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stevewilhelm··on Ask HN: Where to meet non-technical cofounders?
My I suggest Lunchclub, "Curated 1:1 professional connections."

https://lunchclub.ai/

stevewilhelm··on Pinboard Turns Eleven
I became a Pinboard customer on December 17, 2010 and currently have 7,940 bookmarks, the most recent pin was added yesterday.

It's a great service. I recommend it to everyone.

stevewilhelm··on Segway ends production of its original scooter
The Segway Polo world championship is the Woz Challenge Cup.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_polo#Woz_Cup

stevewilhelm··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?
For fun,

me: Hey Google, spell Elon Musk's son's name

stevewilhelm··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
My I recommend IPTC's NewsML-G2 https://iptc.org/standards/newsml-g2/
stevewilhelm··on Ask HN: Non-cloud voice recognition for home use?
Question, what aspect of your product restricts the software architecture to not use "off-site cloud?"
stevewilhelm··on The Zen of Go
Any suggestions of open source Go projects/services that exemplify the Zen of Go?

Bonus points if they are using Docker / Kubernetes for deployment and hosting.

stevewilhelm··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
Do people with a weak internal monologue understand or enjoy jokes, puns, or poems?
stevewilhelm··on Pantone 448 C
Thomson Reuters Logo Color Scheme

https://www.schemecolor.com/thomson-reuters.php

stevewilhelm··on Goodbye, Clean Code
> We were working on a graphics editor canvas, and they implemented the ability to resize shapes like rectangles and ovals by dragging small handles at their edges.

It's a dirty shame their development team had to build a graphics editor canvas from scratch.

stevewilhelm··on When good ideas make bad business
TLDR: OP learned the hard way that a good idea was a feature, not a viable business.
stevewilhelm··on Challenging projects every programmer should try
- A load balancer module that accepts generic worker functions.

- A service that can take a real-time timestamped data and generate an internalized time series. For example returns a first, last, high, low, and average value at fifteen second intervals.

- A mechanism for serializing structured data. Something like Google Protobuf.

- A chart widget optimized to display and navigate date based content.

stevewilhelm··on Crows could be the smartest animal other than primates
We also focus on the abilities of an individual.

There can be a fair amount of complex behavior of groups. Ants and plants for example

http://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/09/26/the-intellige...

stevewilhelm··on 16-inch MacBook Pro
I wanted to give a shout out for this USB C hub. Not associated with the manufacturer, I'm am just a happy customer.

https://satechi.net/collections/usb-type-c/products/type-c-m...

stevewilhelm··on Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
So we want Facebook to stop propagating fake news and hate speech and we want them to do so without crawling URLs?
stevewilhelm··on Ask HN: Co-founder leaving a startup for free without equity?
What keeps Jim from creating a new corporation, have that new entity tender an offer to buy the assets of the "current startup" for $100? Could Jim, owning the majority of equity accept the offer and pay our OP his $40?
stevewilhelm··on Ian Lance Taylor's Response to “Go Is Google's Language”
As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organisation in Rakuten Inc. He was appointed to the role of technical advisor for VASILY, Inc. starting in June 2014. - From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto

Heroku was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2010.

stevewilhelm··on Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
I think the internet is still fun and weird. I think the flaw is equating "the internet" to html encoded content.

Much of the internet's creativity is encoded in audio, video, and photography.

stevewilhelm··on Here is my collection of 600+ “old” digital cameras
Anyone have a collections of photos taken from these early digital cameras?
stevewilhelm··on Twitter’s Kafka adoption story
Did they review other Pub/Sub solutions? I'm thinking of NATS in particular.
stevewilhelm··on If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley
"Conjoined Triangles of Success" and "ruinous empathy."

Pure genius.

stevewilhelm··on How to Design Software Good
I wasn't going to be "that guy," but it's "well" to see the question.
stevewilhelm··on Design Review: Key-Value Storage
How does this compare to Redis?
stevewilhelm··on Lyft All-Access Plan Subscription
My father didn't pass his most recent driving test. Uber and Lyft have become a reliable form of transportation in his neighborhood which has limited public transit.

But the current UX experience of seeing the price at the end of each ride has been off putting and has resulted in him limiting his use of these services.

I hope subscription plans, even if they result in a higher monthly cost, will increase his use of ride sharing services.

stevewilhelm··on Ask HN: The difference between “overvalued” and “that's how much it is now”?
People also forget the costs of selling a home. For example, sellers usually pay a realtor commission of five to six percent of the final sales price.
stevewilhelm··on Self-Driving Cars Can Handle Neither Rain nor Sleet nor Snow
I think the real game changer will be when self-driving cars also communicate with each other in some kind of mesh network sharing road surface, weather, and obstacle information.
stevewilhelm··on Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
The Feynman Lectures on Physics available on Audible https://s831.us/2Ou8sWa
stevewilhelm··on Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?
I would add learn how to do Test-driven Development
stevewilhelm··on Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL
If I was designing the user experience for accessing content from a global information, entertainment, and commerce network that would be used by a large, global, non-technical user base, I would not use the current URL format.

I would wager the twelve character prefix "https://www."would make no sense to 99.9% of the users and should be the default for over 99.9% of requests they would be making any given day.

I am guessing Google has evidence that this is the case.

stevewilhelm··on Introduction to Calculus with Derivatives
I was hoping this article was going to introduce calculus using financial derivatives in practical examples.

Instead the article asks how would one extimate 4.1 squared without a calculator.

I can't recall of any time in my life when I needed to do so. Now that I have a smart phone and watch, I don't anticipate needing to do so any time soon.

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