HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

whatsstolat

97 karma · joined May 18, 2018

submissionscomments
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
Tidying house and looking after kids, esp. Soccer practice plus a it of Netflix.
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
I like how strangers were asking and were very enthusiastic.
whatsstolat··on Police accused of deploying facial recognition 'by stealth' in London
Stick on an anonymous mask and walk?
whatsstolat··on The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere
Take it in turns to look after kids or hire a baby sitter for some of the time. Maybe one day of the holiday
whatsstolat··on The most relaxing vacation you can take is going nowhere
Buy a house on the beach? :)
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: Should you allow your employees to work on side projects?
I have lots of ex side projects, but family commitments means they are not maintained. How does that fly with you?
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: The unlimited resources interview question
I think the OP wants to know why this asked, not for sample answers
whatsstolat··on Be Nice and Write Stable Code
There is also composibility: ie make public components and compose them in public, use private as little as possible.
whatsstolat··on How the Car Keeps Americans Apart
Depends. Most suburbs and towns have convenience stores at least where I have lived. USA might be different. Delivery is another option.
whatsstolat··on Show HN: Amatino – A double-entry accounting API
In addition ledger entries are the simplest part of accounting. Invoices, credit notes, tax, etc. are the harder parts.

For ledger entries, create a table and SQL makes a reasonable api. Maybe some stored procedures for protecting integrity.

whatsstolat··on How the Car Keeps Americans Apart
Flipside is suburban areas have more land attached to the house (for a given $) and bigger parks etc. That's more humane than inner cities.
whatsstolat··on Traveling to the Sun: Why Won't Parker Solar Probe Melt?
Think of it this way. If the distance to earth is a furlong, then its just shy of a couple of rods.
whatsstolat··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
True. You might get smoke from somewhere else in the building though.
whatsstolat··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
I'd know what I'd bet on to actually work.
whatsstolat··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
Except if there is a fire and you realise it's stuck. A normal lock can be kicked in if not opened with master key, but that contraption sounds hard to break in to.
whatsstolat··on The hotel bathroom puzzle
Or they want to feel proud their home and show off to friends. Which means getting modern art on their wall, hence requiring a 1/4" hole, and hence the corresponding drill bit.
whatsstolat··on Why Use OpenStreetMap Instead of Google Maps?
Also Here was useful to me when I burned up my data allowance.
whatsstolat··on Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile (2015)
TIL ein stein means one tile.
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: Where can I sell the software of a failed startup?
It is now
whatsstolat··on Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles
Yep seems like pecking at a keyboard is the alpha thing to do.
whatsstolat··on Show HN: How much does this meeting pay?
Single day? $75 an hour. That's a $600 cost!
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: What you wish you'd known before getting into JavaScript?
I wish I had taken js more seriously. Read something like "you don't know js".
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: What does your daily schedule look like?
That's a lot of free time with a young kid. I find that weekend are pretty full of chores when not directly looking after them. 1-2 dishwasher loads. 1 washing machine load. Tidy house. Buy food. Clean all the mess. I have 2 children tho.

I do try to very occasionally get some surfing in. 30min drive to beach so not too bad.

whatsstolat··on Post Office owes $3.5M for using wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp
Because they lost just 3.5m of 70m in pure profit?
whatsstolat··on Draw This: a polaroid camera that draws cartoons
It's probably gonna be for the gift market. Also parties, weddings etc, keep one on each table for fun
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
Lucky you have the + to filter them out then.
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: Laid off after 2 months. What exactly should I be doing?
Or make friends with someone who commutes by car
whatsstolat··on The zipper's history shows how even great ideas can fail at first
Oddly I have a superdry jacket like that and one of the zips failed
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: How do remote workers deal with taxes?
What they are doing is probably tax evasion, unless they are only resident for a very short time or are running a business which is not a thin shell around an employment arrangement.
whatsstolat··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
Fellow Aussie
← PreviousPage 2 of 3Next →