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vqc

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About vqc

happy to chat at vince@elmmetrics.com

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: What might be causing this Gmail error?

    My spouse seemed to have just run into a version of the error described at https://support.google.com/mail/thread/8328266/phone-shows-a-different-sent-email-than-my-computer?hl=en …

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    Comment #34570459

    @chrisco23 can I trouble you to send me an email at vince@chessrapid.com?

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    Comment #34549516

    I've fallen into the chess craze. I put together www.chessrapid.com for my own use. It's a version of Puzzle Rush / Puzzle Storm that has the added benefit of: 1) filtering by tact…

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    Comment #30172733

    @chrisgd what's the best way to reach you / can you ping me at the email in my profile?

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    Comment #29829677

    I imagine something like a local text file / draft email (because I always have my email open)? The problem I run into is that I'm either running from thing to thing so there doesn…

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    Ask HN: It's annual review season, how do you remember what you did last year?

    It's annual review season now / soon for many companies, and one thing I always struggle with is remembering what I did over the past year. How does everyone (does anyone?) keep tr…

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    Comment #28263364

    (cofounder here) We've explored a bit of the ASL space. The motion based ones are not something we've dug into. But some of the "static-but-location" based ones are things we've tr…

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    Comment #28263338

    (cofounder here) This is a really great point. We do have some early thoughts around the idea of the interface being responsive to "distance from user" as opposed to "screen size".…

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    Comment #28263281

    (cofounder here) Ten feet seemed too ambitious and five was too many letters =). We didn't think about the six feet under connection, but now we'll have to figure out what to do wi…

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    Comment #28259986

    (cofounder here) > - using my hand as a mouse in space-constrained situations where I can't have a physical mouse Are you thinking that you would consider using something like this…

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    Comment #28259726

    (cofounder here) We're not too familiar with toastmasters (other than hearing that it's a great way to learn public speaking). Would you find this useful in the context of in-perso…

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    Comment #28254029

    (cofounder here) Yes! The sudden increase of webcam usage is one of the things that prompted us to think about opportunities around this type of interaction. Sometimes I wish I did…

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    Comment #28253955

    (cofounder here) @saulrh, To clarify, are you describing something to the effect of: [whatever WakaSaba is doing] => Browser Extension => Webapp version of $EnterpriseVideoconferen…

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    Comment #22332333

    Fair enough. Palo Alto is a nice area, expensive market.

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    Comment #22332172

    What kind of house is a reasonable house for $2.5M?

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    Comment #20640943

    I've never heard of anyone who hit their billable minimums (e.g. 1900, 2k, etc) not get bumped to the next year. Although I guess there's a bit of a dance that happens years 5/7-9 …

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    Comment #20639392

    Are you sure this is true? It seems -to- edit many more than one or two of this hundred https://www.vault.com/best-companies-to-work-for/law/top-100... are still paying lockstep. C…

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    Ask HN: What is this HN spam bot doing?

    I just noticed a user, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vipbababd, that seems to be taking a random comment in a submission and reposting that comment in the same submission. T…

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    Comment #18446453

    This is not the exact post I was thinking of, but the one I'm thinking of is definitely an extension of this one. Having this post by jeff will definitely help me on my search. Tha…

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    Ask HN: The three kinds of engineers throughout a company's life

    I'm trying to find an article (and related comments) that I could have sworn I originally saw on HN. I've tried HN search to no success. From what I remember, it described the thre…

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    Comment #17763000

    Can you give an example of how AI might help judges/lawyers/etc discern facts and avoid the influence of rhetoric? Isn't it a bigger issue that even if people agree on the facts, t…