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gtm1260

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CTO / founder: runautomat.com
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gtm1260··on EDEX-UI: science fiction terminal emulator
Absolutely sick! Definitely I'll say its not the most usable, but some of the features make a ton of sense! Like having an active finder window thats always in the directory of your terminal, so great! Also +1 to having no configuration to get to a sweet looking setup.
gtm1260··on India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
I kind of agree, but 99% of the videos I see on FYP are just absolutely silly, hilarious content.
gtm1260··on Speeding up function calls with lru_cache in Python
I agree, I think of function call as the time it takes to copy the stack frame, setup variables, and move the program counter. I'm not sure that adding a decorator slows this down, but I suspect it does. A better title would just be 'add memoization in one line in python' or something.
gtm1260··on GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
I really want to love Prettier, but I never want to spend the hours googling etc. on how to setup the frickin config files! Especially as someone who works on a wide variety of languages/file types, I really want to find a drop in formatter that works well enough in all situations.
gtm1260··on Ask HN: What would you do with unmetered 10gig?
Wait...netflix in chrome is only 720p!? How do I get 1080?
gtm1260··on Shapes is a real-time vector graphics library for Unity
Paper.js seems perfect, not too difficult to get started (although it is a bit more overhead than Tkinter).

For something simpler (although raster based), I would check out p5.js.

gtm1260··on 25 Years of PHP
As a new web dev who's never learned PHP, is it worth it? I don't really need to write anything into production.
gtm1260··on Anxiety in product development
As a new developer, I think I fall into this trap a lot! I always don't want to touch other people's methods or introduce bugs, so I only make tiny, tiny little changes before thoroughly testing everything. It really slows me down.
gtm1260··on AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor
I open Audacity about once every 3 months for some random audio editing, this is definitely a better/more intuitive app. Plus web based is awesome for something I use so infrequently. Great Work!
gtm1260··on Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
Am I the only one who likes AMP? Like 99% of news websites etc. are so overloaded with crap to the point where it's impossible to read them on mobile. I'm glad to see an AMP link, it means the content will load quickly.

I feel like we need a solution that works for everyone, not just news companies and search giants, but users as well!

gtm1260··on A third of Americans now show signs of clinical anxiety or depression
I thought I wanted to live in a City but quarantine has made me realize I actually want to live in a small town/countryside.
gtm1260··on Stop Watching the News (2019)
I've never watched the news, but I regularly read sites like HN and Reddit. I feel like from there I get the 'outrage overload' effect as well, but IDK what to do about it. I could stop going on those sites, but then I would truly feel like I'm cut off from an absolute wealth of information. It feels different from being 'cut off' from TV news channels or websites that I would only really read if I was referred from Reddit or HN anyways.
gtm1260··on Notion for everyone
I love notion. I want to support them and I hope they and their product continue to grow and improve. But I can't help facepalming a little bit as I just bought 1 year of notion.
gtm1260··on TSMC to Build Advanced Semiconductor Factory in Arizona
So what happens when we get to 2nm? Do we just stop getting faster computers?
gtm1260··on Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X
Hah! Thats pretty wild, but I wish I could have some apps that use the touch bar like that. It seems so worthless now because I only really use it as a bunch of buttons. But if I used just one app that had that rich multi-touch input, it would be so fun I think.

I imagine its one where the vision of the product and what developers actually came up with never really aligned prroperly.

