joshuagross | 4 years ago | on: Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing
You’ve gotta replace some stuff yearly on those houses by ocean spray, it’s actually a bigger problem than it might seem
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joshuagross | 5 years ago | on: Lifting Self-Imposed Restrictions on the U.S.-Taiwan Relationship
The cynical read for “why wait until the last week” is to make China/US relations even more difficult for Biden. The Trump admin doesn’t have to deal with fallout.
joshuagross | 7 years ago | on: React Native Open Source Update
Have you seen React Native Windows (https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows) and react-native-macos (https://github.com/ptmt/react-native-macos)? I haven't used either, but they both look very popular, 5k-10k stars on Github.
joshuagross | 7 years ago | on: Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'
Gluten free also refers to processing. If something is made in the same facility / alongside a product with gluten it’s a serious problem with people with Celiac.
joshuagross | 7 years ago | on: California to become first state to require companies to have women on boards
It does.
joshuagross | 7 years ago | on: Coffee delivery drone patented by IBM
They would play around with the definition of "commercialized".
"Technically we offered it on sale for $500,000; nobody buys it so we've never made one, but it's still on the market!"
joshuagross | 10 years ago | on: People Are Still Trying to Build a Space Elevator
"But you’ve had civilizations rise and fall by a change in material strength by a decimal point, and now you’re talking about orders of magnitude."
Does anyone know what he's referring to in this comment?
joshuagross | 10 years ago | on: 13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County
Why? If California is your norm, keep in mind that California has 20% of the U.S.'s homeless population (California, Texas, and Florida have 58% of the under-18 homeless population). It's really not a universal problem.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm lost. Please help
Sunk costs are sunk costs, and opportunity cost is very real. Don't sink more into it if you don't believe in the future of the product AND the team AND the company as a whole.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen [video]
All the tech workers I know in the U.S. have very satisfying careers, but it depends on your metric and who you're talking to. Many of my Southeast Asian and Indian tech friends work hard to get to the U.S., and I don't see the reverse happening much.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: Yahoo Acquires Astrid
Huge congrats to Jon and Tim! I worked with them in 2011 and it's an amazing team that I'd be honored to work with any day. Yahoo! is lucky to have them.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop at 130,000 fps
Slow-mo exploding things for the win. Also this is a super good, interesting explanation of nothing I never would have cared about before.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: CISPA passed in sneak attack,deletes the 4th Amendment.
I question the idea that 90% of the U.S. has foreign ties, but your point (it's absurd) remains.
Actually I'd really like to see how much of the population something like FISA actually applies to.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: Are We An Unjust People?
> I don't believe this was a Python problem or an issue of the Python community, it's a general issue plaguing technology.
Obviously broader than the scope of this conversation, but let's not forget that /society/ is bad at this. You carve out a subsection of the larger culture, and, surprise! Sexism is still a problem. I find it absurd that anyone would think the larger tech community /wouldn't/ have this problem.
Thus, I'm pretty happy that, fex, the Node community seems to have a decent grip on keeping things under control, at least in the early days. There will be occasional trolls, newcomers, and people that don't "get it" yet, but I think the community leaders are leading responsibly.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: FlyLatex: a free, open-source real-time collaborative latex editor
Dev of http://spandex.io here. Good to have more people in the space :)
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: Blocking China IP Address Blocks
This would backfire. The goal, I suppose, is that the Chinese government go after hackers in China more; but even if this happened on a mass scale, the Chinese government would /love/ for more services to be run domestically. They don't need Google or Facebook, what makes you think they won't survive well without any of our sites?
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: LaTeX Templates
I still haven't figured out if the general trend is up/down for LaTeX (I have a vested interest, CTO of SpanDeX.io, but I'm not sure).
My argument against "give it another 10-20 years" is that LaTeX has already been around forever. I know people even in math, physics, and CS that never use LaTeX (in favor of Word). Which I find silly and strange, but it is what it is.
Of course, I'm hoping that new online editors like SpanDeX.io and LaTeXTemplates are the adrenaline shot that LaTeX needs for wider adoption.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: LaTeX Templates
I found LaTeXTemplates just a little over a year ago when I was looking for (shockingly) LaTeX templates, and it was /the only/ resource with decent usable templates (in terms of source readability and having actually-pretty templates). I'm the CTO of SpanDeX.io and we jumped on site integration shortly after we launched, because LaTeXTemplates is badass. I see many of you have hit our site after checking out LaTeXTemplates, so I'm glad some of you find the gallery & the integrations useful! Cheers.
joshuagross | 13 years ago | on: Online collaborative LaTeX editor
Co-founder of http://www.SpanDeX.io here, it's cool to see so much excitement around web-based LaTeX editing. As Henry mentioned, scaling sites like this is quite challenging as LaTeX wasn't really built for performance or scaling, but it's still more pleasant than running on your own machine ;) Best of luck to everyone!
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