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chrislhon U.S. Strike on Iranian School May Have Been War Crime, U.N. Report Says

If it's not from a war crime region, it's just sparkling conflict.

chrislhon I replaced my brown-noise browser tab with a menu bar app

There's a sneaky menu bar background noise app already built into MacOS. You can add "Hearing" to the menu bar (or control center) from settings, and then use that to enable "Background Sounds"

chrislhon Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm

I highly (and regularly) recommend reading Gabor Mate's "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts"

It's an enlightening read on addiction that will make you more empathetic for addicts of all types: gambling, substances, shopping, whatever.

Definitely worth a look if you find yourself asking "Why don't they just stop?"

https://www.amazon.com/Realm-Hungry-Ghosts-Encounters-Addict...

chrislhon Software essays that shaped me

The Grug Brained Developer is one that always sticks in my head, but didn't make the list (to be fair, maybe more because I already agreed than because it transformed my thinking).

https://grugbrain.dev/

chrislhon I built and launched 9 startups in 1 year

I've been impressed by render so far (using them at work, no other affiliation) https://render.com/

Pretty straightforward infra-as-code -- this spec is basically all the documentation you need https://render.com/docs/blueprint-spec

chrislhon Ask HN: My boss ask I take my emails while on vacation

As a manager for a small team myself, I think an important part of the job is to making sure that no one person on that team is irreplaceable -- including yourself.

Vacations are an incredible forcing function for proper documentation, backups, knowledge, whatever. If there's _anyone_ on the team who can't be 100% offline for a week, that's a problem.

chrislhon Airbnb Announces Intention to Become a Publicly-Traded Company During 2020

The product I work on has a search experience similar to Airbnb's. We initially made the choice to show all-in prices on the initial search screens. Bookings TANKED. Guests called in to complain why our listings are "more expensive on our own site than Airbnb" (they were cheaper at the end of the day, but we weren't hiding fees).

End of the day, we had to switch to Airbnb's fee-hiding style because users are trained to expect the hidden fees.

chrislhon The High Price of Multitasking

At work, we've been pushing everyone to use an app called clockwise. Basically it integrates with your calendar, moves meetings around (with your approval) to maximize focus time (2+ hour blocks of work).

It also allows you to set up "Do not disturb" on slack during your focus and meeting time. It's awesome.

(BTW, no personal association with the company, just a happy user).

https://www.getclockwise.com/

chrislhon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)

WanderJaunt | Full stack engineers (and everything else | SF | Full-time | ONSITE

Think of WanderJaunt as a decentralized hotel for short-term rentals.

We're looking for our 8th engineer to help with all parts of the problem space. From creating a first-class guest experience, to routing cleaners throughout the city, to building the data infrastructure to identify the best properties to run in our model.

Hit me up directly (chris@companyname.com) or apply on alist https://angel.co/company/wanderjaunt/jobs

chrislhon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)

WanderJaunt provides home owners and travelers with better experiences for fairer prices. For homeowners, we take the hassle out of managing a short-term vacation rental. For travelers, we deliver the consistency and quality of a 5-star hotel at a sharing economy price.

You’ll be the fourth engineer on our rapidly growing team. Help build out our new booking platform, pricing algorithms, inventory management, logistics for housekeeping and more! Django on the backend and Vue on the frontend. Accepting talented engineers of all backgrounds with Django experience especially appreciated!

Our team is currently tackling a few large technical problems including: - Building our own listing platform - Creating the tooling that allows our operations team to scale and manage a decentralized hotel - Optimizing our pricing algorithms to better match supply and demand - Building tooling to evaluate revenue potential of a homes on the short-term rental market prior to acquisition

To apply or for any questions, contact me (lead engineer) at chris<at>wanderjaunt<dot>com.

chrislhon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

WanderJaunt provides home owners and travelers with better experiences for fairer prices. For homeowners, we take the hassle out of managing a short-term vacation rental. For travelers, we deliver the consistency and quality of a 5-star hotel at a sharing economy price.

You’ll be the fourth engineer on our rapidly growing team. Help build out our new booking platform, pricing algorithms, inventory management, logistics for housekeeping and more! Django on the backend and Vue on the frontend. Accepting talented engineers of all backgrounds with Django experience especially appreciated!

To apply or for any questions, contact me (lead engineer) at chris<at>wanderjaunt<dot>com.