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theswan

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About theswan

stephen(at)stephenwan.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/swan; my proof: https://keybase.io/swan/sigs/lRpf1wRDqtQnLci-tghTPsKg_n3hpF3IuN-hoVVbY00 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #16739788

    Samsara | Product, Infrastructure, Mobile, Site Reliability, Security Engineers | San Francisco, Onsite Build aws for physical infrastructure. Samsara was started by the founders o…

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    At Samsara our golang graphql implementation ( https://github.com/samsarahq/thunder ) works this way. We write out resolver functions using plain old go types and use some reflecti…

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    Comment #14815803

    I think this is something that graphql implementations are still trying to figure out. At work (samsara.com) we use a time-based batch[0] for our queries to help with n+1 issues in…

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    Clara Labs ( https://claralabs.com/ , YC S14) - San Francisco, Engineering, Full-Time Clara is building the simplest possible interface to getting work done. Every person on our te…

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    Comment #9305674

    Clara Labs ( https://claralabs.com/ , YC S14) - San Francisco, Engineering, Full-Time Clara is building the simplest possible interface to getting work done. Every person on our te…

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    Comment #8981601

    Clara Labs ( https://claralabs.com/ , YC S14) - San Francisco, Engineering, Full-Time Clara is building the simplest possible interface to getting work done. Every person on our te…

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    Comment #8761260

    Equally interesting/appalling: private keys on github https://github.com/search?p=4&q=extension%3A.key+BEGIN+RSA+P...

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    Comment #8410006

    Hmm, GoodReads seems to be an imdb for books. I'd be more interested in a format more suited toward discussion/annotation - like what you'd get out of a good college-level literatu…

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    Comment #8409968

    Tangentially - I consistently find myself wanting to discuss a book I've read, but unable to do so for lack of others who're in the same position. Are there places on the internet …

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    Comment #8115855

    Where do the 10 microstellars go? Are they actually destroyed?

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    Comment #8092055

    The problem there probably wouldn't be the node.js code, rather, the library has a dependency for mp3 encoding with LAME (used on the Sonos end for streaming), which I've found har…

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    Comment #7699763

    Some other proof of work protocols: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system#List_of_pr...

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    Comment #7634566

    Thank you! Would love further feedback (stephen at stephenwan.net) if you find yourself having any problems using it. The code is very-much early stage, so there are some issues to…

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    Comment #7634555

    Thanks! Behind the scenes, I've written an node.js component that's able to talk to OS X/iOS devices ( https://github.com/stephen/nodetunes ) via AirTunes and stream in raw audio d…

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    Comment #7632990

    @por and @berberous - Does audio play at all even when the error happens, or completely doesn't work? I've noticed that sometimes it occurs but the streaming still works fine. "str…

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    Comment #7632369

    Tangential point - what does the phrase "any dish?" mean?

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    Comment #7632040

    Very cool! I bought a Play:3 a few months back and was also dissatisfied with the given OS X/iOS apps - I'm currently working on enabling AirPlay support for Sonos devices. ( http:…

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    Comment #7617933

    Had this very probably on Friday - wanted to learn more about what was new with the SpaceX launch and ended up spending a couple hours on Wikipedia.

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    Comment #7599010

    Thanks for this! Just nabbed https://github.com/stephen was inactive since 2008.

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    Comment #7548155

    What editor were you using previously, and what in Atom made you switch over?

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    Ask HN: Are you using Atom Editor?

    What features/packages have gotten you to switch over? What works or doesn't work? Is speed ever an issue?