poirier's comments

poirier | 7 years ago | on: My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

Nice job on the formatting. Looks great with an auto-outline.

Appreciate the share.

poirier | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Simple Budgeting

What's your current toolset?

poirier | 7 years ago | on: GraphQL editor – Visual node editor for GraphQL

Seconded. Great README.

poirier | 7 years ago | on: What Time Looks Like to Philip Glass

Because he's an _artist_ interpreting his experience of the physics of time.

poirier | 8 years ago | on: Breaking Into an Information Security Career

Nice title.

poirier | 8 years ago | on: Facebook says it needs your explicit photos to combat revenge porn

Almost 14 years ago.

> Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004.

poirier | 8 years ago | on: Joe Hruska, founder and CEO of RescueTime (YC W08), has died

RIP

Amazing application and great mission.

poirier | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you know of any project with the goal to log and map a human life?

I built something in this vein 6.5 years ago, and used version 1 daily* since, capturing data on myself to measure intent vs reality and what factors improved/screwed up my own life, all the while building in self awareness.

Here's why: http://meometer.com/why/.

Version 2 — which I worked on for the past 3 months — comes out in a few weeks and we're looking for beta testers.

[edit: clarity]

*almost

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Building an ethical bank in Britain

Credit Unions work for their members. My experiences are constantly positive, and the complete opposite of banks.

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Uber CEO Plays with Fire

Open source gmail script: https://www.labnol.org/internet/gmail-unsubscribe/28806/

Not by me. No affiliation. Found it after this news.

[edit: typo]

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best business advice for software developers

Know with more clarity than anyone else on Earth: Why.

Apply Why? to everything.

- Why this tech?

- Why this market?

- Why this team?

- Why do I want this life, experience, challenge, team?

- Why do paying want this product?

- Why will I push through when everything is bleak?

Watch for vanity answers as mentioned by others.

[edit: formatting]

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

Starred because your answers here are beautiful.

poirier | 9 years ago | on: How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]

Here's a smaller clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPP4i7ENvQ

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: If you could move anywhere for a tech job, where would you go?

> illusion of seclusion

Brilliant!

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Starting Entrepreneurs Anonymous

Best of luck.

Note: https://startupsanonymous.com/

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Introducing Murphy: Helping you imagine “what if”

Wagering against.

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What projects are you currently working on?

Nice!

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Generate a mindmap from an org-mode file, with annotations

That's supremely cool.

Nice work!

poirier | 9 years ago | on: The Steps to a Universal Online Tutor

I've been designing a variation of this for almost a decade, waiting for the remaining technologies to fall in place for the interface.

These past few weeks contained an announcement which is probably the last one.

I use a tiny component of it every day, and my current project leverages different types of AI.

poirier | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: A Bot to Deploy to AWS, Digital Ocean Etc.

Thanks for sharing!