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brett40324··on Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?
There is a lot of automated welding, sure. But, in every small to midsize fabrication shop in America, men and woman are welding, right now.
brett40324··on Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?
I 2nd primrose's comment. Ann Arbor is way more diverse than what you'd expect, or what you assume in your comment. Ann Arbor is thriving in tech, education, and culture.
brett40324··on Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder
Thank you, this is a key consideration. May I suggest language like "Powered by Python and Postgres"? If youre using the ORM, or wrappers or middleware on top of django rest framework, then I see your target market being front end devs only who need a scaffolded back end. I say this because the service doesn't remove much work for users with API design and implementation experience.
brett40324··on Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder
Also, slow down if youre shipping typos on your landing page: revolutonizes
brett40324··on Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder
They dont give you code. You get an api with a postgres db on Amazon rds that you manage through forms.
brett40324··on Show HN: BackendLab – Code-free web app builder
Im considering signing up and trying out your service. What is holding me back are all questions I was hoping to have answered on your website. The main questions I have are important implementation details that I think customers a going to care about. What language, framework, dependencies, are handling requests? What is the performance like? How do I scale?
brett40324··on VSCode silently opts you in to data collection
When I first installed vscode, I assumed this was the case and yep, there it was buried in preferences. Disable all of it, including automatic updates. When you want to update, uninstall and install again fresh. Then disable again. Repeat.
brett40324··on Flatbush: A very fast static spatial index for 2D points and rectangles in JS
Hi, mourner! Thanks for turning me on to rollup.js as I was reading through your very nice work!
brett40324··on When a 20-year-old punk put on a series of illegal shows in the desert
In the US, on lakes, rivers, and intercoastal waterways, you can be charged with DUI if operating a motorized boat while intoxicated.
brett40324··on Membrane Framework – An Elixir framework for multimedia streaming applications
Each listener iphone will almost never get each stream chunk at the same millisecond, but it can be close enough most of the time, depending on your use case.
brett40324··on What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
I mean yea, but it is like saying, "I respond to server requests with HTML, it's soo 1994". I do like the sed idea, btw :)
brett40324··on What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
Im confused why Python, Postgres, Markdown is 1996 tech? Im really confused by your entire post, actually.
brett40324··on Ask HN: What are your heuristics for deciding which HN links to click on?
> bees Gosh, that's exhilarating to me you mentioned bees! I have read and know way more about bees than I could of ever planned for, or wanted to, due to HN!
brett40324··on How the Blog Broke the Web (2017)
Yep, same here. Local dial up services were born in 94 in every American mid sized town, and half my buddies (at 10 years old) were all online between 94 and 96. None of our families were wealthy, with basically lower to middle class blue collar parents.
brett40324··on I'm Scott Aaronson, quantum computing/computational complexity researcher. AMA
So, basically, yes. Particularly if you consider most concepts in mechanical engineering. What you're talking about is the real implementation of what we call physics, just working as expected, automagically.
brett40324··on Django Newbie Mistakes
I surmise I'll still be learning it in 2028!
brett40324··on Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs
Expanding on your comment, I think its worth mentioning Barracuda, Nokia, Ford Labs, and Expedia are in Ann Arbor. Google has an office there, too.
brett40324··on Grand Rapids has become a midwestern economic star generating industrial jobs
Hi, they're probably referring to https://www.meetup.com/SEM-JS/
brett40324··on Ask HN: I've an idea but not all skills required, what do I do?
If you can build the backend, then you wouldn't have much trouble getting familiar with basic ios and android development. So, really, just start. Build one feature and iterate. There's so much about your app that you don't know yet, and you will discover more and more with each step. Your problem is not the lack of a potential cofounder, that may come in time. Your problem is in thinking that you need a cofounder to build the first iteration of a mobile application. With all due respect, you're asking the wrong question(s).
brett40324··on Launch HN: Frey (YC S18) – Laundry and Clothing Care Products Tailored for Men
I dont think about what my clean laundry smells like, other than that it smells like clean laundry. Ideally, though, I want my clean laundry to smell like nothing at all.
brett40324··on Launch HN: Frey (YC S18) – Laundry and Clothing Care Products Tailored for Men
Cleaning / maid services all over offer this, on top of cleaning your home.

Edit: adding that the weekly price is rather reasonable / fair

brett40324··on The Machine Fired Me
> somehow cancelled the promo via some automated system

Maybe someone just unassigned your employee id to the role, because in reality you weren't actually taking the job!

brett40324··on What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App
I can speak to some of the pros and cons of two codebases for ios and android that share a common api service on a semi-large production app with 6k to 10k constant users. Pros: - Native performance and API exposure for both, without a wrapper/glue layer. That's it. Cons: Feature implementation complexity and nuanced differences that leads to one version having a bug the other doesn't, or they both have the bug but for different reasons. - dependency updates, testing workflows, build and deployment tool chains, actually all tooling - is different for both. - syncing development between teams is a nightmare. - delivery time on releases becomes two deadlines, and stakeholders don't understand why both versions can't always be complete on the same exact day. - ui implementation, and organization of graphical assets are just plane different. - device support, and user support in general, must account for basically any supported ios or android vendor hardware/os
brett40324··on GitHub and Open-Source Is a Boon for the Underprivileged
IMO as someone who has been on stack exchange for a long time, while barely posting anything, ever. I would loathe feeling the need to have an active history of participation to boost my employment opportunities. At the same time, someone with a lot of good answers in their field should definitely include their profile in a job application.
brett40324··on Apple introduces macOS Mojave
There is an eye opening, amazing discussion about emojis going on here. But, like really aren't we just all accepting of the nuances of a cartoon based language? I'm not saying this is a bad thing, but that is reality. We're sending forest gump like 'shit happens' cartoons to one another.
brett40324··on Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds
Whether this is true, rumor, or else: this. You could buy 20 cars like this for under the price of a model 3. Really, at the end of the day, everything is about just getting from point A to B!
brett40324··on Hello, GitHub
Okay, this is my greatest concern with Linkedin and Github. For many (most?) dev job applications, not having a 'ticks all boxes' profile on both sites means pass on initial callback; and now MS controls both. What they purchased for so much $$ is industry branding mindshare.
brett40324··on GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
there's a pinch of humorous irony in this website url
brett40324··on Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
I like the intentional syntax error approach here. That's way better than times I've done: /* NOTE: you left off here!!! */
brett40324··on Show HN: Write every day, measure your progress, achieve your writing goals
I recall reading the same of Stephen King. When completing the final page of a book, he writes the first page of his next novel in the same sitting.
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