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Gabriel_Martin

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I'm a (former) musician, (forever) student, entrepreneur and hacker. Two failed startups since the initial writing of this, and now I do UI/UX design and development.

(my name) @ GabrielMartin.dev

(edit: 12.12.2013 - It's a bumpy ride. Ecommerce site this time.)

(edit: 5.14.2014 - Third time isn't the charm. Looking for ways to gain some experience and insight.)

(edit: 8.07.2014 - I found the Startup Institute Boston, and the experience has been life changing. Here's to the future!)

(edit: 2.29.2019 - now I'm a JS dev doing UI/UX development, who would've thought?)

(edit: 3.29.2022 - Hybrid UX dev and design, pretty pretty cool stuff)

(edit: 12/15/23) How lucky I was to fail. Married with a gig as a UX architect.

(edit: 9.15.2026 - now I'm doing design and product work, with plenty of code mixed in, working on this https://swirltogether.com/ )

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Gabriel_Martin··on Show HN: Broken Bear, the AI teddy bear that loves your broken self
I just assumed that was the case, it made using it a lot funnier, and more interesting to poke and prod.
Gabriel_Martin··on Panama Canal draught restrictions spark liner surcharges
That seemingly isn't as clear to the many companies and households who move to carbon-free technologies with the goal of decreasing energy costs, thus increasing profit/utility/quality of life by simply investing in energy efficiency.
Gabriel_Martin··on Sinead O’Connor has died
Your HN account is probably older than many of those kids the church covered up the abuse of. But sure, she's the asshole for making you think about it.
Gabriel_Martin··on Stable Diffusion XL 1.0
Seeing the "less art needs to exist" perspective is certainly a first time for me on this topic.
Gabriel_Martin··on People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)
The other reply is correct, I'm referencing the Nazi's brand of rhetoric.

Today's rhetoric has the charming variety of "exactly the same" to "distinctly similar". Blood libel, for example being exactly the same as what Qanon believer espouse, and reactionary rhetoric about drag performers being distinctly similar to "degenerate art". A 1500 person poll had 50% of Republicans believing in a pedophile cult among democrat Elites[1]. 25% identify as believing in Qanon, which is literally blood libel [2].

So no, not using it in a positive sense, at all.

1: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20... 2: https://www.prri.org/research/the-persistence-of-qanon-in-th...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

Gabriel_Martin··on People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)
What point are you making here exactly?
Gabriel_Martin··on People in 1920s Berlin nightclubs flirted via pneumatic tubes (2017)
Every other day I hear a reactionary takes on behaviors that would have been called "sexual bolshevism" at the time. Scary times.
Gabriel_Martin··on Good code is like a love letter to the next developer who will maintain it
Or both, depending on how readable it is
Gabriel_Martin··on FedNow Is Live
“Mocking online misbehavior” is pretty generous.
Gabriel_Martin··on Apple plans to build a new 324,000 sq ft office space in North Carolina
I'd venture there's a certain political spotlight which the NC legislature consistently inserts it's self into, that could create a sticking point for some high level C-suite executive at Apple.
Gabriel_Martin··on Ask HN: Who got hired from HN?
I did, for a Frontend role. Was fun, but now I'm seeking UX design roles and they're a bit rarer here! All good :)
Gabriel_Martin··on Humanity's earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago
The lyrics "It started out with a kiss, How did it up like this?" come to mind
Gabriel_Martin··on Warm liquid from Oregon seafloor comes from Cascadia fault
So you're telling me there's a chance!
Gabriel_Martin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)
Just as a little friendly feedback, having a dedicated language picker landing page must certainly be hurting any goal you have for your website, unless I suppose that goal is to determine the language your visitors (who don't just bounce) are speaking.

Surely there's a better pattern that doesn't add an immediate barrier to visitors before you get to introduce your value, and lets people navigate to the site immediately.

Gabriel_Martin··on Twitter was down
For people who needed visibility and access to a platform it's actually a quite important tool. I'm not talking about the frivolous uses.
Gabriel_Martin··on New AI classifier for indicating AI-written text
Sorry, it is unclear if this comment is AI generated or not, I can't give you full credit for it.

(No seriously. "The classifier considers the text to be unclear if it is AI-generated.")

Gabriel_Martin··on Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala
I don't know why you'd assume my observations are an attack on him personally, or try to characterize me as cancelling him. Apparently he's somewhat noteworthy? I just shared related information I found interesting and comment worthy.

It feels you'd prefer I stifle my reflection on the petition I found and the thoughts I had? Seems a bit like being cancelled for not limiting my perspective to the proposal and commenting on anything related I'd read upon googling the people in the article.

