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uniclaude··on Introducing React Native [video]
That sounds amazing. It's been a while since I haven't been that excited about a framework. Native wrappers are so hard to create and maintain that it's promising to have a company like Facebook behind one.

I can't wait to have access to this repo to see source code and examples.

uniclaude··on The Fine Art of Bullshit, Killed by Google
For those looking for never ending talks and debates about what is true or not, we still have philosophy, religion, and of course politics. Moreover, there's a lot of room the "The Fine Art of Bullshit" there.
uniclaude··on MozJPEG 3.0
Wow, that was fast.

They already fixed the bug. I'm impressed.

uniclaude··on WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation
Note to self: Keep your mouth shut in those funny situations. :)
uniclaude··on WhatsApp Co-Founder Donates $1M to FreeBSD Foundation
You might not have noticed but you just replied to him.
uniclaude··on Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent
Something that must also be quite important for graduates is that when working for Amazon or Google, you are among the most important type of employees for the company. What you do really matters to the business, and you can hope to be rewarded in consequence.

Some might get the impression that when working for GS, as long as you're not a trader or such, you'll only be writing code next to the millionaires making money with it.

uniclaude··on Putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing
We could say: This article illustrates what is wrong with tech blogging.

Taking a media story of a funded startup and running with this sort of conclusions is short sighted at best. There might be much more than this, the probability for funds like a16z to invest $10M without a bit of research sounds rather low to me.

uniclaude··on Before the Startup
I don't think you could pick a worse example. Space X was founded by a billionaire, who injected 100M USD from his own pocket, and then took 20M from his buddies. That's as far as it can get from what people imagine when they read "bootstrapping".
uniclaude··on Building a better and more diverse community
Diversity in our field is a hard issue to tackle, and it's great to see people trying to find solutions.

This said, I'd like to see the results, as I would believe the diversity problem is not as much with hackerschool as it is with the pool of applicants.

uniclaude··on Fake name generator for social media
Maybe something like this? http://www.identitygenerator.com/
uniclaude··on Show HN: Picnic.css, a lightweight Bootstrap alternative
I'm with you on the point that accessibility should be a concern of framework developers, but none of those issues should be too hard to tackle for them. Therefore, filing an issue on the Github project would help (at least, more than commenting here), especially because the project is still young.
uniclaude··on California deems carpooling via all ride-share services illegal
You guys should definitely consider applying to Y Criminator.
uniclaude··on Rhine – A Lisp on LLVM
Which is very interesting because statically typed!

Unlike Rhine, it's not Clojure inspired though.

uniclaude··on Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880
Oh, I didn't know that. Let's wait for DP 1.3 then.
uniclaude··on Dell Previews 27-inch ‘5K’ UltraSharp Monitor: 5120x2880
If that's right, then we've got:

  5120*2880*24*60/(1024^3): 19.77GB/s
Which might work within the 20gbps offered by TB2.
uniclaude··on Gogs: a self-hosted Git Service written in Go
It's not about what those languages allow, it's about how developers use them. You very rarely see C software distributed this way.

Go developers only distribute their open source software in a way that you only have to take the source, compile it, and run it, without having to worry about dependencies.

uniclaude··on Prostitution and the internet
I doubt that Amazon's classic strategy (Your margin is my opportunity) would be that disruptive to pornographic content.
uniclaude··on Prostitution and the internet
That sounds quite close to what the article describes as already available.
uniclaude··on TypWrittr – Inspirational, Minimalistic, Distraction-free Text editor
> you cannot work on vim via internet

Can you please expand on this? I'd say you're wrong, but I'm not quite sure I really understand what you mean.

uniclaude··on OpenMusic
Your points are all good, but you seem to fail to understand the reason why gp posted this comment. When seeing the Open prefix in the name of some software or platform, people usually except free things, because they've been used to it.

Calling LispWorks stupid might not have been the brightest move around, but the concern was somehow valid.

uniclaude··on Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition
> If you can find some specific scientific argument why e-ink is "an essential requirement" (besides personal choice) then it's just cargo cult.

