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huangc10··on Janet Airlines
No.
huangc10··on A/B testing original design vs. random template bought from ThemeForest
Can you A/B test how many of your blog readers prefer 0 memes, 1-2 memes, 5-10 memes, and 10+ memes? After the first few I stopped reading...
huangc10··on Show HN: Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events
Right...so there's already Evites right? :)
huangc10··on Show HN: Stuff – An Alternative to Facebook Events
The whole point of Facebook events is that it's already integrated with a social network so it's easy to invite people.

I dislike the whole concept of Facebook but sorry, but I find this idea really counter intuitive? Creating social events online but not through a social network...

*edit, so I can provide some constructive criticism. Maybe integrate this with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter (which I guess kind of defeats your purpose of going against Facebook)?

huangc10··on How we've attracted top talent to our early-stage bootstrapped startup
I remember meeting the co-founders through Startup School back in 2017 and they were pretty genuine and enthusiastic about their product. I think they had just started development. I'm glad to hear Canny is doing well.

These types of articles are nice to read but maybe not for posting onto HN because it's a little fluffy and non-technical/non-quantitative as can be seen from the critical responses.

As a side note, I personally think it's difficult (but not impossible) to use social networks as a way to determine a company's culture. Everyone should be mindful that IG/Facebook captures only the moments someone wants to share.

huangc10··on Launch HN: Glide (YC W19) – Mobile Apps from Google Sheets
Hi, this is indeed really cool. Just a couple of questions:

1) I'm not really understanding how the apps are shared? Ex. when a user scans the QR code or opens the glide app link sent to them, do the apps open in a browser from the phone? The UI shown on the website don't seem to have a URL bar or browser navigation so I'm a little confused as to what actually happens...

2) I find that one of the harder parts of developing an app is getting the App Store/Google Play Store account/license/certificates/submission process. Do you guys have plans to streamline this with tools such as Fastlane? Maybe a developer portal to easily import this to App Store Connect or Google Play Console?

huangc10··on The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
Most pilots do earn an annual salary. I'm not sure what the previous comment meant. Pilots simply have to work minimum number of hours per month, but the issue is that most pilots are now working up to the maximum number of hours therefore there are actually pilot union striking because of overwork!
huangc10··on The Colgan Air disaster was a milestone in aviation safety
My brother is a commercial airline pilot who flies world wide and pilot fatigue is real and very common.

Airlines have been making bank for the last few years and all they need to do to prevent pilot fatigue is reduce hours for pilots and increase the number of pilots/flight, especially for international flights.

These simple measures (albeit costly), will overall help reduce commercial flight fatalities across the globe.

huangc10··on Show HN: Mintable – Roll-your-own Mint clone for managing personal finances
no, no there isn't...

*edit, tried to add a fire emoji to end of comment and didn't work but here's something: U+1F525

huangc10··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
If I'm working on my computer, I write use an app called Quiver. If I'm feeling more like brainstorming and just wanting to be creative, I write my thoughts in my Moleskine.
huangc10··on K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system
this
huangc10··on Remove.bg – Remove Image Background
Great tool. This should be upvoted more. Tuxa, I'd love to discuss more about this tool with you. I'll shoot you an email when I'm free later.
huangc10··on Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
haha true.
huangc10··on Hacker News Highlights, August to November 2018
Not that I'm for screen shot, I imagine they wrote a quick script that went through a list of links to the comment and produced the screenshot (which also resized the height of the window to fit the full comment).

The script probably utilized an integration with a screen capture library. I'd imagine someone can write a script to parse html and dig out the comment, but the screen capture script was probably faster to write.

A slower method would be to copy and paste the text by hand...

huangc10··on I Found the Best Burger Place in America, Then I Killed It
Really interesting article. This is the link to the yelp review: https://www.yelp.com/biz/stanichs-portland-5?osq=stanich

IMO, it's unfair to blame it on the guy who recommended the restaurant. There are thousands of restaurants that dream to have it happen. Think of it like this, I write an app and Mark Z shares it on his twitter. Sure, the traffic can kill the app, but I have to find a way to maintain it and do my due diligence to make sure the site will run smoothly when the user base increases.

