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Another cofounder of Gather here -- I'm totally okay with you posting your app here (Calla right?) or the whole list. I think the hackernews comment readers would benefit from seei…

The other path here might be working somewhere with a culture of fixed goals rather than a time expectation. For example, many remote companies that operate asynchronously won't ex…

I just asked my manager for a 24 hr work week (3 days on, 4 days off), and they said sure, and the company prorated my salary down. The company I was working for came out of a univ…

Me and a couple of friends having been working on similar ideas for the past few weeks! https://gather.town & https://theonline.town There are a lot of people exploring this idea r…

Hi HN! One of the creators here. It's a cross between Zoom x Pokemon. You only get audio and video from people you're standing next to, and as you walk away from them, the video fa…

We had a really similar idea! https://town.siempre.io/ Leaned in way more on the 2d game aspect of it, and have video drop-off too, but the place it came from: "being able to have …

Fair-- I've resigned to viewing Plaid as our necessary evil banking infrastructure provider. It's my understanding that, at the least, Plaid doesn't sell data to third parties you …

I've been using https://copilot.money/ which is great. Clean UI, uses Plaid to import transactions, paid for by subscription, not your data.

Of the 4 ``famous CS schools'', MIT, CMU, and Berkeley all start with Python, and Stanford alone runs Java.

This is probably true. Still, a nice idea.

Interesting thing I heard from Po once: The key to the American team's recent success is forgetting about the IMO and just learning math. Instead of teaching mechanics-- techniques…

> I think that pretty much anything is fair game with this dude. Nobody is fully good or evil. This guy is certainly in the wrong here, but that doesn't make everything he's ever d…

It might be more interesting if voting occurred at the level of space separated words rather than characters. As it is right now, twitch is tripping over itself trying to even type…

Here's a poor man's version that uses If anyone's interested in playing around with it I'll put up some nicer usage instructions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8JnC7-K8k https:/…