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levimaes | 6 years ago | on: A call to all passionate technology writers

Yeah, maybe this product/service can see whether Stripe would be able to accommodate a kind of free integration and use. Maybe consider restructuring to explicitly (ToS, tax filing) fit into Stripe's philanthropic arm

levimaes | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I transition from full-stack web-dev to systems engineering?

fwiw, You might enjoy what golang has to offer in a systems programming context. I think it's reliably offered it's users '95% right, 99% of the time' comprehensiveness for all kinds of contexts -- what with how I think even Dropbox might have switched over to Golang, from Rust, after conceding it's greater overall compatibility (I'd imagine) to their product's improvement + maintenance + growth/scale.

levimaes | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: First visit to Bay Area. Where should I go?

Sleep over and party with the other tourists at the Fisherman's Wharf hostel; Wake up to the a calm, detached serenity within the city that gives the Marina district's urbsn calm refuge a run for it's money. Meet a stunning New Yorker. Sweep her off her feet, literally, and swaddle her to place of, more, our own. Watch her later disappear, her a sugar cube, into your teacup; meet another from Texas whose taken to your dumb, musical pining, there in the dining hall. Carry her too. Scale an apartment building to watch the stars and muse on how, maybe she should switch majors to math, maybe. These stars, never a spectacle for a Texan, but here lending to me a perfectly stunning, halcyon glow over the whole situation, after all this time royally without romance, a cliffside's breeze before a warm washing Pacific sunset. All at the Fisherman's Wharf hostel...

levimaes | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to avoid TV addiction?

Read Infinite Jest, whose author even confessed to it's consumptive (consuming?), ulterior-ness! What I'm trying to say, without actually answering you, is that you're joined by many other ambitious yet perennially TV-tortured people -- that you're not alone in your endeavors towards re-adjustment, and that it's mostly just as onerous and grating for Us to effect in our life these changes and developmental resolutions, as it is for You.

levimaes | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?

Sean Carroll's "Great Courses" production on the "Higgs Boson, and Beyond" [1] offers like 5 hours of what you'll likely gradually find to be a very accessible, informative and entertaining audio/aural chronology of the Higgs boson's conception; through its planning, and on through the LHC experiment, and finally past its discovery, into the current state of affairs regarding field theory. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUv1OJ2PE0s

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: YC S18 YouTube Video

When you say, "forget about it", regarding trying going solo with an idea, do you say that because the only hope for a chance at bringing and keeping the idea at viability is to simultaneously have 5,000 USD , liquid -- and to be, yourself, or close friends/co-founders with some kind of technologies Wunderkind? Like, the only hope at getting capital while staying organized, focused and adaptive is to have a healthy savings to dispose of?

I'm hoping there's still hope that a motivated and disciplined individual, today, can strive towards what might as morally well be their American (read: capitalist) birthright. I think it was someone at YC who stripped my self-defeating default to dismissal of the idea of becoming a lower middle class American owner when they wrote, "Build something users love, and spend less than you make. How hard is that?"

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for a serious, long-term business app

I think the gRPC team/community has been fast at work on a Golang/Node/Java/Haskell + Docker RPC tool; maybe you'll find some insights at their 'grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway' or 'grpc/grpc-web' GitHub repo home pages -- for your API format. It might tie back nice and conveniently to Minikube and K8S -- if gRPC is compatible with Clojure (essentially Java?).

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: High functioning alcoholism – anyone?

I signed in just to upvote this! I hope someone can use it! Quiet and thankless internal discipline is highly rewarding, whereas the powers outside yourself (like excessive shopping, gambling, video entertainment, sex).... Well, they all make bank off of your diverted attention or indulgence. I admit I'm already being preachy, but I think what the basic abstract theme that "chatmasta" is disseminating is the same valuable theme that brought Tesla's genius to into the stratosphere -- albeit in his case with an early, rigourous start, and over the course of decades.

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Lenovo Accidentally Leaks an Image of Its ‘Retro Thinkpad’

holy hell, this is Exactly what I've been looking for. Ive been saving up for a replacement for my 2010 MBP, and it's been between a new miscellaneous thinkpad, and a $3,000-priced 2017 MBP, which I believe would've been justified if the god bedamned thing had a mechanical power button! I don't want to bet a ~$1200 premium on the TouchBar/ID power button providing the same "At least it turns on" reliability that I've grown from adolescence to love, and more recently I've come to depend on, for safe mode and single user mode booting. Hell! Take away a man's power button, and you take away his power...

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best features of your favourite language?

I once considered this web server "LightTPD" as an alternative to Apache2, and I read some officially published and comparatively astonishing benchmarks for performance written in a language called Lua. Can anyone else speak to Lua's alleged superiority in the web service regard? Or, is this a consequence implicit to LightTPD?

(Sorry--not an response to question, explicitly, and thanks!)

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: With 2 years and no obligations, what would you build?

I was actually driving down a boulevard in San Francisco, California (CA I-1; 19th Blvd), which has the expected frequent downhills and uphills, and I shit you not a two trailer, solid iron, kind-of-construction-refuse-freighter 14-wheeler was braking at each of the stoplights by skidding--like 5 or 10 feet, on its rear wheels. The same kind of skidding that everyone who's ever fish-tailed has come to revere. But at 25 tons. And 9 feet high. At 30 MPH, and downhill, for like 2 miles.

Eventually he made it with me onto the I-280, but instead of reporting it, I spent the entire time becoming intimately accustomed to the incapabilities of my car's voice dialing system. I can't imagine something like that being legal.

Oh, and if anyone reads this: Look up some videos of trucks and vans with unsecured loads. Like landscaping trucks and vans, or trucks with Home Depot/home-improvement loads. Their stuff falls off, so follow your reflexive unease and repulsion and leave their lane and proximity.

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?

Oh my god Infinite Jest reassured me I wasn't crazy for hating the self-loathing I associate with weed. And in such a funny way. I swear re-reading a chapter or scene in that book is like a real-life dream sequence; I can't help but dissociating. I still didn't understand so much of it after I "finished" it, but that didn't stop me from pulling the same shit I do--jumping over chapters until it's interesting--with his other work, "The Pale King". You will not be disappointed by the candidness and "raw"-ness of the pale king, either. I almost wanted to applaud some parts of it--a familiar reflex for you, too, I'm sure.

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your 2 favorite news sites?

You might like the free section of this closed-/open-source scienticific publications resource (labs can opt-in to open-source their research), called Thieme medical publications. Here's a link [1] to my favorite journal of theirs: Planta Medica. I wouldn't have imagined any kind of lab toiling away to get funding in plant pharmacology research--until I found planta medica.

1. https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/topten/10.1...

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Your shell console "sanity prompts"?

This makes me want some kind of the OS X "System Integrity Protection", but for CentOS and Ubuntu. I mean there HAS to be something like this? Maybe this is what the substitute user is all about and I just kinda suck!

levimaes | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: A collective list of APIs – apilist.fun

This is so heartwarming, it brought a smile to my face as soon as I realized it was a numbers spread. I'll tell you it was an upsetting day, the day I realized all my projects and ideas--software and hardware, whatever--could be reduced down to a database or spreadsheet. Thoughts of, "If only there were a more engaging, fulfilling way to access that data...", or "It's all there; why complicate it!", and "Someone's already done it." only disserviced my already murky disposition. Anyway, you have a list of APIs, but in the spirit of ironic humor, I have to ask: Do you have a way to consume, access etc. this list? Does G-Sheets offer that inherently?
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