It's too bad what happened. It does appear the real problem was family issues and not having great business practice. NOT the author/article.

I want to include the fact that burgers are probably my second favorite food after a Nigiri set.

huangc10··on Show HN: WriteFreely – minimalist, federated blogging platform
Thanks for the explanation :) This comment should be higher up for people to read...
huangc10··on Show HN: Coffee Chat – Trade your expertise
Cool idea! I personally find talking on the phone obstrusive at times. What are you guys thoughts about just chatting via a built-in messaging system?

Also as a future goal, it might be possible to leverage large communities on Reddit where a lot of users want to share their knowledge?

huangc10··on Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
I think people should do what they want and I find these articles meaningless. Don't like your company's values? Great, find another job. It's as simple as that.

Let's not shame people for wanting to stick with a company. Everyone has their reasons to stay whether it's money, values, working environment, co-workers or personal reasons. If you really cared, shouldn't you try to change the company from within? Isn't that the best place to start?

huangc10··on Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?
Not necessarily true. There are some series A/B startups that offer extremely competitive salaries and stock options for top talent.

And also, I think he/she means if you can't get behind what Facebook is doing, maybe jump to Apple who "supposedly" have security and privacy as their top priorities and in the mean time receive a raise.

huangc10··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
Just off top of my head...Vancouver, Seattle, Austin, Denver, Toronto, and Waterloo. Cheaper than the Bay Area and still with an intellectually high community.
huangc10··on Full Hacker News: single page with top 30 articles inlined
Same. I guess the dev added a check just for hnfull.com just in case it got to FP.
huangc10··on Pixelmash: Resolution-Independent Pixel Art Software for PC and Mac [video]
Might give it a try, but I like to draw pixel art by hand with graphing paper :) Just oldschool me.
huangc10··on iOS 12, reviewed
Just talking instinctively (from using iOS 12 since GM last week), iOS 12 has been one of the best and smoothest releases I've ever experienced. If you haven't updated, do it now. Barring any security issues or HW bugs, outlook for Apple looking very strong going into 2019.
huangc10··on [dead]
They are both from Tainan, Taiwan (a city in the south part of Taiwan) and both immigrated to the US at around the same time.
huangc10··on Whiteboards used after Gatwick flight information screens fail
Yeh, whiteboard works but another more technical solution could be roll out a TV stand and hook up the TV to a laptop via HDMI and update schedule live through a shared doc (Google docs?). I mean, whatever works right...
huangc10··on Google Maps is no longer a flat map
Just a note, they also changed how navigating works. It's almost as if the map curves differently at different zooms. The physics is very cool but it is a little nauseating. It is very realistic, almost like spinning a globe, but I'm not sure if its more preferable.
huangc10··on ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Awful Advice
Is it possible...and I'm just conjecturing here, that this advice is for the 0.01% of humanity. Think about it from an extremely high level POV. If giving this advice to everyone in the entire world, and if 0.01% is able to follow through with it...this is how we get standouts like Beethoven, Einstein, Gates, Jobs. etc. Is this terrible advice then? Sure, it doesn't help plebs like us, but it sure does help the world move along...
huangc10··on Amazon Homepage is Down
Just the homepage being down makes me think the entire site is down, but as another user pointed out, you can still search and links work.

I wonder if checkout works. Can anyone confirm?

huangc10··on Amazon Homepage is Down
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huangc10··on Is Elon Musk Serious?
I agree it doesn't hurt but at the same time, I'm a strong believer in "too many cooks in the kitchen". Especially when you add to the fact that Elon Musk and his team of engineers are not experts in search and rescue.

Also, where was he during the first few days of the rescue? All of a sudden this story has international attention and he steps in.

He's that kid that tried to build a crazy contraption to save the cat from the tree when all you really needed was a sturdy ladder.

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