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jcahill84

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About jcahill84

https://medium.com/@jcahill84 https://gobase16.com

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    Show HN: PilotBuddy – AI for Pilots in Training

    There’s a ton of information that pilots need to use while learning the techniques for flying, the FAA regulations, etc. I built PilotBuddy to help student pilots and instructors t…

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    Recently learned to fly and got my private pilot license. I'm working on an instrument rating next... I've also played drums most of my life and am planning to learn to play piano …

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    Well that made for a really fun rabbit hole to start my day. Thanks. https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/36667/can-...

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    Thanks for checking it out and for the feedback! I like the idea of pre-canned scenarios and an easy CTA to get started with one or more of them.

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    Hi all -- I built this because I consistently find myself re-creating the same spreadsheets to do long-term financial planning. I also find it hard to see how small changes in the …

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    This is amazing. We’ll done.

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    I aspire to build a product that has a website dedicated to how much it sucks, in namesake.

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    I'm surprised at how serious people are being in the comments... This is amazing. My team and I had a good laugh. Great work.

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    +1 for Diffie-Hellman... and the paint analogy.

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    I like the idea of social regulation (voting, reporting, block lists, etc.) to govern the content. Also a healthy use of computer vision and ML to weed out offensive images will pr…

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    Maker here... I built hrnw to connect people who are in the same location at the same time. Think of it as an anonymous chatroom with everyone else who is also on the app at the sa…

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    Maker here... I built hrnw to connect people who are in the same location at the same time. Think of it as an anonymous chatroom with everyone else who is also on the app at the sa…

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    Comment #16821936

    I have an hour commute to my real job, so I use that to hack on my side project before and after work. Setting small goals has always helped me keep up the energy to move it forwar…

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    +1 for "find a mentor outside of the company to lean on" I'm an experienced manager, but this is still a hugely important point. Mentor relationships are really underrated.

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    This is a really good point. I agree it's a better use of energy to work on side projects while your work-life is stable, rather than injecting stress into your life.

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    Ask HN: CTO of a $10M Company or SDM of a $150B Company?

    Asking for a friend... "Should I jump ship from my great corporate job as an engineering lead/manager to go run the technology operations of a nearly-profitable pre-Series-A SaaS s…

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    That's super weird.