanks!
ia | 11 years ago | on: Harj Taggar Is Building a New Technical Hiring Pipeline with TripleByte
i'm in the market for a remote position. is that something that would work here? or is this only for locals or those able to move to the bay area?
ia | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot
this is what i love about the internet. you're a great person. i also thank you on sean's behalf :)
ia | 11 years ago | on: Why Some Bankers Are Leaving Finance for Fintech Startups
from my experience, this is all 100% accurate. medtech is a shit show.
however, from another perspective, it's exactly the type of "schlep" that mints millionaires.
ia | 11 years ago | on: Being a Manager Is Lonely
totally agree. i think it's why many many many tech managers aren't technical. most truly technical people cannot put up with the cognitive dissonance required to convincingly say one thing while believing the opposite.
ia | 11 years ago | on: Terms of Service; Didn't Read
cool. how about a comment on its usefulness? code quality? breadth of TOS it has ratings for?
"it's been around for years" doesn't add much value.
ia | 12 years ago | on: In which I answer all of the questions (2012)
He wasn't doing that at all. His point was that autism skews male and then suggests that the traits of Aspergers make good programmers. It was a comment on why there are more men than women in tech fields. Relevant excerpt below:
"In an earlier post I noted that many software developers I've known have traits of Aspergers. Aspergers is a spectrum disorder; the more severe the symptoms, the closer it is to autism. And did you know that autism skews heavily towards males at a 4:1 ratio?
Interesting. I might even go so far as to say some of those traits are what makes one good at programming."
ia | 12 years ago | on: Results of the GitHub Investigation
we have one side of the story, for fuck's sake. the other side--the github side? it's lawyer-speak and completely devoid of anything that addresses the specific accusations.
how so many ostensibly smart people can simultaneously lose their ability to think critically is incredible. add the word "gender" to anything and people lose their minds.
ia | 12 years ago | on: Elixir v0.13.0 released, hex.pm and ElixirConf announced
i've been playing with elixir for a little while. i'm still wrapping my head around all its metaprogramming goodness, but so far it's been a fun journey.
also, jose valim must have clones of himself.
ia | 12 years ago | on: Drop Dropbox
i usually don't jump into these debates, but your comment strikes me as at best impossibly naive and at worst inexcusably ignorant. take a look at the various laws being passed to disenfranchise minority/elderly voters. look at the misinformation being spread via special interest-controlled media. read up on Edward Snowden. "victim blaming" is 100% what you're doing here.
i agree with your stance that action needs to be taken, but completely disagree that we have "no one to blame but ourselves".
ia | 12 years ago | on: Gmail was down
Mine is down also. This is actually slightly terrifying. What's standard operating procedure for recovering from a lost gmail account? And I don't mean getting the account back--I mean, your account is lost forever.
ia | 13 years ago | on: Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
yes. very interested. very very interested :)
ia | 13 years ago | on: Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
ah, public shaming. the easiest and most low-brow way to sway opinions on the interent.
ia | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Nightmares with Stripe?
my experience w/stripe just adds to the pile of awesome. on a couple of occasions, i was in their support chatroom trading code snippets w/their engineers who were incredibly smart, responsive, and friendly.
ia | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any Boston area developers interested in working on a project together
any additional info? tech involved? problem you're trying to solve?
ia | 13 years ago | on: How to hack your way into a hot startup with no experience
"hot startup" is empty and salesy, IMO. after reading this, i kind of wish i hadn't. none of the parties mentioned came off in a positive way.
ia | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?
Saying that the alternative is "a stiff and sterile ad" is a fallacy of false dichotomy.
fair enough. to clarify--"a stiff and sterile ad" is the only type of add that won't alienate any possible subgroup.
the goal of a job ad is not simply to "attract talent". it's to attract the right kind of talent. to that end, a job ad that emphasizes culture is one way to look for it. these guys made a choice, and it looks like their (imo) poorly-worded job ad isn't being well received by the majority of people on hn. but unless we know that no suitable candidates resulted from it, i don't think we can claim it a failure.
To be fair, it's not a job ad that fails here, it's the culture that came up with that job ad.
agree, in the sense that if people react adversely to this job ad, they would have a similar reaction to the company culture.
ia | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is brogrammer a sexist term?
If that's the type of person you're looking to hire (say, for a porn site...), not sure why you wouldn't do this. Assuming, again, that you aren't breaking any laws. Not sure what point you were trying to make. Sarcasm doesn't translate well in writing...
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