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tadruj··on Show HN: Closer – For distributed teams that want to feel more connected
Looks so sleek. I was always wondering if my iPad could be used more productively when working remotely.
tadruj··on Linear – A fast issue tracker
This is a `vi` of issue trackers. It's the kind of software which, after you use it, you desire whole web would use the same design philosophy.
tadruj··on Ask HN: SARS-CoV-2: current daily life scenario
Thank you for the article.

I agree on shifting the peak. I was mostly aiming to get other nerds creative about tiny habits that can help lowering R0. The slower it spreads, the lower the graph, the lesser the queue for breathing machines.

Behavior changes the R0 and the most powerful behavior alteration is through environment. So if we could set up an environment where you would less likely contract something even if you're being clumsy, that'd be the best.

Like an UV light room where you leave your stuff for half an hour to disinfect.

Or a bleach spray box :)

Or an Apple Watch app which would detect when you want to touch your face and vibrate. I guess I'd have to wear 2 Apple Watches then :)

tadruj··on The Amiga Consciousness
I miss `filenote <filename> <note>` on the filesystem level - AFFS :) I'm all emotional now
tadruj··on Launch HN: SafetyWing (YC W18) – A Global Safety Net for Digital Nomads
I love the design and character of your web page.

I don't understand "Home country coverage" so maybe you could do some user testing to come up with better explanation.

Maybe a comparison to other insurances like Alianz Global Insurance. I have that and I'm not sure why yours would be better. I think it was about the same price looking at yearly cost.

Again, great web site.

tadruj··on Ask HN: My company has been acquired and I'm kicked out. What should I do now?
I suggest signing up for Recurse Center retreat in NYC and learning something new that excites you. Like crypto, AI, AR or VR.

They are not a school, they're a retreat where expert coders and beginners meet and work on self-directed cool stuff. Amazing community and brilliant founders. You only need to provide a place to stay for yourself.

I did that. It was a good.

Besides learning a new language which enabled me to launch my next start-up a month after Recurse Center program was done, I also met few amazing people and programmers that I consider good friends now.

tadruj··on A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years
They are still producing them because it's cheap due to "grandfathering" laws.

"grandfathering" means if you'd design an airplane like 172 today they wouldn't meet the safety standards and you wouldn't be able to produce them, but since they were designed back in the days, if they don't change the design, they can still produce them.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/14/unfit-f...

I fly 172 regularly. It's a safe plane, but you have to know quite a bit about engine and how it works to be really safe up in the sky. I had engine failure on take-off with extremely well maintained plane. Starting the engine is a pain in the ass for most civilians who don't understand 4 stroke engines.

Cessna 172 uses about 10 gallons of fuel per hour. That's quite a lot. I think in 2017 there's better options out there.

tadruj··on Citus 6.1 Released – Horizontally scale your Postgres database
Ozgun, any performance benefits for time-series data?

+1 for Top Gun

tadruj··on Facebook Launches Flow, Static Type Checker for JavaScript
I really like how Facebook went about getting as much information about types as possible without the coderess, not forcing her to do unnecessary stuff. Behavior design on the code level at its finest.

And on the side note, I bet Facebook did this just to make nerds install OCaml and show them the light :)

tadruj··on Estimate your Bitcoin taxes on BitTax
I like the site, because they are the only ones who didn't launch just a landing page full of promises, but they actually calculate how much I owe to Uncle Sam.
tadruj··on Ask HN: Idea Sunday
If this would be a Kickstarter project right now, I would put a month worth of money on the table. Low salt, low sugar food you can't get anywhere.
tadruj··on Povio, the polite photo app that students love, joins YC’s winter batch
I'm always taking a photo of my screen. I need blur functionality, because I don't want people to read my code. I solve this now by shaking the phone, but since I did this 500+ times already, you might consider a feature.
tadruj··on mcxNow crypto currency exchange is shutting down for a period of time
This is really sad, because it was the leanest and the meanest exchange out there. Not to mention the incentives.
tadruj··on Primer on Bitcoin Taxation
gamblor956 could one get you on the phone/skype/mail?
tadruj··on Winamp shutting down on December 20th, 2013
Sad. Years ago I found WinAmp and its programmable visualizer an indispensable tool when teaching Mathematics. Graphing sine waves is so much fun when combined with a good beat.
tadruj··on Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App
As I understand Layer also has offline/sync functionality, contacts & some UI goodies to glue all of these together.
tadruj··on Layer Brings A Scalable Communications Platform To Any Mobile Or Web App
Will there be a JavaScript API for the Web?
tadruj··on The Internet is destroying work
No, by combining and creating value greater than the sum of parts!
tadruj··on The Internet is destroying work
If your work is measured in lines of code or git commits, then you ARE a working class.

If you're scared about your future so much that you want to read every TC article, learn every new hip language and attend every meet-up, just to stay on top of things, while selling your LOC to some company, you ARE a working class.

Go be an entrepreneur and start creating value.

tadruj··on Meet Watsi, Y Combinator's First Nonprofit
A great site for millionaires to visit when they're bored or have lost their purpose.
tadruj··on The New Firebase Security API
I especially like Firebase tutorials and docs. After finishing tutorial on Firebase first launch I immediately knew where and how can I use Firebase in the future. When the time came we used it for real-time worker/web-app communication at http://dubjoy.com/ and it worked like a charm. I still don't know how to use web sockets and I hope I never will :) While working with Firebase we needed some ACL-like security features and Firebase delivered again. Amazing.
tadruj··on How to start with Backbone.js: A simple skeleton app
Which would then be the best "skeleton" ?
tadruj··on Dubjoy will translate and voice-over your start-up explainer to any language
Video translations are vetted by our trusted reviewers, but this raises a price a bit. Also sound quality can be really good, done by a voice talent, but this also raises a price a bit.
tadruj··on Dubjoy will translate and voice-over your start-up explainer to any language
1. the prices get even lower if you need our service regularly. As a reguar customer you'd also get dedicated translators for each language, which means voice consistency across all of your videos.

2. we will. We have a quick demo, but please disregard voice quality on this one http://dubjoy.com/embed_test.html

tadruj··on Dubjoy will translate and voice-over your start-up explainer to any language
We'll do the voice-over directly on the video. No video production skills needed.
tadruj··on Dubjoy will translate and voice-over your start-up explainer to any language
True. These translations are reviewed but were not dubbed by a voice talent. Since we're using our web technology for recording, the sound quality will never be a studio production quality, but neither will the price :)
tadruj··on Dubjoy will translate and voice-over your start-up explainer to any language
Xhosa is our most exotic language. But will try to find ChiSukwa too if needed.
tadruj··on How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app
I think we need to. It deserves a credit, because we use it and we didn't pay for it. CoffeeScript makes our lives easier, almost eliminates bad practices and removes brace clutter from the screen, making the code more readable, understandable, better.

When having to choose between a library written in JavaScript and a library written in CoffeeScript I choose the latter, because it statistically has a probability to be a better library, just because the coder didn't have a chance to use bad JavaScript practices, when writing it. Assuming I usually don't have time to read the code of the libraries I'm using.

tadruj··on How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app
Our video bucket is a few TB in size right now, file-sizes ranging from 10MB to 1GB. Not one file/upload broken until now. So I guess they fixed it.
tadruj··on How to directly upload files to Amazon S3 from your client side web app
Dropbox has a filepicker https://www.dropbox.com/developers/chooser , you can also use filepicker.io for more services support. But Dropbox doesn't support per-request CORS as I read on their Forums.
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