palencharizard | 1 year ago | on: "Pink slime" local news outlets erupt all over US as election nears
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palencharizard | 2 years ago | on: 23andMe updates their TOS to force binding arbitration
palencharizard | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?
Optimal Stopping alone makes Algorithms to Live By worth the read
palencharizard | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?
palencharizard | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?
Pros: Limitless number of things to do, people to meet, communities to be a part of. And Broadway (for me). I also enjoy not needing a car.
Cons: Yes it's expensive. Apartments are a choice between: good location, good size, good price (choose two). More shit seems to be going down in the subway (sometimes the literal kind).
Also, there's a kind of art to apartment hunting in NYC. Once you master it, finding an apartment isn't that bad. I've always gotten a pretty good deal and always had a choice between a few apartments. Staying away from trendier neighborhoods is my first rule (way overpriced.. and this is what most ppl see first before digging deeper). I guess the second rule is know thyself - knowing what annoyances you can tolerate will help you find the types of housing that'll conceivably work for you.
palencharizard | 2 years ago | on: React, but in Python
A huge draw for React is that it _extends_ the JavaScript Syntax. If you still had to compose your React components with a bunch of nested `React.createElement('Component')` calls (instead of `<Component />`) it wouldn't be nearly as useful.
palencharizard | 3 years ago | on: Police Officer Exam Tutorial [pdf]
Nyc taxi's always start with a T and end with a C, for example.
palencharizard | 3 years ago | on: FBI Child ID App
palencharizard | 4 years ago | on: Not everyone should meditate
palencharizard | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Life Changing Books?
Long answer: the sooner you read it the better, but any time is better than never. There was a great metaphor early in the book, actually. I don't have a copy on hand so to paraphrase: your life is like a cross-continent flight. If you want to change your destination, earlier on is better--the plane need only make a slight adjustment at the beginning to alter its trajectory significantly. Closer to the end, and you gotta make a pretty sharp turn.
It's not the perfect metaphor but for me personally it really resonated.
Especially if you're fairly happy at your late 20's, any adjustments you might discover you want to make probably aren't that far off :)
palencharizard | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Life Changing Books?
- "The Defining Decade: Why Your 20's Matter and How to Make The Most of Them Now": it motivated me to find a fulfilling a career in tech (among other things).
- "On the Shortness of Life" (Seneca) - Really made me take a hard look at my life, for the better.
- "Eat and Run" - Interesting read about an Ultramarathoner. Inspired me to find the motivation for doing "tough things" in general.
palencharizard | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for?
palencharizard | 4 years ago | on: Facebook Renames to Meta
palencharizard | 5 years ago | on: Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software
palencharizard | 5 years ago | on: East Coast Internet Outage
palencharizard | 5 years ago | on: RemoveJS – Remove JavaScript from any website
palencharizard | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What personal finance tools do you use?
I created a form with name (text), amount (number) and category (dropdown), then opened it in my iPhone's browser and added it to my homescreen. Whenever I make a purchase, I tap the icon and up pops a blank form. Takes me no more than 10 seconds to fill out.
You can link the form responses to a spreadsheet, and from there I can categorize and aggregate with this raw data any way I want. Next step is to create some graphs on the spreadsheet and add that view to my homescreen, so I can see how much budget is remaining in a month.
I've grown tired of budgeting tools that try to link your credit cards, etc--authentication maintenance is never the smoothest, and things are more detailed than I need them to be. Best thing about this method is that I have the raw data to work on, and I can adjust my data visuals easily as my needs change (it might also be cool to one day do large aggregates over, say, 10 years of personal spending)
palencharizard | 5 years ago | on: Spotify web player is down
palencharizard | 6 years ago | on: Show HN: Introvert – Generative artwork to keep you off your phone
I noticed an interesting bug however. On my device (iPhone 8), when you swipe up from the bottom while the timer is running (to select things like flash light), and then close it by swiping down, the timer automatically goes to 0 and the interval is marked complete.
palencharizard | 6 years ago | on: Responsive Pixel Art