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bradleyboy

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Engineering at Stripe
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bradleyboy··on Show HN: Tonight's Bedtime Story – AI generated stories with images and audio
small sample size, but yes! I've tried it on my son, and had some friends also try it out with kids of various ages. Being able to to turn whatever idea is in their head right that instant into a story seems to be the real hit.

Some feedback I've received from other parents is they wish there was more than one image to help keep the listener a little more engaged. Been tinkering with this but it is challenging to get a consistent series of images.

bradleyboy··on Tuql: Automatically create a GraphQL server from a SQLite database
Hey - I'm the author of tuql (if you can still call it authorship, I haven't updated this library in a long time :) )

I originally wrote this to speed up prototyping / development projects, I'd never recommend shipping this anywhere near production.

bradleyboy··on Ask HN: How to finish personal projects?
My recent workflow has been this:

1. Put the project in a private GitHub repo. Paying for it adds incentive to work on it.

2. Break up the work into small tasks and add them as issues in the GitHub project. Aggressively separate them into milestones to stay focused (Milestone 1 == MVP, less important stuff in Milestone 2, etc).

The reason I think this works is that it is easy to get overwhelmed by all the work on a side project, and you have limited time to work on it. Now when you have time, you grab a ticket, complete it. Each ticket should be doable in a few hours or the scope of your ticket is too broad.

bradleyboy··on All NYC Subway Stations to Receive Wi-Fi by End of 2016
> not in the station (where you can often get LTE anyway).

Often? Except for a few stations in Midtown, I rarely see any cell service once inside the turnstiles.

bradleyboy··on Why most hiring processes suck (2011)
The more intensive processes are a fine line to walk. It's easy to go overboard. I recently went through an interview process that was more on the intensive side and left feeling better about it because I knew the people I would potentially be working with had gone through that same process. It's harder, yes, but I felt the chances were higher that I would be working with more competent people on the other side.
bradleyboy··on React Native: Initial Thoughts
Looks like it got added to the Debugging page in the docs yesterday: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/debugging.html#c...
bradleyboy··on React Native: Initial Thoughts
See: https://twitter.com/ryanflorence/status/582016664847290368
bradleyboy··on Junction design in the Netherlands [video]
Wonder if cyclists there optimize their route for right turns (a la UPS) since it is so convenient in this setup.
bradleyboy··on C3.js: D3-based reusable chart library
Highcharts (free for non-commercial) has heat maps:

http://www.highcharts.com/demo/heatmap

bradleyboy··on I, Health Insurer
Important to note that while Canada is geographically large, it's population is far from dispersed. Half the population lives in a ~700mi corridor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_City%E2%80%93Windsor_Cor...

bradleyboy··on Project outline for the first human head transplantation with spinal linkage
If there ever was a time to wait for version 1.1 of something, this would be it.
bradleyboy··on Sublime Text Plugin: Activate & reload Chrome with a keyboard shorcut
Forked this so that it saves the current view (if unsaved) before reloading:

https://github.com/bradleyboy/BrowserRefresh-Sublime