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_31··on Fish Doorbell
Even the fish from Amsterdam are trying to get to the Culture Boat.
_31··on Tesla CEO Elon Musk takes major u-turn on Bitcoin
He calls it "almost as bs as fiat". I think this is more about throwing shade on fiat.
_31··on Ask HN: Is it crazy that software developers have to study for interviews?
This is a great point. Reading code is such an important skill and how most of an engineers time will be spent. The ability to reason about code that was written by someone else (including your past self) and update/expand it in a clean/maintainable way is a better indicator of success IMO then writing a little chunk of code that solves a brain teaser.

Read code, explain what it does and discuss how you would expand it to add additional functionality or fix a bug. I feel that would be a better approach than most of the current leetcode style interviews.

_31··on Show HN: Automatic Baseball Pitching Motion and Trajectory Overlay in Realtime
This looks great! How much data (clips/pitches) did you train your model on?
_31··on How to form a California LLC without a lawyer
Yeah, 75 was probably all the fees, and I might have been thinking in $USD
_31··on How to form a California LLC without a lawyer
Yeah, I believe it is a B.V.
_31··on How to form a California LLC without a lawyer
In the Netherlands it was about €75, filled most of the paperwork out online although we did have to go in to the KVK (Chamber of Commerce) to complete the process.
_31··on Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser
"Wanna play a game? Just move the ball to the hole with your eyes. Oh and we need access to your camera."
_31··on Swift AWS Lambda Runtime
Always happy to see more new Swift projects pop up, especially on the server side. It's great watching the language evolve and continue to add more powerful features.
_31··on Launch an App
Enjoyed the writing style of the post and the clean design of the app. Cheers to launching!
_31··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech people to follow on Twitter?
@dhh - (Creator of rails, CEO of Basecamp) most tweets are calling companies out on privacy issues

@swiftbysundell - (John Sundell) Great articles about Swift

@twostraws - (Paul Hudson, Hacking w/Swift) Lots of great Swift content

@alex - (Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch Journalist) Interesting stuff about Sass and startups

@TaylorLorenz - (NYT Journalist) If you want to keep up with what the kids are memeing about

_31··on How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case
As a long time baseball fan, the "punishment" is a joke. This is one of the worst cheating scandals in baseball history and Rob Manfred (Commissioner of MLB) basically gave a slap on the wrist. Every team/player in the league would be willing to trade this "punishment" for a World Series title.
_31··on How the internet helped crack the Astros' sign-stealing case
> ... I don't think a huge advantage was had here.

I have too hard disagree on this. Knowing the pitch is a huge advantage in baseball.

_31··on Ask HN: Best way to create a landing page?
I think Netlify has an amazing product and have been looking into using Gatsby for some projects. Thanks for linking those templates!
_31··on What Affects Brew Time
Always love a good coffee science deep dive! Pour over is my brew method of choice (which this article focuses on) and it was really interesting learning more about the math (Darcy's Law) behind what affects flow rate/brew time. Worth a read!
_31··on Law firm mistakes number of days in month, files appeal 1 day after deadline
Off by one errors and issues working with dates. Sounds like writing software to me.
_31··on Ask HN: Best language to share code between an Android and iOS app?
Good thread previously here on HN about code sharing between iOS and Android: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20695806
_31··on Modern Swift API Design [video]
It's exciting to watch swift continue to evolve. Looks like property wrappers are used extensively throughout SwiftUI for @State and @Binding. This talk on "Data Flow Through SwiftUI"[0] is a really great one as well and they touch more on property wrappers.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/226/

_31··on The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas
Thanks for linking this, it was an interesting read. One thing that stood out to me was a paragraph towards the bottom of the article:

> "Studies on vegetarians who eat diets high in plant foods containing anti-nutrients do not generally show deficiencies in iron and zinc, so the body may be adapting to the presence of anti-nutrients by increasing the absorption of these minerals in the gut. [3]"

I do wonder how that differs with individuals on a vegan diet who don't eat any animal products.

_31··on Refactoring Back End Engineering Hiring at Slack
>> I generally will hire based on conversation alone (no coding tests)

>> If I can look at your Github, like what I see and you can back that up in a conversation, you're hired.

Wish more hiring managers followed this line of thinking

_31··on Talkshow – Team videos in non-real-time
Great job launching! Simple but effective landing page, I look forward to seeing the product evolve.
_31··on Ask HN: What is your best passive income 2019?
I'm not a YouTube creator so not the target market, but this is something I could see myself using if I did create videos. Seems to add good value for the cost, although I don't know what the competition/landscape is like.
_31··on ES6 Classes
I'm happy about the class syntax additions that came with ES6, especially the method definitions. It's increased my productivity (and happiness) when working with js.
_31··on Why isn’t someone using my software product or open source tool?
I enjoyed your blog post, it touches on an important point that I find myself getting caught in. Explaining what I'm building in a technical manner or with a logical description that doesn't address what people really care about, "how will this product help me (save me time/money)?"
_31··on Ask HN: What is one Vim trick most people don't know?
I've been looking for something like `Shift+v`! Thanks for that. +1 for `vt` as well.
_31··on The power of Result types in Swift
Another great article on swiftBySundell. I really enjoy these well written deep dives into Swift.
_31··on Learn just a little Awk (2010)
I saw a comment just yesterday(?) on HN that mentioned awk and it got me interested (first time I heard about it). This was a good little intro that was easy to follow along with and get a sense of what it's used for.
_31··on Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14
As someone who looks at Xcode all day, I'm very happy to be getting a dark mode. But really I have my fingers crossed the syntax highlighting issues get fixed.
_31··on Lottie for Android, iOS, React Native, and Web
I played around with Lottie (iOS) last time it was posted on HN (or maybe Reddit) ~6 months ago. You can create some really great animations quickly that would otherwise take a significant amount of time to hand code. Kudos to the team working on this for creating such a powerful tool and sharing it.
_31··on Show HN: Cost of a 51% Attack on Popular Cryptocurrencies
That would be great! I'm building a cryptocurrency app and this data would be really useful.
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