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levimaes

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About levimaes

I am Levi A. Maes, and my goal is to realize intriguing web products, with both traditional and novel user experiences -- all in the context of the "continuous reality" format.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #21073378

    Yeah, maybe this product/service can see whether Stripe would be able to accommodate a kind of free integration and use. Maybe consider restructuring to explicitly (ToS, tax filing…

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    Ask HN: Why were so many security details at this week's S.F. Twilio convention?

    I couldn't swing a dead cat without incurring an assault on any which number of the unsettling, no unserious business looking peace officers that we're swarming city hall plaza yes…

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    Comment #18255610

    fwiw, You might enjoy what golang has to offer in a systems programming context. I think it's reliably offered it's users '95% right, 99% of the time' comprehensiveness for all kin…

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    Comment #18255588

    Sleep over and party with the other tourists at the Fisherman's Wharf hostel; Wake up to the a calm, detached serenity within the city that gives the Marina district's urbsn calm r…

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    Comment #18175594

    Read Infinite Jest, whose author even confessed to it's consumptive (consuming?), ulterior-ness! What I'm trying to say, without actually answering you, is that you're joined by ma…

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    Comment #18108612

    Sean Carroll's "Great Courses" production on the "Higgs Boson, and Beyond" [1] offers like 5 hours of what you'll likely gradually find to be a very accessible, informative and ent…

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    Comment #18108571

    A Rust parser? Is this for your own reviews or workflow? Or, is this intended to eventually handle transpiling and/or JIT Rust applications? Are you porting a CLI or graphics libra…

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    Comment #17957491

    They had likely listed it in error, and only noticed this as their operations couldn't register it. Or so I'd think. Something about how the price was nil says they simply mis-admi…

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    Ask HN: Is it safe to upgrade to macOS yet?

    Hi! I am just wondering if, firstly, anyone else's MacBook Pro was destroyed by last year's macOS Sierra or High Sierra updates, and so whether now someone might let me know the co…

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    Comment #16843419

    Did they interview or contact you, then reject you? What was it all like?

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    Comment #16843368

    When you say, "forget about it", regarding trying going solo with an idea, do you say that because the only hope for a chance at bringing and keeping the idea at viability is to si…

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    Comment #16773665

    I think the gRPC team/community has been fast at work on a Golang/Node/Java/Haskell + Docker RPC tool; maybe you'll find some insights at their 'grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway' or 'gr…

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    Comment #16772975

    Holy hell, that's Drew Houston!

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    Comment #15775494

    I signed in just to upvote this! I hope someone can use it! Quiet and thankless internal discipline is highly rewarding, whereas the powers outside yourself (like excessive shoppin…

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    Comment #15272149

    holy hell, this is Exactly what I've been looking for. Ive been saving up for a replacement for my 2010 MBP, and it's been between a new miscellaneous thinkpad, and a $3,000-priced…

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    Comment #15153778

    I once considered this web server "LightTPD" as an alternative to Apache2, and I read some officially published and comparatively astonishing benchmarks for performance written in …

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    Comment #15057031

    What's the longest amount of time you went abstinent -- from regular masturbation, that is? If you can't remember the last time that you, either willingly or by accident (without s…

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    Comment #14908485

    I was actually driving down a boulevard in San Francisco, California (CA I-1; 19th Blvd), which has the expected frequent downhills and uphills, and I shit you not a two trailer, s…

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    Comment #14887909

    Oh my god Infinite Jest reassured me I wasn't crazy for hating the self-loathing I associate with weed. And in such a funny way. I swear re-reading a chapter or scene in that book …

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    Comment #14887655

    You might like the free section of this closed-/open-source scienticific publications resource (labs can opt-in to open-source their research), called Thieme medical publications. …

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    Comment #14885789

    This makes me want some kind of the OS X "System Integrity Protection", but for CentOS and Ubuntu. I mean there HAS to be something like this? Maybe this is what the substitute use…

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    Ask HN: Your shell console "sanity prompts"?

    Does anyone have any "life saving" bash profile aliases, bashrc configurations or settings or restrictions otherwise, which you regularly institute to "hazard control" yours and ot…

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    Comment #14682273

    This is so heartwarming, it brought a smile to my face as soon as I realized it was a numbers spread. I'll tell you it was an upsetting day, the day I realized all my projects and …

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    Comment #14191755

    Holy shit, way to golang, after one month! What other "hackable" solutions are you hoping to implement in Go? Or plainly what's your next go project, and why?

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    Comment #14191709

    I'm not familiar with smarterer, and I'm just as unfamiliar with intellectual property law, which leads me to ask you, is there any way, process or resource for you or other aspiri…