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josephcson MixedName – Bilingual baby name finder

This is fun and interesting. Attempted with a few combinations around Hindi/Indian, Arabic, Japanese, Latvian, and French, and the results are amazing!

josephcson Massive ‘ocean’ discovered towards Earth’s core (2014)

Additional read from ScientificAmerican (2014): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rare-diamond-conf...

josephcson Algorithms and Data Structures Explained and Implemented in JavaScript

There's this that appeared on HN a year ago. https://github.com/OmkarPathak/pygorithm

josephcson Ask HN: First laptop you had without optical drive?

MacBook Air 2013. While it doesn't count, prior to 2013 MBA, I had a 2012 Mac mini that did have a optical drive.

josephcson Ask HN: That website with product/startup ideas?

There's another one: http://www.oppslist.com

josephcson Ask HN: Do you plan your next day ahead?

TL;DR: This is just an add-on to OP's question - how it has worked for me. I've been following this and I'm looking for a better way to track.

I was experimenting with it a couple of days and here's a quick brief.

How: All I used was Apple Notes on my phone to plan out the whole of next day the previous night. I would break the sections into "Morning", "Afternoon", "Evening", "Night" and add multiple checkboxes that act as to-dos for each part of the day.

Did it work?

Yes, and I would really recommend it. It feels great and gives you superpowers since you already know what to do during the day, and that you don't have to randomly find things to work on as your day progresses. This majorly improved my morning schedule which I would otherwise spend on checking emails, partially reading HN & Medium, oscillate between applications and be distracted. This also improved my productivity and I felt I should be checking off items one by one. The balance from the day would move to the next day, if applicable.

Why did I pause: The same reason OP started this thread for. I wanted to have a better way to handle the habits, and get an idea on how I perform and my completeness ratio. There are certain habits that get replicated across days. Notes is just meant to be a note-taking app. I wanted to try Trello with lists for each part of the day, but again, the completeness part is what I am really interested in.

josephcson Uber driver arrested, my 76yo dad left on the street at 1am

> "if a driver cannot continue there is an automatic way for uber to pick the passenger up and take them to their destination"

Agreed! This makes me think there are also other reasons for a driver to stop a trip in the middle — especially when there's emergency. This shouldn't be a one-off issue. Just wondering why Uber hasn't thought about allowing drivers to mark an emergency. Not sure if the driver app has it already.

josephcson Uber driver arrested, my 76yo dad left on the street at 1am

I totally understand your concern. But, what did you expect Uber to do instead? A driver driving with a suspended license was the driver's fault. Not Uber's (if it was recently suspended). Not yours, but Uber/anybody could expect that you checked if the license of the driver was valid before starting the trip, but that's pretty uncommon.

If your father was sick and if he's 76 and has cancer, you could have as well accompanied him, right? Or had someone accompany him. Even if you publicise, there's a higher chance that it would be seen as you being careless.

josephcson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2017)

Location: India

Remote: Prefer to relocate

Willing to relocate: Yes, prefer to

Technologies: Python (majorly), JavaScript, ES6, Ruby, Go (novice), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS. [full-stack, majorly backend]

Résumé/CV: https://josephcs.com/resume.pdf

LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/josephchristopher

Email: mail /at/ josephcs /dot/ com

I've been an ownership-taking product engineer who's worked with team sizes small and medium, agile-focused. Been a core engineering contributor to a multi-tenant SaaS customer support product, alongside working closely with product & customer success teams offering dev help.

Looking for mid-size teams, preferably in the consumer space.

josephcson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2017)

  Location: India
  Remote: No
  Willing to relocate: Yes (Prefer to)
  Technologies: Python (majorly), JavaScript, ES6, Ruby, Go (novice), PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS. [full-stack, majorly backend]
  Résumé/CV: https://josephcs.com/resume.pdf
  LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/josephchristopher
  Email: mail /at/ josephcs /dot/ com

Looking for mid-size teams, preferably in the consumer space.

josephcson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)

  Location: India
  Remote: No
  Willing to relocate: Yes (Prefer to)
  Technologies: Python, JavaScript (ECMAScript 6), Ruby, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, AWS. [full-stack, majorly backend]
  Résumé/CV: https://josephcs.com/resume.pdf
  Email: (in the resume)