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"Can you clarify what you mean by interface?" is the right answer

Hey – hope you see this, wasn't sure another way to reach out. You left a comment ~10 years ago on an HN post about a breathing exercise. I discovered it, tried it, and since used …

I think the problem with those is that they lack understanding author mentions: > But it’s really important that one person on the project has an end-to-end understanding of the wh…

detroit says hello

Yeah, too hard to figure out what the problem is here – might be all these women lying to ruin his life. Better do nothing about it until we're sure. > 2011 > A woman alleges that …

you don't go to YC to be "monitoring for hobbyists"

stock prices are proxy for perception of company. that perception matters in different ways for those that don't have a ticker (founder prestige, fundraising, hiring, etc)

> Yet... with how fast this is selling, there is literally no way that folks know it is an amazing game ahead of time. Advanced copies to reviewers, gameplay footage, developer com…

> when the site first got a surge of users from hacker news, there was one poster in particular who came to the site, registered a bunch of offensive, racist usernames and proceede…

> A light hearted, unplanned and unadvertised naka-carlsen bullet match can attract a lot of viewers. I'd bet a 20 game rapid series over 4 days between naka-carlsen would attract …

Bungie is seeking damages against false claims: https://www.engadget.com/bungie-sues-destiny-2-youtuber-lord...

FWIW, my profile is still set to non-visible, so it's not a universal change.

(this is a guess, I don't work at twitter) December: VP approves initiative January: PM assigned for initial research, weekly iterations on a product spec defining what considerati…

> When designing a game, "The game is fun," is a shitty razor because it doesn't tell you how to prioritize or make trade-offs coming from countless hours of playing games and near…

you can make guesses that you know won't be the correct answer but eliminate the other choices (i.e. don't include 2, 8, or 1 in your guesses)

any way to increase odds of being selected for early access?

not OP, but been in NYC for over 5 years and there's no shortage of interesting opportunities in tech

how's this compare to datadog synthetics? https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/

It's like this for all levels of SWE as well based on my experience

If there's an alien eating predator starving for resources, sure.

this doesn't scale to any reasonably sized project or company

I'm not sure what you mean, could you clarify? Having a stateful component render something different based on a prop change is core to react. Using the key property "resets" the c…

a coherent strategy for keeping state and having the UI respond to changes in state