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gglover

105 karma · joined April 15, 2013

Doing my best

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gglover··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://gus.city Clean layout, simple Jekyll site with some ThreeJS for the header.
gglover··on Show HN: Photogrammetry of Seattle landmarks rendered in WebGL
Thanks! These were all processed with Reality Capture. For external data we are agnostic to sources as long as camera poses, geometry & photo inputs are made available. So something like Meshroom or Metashape are options.
gglover··on Blush, Illustrations for Everyone
I'm seeing lots of oversaturated people with giant pants on startup marketing sites these days. Don't really understand this trend.
gglover··on Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
I'm a 25 year old with a beater car 5 miles from downtown Seattle. Here are my real numbers:

Parking: For me the bus is around 10 minutes slower each way. I just take that most days.

Home parking: Free on-street parking

Gas: $40/month * 12 = $480

Registration: $200 (May be a bit higher now with ST3)

Insurance: $700

Maintenance: $1000 sounds about right

For around $2380 / year. Well worth it for the freedom it gives me imo.

gglover··on A Map of San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley Gang Territories
The LA map is a lot more complete and interesting.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1ul5yqMj7_JgM5xpfOn...

gglover··on The best board games of 2016
Anyone think recent board games are becoming unnecessarily complex and deeply strategy based? It could just be what I've seen from my friends but a lot of the times you can tell from the box art and title alone that you're going to need tiles, tokens, cards a 3 page manual and a practice round before you can even start. For me, that's a slog. It's too hard to hold conversation or focus on anything other than the game. I guess there will always be a divide between people who can spend 3 hours of intense concentration on a Settlers of Catan game and people who just want to play Jenga for a few rounds. Are there any popular simple games in the latter category recently?
gglover··on Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It
Facebook has an events app that cuts timeline and profiles and pages. Deleting the main app for this totally isolated that usefulness for me.
gglover··on On Not Reading
Real life:

"Did you read Infinite Jest?"

"No"

"Okay"

Academia:

"Did you read Infinite Jest?"

"My small act of countercultural scholarly agency has been to refuse to continue reading or assigning the work of David Foster Wallace. The machine of his celebrity masks, I have argued, the limited benefits of spending the time required to read his work. Our time is better spent elsewhere. I make this assessment given the evidence I have so far accumulated"

"Okay"

gglover··on The TSA Randomizer App Cost $336k
I don't think lawyer fees imply anything about the code quality. See: HealthCare.gov fiasco.
gglover··on Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive
I miss the super saturated double gradient Bloomberg used to have on their banners and feature images after the redesign.
gglover··on Reykjavik Center Map
That's the most memorable tourist map I received in 6 months in Europe. It's hanging on my wall right now. Iceland does a really great job with their tourism industry.
gglover··on The Art World’s Patron Satan
He's an embodiment of the end of organic growth in art. Cherrypicking young artists and forcing then towards pieces that will churn larger profits. Public opinion is riding an Instagram fueled hype machine with this tasteless fool at the helm.
gglover··on Show HN: Pokemon Color Palettes
Thanks! I used Black/White's sprites, a few of which were recycled or tweaked from earlier games.