HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

gt2

413 karma · joined June 15, 2016

submissionscomments
gt2··on Ask HN: Have you abandoned Next.js for another front end framework/library?
Since you're the OP, and you were an early rails developer, I have to ask why you are more in favor of next than rails at this point?
gt2··on Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products
Can you link your app? Or his?
gt2··on 1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click
Also interested to know opinions on that.
gt2··on The Guns of Bitcoin (2017)
Seen it. Most recently was trying to view a reddit on mobile. Said download the app or take a hike. Circumvented by doing 'request web view' option (in mobile safari)
gt2··on Ask HN: How do I get out of the procrastination abyss?
Promise yourself you'll only do 15 minutes.

Do pomodoros (similar to above).

No zero days/don't break the cycle (made famous by Seinfeld).

Leave a small task to do for next time, making it easy to get into it.

Set a realistic goal/project to make with your learning rather than learning open ended (could be the reason for your plateau, as it can be interesting to get into something initially but hard to maintain after the low hanging fruit is learned).

Blog about each topic/micro topic/learning.

Get peer feedback/reinforcement by announcing to someone or a community what you are working on or learning and when you will finish.

Good luck!

gt2··on Mars images rendered in 4K [video]
Would love to see some video from there, even if it's not hd or 4k.
gt2··on Ask HN: Why have a knowledge base when anything is easily googleable?
I do similar things (and have came upon similar notes elsewhere) but my personal notes are still valuable because a) they are structured how I think, and b) I remember it better/it finds its way into my consciousness better by writing it.
gt2··on CMS that dynamically changes your website based on visitor's LinkedIn profile
But is the linked in user profile available (without the user logging in with linked in to your site)?
gt2··on Using neural-network soundscapes to protect natural environments
I've heard of this concept some years ago, but can't recall where from at the moment.
gt2··on CMS that dynamically changes your website based on visitor's LinkedIn profile
Why would you want to do it?

To show that person's role, skills, recent activities back to themselves? Is it a resume creator of some kind?

Or do you mean the content is supposed to be representing the site owner (job seeker?) and that the content being changed accordingly to match the visitor's (assuming that would be to target their interests).

gt2··on Ask HN: How's your quarantine side project going?
The signup form shows error when using Privacy badger and U block origin, just heads up. Assume because it uses convert kit.

Sounds interesting, signed up.

gt2··on Sold My Side Project
How did you decide to sell so soon rather than building it up further?

Is this the first one?

gt2··on How Did Vim Become So Popular?
Long time vim lover here as well, but I guess I hear often that for a lot of folks, input isn't the bottleneck.
gt2··on Google Acquires North
Is it just common knowledge the founders have lavish lifestyles or was there talk in articles about the company/product?
gt2··on Ask HN: Solo devs, what’s your choice lang/library for rapidly making REST APIs?
Rails. Some say there's too much magic going on, but the framework gets out of your way and allows very dry, easy to read code if you know rails (which I don't think takes long to learn).
gt2··on Ask HN: Shopify self hosted e-commerce alternative?
Just to note that several issues you cite are handled can be handled by the payment processor like Stripe.
gt2··on Advice to Young Web Developers
Guessing he means when the code shared does important things like validation.
gt2··on Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
Click the city repeatedly to get alternate scenes for a given city (didn't see anyone else mention that yet).
gt2··on Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
Click the city name a few times to cycle through alternate videos the creator selected. Found one for LA that was more in line with what you described.
gt2··on Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations
google:

news.ycombinator.com your search term

Also if you google for hn search there are some sites.

gt2··on iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
Yeah my feeling is that there are a lot more important things going on than the color of chat bubbles (or the status/system it implies). Sorry if it came off as though I meant this is more important than other serious things going on.

edit: typo

gt2··on Ask HN: What's the best (free) app to backup files to Amazon Glacier?
Off topic but from Argentina, transfer to S3 is incredibly slow in all regions I've tried thus far. Does anyone have a suggestion of the best choices for fast speeds from down here?
gt2··on iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)
One of the most disappointing anecdotes I've read recently.
gt2··on Tell HN: I'm launching a product the “right” way
An idea for the meantime: OP could paper trade for early users. Prove the concept, improve the UX, and be ready to partner or have investment to manage the brokerage licensing etc.
gt2··on Ask HN: What tech stack do you use for quick web side projects?
rails
gt2··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
I personally remembered it, and looked at a bookmark I had to verify.
gt2··on Ask HN: How do you deal with interview burnout, as an interviewer?
I used to do it a lot at a FAANG and another time for an agency, and 1 per week was often. I had a track record of good hires apparently and they still only asked me to do it once a week at most. So I think you're doing it far too often.

As for advice on how to improve it-- my best advice is to see it as talking shop with a fellow coder. Let your guard down, discuss areas you both overlap. At least half the time I would need to be extremely patient while they attempted to contribute, but it's what you do as an interviewer to attempt to coax out the best in a candidate, similar to what _ah said in their response. Sometimes they come through sometimes not, which is the point of the interview of course! Good luck, and have fun meeting some new people. I've kept in touch with some, have learned a lot from others, and seen some around the office, I always enjoyed that aspect of it as well.

gt2··on Ask HN: Credit Freeze Recommendations
You can send requests directly to each bureau if I remember correctly. Some cost a bit more to do it electronically, but it's all pretty low, 5-15 bucks I believe.

Then they each have a similar but slightly different way of unfreezing it. And some allow it to be unfrozen for a short amount of time, or for 1 request, or for a specific merchant.

Seems there's a lack of standards there and I wondered if it works. I verified it did when I tried to sign up for a new cell plan in a mall once and they said it was frozen. Said I would need to unfreeze 2 of the bureaus if I wanted a chance at passing their credit check.

gt2··on Ask HN: What's the best stack to build a marketplace/ecommerce website?
You should use the one you know best so you can get it built sooner.

Play framework you mentioned is a fine choice because it's somewhat of a rapid development framework and there's a big community around it.

I would skip the frontend animations for the MVP as they don't bring anything unique to the table, which is what you need to focus on if you are bringing yet another marketplace to the world.

It's actually possible you can get the MVP features you need by using something like WooCommerce, but it would only be a speed increase if you or your developer(s) know the framework better than something else.

gt2··on Street View camera rigs do much more than just take photos
Think he was being sarcastic.
← PreviousPage 2 of 11Next →