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davman··on Ask HN: Will you ever eat meat that is grown in lab?
> What if we stop eating chicken and then they go extinct?

People keep chickens as pets.

Also eggs.

davman··on Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?
Aren't these just 'recruiters'?

Also, I'm not sure if a 6 month assignment counts as freelance :D I think he is looking for something to fill the hours, not a new job.

davman··on Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?
Is there a button I can press to request a new connection 'today'? First connection I got today wasn't interesting to me so now I need to wait till tomorrow.
davman··on Surviving a Tyrant at Work
Yup I've just quit, I have no intention of wasting my life suffering under someone, I'd rather move on to something else.
davman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)
Hi, to confirm, I've received a response from these guys :) I wasn't successful but I have received a response.
davman··on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?
Cousin! Do you want to go bowling?
davman··on Colony: A platform for open organizations
I thought it was just called "nectar" when Colony launched?

https://web.archive.org/web/20150402004048/http://colony.io:...

davman··on I have a coding interview in 2 hours. What should I read?
If its in two hours I suggest you read the company's website and drink a cup of tea. If you don't know it now you won't know it in two hours and you'll just stress yourself trying.
davman··on Colony: A platform for open organizations
So I wonder if this is the case because Colony actually pivoted into using Ethereum? I remember an earlier version that had the same basic concept but nothing to do with Ethereum.
davman··on Ask HN: One word answer – React or Vue?
React
davman··on SpaceX BFR [video]
I'm guessing there would be some environmental impact? It can't exactly be carbon neutral burning all that fuel?
davman··on A 1 KB Docker Container
I think I'm being particularly dense here, but do you mean the proxy is proxying to your tiny 1kb container? If so, what happens to the traffic? Or because the tiny container is running the proxy proxies somewhere else? i.e you're using the presence of a container with a label as configuration for the proxy?
davman··on Show HN: Voxel Space – terrain rendering in less than 20 lines of code
It just blows my mind that my laptop has less issues rendering this than it does generating my react-native build :D I love 90's era programming, the thought going into things to squeeze every last ounce of performance is just beautiful.
davman··on Node v8.5.0
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/24/nodejs_forks_ayo_co...
davman··on Epistle 3
They go to Antarctica to find the Borealis (the ship built by Aperture Science from Portal).

The Borealis is phasing in and out of reality. Rescue Dr Mossman from the Combine, she has details to make the Borealis phase in for enough time to get Freeman+Alyx+Mossman on board, chased by Combine.

While on board, discover Borealis is moving through Time as well as Space. Mossman wants Borealis recovered for the Resistance, Alyx wants it destroyed. They fight, Alyx kills Mossman.

Borealis reconfigured to fly through Space to Combine planet to try to destroy it with explosion, as they arrive G-man takes Alyx off the ship, Vortigaunts take Freeman.

Combine world too massive, powered by a Dyson sphere, Borealis explosion does nothing.

Freeman back on Earth sometime in the future, won't take part in any more conflict with Combine.

davman··on Ask HN: Would you answer yes or no questions for 5 cents?
Yes. That'll be 5 cents please.
davman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
True, but GOOG, FB, etc aren't startups with limited funds
davman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
No offense intended, but isn't that a huge salary for a startup? Your burn rate must be massive!
davman··on Ask HN: Investors have lost faith. Next steps?
Yeah we've done a hard push this last month or so doing demos and such to potential clients. Everyone seems very excited by it, just struggling to get people to sign on the line!

Lots of people saying that it seems fantastic but they already have systems in place that would be too difficult to replace.

Two strong leads but they won't be meeting with us until after the board meeting so we can't really use them as "guaranteed" sales to encourage the board.

davman··on Ask HN: Investors have lost faith. Next steps?
I don't report directly, but am being pressured by the business owner to "have something in the market" by next Tuesday, and figures for when I expect the business to be profitable.
davman··on Ask HN: Investors have lost faith. Next steps?
Yeah it feels like there has just been crazy pressure from day 1. We've churned out what I would call an amazing amount of features for a team of 2 engineers + 1 designer, but nothing we produce ever seems to be enough.

I'll try and find examples of other "near misses" and see what we can do.

davman··on Ask HN: Investors have lost faith. Next steps?
It's a small company. I'll start looking elsewhere, thanks for the tip.
davman··on Show HN: Tifuhash - Tiny Fast Universal Hash, using 64-bit continued fractions
This is connected with a truly amazing website that does not make my eyes bleed in any way.

https://dosaygo.com/

davman··on Google Public DNS SERVFAIL
Looks like several people are now reporting SERVFAIL across many domains.
davman··on Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
The TIs have been strongly rumoured for months, I've been waiting for this announcement so I don't end up in your situation.
davman··on Ask HN: We've all been there, what was your big stuff up?
I fdisk'd the LVM partition that was used as iSCSI storage for 200+ virtual machines.
davman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)
When multiple {locations} are specified, do they all get mapped?
davman··on Senior manager at Kaspersky arrested in Moscow
I understood that reference.
davman··on ReMarkable Paper Tablet
So obviously without actually trying one myself I can't say that you are incorrect, but certainly the demo video you provided still has a feeling of wrongness. Its like with animation, we're still stuck in the uncanny valley but you are definitely climbing out of it.
davman··on ReMarkable Paper Tablet
While you have certainly made huge and impressive improvements, I still don't think I could call that "solved". I think any latency is still going to put people off when it comes to writing on this vs. paper.
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