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Hi, great write up and very cool project! I was wondering how you arrived at the idea to use OSRM and pre-computing the drive time from every exit to every POI. Was that something you learned existed along the way? Did Claude/codex point the way to this?

> “ Three factors were required to join this holy ensemble: the technical expertise to design a capable and reliable microcomputer, a nose for the larger business opportunity latent in the hobby computer market…”

I think the same opportunity exists now in the hobby robot market.

My 7 year old loves it! He likes the animations, how the creatures get the questions wrong sometimes, and the math questions. Questions were - why do we play a wizard guy (he wants to play as different characters), why does the scorpion drop a star, why are some of the moves not available / charged up yet

Sounds like you just need interview practice. (Your post seems more about interview nerves than ADHD issues). It’s a different skill, separate from being a good coder. It’s difficult to tell from your post if you have had any interviews yet. You mention “I've never had a real interview after college”. I would specifically look into getting mock interviews where the stakes are low, and get feedback and practice, so you learn how to improve and gain more confidence. You can ask friends, watch YouTube videos (for ideas, but this is not real practice), go to college career networking events, or search for “interview practice” - there are companies and services that offer this. You can get good at this! Good luck!

Just to provide some counterpoint to the echo chamber here - as a Dad of a six year old who played with legos as a kid and again now, I can affirm - Legos and the sets they put out now are way cooler now than when I was a kid!

You might worry that the less general purpose, specialized pieces might stunt creativity, but guess what!? The 6 year old has no problem taking them completely apart and building something off script.

It's the olds who worry about keeping them all together and not losing the pieces so they can still make the thing on the front of the box. The kids don't care and will happily take it all apart and build things we never would have thought of.

Sounds like a great hire for the CIA or MI6

No one uses API keys with Copilot intentionally. If you install the VSCode extension and start using it, and you happen to open a file that has an API key in it, boom - it's sent to Copilot. That is the issue. It's currently like walking a tightrope with no guardrails, and it's not obvious.

I just watched the demo and personally thought it was amazing. Don't give up! Keep going!

You haven't really tried everything if you "don't want to hire sales people or a marketing firm of any kind." This might be a self limiting belief.

You can learn by hiring someone / paying someone for a limited time. You can learn what they do, and then use that knowledge to set up systems and processes. Once you have a process, you can pay others like a VA to execute it for you at a lower cost than your time is worth and gain back that time to do higher leverage things.

If your product is making $30k a month, you can afford to experiment with some amount of that, say $2k a month, for a few months, then switch it up. You will learn. If you could spend $2k a month on a sales person or marketing firm which resulted in you making an additional $3k a month, why wouldn't you?

Caprover is nice and convenient but security wise, only a single password field is required on the admin console. (See demo here: https://captain.server.demo.caprover.com/#/login) Given this it would be nice to at least make the web admin console only accessible via an IP whitelist, but last time I used it I did not find an easy way to do that.

I use TripIt for multi-person travel itineraries. It does allow for sharing and multiple contributors. It is not necessarily for getting consensus on activities, but for centralizing all of your confirmed plans in one place.

This exchange is why HN is great. :)

> We've built it so that our servers never have to see any sensitive information.

If true, this is a key selling point and should probably be somewhere near the top of the homepage. I didn't get that point from reading any of the copy.

Increasing skepticism of science and evidence-based decision making.

Regarding your second point, I believe it is still possible to query an external source. Read the docs on “Remote Schemas” - https://docs.hasura.io/1.0/graphql/manual/remote-schemas/ind...

Part 2 of study: "Insufficient Sleep Associated with Risky Adult Behavior As Well!"

Your startup should have ordered the laptop in advance of your start date. My company standardizes on the 16gb model. They never have them in store, we have to order them online, about a week or so before we need them.

CircleCI (https://circleci.com/)

I add this to every new project. Best cloud-based continuous integration platform I've used so far. Sane intelligent defaults, many projects start building out of the box. You can easily link it to Slack (another piece of reliable software) and start getting continuous feedback that your project is working correctly / is getting deployed - as it is being built.

Spectacle (https://www.spectacleapp.com/) Github: https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle

Easily resize and arrange windows on a mac - move windows between monitors, make them full size, or half size, anchor them left / right, etc.

It's open source, it just works, and you'll wish every new Mac you interact with had it installed by default.

Anything you put on the internet is indeed immutable and irrevocable. This comment included. Hell, you don't even need to hit "submit" - the keystrokes and mouse movements - they are all captured and piped to many different analytics services in real time. It might not be surfaced on a publicly accessible site, but rest assured, it's in a database somewhere.

SizeUp is a great utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts for resizing and moving windows around. Essential!

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

Hey there, thanks for the reply. Maybe "feigned surprise" isn't the exact same concept, but I think it's in the same ballpark. In any case, nothing personal. I checked out the rest of your blog and plan to go back and read your more in-depth posts about Go when I get a chance.

I was hoping to learn something, but I found this blog post to be lacking in actual content or substantial reasoned arguments. Phrases like "What? Come on.", "Seriously?" and "It was clear-ish." don't tell us anything about what the author does or doesn't like about a particular language or framework.

I thought Hacker School banned "feigned surprise" - (https://www.hackerschool.com/manual) - maybe the author attended before this rule was put in place.

I'd love to read a re-write with all of those types of phrases swapped for detailed explanations breaking down what and why the author thinks X is better or worse than Y.

"We have an internal generator where we just feed our rails app, and the code for our framework is just 'ported'/generated on the fly based on our framework and we just deploy it." - Well that sounds useful! Any thoughts on open sourcing it?

What it actually does:

  * vibrate when you wander too far from your phone
  * vibrate when you receive calls or texts

So it's for active people who don't want to carry their phone all the time, but still want to stay connected to it.

The product messaging needs to be tweaked. Before I care if I look good wearing it, I want to know why I should wear it. You should not have to scroll and search to figure it out.

Interested! If you start it up, I'd love to help out.

I was curious as to what Acxiom's cookies actually look like after opting out. With a fresh Chrome Igcognito session, following through the opt out process, I get 20 cookies. Plenty of unique GUIDs perfectly capable of tracking me through the internet, and no occurances of "DO NOT TRACK" or "IGNORE". Screenshot here:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/950/d2ys.png

Also, can you define DMP? I did do some googling first, and I'm not sure which acronym you're referring to.

EDIT: Found it. DMP stands for Data Management Platform. For anyone else: http://www.adopsinsider.com/online-ad-measurement-tracking/d...

I'd rather not see any ads or be tracked at all. Don't bother opting out via their cookie. Use an Ad Blocker.

Instead of signing up and cleaning their data for them, or "opting out" by installing their special cookie which continues to track you around the internet, opt out the right way: block all ad networks via a browser extension like Disconnect or Ghostery.

More options and tools here: http://lifehacker.com/the-best-browser-extensions-that-prote...

Great app. I've been helping beta test and it's obvious a lot of effort went into making it look polished and feel responsive. An amazing feat of programming and design magic. Angular, ClojureScript, HTML5 and CSS3 working in concert. Congrats lynaghk and ryan!