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bwb

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About bwb

Howdy and welcome,

I run the book discovery website Shepherd.com and am working to build something unique and feed everyone's curiosity.

If I can be of any help, feel free to hit me up. You can contact me at bwbbwbREMOVE@gmail.com (or Twitter at @bwb).

I've got a lot of experience running remote companies. The largest was 135+ people over 18 countries doing software, dev-ops, and heavy customer service. I am also happy to help if you are having issues with a business partner - I've been through some intense situations and learned a lot.

Thanks, Ben

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    I'm suprised, as nothing was changed around saved trips or collections. Same UX as always there. I'm a heavy user; I use it to plan 3-week-long trips and another month-long trip ev…

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    Ive been happy with all the improvements they are making to Komoot do far.

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    Comment #49084406

    Hardcover definitely supports multiple reads. I've got two in mine right now.

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    I'm building this -> https://building.bookdna.com/roadmap/ If you want to join the beta, just email me at ben@bookdna.com. We've got about 100 people using it right now. We are wor…

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    I run two plugins to just invisibly make them go away, I don't care, they are a waste of my time :)

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    I live in Bordeaux, although thankfully out of town for the month. This is insane to watch, and friends say the city is full of smoke

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    Comment #49058836

    oh gosh no, love books, building it for free. We are direct funded with premium accounts by authors and readers.

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    Ask HN: Does anyone have an old Goodreads API key?

    They shut down their API program years ago, but I was hoping to find someone who had an old key I could use. I run BookDNA.com and it would be helpful for us. Anyone know anybody w…

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    I live in Europe, I can make an appointment with my dentist tomorrow. I was sick 3 weeks ago and just went on video conference at 6am with my PCP. Just to help out there :) This ha…

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    How does this work with sunglasses?

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    Ah gotcha, ya that will be interesting to see, but does seem like a more likely life of 7 to 10 years is possible. I am curious on actual hardware failure rates due to heat etc.

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    Anyone got any good testing data? Surely someone knows rough failure rate from constant usage?

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    Do we have any good data on how many of the GPU burn out given hard usage? Are we talkinga bout loosing 50% of the hardware as it fails? Or far less?

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    Comment #48632197

    My son loves these books, I've read them to him hundreds of times :)

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    Comment #48595406

    Down and out in Paris and London was a life changing read for me :)

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    Comment #48368867

    Ya, but this is a proof-of-concept rip-off. The fact that the indexes don't have our back is a huge problem.

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    I should note, mostly we have screened, and then paid them to come work with us for 3 to 4 hours on a real piece of code.

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    First, get a kazoo, chalk, 5 live chickens, and a sharp knife. Use the chalk to draw a numbered grid on the sidewalk; 10 should be fine. Divide the resumes into 10 groups. Cut the …

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    I really recommend The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester. My brother picked it for a family book club and I was blown away. Amazing story and person.

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