gtm1260··on No cookie consent walls, scrolling isn’t consent, says EU data protection body
Am I the only one that seriously feels like the UX implications of GDPR should have been more seriously considered? Did the creators of the law consider how they were making the web like 5% more annoying to use? I just wish this stuff was thought through in a more holistic way, right now what we have is just an extra click through on every website, and no real sense that it is helping privacy since most users just click 'ok' to get to their website anyways.
gtm1260··on Notion encourages busy-work
I do really Enjoy Notion as my personal note-taking/productivity app, but I agree that its collaboration features make it really hard to use with more than a few people.
gtm1260··on Show HN: Help Me Decide Please
Reminds me of /r/amitheasshole - can someone in an emotionally convoluted/charged situation figure out if they are objectively (by judgment of strangers) being an ass. Obviously there is a ton of bias based on how the OP presents a situation, but the idea of getting an outside opinion has already proved popular.
gtm1260··on Magic Leap reportedly slashes jobs and steps away from consumer plans
I think the biggest mistake that Magic Leap made is that they compromised on their hardware. Like you said, they tried to go general purpose which means low "enough" cost for devs to pick one up and build an app, for enthusiasts to try em out etc. But the thing is, they didn't have best in class hardware. I've tried one and its marginally better than a hololens 2. They could have gone all out with a vision prototype that wowed the world with its capabilities, instead they increased the field of view, slightly and made the form-factor slightly better.
gtm1260··on Show HN: I made a macOS app to let me draw on the screen while on video calls
Awesome work! Well worth the price for a nice, simple utility I feel like I will use everyday.
gtm1260··on Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?
I'm so sorry to hear that. I'm curious what people's opinions are specifically around frontend. How can software enable someone who's blind to ensure that a frontend matches a design? Can we as a community develop new tools for this?
gtm1260··on Tell HN: Toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and now web cams
EpocCam is awesome, tested and working on iOS 13 and Mojave. 7.99 for the pro version and my video quality is 10x better than iSight. + I can position the camera anywhere I like so people are stuck looking up at me from a laptop, and I can go back to using clamshell mode on my macbook when at a desk.
gtm1260··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
Ah totally! I agree with your conclusion. I guess with the measures in place right now to fight COVID, the areas where Amazon might not have a vast advantage like niche selection, deep knowledge in a certain product area, being able to buy something in store immediatley etc. didn't occur to me.
gtm1260··on Amazon Isn’t the Only Shop Online
Its so unfair to expect consumers to go through hell on these random websites with poor UI/UX, customer service, logistics, and inventory monitoring systems. I don't think amazon should be able to crush small businesses etc, but I don't think appealing to people's sense of personal responsibility is the answer.

There needs to be a viable way for other businesses to compete with amazon's level of service if they want consumers to change their habits.

gtm1260··on Affinity Designer: A Love Story
The value of being able to collaborate and share on the web in Figma has outweighed any feature of almost any other graphics editor.
gtm1260··on 4.2″ and 7.5″ NFC-powered e-Paper Displays Work without Battery
Same question here! The cost of these panels for like anyone whos' not a major manufacturer to use is so high it seems. I just wanna make some fun prototypes ya know.
gtm1260··on AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 4000 laptop processors
Is there any chance Dell releases and AMD XPS 13?
gtm1260··on Create Isometric Illustrations with Ease
Thats awesome! I really like this tool, even though its pretty glitchy and buggy for now. I'll use this a lot! Great idea pulling from online isometric sources and making the assets easily composible. If I were to do something manually it would be hours of me dealing with clogged download folders trying to dig through to the right verison.
gtm1260··on Ask HN: Absolute noob here, what programming language to learn to land job with?
I would suggest Python first. 1 there are a lot people hiring python eng right? At least according to what I saw on s/o developer survey. Anyways, I think that it's a lot easier to become a productive python developer than a java developer. Python's syntax is simpler, and it's so much easier to tap into all the libraries through pip than any kind of gradle build or IDE setup, especially for a beginner. I think this is important for any new programmer, to learn the fundamentals, yes, but also learn how to use libraries and quickly build new projects which is what may end up getting you a job anyways right?
gtm1260··on AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs
Look at Asus's new line of premium laptops. All AMD Ryzen 4th gen. Ryzen 9 CPU's have been out of stock for months as enthusiasts and professionals are jumping at the value of getting 16 cores for ~750$. I think the tide of the market is shifting significantly, especially in consumers minds.
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