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aren55555

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BufferBox (YC S12) Google Nest (2014-2019) Google Area 120 (2019 - 2021) => https://blog.google/technology/area-120/orion-wifi Finch (2021 - present) => https://tryfinch.com

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aren55555··on Show HN: I mapped every US golf course – 16k+ courses, free, no signup
Would be sweet if it also had membership status (private/public/etc)
aren55555··on Diagram as Code
I personally have been using mermaid for sequence diagrams and flow charts: https://mermaid.js.org/

DaC seems nicer for infra

aren55555··on Ask HN: Should I use React for a personal portfolio?
If you are using this project for learning you may want to consider something like Astro: https://astro.build/

It will enable you to dabble in building different pages/routes in different frameworks very easily.

aren55555··on Show HN: Git Heat Map – a tool for visualising git repo activity for each file
After cloning, I had to change the perms of the .sh files, install flask via pip and hope for the best. I wasn't sure what Python version to use, I used some 3.x. It would be really nice if this was fully containerized and I could launch in docker/podman.

Also I wasn't sure how to get the colors :shrug:

aren55555··on Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
As an ex-Googler I believe they also use the data collection to "improve" products such as the Pixel phones. For example, they can compare the # of iPhones purchase receipts (emails accumulated from Apple, Amazon, Best Buy, etc) to the # of Pixel purchases. They compare this kind of stuff YoY and to Google's equivalent products and can build a pretty accurate picture of market adoption.
aren55555··on Google's Area 120 project “Orion Wifi”
Not yet, but stay tuned.
aren55555··on 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack
Netflix recently released a 6 part documentary series titled "Wild Wild Country" that follows the sequence of events leading up to this incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Wild_Country
aren55555··on Cost of iPhone X in 1957
In the mid 50s silicon transistors started to replace vacuum tubes. I assume tubes were at their cheapest in the late 50s. I'm not sure why the article uses '57 in particular though.
aren55555··on Hunting for a Canadian Legend: The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter
After the Avro Arrow project was cancelled a number of the employees involved joined NASA to assist in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. It's a shame that the same kind of "brain drain" occurs to this day. Canada produces a lot of talented people and many of them head South.
aren55555··on Phoenix 1.0
FWIW the URL should probably be updated to http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-10-the-framewor...

http://www.phoenixframework.org/blog seems to point to the most recent post.

aren55555··on Ask HN: How come restaurants are still using food menu full of text?
Probably because a physical menu actually takes less time to select a meal from. In the worst case, if every restaurant had their own menu app/site think about how long it would take a newcomer to install/navigate then figure out how the UI worked.

Plus you would still need to have physical menus as backup for those customers that don't have smartphones, are out of battery, etc.

I've seen some sushi spots have their menu on an iPad; and it worked pretty well. However, personally I also enjoy the conversational aspect of placing an order with a human server (with the interaction influencing the value of my tip).

This virtual menu concept brought this article to my mind: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2014/07/vira...

aren55555··on Show HN: PSequel – a free PostgreSQL GUI Tool for Mac OS X
brew cask install psequel
aren55555··on Final – A credit card built for the 21st century
Canada already has chips on all our CCs - only ever place I ever need to sign a receipt is down here in the US. Chip and PIN not Chip and signature.
aren55555··on Sandwich Video: The company that makes nearly all startup videos
I find that a lot of Canadian startups (specifically those in Kitchener-Waterloo) use Arc Media: http://www.arc-media.ca/
aren55555··on Elixir v0.15.0 released
Would really love to see this take off!
aren55555··on Almost perfect: the rise and fall of WordPerfect Corporation (1993)
I attended grade school in Canada and I remember Corel's suite of productivity software was what we were all taught in "computer" class.
aren55555··on Living in a Fool’s Paradise
Out of curiosity, where do you live?
aren55555··on TU-95MS – Soviet Bomber
Wonder how it would be "shipped"
aren55555··on Fairfax strikes $4.7-billion deal to buy BlackBerry
http://crackberry.com/could-we-see-return-mike-lazaridis-if-...
aren55555··on AWS Elastic Block Store issues in one AZ in us-east-1
This is currently causing Heroku to have issues too. https://status.heroku.com/incidents/548
aren55555··on Ink – Interface Kit
Serves the same purpose (building a UI) but seems to have style differences and a few different JS UI plugins.
aren55555··on Show HN: Create an Olympic 2014 Men's hockey roster & compare w/ friends
Fixed! Sorry...
aren55555··on Canada's Start-up Visa
I was just trying to point out some of the big name startups that came from the Waterloo area (Disclosure: I am part of BufferBox and live in KW).
aren55555··on Canada's Start-up Visa
How about:

Vidyard (http://www.vidyard.com/), Pebble (http://getpebble.com/), BufferBox (https://www.bufferbox.com/), Couple (formerly Pair) (http://couple.me/), or Thalmic Labs (https://www.thalmic.com/myo/)

All the above are also YC alumni.

aren55555··on What people are googling in real time
Did that... doesn't seem to work on my corp mac.
aren55555··on What people are googling in real time
Arghh not working for me! Shows a Google login page.
aren55555··on What people are googling in real time
Someone should make a screensaver out of this.
aren55555··on Space Invaders 404
http://hakim.se/experiments/html5/404/netmag.html
aren55555··on Interview with Stephen Lake, Co-Founder of Thalmic Labs (YC W13)
I didn't like the rollover Q/A. The tiles were absolutely huge, but then again I'm on a 2560x1600 monitor. Also the image at the top takes up most of my screen and is kinda creepy. Looks more reasonable on my phone however.
aren55555··on Interview with Stephen Lake, Co-Founder of Thalmic Labs (YC W13)
This site is super annoying.
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