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zindlerb | 5 months ago | on: The history of cataract surgery

Many surgeries have a yikes success rate but when you need to do it you need to do it unfortunately.

zindlerb | 2 years ago | on: Hi everyone yes, I left OpenAI yesterday

I don't think that is an apt metaphor. Imo Openai is Apple and Google is Parc. Google experiencing a similar issue to parc where they invented transformers but have been unable to capture the value so far due to being focused on ads revenue.

zindlerb | 2 years ago | on: Upcoming LK-99 paper will reportedly verify the superconductor

This article reads like it was written by chatgpt

zindlerb | 3 years ago | on: Google gets the green light to flood US Gmail inboxes with political spam

I setup a filter to archive any email with the phrase "paid for by" this has been pretty good at filtering all political spam. Although it may generate some false positives.

zindlerb | 5 years ago | on: TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans from Filing Taxes for Free (2019)

Someone needs to start a non-profit competitor to TurboTax that uses its fees to advocate for simplifying tax policy.

zindlerb | 6 years ago | on: Map Design – a guide to good looking maps (2008) [pdf]

I found the book Cartographic Relief Presentation (https://esripress.esri.com/display/index.cfm?fuseaction=disp...) to be an in depth resource on this subject.

zindlerb | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Joining a Late Series Startup in SV. Please Help

Imo you are taking on a huge risk. Your shares will be worth nothing the majority of the time. In the future if your shares are worth a lot and you need to pay taxes that will be a nice problem to have.

zindlerb | 6 years ago | on: Joins In Steps

Thanks for pointing that out. It has been updated.

zindlerb | 9 years ago | on: Eve: Programming designed for humans

Looks really cool! I'm excited to test out a few programs.

zindlerb | 10 years ago | on: BYOT: Bring your own team

Stripe doesn't have referral bonuses.

zindlerb | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are there so few reviews for coding bootcamps?

Try yelp. Hack Reactor has 150+ Yelp reviews http://www.yelp.com/biz/hack-reactor-san-francisco

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: YC Interview Prep Tool

Very cool! I made a little tool like this a while ago. It has sound bites from previous yc office hours. http://www.zindlerb.com/officeHours/index.html

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Mean People Fail

I would not consider Zynga a success.

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: SimCity That I Used to Know

Will Wright gives such great interviews. One of my favorites is http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/pearce/

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Eve Development Blog, from Light Table developers

True. The appeal for me is directly manipulating the code, and getting feedback. The browser console is laid out in a call response model, and you are unable to edit previous entries. You have to retype them in, or hit up on the keyboard to find the previously entered function. It is nicer to just manipulate my code and evaluate it right in the editor. It isn't a huge difference, but it has been helpful for me.

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Eve Development Blog, from Light Table developers

I don't know about python, but Javascript works great. The killer app for me is using the editor as an integrated repl for JS.

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]

The boards are a way to make sales while they create better batteries. Batteries are often the limiting factor in current tech products.

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Light Table needs a community

Thank you for posting this. I use Light Table on a daily basis, but don't participate in the community. This is good motivation for me to get more involved. If you have any questions here feel free to ask!

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Beyond Light Table

I think their new project plans to fulfill Bret Victor's vision in a way LT cannot. Bret Victor's demo was meant as a starting point. He was really advocating tools that help us understand the systems we create as programmers. Not live editing. I think Eve is an attempt to give us the tools to build and reason about our systems.

zindlerb | 11 years ago | on: Beyond Light Table

Thank you for making light table. I use it every day, and it was immensely helpful for learning clojure script.