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Prediction: repeat business will be low and service will have a reverse viral effect where the more people have used it, the less special it will seem. Fad will die out in a year.

Google faces $5B shakedown for allowing JS to work in incognito mode

OP here - Miss traffic?? I do! Check out Traffic City to relive your frenetic commuting experience.

This is a gameplay test. If it gets sufficient usage I might build a higher fidelity version.

Let me know what you think :D

Features

- Drive through a retro “3D” cityscape

- Weave through traffic with keyboard controls

- Get points when you pass sedans, SUVs, and semis

- Save your top score

Tech

- HTML5 Canvas parallax 3D rendering engine

- Pre-rendering with OffscreenCanvas and module Worker threads

- Procedural traffic and map generation

- 2-quadrant draw order sorting

- MongoDB, Node, Express, Vanilla JS

NOTE - Only works on desktop & requires Chrome 80+ or similar

Code is not open sourced but I’m happy to do so given enough interest.

For everyone, lockdown means relative captivity.

We were definitely on Ryan Island :) It's very easy to get to. The trip from Ryan Island back to Rock Harbor is another story... Don't try to do that all in one day and half in the dark.

No. That's when I started to get suspicious.

I'm not sure if we were there but given the small scale of the island that looks to me like the border of a rock feature

Funny idea but I don't think Atlas Obscura was in on it. Pretty sure they thought the boulder was real.

Hah, good idea but IIRC drones are banned in the park.

"Son" here. AMA! Fun to see this on HN.

A few replies to some good questions:

1. Per @JdeBD, that was the Wikipedia edit that started everything. After 30+ hrs of online research, all roads lead back to this edit. I read 3 books on the island and found no mention of the boulder.

2. I took a bunch of photos that didn't make the article. Happy to share them offline with interested parties, but given that I could not find MB, they don't prove much.

3. The article does focus on us getting lost but that happened well after we left Ryan Island. This confused the NPR reporter too. Ryan Island is pretty easy to get to from Malone bay which is just a water taxi away from Rock Harbor. We had a working GPS with us the whole time which made certain legs of the trip a lot easier. How did we get lost with a GPS? The island is a mix of clearly marked dirt trails and large rock fields with no trail markings. You need to have a great sense of direction and some luck to pick up the trail again after traversing each rock field. We got lost after what must have been a quarter-mile rock field at 1am and the GPS didn't have the hiking trail marked in that area.

4. We made 2 landings at different points on Ryan Island, one southern and the other west / north-western. I did a lot of bushwacking from both points but there was no evidence of any water on the island or even mud where there could have been a "seasonal" pool. I was looking for a clearing or any kind of large flat-ish area but couldn't find anything like that larger than a few feet in diameter. The (small) island is extremely rocky and densely wooded.

5. Re the route, as many have noted it was very convoluted. We originally planned to go 18 miles in a day - the first half mostly paddles and portages, the second half is an 11-mile coastal trail back to Rock Harbor. The plan was to abandon the canoe at the halfway point and come back and get it via water taxi the next morning. After getting lost we gave up at the halfway point around 4am and camped for the night there.

Understatement of the century

Dr Sausage has had this technology for decades

Nothing? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

Then leave Facebook?

Is this supposed to be sinister? They need to QA the product they are building so it's a better experience for customers.

So the implication is that 2/3 of workers at this pay level will turn over 2x/year? Why publish these “survey” results when that is obviously false?

couple of trucks should do it

Why does HN love click bait so much?

I think I found you. Are you the white figure?

Absolutely. Most developers are part time :)

You can apply here - https://app.trygigster.com/gigster

A few other differences - you don't interface with developers, price is guaranteed, costs are lower because dev talent isn't in house (no holding cost).

These are ok provided the budget is $1k+. Otherwise it's probably not worth it for you given that we have to get in & learn the code. We do UX design too!

Haha thanks! Submit a sample project if you want to see how it works.

It's not linear but the math works out - managed right, and up to a point, projects get faster with more people. The management part is hard but that's where our platform comes in.

Gigster was actually designed from the freelancer's perspective first - no bidding, no interfacing with customers all specs are in a standard format, reliable/regular payments, etc. I don't know of a better place to freelance.

It's true! SV has a great brand for PM's. Customers love knowing they are working with great talent, especially with all the noise out there.

Balloons are cheaper

Why 900 upvotes? This reads like a vengeful laundry list of excuses for essentially being fired, written by a low-performing, poor-culture-fit middle manager from an exceptionally dysfunctional team at what otherwise might be a great company. I've never worked there so can't say.

Guess we need an open protocol! OP should build that