That's not how science works, and your comments are abrasive and offensive for no good reason. Things exist before scientists can prove them, and that's why research is done.

Although a quick Google search led me to find a paper backing your argument, I find you way too quick to dismiss other readers as doing "cargo cult". Why not believe them when they say they feel less strain?

uniclaude··on Ask HN: What do you think of this first employee offer?
Be blunt with the company, negotiate something better, or join later, after the raise, if you really like them.

If they can only pay this price, they should get a junior intern, not an employee. I don't know which incubator they went through, but no mentor I know would have told them this is a good offer to give to a developer. 1.4k a month is what you'd give to your best friend helping you with your startup because you can't afford more, not your #1 employee.

I can totally imagine how it feels like on the other side, and it's hard, and they probably do a lot of very nice things, and may be very nice people, but giving such a low salary is not a good move, and they should know it.

I didn't mention equity so far, because, well, as @MehdiEG said, it's only icing on the cake, nothing more.

Good luck!

uniclaude··on Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
That's great!

Trello is one of those apps that you can dismiss too fast because you think it doesn't do enough, but which to come back to because everything else is too complex. I've been using it extensively, and it has almost gone viral around me. As in, every time someone needs to manage a project, I hear "Hey, what was this simple project management software you told me you're using for everything you do?", and there comes a new Trello user.

I even remember using it for managing my own time when I was working for a large Japanese company that was using excel spreadsheets to manage projects, so I could have a clear interface and use a quick and dirty piece of JS I wrote to generate the sacrosanct Daily Reports I was asked to provide.

uniclaude··on Why I'm Productive in Clojure
> Then why do nearly all (probably 95%) Clojure devs use either Emacs or LightTable?

Why should it even be a question?!

Seeing it this way is a mistake. Most developers use tools they are comfortable with, and beginners use what they see in tutorials.

Now about why this repartition, well: Clojure allows you to work with a REPL. Therefore, it's no surprise that developers stick to the "few" editors that allow this style of development. You can see this going with Scala, too.

This said, nothing I know of in Clojure forces you to stick to those editors. Most Java developers use Eclipse or Netbeans, yet, nothing prevents you to use IntelliJ.

uniclaude··on A brand new Foursquare, with a brand new logo and look
I'm quite surprised to see the amount of negative feedback here.

I find the new logo quite good looking and communicative, and this "new" Foursquare app is finally something I can see myself using. I have absolutely no interest in the whole check-in thing, but I'm not against good recommendations, so there's a good chance I'll be in the target market for this app, and I suspect I'm not alone in this case.

uniclaude··on Ask HN: Is Facebooking/Twittering worth the time?
If it's only about your online influence, I highly doubt that "Facebooking" is worth it. I'd suggest blogging on your area of expertise, and yes, being active on twitter might be worth it.

If you're a developer, a few meaningful contributions on Github will be worth all the posts you can write on Facebook.

uniclaude··on Xtend: Modernized Java
To anyone interested, there is a seemingly well maintained project to work with Xtend on Android. https://github.com/tobykurien/Xtendroid

Disclaimer: I didn't try it beyond a few tests.

uniclaude··on Ask HN: What website/app do you use to cold email potential clients?
Linkedin helps. I dig through the degrees of separation between myself and someone with an access to the budget I need to tap.
uniclaude··on [dead]
I had the same reaction, but it's mostly because I didn't know the actual definition of punitive damages, and that I therefore thought she had just been made (almost) as rich as Mark Zuckerberg.

According to Wikipedia: Although the purpose of punitive damages is not to compensate the plaintiff, the plaintiff will receive all or some portion of the punitive damage award.

Still, that's an impressive number.

uniclaude··on Ask HN: What website/app do you use to cold email potential clients?
As much as it will sound as a non-answer, the best solution I could find regarding cold email was not to cold email.

Beyond the spam issue, I can tell that I had horrendeous statistics when cold emailing, and I've found that the extra work of getting introduced was worth it more often than not.

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