danielhooper

I feel you. Once again I'm finding HN's culture very reminiscent of the "techbro" epidemic that we are only pretending to be against.

Can people here just not imagine what it would be like to be gay and also be working for someone making political donations to anti-gay groups? Would you not think that would feel fucking awful???

> I really think the most important part of maintaining the success of a social network is being "cool", or rather, being the social network that cool people use.

Facebook hasn't been "cool" in almost 10 years. Their IPO was in 2012, and like pretty much any other teenager would've at the time, I thought it was about to die off because our moms were starting to use it.

But this was true when Steam decided to start accepting bitcoin. There has to be some kind of profit motive behind making this decision at this point in time. I could only guess that they've forecasted a significant decline in bitcoin's value, whether it be the value of the coin itself or the costs of doing business with it.

There are people who would slap you in the face for talking about their work like that. You're completely ignoring the immense R&D costs that go into creating innovative, original products.

Replace "low status" with "insecure" as many high-status men have proven otherwise

The poor guy is simply unaware he is a misogynist.

Sexism isn't real. Men actually have it twice as hard as women, because companies hire women just to make them look good. Here's a link to one source that proves this forever.

Norway hired men more often than women with genderless applications. Science cannot explain this, just like the tides of the ocean, or magnets.

At the end of the day, people fighting for equal representation are just jealous, and they can't accept that their Y chromosome made them not want to work on an oil rig.

white people are a protected minority group in the eyes of facebook/twitter

Smart idea. I get a similar effect when I logout of sites like Twitter and have to face a login page when I revisit. It breaks me from my unconscious loop and lets me decide that this is not actually how I want to spend my time. Do you think changing the pocket is enough, or rather its that you're switching your dominant/non-dominant hands?

Animated gif puzzle game (iOS). https://github.com/danielhhooper/Gifsaw

very short video: https://i.imgur.com/4zDAQe7.mp4

Was hoping to publish this app but could not find an appropriate service provider for the images.

Facebook owns Instagram so they win either way

It's simpler (cheaper)

It should be enough to raise a flag for someone at Apple to thoroughly review the app before approving it for release. Not to mention that software worth $5,000/yr isn't often, if ever, paid for through an app store.

I believe there's some in coffee mate (a non-dairy creamer)

If you have a workplace where women and minorities cannot discuss their issues without a white man butting in to whine "but what about meee?" then yes, that is a toxic work environment.

> I'm not a minority, but I think you should be asking this question to everyone, not just minorities. Everyone deserves a non-toxic environment and it's an issue everyone has to deal with.

Hey OP, these are exactly the kind of red flags you should be looking for.

"a $1,500 USD bike that can be connected to smartphones via bluetooth and track rider statistics, such as route and speed, in real-time."

So it's a bike with built in GPS? That connects to my phone, which also has GPS? What the heck. What am I missing that makes this product not such an obviously dumb idea? What can this do that I can't accomplish with a mobile app, or with a smart watch strapped to the handlebars?

More like "tell everybody the dinner's getting cold" and Alexa will figure out what room they're in ;)

None of those dozen other car companies were able to make an electric vehicle that people actually cared about.

Am I being cynical or is this just an ad? Every other person is cancelling their subscription to NYT from a piece that went up yesterday, and now this shows up on the front page of HN the day after?

I've kept my account because I joined a local music gear buy and sell group, and the experience blows craigslist and kijiji out the water.

Maybe once a month along with the rest of the job related ask hn's

Modularity is a fast horse. The current state of external GPUs is like phone blocks, and I'm waiting for the iPhone. A gpu enclosure with power costs about $300 USD. An Nvidia 1060 6gb gpu also costs about $300 USD. From my perspective I don't understand why I wouldn't just cough up a bit more money and build an entire pc. An Ncase M1 pc case is practically just as portable as any of these gpu enclosures.

This doesn't seem to be a popular idea but I think it makes a lot of sense. The issue with the idea is that you're now halfway there to an all-in-one, and I think manufacturers will just keep adding components until they get there because theres way more consumer demand for that.

There is a missing product in the market right now. These high-end GPUs are all designed to fit into decade old computer cases. The pcb and chips are tiny and thin, you should be able to throw the actual guts of a GPU like a frisbee. GPU manufacturers should be designing external GPUs, instead of consumers having to purchase enclosures and power supplies for GPUs still designed to go into pc cases.

No it doesn't. 50 years from now we'll be struggling with the consequences of climate change, and its fair to say the us gov has dropped the ball on that issue. The us gov is comprised of people who deny climate change is a real problem. Wait, this is sounding really familiar...

Speak for yourself. Uber has for me been a service superior to what taxi companies offer in literally every way possible.

The problems with iTunes extends beyond iTunes. I just want to drag and drop MP3s to my iPhone!!!

Seems like superior service if you ask me. If you bought a defective product and had a painless return/exchange experience, you probably are going to leave more happy than sour, wouldn't you think?

It's difficult to get a good sense of 'longevity' with life expectancy stats, especially when in this case they only take an average. I can imagine that this group of people does not have modern tools and techniques for child delivery. Obviously that is concerning and worth keeping in the picture, but any higher than usual child mortality rates will really skew the life expectancy stat, making it appear as though people just drop dead in their 40s and 50s.

Edit: I probably don't need to point that out to the typical HN reader, but its something I personally wouldn't have picked up on a few years ago