Gabriel_Martin··on Archaeologists Discover Lost Civilization in Guatemala
I find LiDAR scanning through canopies super fascinating, but I ended up going down a different rabbit hole while reading this. I found the petition linked below after a cursory look into the doctor of archeology mentioned within this article. I wonder how this work fits into the aspirations mentioned within it.

To me that petition brought up thoughts about how one might manage projects like this with respect to local population, and if/how efforts like this can aspire to maximize positive impacts for local populations, relating to economic mobility. It also brought up concerns about the worst parts of colonialism/neo-colonialism, namely the looting and suppression of local populations for the economic interests of foreign or state related interests. I wonder how the archeologist in question changed his methodologies (if at all) in response to the petition.

https://www.change.org/p/society-for-american-archaeology-re...

Gabriel_Martin··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
Not that we're debating, but your reply seems a little gish-gallopy. What type of information are you seeking by asking "A composite how exactly"?

Are you asking how what I described is a composite? How I'd create a composite? If I were trying to define sex, I'd try to find the most relevant attributes to human sexual dimorphism, and if and when I encountered exceptions, to me that would imply a spectrum exists and sex is non-binary.

What am I measuring? I'd be trying to find the biological measures relating to sexual dimorphism, and how they consistently they correlated to the other biological measures I listed. I'd also be looking for exceptions, which do certainly exist.

How are you translating it into a continuous variable? I wouldn't be, I imagine that upon seeing that there are exceptions to the attributes I included in my composite, where people in one or more ways fall outside of the two typical morphological/gamete/chromosomal norms, that would be what implies a continuum/spectrum. I'm not translating it, I'd just be seeing nonbinary data, I didn't translate the data to fall outside of a binary pattern or force it into a continuum, it just exists that way. Correct me if you think I'm wrong.

Why are you calling this variable sex? As I said, in my best attempt to create a composite of all traits that could be contained within a definition of sex, that's what it'd be.

Gabriel_Martin··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
Well, this is all based on my perception and feeling, but in this case at least it appeared to be merely at the mention of how this story might relate to nonbinary gender identity. Just my perspective, but you appeared to really jumped at the opportunity to describe their their gender identity as imaginary and liken it to a sexual kink (are kinks imaginary either? IDK). Just seems as if this topic has fallen into the focus of your ire, which I just feel is a bit prejudiced.

For you it's at worst an extremely rare, uncomfortable but minor inconvenience to you. But now you jump at this kinda shitty reactivity towards the topic, which must sorta stink for other HN readers who just try to live their lives, but happen have a nonbinary or trans gender identity. IMO you're just piling on in a needlessly irritable way.

Just an outsiders perspective. Happy holidays and I hope you have a nice rest of your day, fwiw.

Gabriel_Martin··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
Of sex characteristics, I mean if I was attempting to be accurate as possible to what sex is, it'd be some composite of morphology, chromosomes and gamete structures, which would place most humans in two main tranches, but some individuals would fall in between or outside of those two, which sounds a lot like a spectrum to me.
Gabriel_Martin··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
Based on those questionably real experiences relating to your coworker's pronouns and last name, it kinda seems like you decided in advance to now plant your flag on being standoffish and pretty foul towards people who chose not to act as sex they were assigned at birth, by calling their gender identity "imaginary" when the topic comes up. Which is just prejudice I think? Kind of a pick your battles moment really, are you really going to preemptively be irritated at any mention of nonbinary or trans people forever?
Gabriel_Martin··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
Isn't sex a bimodal distribution, and therefor objectively a spectrum?
Gabriel_Martin··on Operation Charlie: Hacking the MBTA CharlieCard from 2008 to Present
Sadly, his fate is still unlearn’d
Gabriel_Martin··on The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (2012)
Oh wow it's like a rare free pass to talk about shills here on HN :)
Gabriel_Martin··on A working implementation of text-to-3D DreamFusion, powered by Stable Diffusion
A representative of the luddite contingent perhaps.
Gabriel_Martin··on Typographic Web Design: How to Think Like a Typographer in HTML and CSS (2011)
I'd be curious if there's anything people would consider their primary source, I find myself picking concepts from various sources when the need arises.

Here's are a couple from poking around on the topic:

https://css-tricks.com/intrinsic-typography-is-the-future-of...

https://github.com/clagnut/webtypography

https://cssreference.io/typography/

https://type-scale.com/

Gabriel_Martin··on America’s Open Wound
It's not so clear, in that this fallacy seems to be more accurately what's happening https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Gabriel_Martin··on Thank You HN
<3 no u
Gabriel_Martin··on Ask HN: What was better in the past in tech?
This extends to videogame manuals.
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