HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

dharness

182 karma · joined December 10, 2015

submissionscomments
dharness··on Ask HN: How can a junior dev maximize their income?
Maximum wealth would come from creating (or being and early member of) a startup that succeeds. This also has high risk, but the worst-case outcome for a paid early employee is still pretty good relative to the average (non-tech) salary.
dharness··on Launch HN: Xkit (YC S18) – OAuth infrastructure as a service
Not trying to be critical or anything but the design really reminds me of those domain-name parking pages - like this: https://bit.ly/2DRc04H
dharness··on Show HN: MeetingBar – A menu bar macOS app for calendar meetings
I prefer the github url fwiw
dharness··on Launch HN: Yotta Savings (YC S20) – Behavioral psychology to help people save
There's that psychology "helping" us
dharness··on Solid: Data ownership as well as improved privacy (2017)
Who would you prefer own it?
dharness··on Poll: How do you pronounce “tuple”?
ah yeah pronounced like "ooper-wayre" right?
dharness··on Ask HN: How can I prepare for a coding interview in a week?
Not that this answers the question, but if they're big 5 they should be willing to give you more time. Ask them for a month and see what they say.
dharness··on Ask HN: How to get web development career on track from being homeless?
You could apply to recurse: https://www.recurse.com/ and use that time to learn react

You could look for contract work to rebuild your skills

dharness··on MacBook Pro 15 (2018) – Beware the Core i9
I felt it was a reasonable and genuine evaluation by an interested party
dharness··on Anti-Salt Narrative Needs a Shakeup
Most food packaging measures sodium in mg, so I feel using those units is easier to reason about for most people.
dharness··on [dead]
I think IH switched to collecting sign ups too soon -- and they push it too hard. It used to be one of my favourite websites, now I do not visit at all.

If someone made a new version of IH that was more about the content and less about being a business, I would visit often.

dharness··on Canada hits back at 'punitive' U.S. tariffs in 'turning point' in relations
I'm in the same situation, and I agree. On some level it could be good for Canada to have all the TN folks back. Maybe bad for us in the short term, but the effects could ripple.
dharness··on Goals vs. Systems (2013)
I highly recommend the book he is referencing here.
dharness··on Impact – HTML5 Game Engine
Maybe there should be a log of all headline changes, with a justification so the process can be audited
dharness··on Show HN: HTTP/2 Python-Asyncio Web Microframework
Why did you choose to host this on gitlab over github?
dharness··on Show HN: Generate React components by replicating your own
I am genuinely surprised that people find this improves their productivity by any significant margin...
dharness··on Ask HN: Why does P2P encrypted messaging still suck?
When it targeted a narrow band of uni students Facebook was free, and didn't have ads
dharness··on Show HN: jumpino.com – chat rooms that die
theres nobody in any of these
dharness··on IBM Plex – A new typeface
Yeah wow what a horrible website...
dharness··on Storyboarder: free, cross-platform storyboard tool
I found the drawing tools limiting -- I just need 1 brush that has the option to change: - size - opacity - color

Also there are a finite set a pre-defined artboard sizes for some reason.

dharness··on Ask HN: What does HN think about adding “A” to STEM?
Well it depends if the thing you are doing makes sense to include Arts or not, if so, call it STEAM otherwise call it STEM -- case by case.
dharness··on Ask HN: What is your “mission” in work and life?
Sometimes you have to work on something that's not your mission to give you the time to work on your mission - however infrequently that may then be.

You can still help people in need, just do what you can do.

dharness··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Nice! Too bad it costs money, otherwise I'd use it.
dharness··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
On some level I feel this question is just here to advertise the poster's project.

I think it would have been better if they had put their project in the comments like everyone else instead of giving themselves more visibility by putting it in the main question.

They may not have intended it this way - but it's possible.

dharness··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
I'm making a 2D casual/puzzle game similar to scrabble but instead of building chains of letters to form words, you build chains of words that rhyme with each other based off the picture on the tile.

Some tiles have multiple labels. A picture of a cat can be rhymed with bat or hat, buy it can also be a "pet" and rhyme with net, etc.

dharness··on Launch HN: Hexel (YC W18) – Create a cryptocurrency for your community
Can't win a free ETH if you use a simple database.
dharness··on Nicolas Cage DeepFake
What is going on in this post? A couple Nick Cages and then 2 scenes of Star Wars where on has a slightly different looking Leila?

Why does the text not simply explain what is going on?

dharness··on Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project
I find the airtable kind of cluttery. All the content is on the far left, why not use the full width of the page?

Then it opens the description in this tiny little window...

dharness··on Show HN: *.temp.website – Host temporary static sites with a single click
Yeah I don't know though, git is usually the first thing I do for a demo or prototype so I'm not sure I see it.
dharness··on Show HN: *.temp.website – Host temporary static sites with a single click
I can't personally imagine using it while gh-pages is free - but I love how simple it is, good work.
Page 1 of 3Next →